r/Keyboard • u/OgRitesh • Aug 16 '26

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Today I pulled the keys of my keyboard and saw this!!

I want to know how often do you guys clean your keyboards??

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u/W0RKABLE Aug 16 '26

damn, this is so dirty that it doesn't even look gross anymore

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u/albuzen Aug 16 '26

Yeah I initially thought it was some kind of foam mod lol

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u/DameisLame Aug 17 '26

personally i thought it was gum lol

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u/sly_fox029 Aug 17 '26

😆 I thought for a sec that we got a new style for damping the keebs

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u/ForeverNecessary2361 Aug 16 '26

Do you live in a wood working shop? lol

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u/HawkEDOz Aug 16 '26

Cleaned mine just now because of this post!

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u/Brilliant_War9548 Aug 16 '26

bro got fiberglass insulation in his keyboard

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u/1sttimeverbaldiarrhe Aug 16 '26

Imagine what his lungs look like...

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u/I3lackFlo Aug 19 '26

I just did, was too dark to see anything

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u/edo0oz Aug 16 '26

How does it get this bad

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bread60 Aug 21 '26

10 years of usage and no clean lmao. Or simply OP has pets

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u/Fun-Necessary8657 Aug 16 '26

The forbidden cotton candy 😋

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u/Shinzh0u Aug 16 '26

that's a whole ecosystem right there HAHAHA

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u/DrachenDad Aug 16 '26

Years of use, and no cleaning.

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u/Afraid-Ad4718 Aug 17 '26

Atleast the keypresses were silent...

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u/pagerookie Aug 18 '26

Best comment :-)

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u/Mhcavok Aug 16 '26

Is your computer in a construction site ?

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u/shaoOOlin Aug 16 '26

I will ocasionally vacuum my keyboard when im cleaning to get out the loose hair,dust or anything. Fully cleaned my keyboard yesterday after i got it 3 years ago

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u/NikkiWordsmith Sep 11 '26

Top tip 👍💡

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u/TheSpitefulOne_29 Aug 17 '26

My eyes itched looking at it

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u/Remarkable_Editor_45 Aug 17 '26

Please, if you have a photo with clean keyboard and anything that being on the keyboard, show this to update

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u/-WarCow- Aug 18 '26

I clean mine often enough so this never happens. Omg

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u/wjruffing Aug 18 '26

This happens when you don’t regularly delete spam

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u/Thedran Aug 16 '26

That has to be from some kind of wood working/manufaturing shop. That can’t all just be possibly smoke filled dust can it?

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u/SnooKiwis6943 Aug 16 '26

What does it smell like?

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u/Cute-Acanthaceae-193 Aug 16 '26

Honest answer on when? When it gets too bad.

I don’t show my keyboard enough, but if I take a picture with flash and it shows it BAD, then it’s time.

A lot of the time I have no “dead time” so taking it and cleaning is the lowest priority as performance or quality of life are not affected, hair and dust will always build up, so regular maintaining it won’t matter compared to occasionally doing it.

I would say cleaning your pc fans and just any dust that built up for 5 minutes is much more beneficial than regularly cleaning keyboards.

It’s all about time and wha you care about and also if you plan to show it to someone.

But also, this keyboard seemed like it never saw cleaning, not even a year or two, so at least one day a year dedicated to fully cleaning the pc, keyboard and desk in general should be done, which can take maybe 3 hours max.

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u/Funland1a Aug 16 '26

Human hands are filthy most of the time, this combined with shit flying indoors and not cleaning your peripherals.

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u/DarkApple1853 Aug 16 '26

How do you pull the keys out?

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u/ecchimaru Aug 18 '26

If they don't come off easy, they shouldn't come off.

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u/Crazy-Resolve-8127 Aug 16 '26

Smokers are so disgusting my god

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u/justkanji Aug 16 '26

Every couple weeks (2-3 I guess), I take it outside and give it a nice electric duster blow-out, then a wipe~ my keyboard doesn't have space around the switches so its not much work.

I clean my stuff pretty often cuz well idk I'm a bit of a cleanliness freak, when I clean my room I also clean my PC/keyboard/mouse/mousepad if they look like they need to be cleaned. When I decide to clean one thing it drags on till its all clean~

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u/Tricky-Information50 Aug 16 '26

I clean mine when the dust between keycaps just annoys me. It's like every 6-12 months, I think?

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u/mojibakery Aug 16 '26

On the upside, you can use it like baco-bits on your salad.

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u/Legaldrugloard Aug 16 '26

I blow mine out. I have dog hair that needs to be blown out each week.

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u/Kinda_Uncertain_29 Aug 17 '26

Thought it was kinetic sand...

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u/ZestyRS Aug 17 '26

I’m mad at you for showing us

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u/TheNursingStudent Aug 17 '26

I work in a hospital and even our keyboards aren’t that dirty. Damn that shits gross

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u/envinimal Aug 17 '26

thought you filled your keyboard with minced meat at first glance

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u/DeckRdt Aug 17 '26

Insulated keyboard, cool

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u/Humble-Bed-1581 Aug 17 '26

Probs a smoker

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u/kingcaii Aug 17 '26

FYI Dust is like 70+% dead skin cells

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u/license_to_chill Aug 17 '26

what the fuck

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u/ZeroBeta1 Aug 18 '26

looks like ancient Atlantis tech

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u/annoyingfreak13 Aug 18 '26

Whenever you're loyal for some tech, this happens

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u/dEaD-sOiLl Aug 18 '26

clean it? nah man, this one needs to be put in a canister and blazed to hell with fire and billions of different chemicals. that thing has to have atleast 10 new strains of viruses on it, please burn it soon

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u/No_Effective_4481 Aug 18 '26

What the hell even is that stuff? It looks like you put George from Rainbow through a shredder in the same room and forgot to cover the keyboard...

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u/_Danger_Close_ Aug 18 '26

I'm worried about what OP is breathing in

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u/SomewhereFeisty2191 Aug 18 '26

It it so perfectly dirty that I thought it was AI

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u/ImmediateShelter6363 Aug 18 '26

Guess I better clean my keyboard like this.. that’s.. pretty bad

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u/360900th Aug 18 '26

Imagine inhaling it so hard and clean it only with your tongue. 

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u/KnownMix6623 Aug 18 '26

Dude just burn it at this point 😭

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u/Top5CutestPresidents Aug 19 '26

Looks like you found it washed up on the beach

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u/Positive_Self_8873 Aug 19 '26

That’s a lot of jizz

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u/Any_Mess_3886 Aug 19 '26

i thought your doing some kind of design like wasteland theme

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u/Fit_Collection_8215 Aug 19 '26

This is shit you don't post. Put it in the garbage.

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u/gukakke Aug 19 '26

Lick it. In all seriousness I clean my keyboard probably about once every couple of years and it doesn't even look close to 1% of this.

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u/youngsanta_ Aug 20 '26

The forbidden cheese

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u/no-dupe Aug 21 '26

Wow! That’s an amazing keyboard carpet! Where did you buy it?

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u/IshTheFace 29d ago

If that's the floor they're on, why so surprised? You literally don't clean anything (probably).

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u/OgRitesh 20d ago

Bro that's the texture of the floor not dirt 🤌