Tokyo60 S4 Coyote with Kailh Navy box switches and - of course - Matt3o's MT3 Susuwatari keycaps. I also ordered the S4 BoB keycaps that appear in Drop's photos but will save them for now.

I haven't done anything except assemble the keyboard so far. Instructions on which screws go where would have been nice, but it seems to be ok.

Liking the HHKB layout although it's early days and I'm struggling with the location of the backspace key, but I'm sure I'll get it soon.

Yeah, instructions on keyboard kits aren't really a thing oddly. Wow, box navies on that thing must be something else. I've heard it's a pretty ridged frame. It must feel and sound like typing on bullets. Would love to hear a sound test. Looks great too. Lighting makes the sides look black which looks cool.

Yeah, the case plays mayhem with trying to take a photo of it! 😂 It is pretty noisy right now, but I will lube the stabilisers and I'm thinking about jamming some foam inside too. I'm not really into the whole sound thing, so I don't really know what's considered good, but I can stick up a video later.

From my experience, you'll be so used to the Backspace key location soon, you'll find yourself typing endless strings of Backslashes, every time you use someone else's keyboard.

The deeper you go into that, the worse it gets.
The most annoying one for me is when I try to use my pop-up arrow cluster, on IJKL.
I can't tell you how many "I" and "K" characters I've typed, trying to hit the Up and Down Arrows.

Yep! I'm currently switching between a regular 65% and this one, which is really not helping. I do feel I need to re-map the arrow keys but I'm going to preserver - it's only been a few hours...

good is whatever sounds good to you

I've always viewed programmability as an "in addition to" feature, rather than being "in place of".

For example, I actually have FOUR sets of arrows, on my 1800s.
I map WASD, IJKL and Num8/4/5/6 as layered arrow clusters, in addition to the dedicated arrow keys, to minimize hand movements.

That's a fair point - I haven't run up VIA yet and I do want to give the default/native layout a fair crack first.

The "native layout" on a real HHKB has the arrows mapped to HJKL.

They may already be mapped on your board, if Drop mimicked that layout precisely.

No, they're mapped to [;' and / in this case. ASD are mapped to volume controls and KL are Home and Page Up respectively.

Sweet!

You're right.
I always thought they were mapped to VIM standards by default, but they're not.

I would second that, especially since my own preferences are so at odds with themselves.

I love silent builds...but I also love Kailh Box Whites.
I type better on Box Whites than any other switch I've tried, so I worry much less about the sound profile, than I do about how well the switches work for me.

You can try what I have, which arrow keys mapped to P, L, ;, and ', which will allow you to use the same arrow key muscle memory with the only addition being holding your pinky down on the Fn key next to RShift.

If you're gonna do HHKB, this is a good way to do it. Looks super slick.

Thank you! It's a bit hollow and noisy right now, but I've got some pre-lubed switches and some 205g0 on the way, which I hope will help.