Wring out a disinfecting wipe or alcohol wipe until damp. Wipe all keys and keyboard surfaces. Turn the keyboard upside down to allow moisture to drip out. Allow it to air-dry completely before powering up the laptop or reconnecting it to a power source.
Gently tap the bottom of the chassis to dislodge stubborn particles. You can also press cleaning slime into the spaces between keys.
Turn the laptop right side up and place it on a flat surface. Use a small, soft-bristled brush to brush between each key and row of keys.
Turn off and unplug your laptop before cleaning. A clean computer keyboard is essential for hygiene and optimal performance. If you’re dealing with a dusty desktop keyboard or a grimy laptop, start by turning off, disconnecting the keyboard, and removing cables. Clear your desk or table and assemble your cleaning solution.
Use a USB-powered vacuum designed for keyboard cleaning. Or use a product like cleaning slime, which molds into the cracks and crevices of your keyboard and sticks to it.
Turn the entire keyboard upside down and shake it to remove loose debris. If you have small foods stuck inside your keyboards, use a vacuum cleaner to suck them out or use keyboard gel/goo/slime.
In summary, cleaning a laptop keyboard involves several steps, including turning off the computer, turning the keyboard upside down, shaking the dirt out, using a brush to remove dirt, and using compressed air to clean the keyboard.
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cold water will probably work better for more keycaps. the heat may cause the legends or characters to dissolve a bit if you have a dyesub set and if you agitate the keycaps with the soapy water then youre fine. i used a chopstick to kida stir them and it worked marvelously. also using alcohol on your plastic is generally not a good idea
as someone who is a very casual mech keyboard enjoyer (and whose keyboard was built by my now-ex) I really appreciate this kind of article! I love my keyboard but lately it’s started acting weird and not typing correctly. I’m going to try deep cleaning it and see if that helps. As an aside, more articles on general keyboard maintenance would be awesome! Like, for instance, how to tell if a switch has gone bad / how to go about troubleshooting a keyboard that’s having typing issues.
Used a butter knife to pop out all my keys after I took a photo of it. Used a soapy scrub brush at an angle to clean the kb body a bit, wiped with baby wipe. Then Used dish soap in a bowl and scrub brush to wash keys, poured in strainer, sprayed with water, filled bowl with clean water, poured keys in and rinsed, tossed back and forth between strainer and bowl then dumped keys on a towel and patted keys dry. Re-assembled according to picture and let it sit in the sun for a bit. Quick and decent cleaning! Thank you!
Nope. Don’t use compressed air on small moving parts like a keyboard, but also things like bearings of computer fans. It could result in dirt going deeper between the moving parts. Also, compressed air can result in condensation droplets inside those parts. Those electrical blowers are fine though. Instead use a vacuum cleaner with some kind of brush attachment, or a separate brush. …and watch out not to use too hot water for your keycaps, otherwise they could warp.
If you’re not afraid of scratching the keycaps, the soapy water trick works with a plastic bag.. just dump everything in there and shake shake shake… pour into a sieve and rinse with warm water.. let airdry over night or wrap them in a towel(not paper, use actual towel) and shake shake shake and theyre 95% dry in a minute xd 9:10 bruh, H2O2 will bleach the shit out of fabric………. you just want to sell more deskmats dont you!? yea im onto you mister
My tip for cleaning deskmats and i been doing it like this every 2 weeks: 1. grab deskmat 2. get in shower 3. make tiles in shower wet 4. stick deskmat on wall (this will work due to anti slip) 5. use showerhead to wet up surface 6. use dish soap and a soft sided sponge to clean (do not use abbrasive sponge or all purpose cleaner, this might destroy any hydrophobic coating that’s on your deskmat) 7. dry your deskmat over a drying rack (do not dry in sun as this again might damage any protective coatings) 8. you now have a clean deskmat and you’ve taken your biweekly gamer shower! you’re welcome!
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“You can try and race me by taking off your keycaps faster than me but… good luck” Me: I just pause the article xd Also, I was taught that pulling off the keycaps makes them ever so slightly less properly connected (basically that they get less responsive) so on the long term it gets detrimental. So I use air-spraying cans because I have a mechanical keyboard with elevated keys, I can blow it under the keys. It doesn’t always get everything, but at least it gets it mostly clean. I don’t eat near it, so the keys themselves are perfectly fine except for some dust on the side. The key marks to indicate letters and symbols are engraved so they don’t degrade from some unseen oil that oozes from my hand. The only problem left that I’m not sure with this method is when there’s something stuck. If there’s a little something stuck like a hair, the air can may get most of the stuff but the things left after that are the problematic stuck stuff. Do you think it’s a problem or am I fine continuing it the way I was doing it before?
A cheap fine-tipped squeeze duster also works well for cleaning out under the keycaps… like the things they use to clean dust off camera optics. It’s not as good as actually removing the keycaps, but it can get rid of like 90% of the gunk with only 10% of the effort and near-zero cost. I keep my hands obsessively clean, so my keycaps generally take several years to show any signs of grime… but underneath, lots of dust and hair and other stuff accumulates. So… squeezy blower to the rescue!
7:20 Oh, you silly Americans with a garbage disposer in the sink. We Europeans don’t have that. In case you are wondering: we sort of have a plate with holes in it to let water through, let’s call it the filter. And if we need to seal it we have a rubber thing to close it. Anyhow, if there’s stuff on the filter, take out the filter, dump it in the trashcan, put the filter back. Less problems, less accidents, less things broken & less people in the hospital. Much, much better.
I just cleaned mine today for first time since new – 7 years, and inside was disgusting – mostly just dust and hair bit it’s humid here so all stuck on. It’s not a hot swap board which makes me sad… (Just got my first keycap puller today). Oh and cleaning between the switches is much easier with a round-brush electric toothbrush.
Some of these tips are not good. Alcohol on plastics is generally bad idea. It can do everything from cosmetic changes (which may not matter to you, or be in a spot you wouldn’t see anyway) to ruining the finish to an extent that causes friction that interferes with feel of key movement. Keycaps especially, whether that will do anything other than ruin them is entirely down to what keycaps you have. Same for ‘warm soapy water’. If the legends are inked on or using inking of some form for contrast, then you risk introducing fuzziness on the legend, or just outright losing it, if the keycaps are particularly cheap.
Hey Hipyio! And how you clean switches that are used over a year, Recently I Changed the switches of my keyboard, and i want to relube them. But when I opened them they had like little rocks (I dont know how to describe it) or things like that, Right now I’m trying with ultrasonic cleaner, dishsoap and warm water.
ngl a couple weeks ago I needed a keyboard to use so I took my little brothers old gaming keyboard and I cleaned it out with 90% isopropyl alcohol and an old toothbrush. when all the keycaps were off I dipped the toothbrush in the alcohol and scrubbed the board down that way but I just looked in the internet and it seems you are supposed to be using an alcohol wipe not just straight up alcohol. luckily it still works completely fine but my question is can you damage the keyboard cleaning it the way that I did? btw the keyboard was dirty asf and I doubt using an alcohol wipe would even clean it properly, it had dirt, food, hair, etc all built up on it and the keyboard(without the keycaps) had a yellow residue all in it.
Hey bro 😂 yours is dirty? I opend it up there was so kuch dust hair and food bits in their is crazy i cleaced it all up with my swiss blade blowed on it put it to the fan blowdried it😂 and it still has more dirt n sutff in in then yours its crazy man ngl man.. seems likw im flexing for some reaskn but for real yours was clean compred to mine😂😂
This doeshelp a lot but i dont really like this “loser gamer” mentality spending a bounch of time on yoyr computer eating there not washing hands a lot not listening to your mom dishesh all that not washing your close often.. is not good. Also “gmaer gunk” pretty sure thats just insinuating pornography addiction and what it does to yohr keyboard 😢. If not then ny bad its just that some of what you said doesnt sit right with me, but these are good cleaning methods thank you and im not trying to be mean thats just what i think of this.
No bs that dirty keyboard screenshot he showed was my keyboard had it 5 years brand new from the box never cleaned it lets just say im a cigarette smoker and also get the munchie’s while gaming so it was bad after seeing all these people with their clean boards it made me wish i recorded it so everyone could see it
My keyboard was wayyyy worse than this with hair. Haha. I don’t really have food inside of it. I rinsed it under water, used soap, q-tips, a sponge with the scrubber side, and the keys I soaked in soapy water before rinsing them, and washing them more with soap, and wiping them down. Now, they’re outside drying in the hot sun. I’ll leave them out there for like 24 hours. Haha
I once got some dust or something in a part of the office keyboard (temporarily mine) and the S key stopped working. That they I learned I could take off keycaps (with a sharp object as it said, so I used a pencil 😅). It looked clean, so I just wiped it and soaked the cap in hot water. Worked afterwards 😀
Thanks for this article, I learned how to clean my keyboard for the first time. My kitty cat got her fur all over my keyboard so it was very hairy! White fur all over the inside. I didn’t have an air duster so I asked my older brother if he had one and what didja know he did. I used his electric air duster and it worked wonders! I washed my desk mat in the sink, it works.
Somehow I’ve found out more easy way to clean keycaps. I put ’em in a deep bowl, then give them a thick layer of BAKING SODA, then pour it with hot boiled water. Baking Soda is actually an alkali that is great for clening stuff like finger oil etc., and that’s actually what makes soap work. So, after about 10 minutes of keycaps chilling in soda bouillon, keycaps should feel a little bit soapy, so now you can just sprink everything with tap water and voila. No elbow grease, it’s darn cheap and works great.
I will say, I’ve never seen hair get in a keyboard, but I also don’t own a cat. The way I’ve done it is: 1: Remove keycaps 2: Throw all the keycaps into a plastic colander. 3: Wash keycaps under hot water. Soap if there’s actual grime, but all I do is just try and get the dust off. 4: Dry your keycaps. Whether that’s by hand, or just letting them sit, does not matter. 5: If you let them sit, you can go clean the keyboard itself while they are drying. First thing to do is turn the keyboard over and shake out any loose debris into a trashcan. Use some compressed air for anything stubborn. 6: Grab a few qtips and some isopropyl, and just scrub between the switches. If you are running a plastic top plate, make sure it does not dissolve in alcohol, and literally melt it. Water will work in that case, but be cautious and unplug it first so you don’t short anything. Mine is a bezelless metal keyboard, so I’m fine. 7: Retrieve your keycaps, dry as needed while putting them back on. As for washing a desk mat, I just throw it in the washing machine on cold, then hang to dry overnight. I don’t know how the rubber of most of those mats would react to being dried in an actual drier, likely not well.
YES HIPYO! GO DEEPER!!! Like for real, just throw your dirty keyboard in the dishwasher. . . . . Yeah, don’t do that. Also you should be really careful about pouring any kind of cleanser directly onto a printed surface as it could strip some of the color out and leave spots behind. Always use a diluted solution and test in an inconspicuous area first. A soft dish brush or old toothbrush works great for any stubborn spots. No lie, my cat legit puked on my GMMK this morning and I spent a good 2 hours cleaning the board, caps, and switches with Q-tips and toothpicks. Totally the highlight of my day. 🤬
Title: (In Under An Hour) 0:40 “Cleaning your keyboard will only take like 15 minutes” 6:44 “I recommend you let these guys just sit in here for about 10-15 minutes” 7:45 “Give them a few hours to dry out” Just change the title of the article to How to Clean Your Keyboard. Stop contradicting yourself and leading people on.