I finally found the world’s largest keyboard

0:00 Google defines a world record as the single best ever performance, achievement,

0:05 or extreme occurrence that has been officially verified on a global scale,

0:09 which ironically describes a word that already exists.

0:14 Greatness.

0:15 People strive for greatness in many different ways.

0:17 YouTubers strive for the most subscribers.

0:19 Sprinters strive for the greatest times.

0:20 Billionaires strive for the greatest tax write-offs.

0:22 But I strive for greatness in an often underappreciated category,

0:27 the humble computer keyboard.

0:30 I have dedicated my life to learning, building, typing,

0:33 and knowing everything there is to know about this rectangular marvel.

0:36 And in my pursuit of greatness,

0:38 stumbled upon a subcategory of keyboards that has

0:41 captivated my attention like no other, the mega keyboard.

0:45 Superizing stuff is funny.

0:47 A fateful onetoone recreation of something small

0:50 has entertained mankind since the dawn of time.

0:53 So, it's no surprise that when I first saw

0:55 Razer's 64 times recreation of their legendary Black Widow keyboard,

1:00 it was love at first sight.

1:02 And it was something I desperately needed to have in my own keyboard collection.

1:07 So, I called Razer to ask if they'd sell it to me.

1:09 Is there any chance I'd be able to buy that giant keyboard you had at CES?

1:13 And they said no.

1:15 They they said no in a lot of different ways.

1:17 Um it was quite heartbreaking.

1:19 So I did what any rational person would do and set out to make my own.

1:24 And this is where I joined the world record keyboard race.

1:29 But of course with greatness comes competition.

1:33 Many other mega keyboards have been made with varying levels of size and scale.

1:38 Some actually quite a lot bigger than the 6T keyboard I'd made.

1:42 But I'll be honest, I don't personally put any of them

1:44 in the same category as what I or Razer have previously built.

1:47 And neither does the Guinness World Records.

1:50 I do believe that the biggest part

1:51 of a true superersized record has to do with authenticity.

1:55 It's fairly straightforward to take smaller parts,

1:58 especially internals like the circuitry and scale harder to find

2:01 larger parts like the key caps or the case out

2:04 of different materials in different shapes and sizes that represent

2:07 the thing at hand but aren't faithful to the true design.

2:11 And so days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months,

2:14 and it seemed like my keyboard would remain

2:16 as the greatest mega keyboard ever created until

2:21 this is the largest mechanical keyboard and mouse ever made.

2:26 Alienware.

2:26 Alien freaking Wear hired out a team of professional engineers and with a budget

2:32 of $50,000 created what seemed to be

2:36 a faithful recreation of their AW420K keyboard.

2:39 Pretty sure this has us be Garcus' keyboard was around 6 ft long.

2:45 To my excitement and dismay, it clocked in at a staggering 17 ft 3 in 17t 3 in.

2:57 And just like that, my record was gone.

3:00 It didn't even last a year.

3:02 I won't lie, part of me was happy

3:03 that someone had taken up the mantle and challenged

3:05 me because that meant I could jump back

3:07 into the fray and start plotting a new giant keyboard.

3:10 But let's just do some maths very quickly.

3:14 My keyboard is about 6x2.5 ft, is made of aluminium,

3:18 weighs around 100 kg or 220 lb,

3:22 and cost about 12 grand for parts manufacturing and transporting all in all.

3:26 The Alienware keyboard is supposedly 17x 7 ft.

3:31 cost 50 grand, isn't made out of aluminium,

3:35 and was likely transported via their own vehicles instead of by sky.

3:39 If I were to beat the record at a minimum,

3:42 I would need to make a keyboard three times as deep, long, and wide.

3:46 So, uh, 1 2 3 27 times bigger than my existing giant keyboard.

3:50 And to faithfully use real parts,

3:53 I would have to design and manufacture my own switches and key caps.

3:57 Because surprise surprise, no company makes switches or keycaps that are

4:00 432 times bigger than a keyboard switch.

4:03 glasses.com.

4:04 And I'd have to use probably a literal metric

4:07 ton of aluminium and other metals to make it.

4:10 It would be the size of a room and it

4:12 would take a super gosh darn trailer just to move it.

4:17 So, I strategically decided that maybe I shouldn't build

4:21 this, but just until I could verify that the alien

4:24 keyboard actually a did exist and b was

4:29 as big and superior as reported with my own eyes.

4:33 Cue the search.

4:37 Unfortunately, I sent every email, every tweet, DM I've called,

4:42 begged, reached out to my entire network, but nothing.

4:45 I cannot find this keyboard.

4:48 It's like it doesn't exist.

4:49 Or more accurately, there's something or someone

4:52 out there preventing me from seeing it.

4:55 This was over a year ago.

4:57 And honestly, since then, I I gave up.

4:59 And so that means that since I haven't seen

5:01 it and I can't verify it is actually real,

5:04 my keyboard is still the biggest faithful

5:06 recreation of a mechanical keyboard ever made,

5:08 I'm still the victor and therefore I don't

5:12 have to make another giant keyboard until 18 months

5:16 from my original keyboard when I was trying

5:18 to build one of Google Japan's April 4 keyboards.

5:20 This was naturally a comically scaled keyboard of an already comical keyboard.

5:25 But during the filming of this project, after at this point I had all

5:28 but given up hope in seeing Alienware's giant keyboard,

5:31 I get a message from a friend

5:32 and fellow YouTuber who wanted to show me something.

5:38 All right, put me up right here next to you.

5:41 Oh, baby.

5:42 All right.

5:43 You know what I'm going to show you?

5:47 Well, you you know what I'm gonna show you.

5:50 You know what it is.

5:52 Okay.

5:52 Okay.

5:52 Okay.

5:52 Okay.

5:53 Are you ready?

6:01 You know what I'm going to show?

6:03 You know how many people know where that is?

6:05 You know who's got the key?

6:10 It's mine.

6:12 It's mine.

6:14 It's all mine.

6:17 I'm the only one, Garsus, that knows where it is in the entire world.

6:22 It's that way.

6:24 It's that way.

6:25 It's in my possession.

6:27 Uhhuh.

6:28 Yeah.

6:29 Yeah.

6:30 There he is.

6:31 They let me have it.

6:32 He's here.

6:33 The moment.

6:34 [Laughter]

6:37 This is it.

6:39 What's up, man?

6:42 Dude, are you ready for this?

6:44 I don't think I am.

6:46 This is a big moment.

6:47 It's a genuine

6:48 I have been driving on trains and flying for over 2 days and now I

6:52 was 15 minutes away from potentially seeing something

6:55 that would shatter my entire body of work.

6:57 That's the one.

6:58 That's the one.

6:59 It's in there.

7:00 That's what you came for out of all these.

7:02 That's the one right there.

7:07 [Music] Okay.

7:11 I don't say this a lot, but what am I doing?

7:17 Where am I?

7:20 It's safe to say I was feeling uncomfortable.

7:24 I'm scared of a lot of things.

7:26 Spiders, the dark, the tax man, but I've never ever been scared of a keeper.

7:33 Be the one after almost 2 years trying to find this thing.

7:38 If anything, I found my peace in them.

7:41 But what I was about to see, well, you can just see it for yourself.

7:51 Okay, let's do this.

7:54 Maybe I don't actually have to see it.

7:55 Maybe I can just just go home.

7:58 Just go home.

7:58 Yeah, I see you, man.

7:59 If I see it, then I can't unsee it.

8:02 But if I wisfully choose to not see it,

8:06 I can go home and not potentially do something

8:09 really expensive that's going to take me a long time.

8:12 You can choose to not do this.

8:14 I always have.

8:14 It's an option.

8:15 It is an option, but I did spend two and a half days trying to get here.

8:20 Um, all right.

8:24 Can't be that bad.

8:25 It can't be that bad.

8:26 It can't be that bad.

8:27 I've seen worse.

8:28 I've built every terrible keyboard possible.

8:31 This is just right.

8:33 Okay.

8:33 Three, two, one.

8:53 You done?

8:56 Yeah.

8:54 Let's get out of here.

8:55 What' you think?

9:07 Looks like a keyboard.

9:09 Yeah,

9:09 that's a good start.

9:09 It's like a big one, though.

9:11 It's like the biggest one ever.

9:34 You think you can you can outdo it?

9:40 This is your entire life.

9:42 I mean, it's all right.

9:43 It's all It's all right.

9:45 It's all right.

9:46 It's I mean, like,

9:47 it's okay.

9:48 It's like they were compensated for something, really.

9:50 Yeah.

9:50 You know what I mean?

9:50 Like, who needs a keyboard this?

9:52 Yeah.

9:52 Probably doesn't even feel that good.

9:54 [Laughter]

9:59 It felt pretty good, didn't it?

10:00 It's kind of satisfying.

10:01 Click the Click the Windows key.

10:03 It's the best one in my opinion.

10:04 It's a [Music] Yeah.

10:12 Yeah, man.

10:13 [Music] I mean, one second.

10:20 Just Just Let's see if it's really that big.

10:29 How big is that tape measure?

10:31 Uh 16 ft.

10:34 You exactly.

10:35 No way.

10:37 I think you're going to need a bigger one.

10:40 That's a [Music] like what one?

10:45 Okay.

10:47 Yeah.

10:46 Six and a Okay.

10:50 6 and8 ft.

10:53 81 in wide.

10:54 All right.

10:54 And then try to go the other way.

10:56 You don't need to.

10:57 That's how really the keyboard is actually measured by how wide it is.

11:00 Well, you got to Yeah.

11:01 Why?

11:01 Width from over there to over here, right?

11:04 From that way to this right here.

11:06 We don't have to, right?

11:07 I mean, I think you do.

11:08 I mean, you feel all this weight.

11:09 You got to measure the keyboard.

11:10 You got to go from there to

11:12 I just when I go home and I'll just say it's it's pretty big.

11:15 Yeah.

11:15 Yeah.

11:16 Pretty big.

11:16 You don't need the stats or anything.

11:18 Nobody needs to know exactly, you know, not a competition.

11:24 [Music] Literally, are you kidding me?

11:31 Well, uh, it's Is that all the tape measure?

11:37 Yeah, that's all of it.

11:38 Um, literally just a little bit out.

11:41 Let's just add Why Why is there no numbers right there?

11:43 Doesn't go farther than that.

11:44 It It stops at 499 in.

11:47 That's where it's not.

11:48 So, it's probably about 502 in long.

11:52 Do we need to go to like a hardware store, get a bigger tape measure?

11:56 No, cuz that made me feel bad to see the exact measurement.

12:00 Like, we just now I know it's about um it has been great seeing you.

12:10 Let me type my name.

12:14 That was so impractical.

12:20 S E S and that is all she wrote.

12:34 You shut that.

12:35 We can just leave it open.

12:36 Maybe someone will steal it.

12:37 It'll disappear.

12:40 Go.

12:41 That would make me a hater and that means they win.

12:58 We can just delete the footage, right?

13:00 Nobody actually has to know that I've come out here, right?

13:03 Yeah, we can get rid of this.

13:04 It's just Yeah, it's just right us.

13:06 Okay.

13:06 Yeah.

13:12 Just shut it off.

13:18 Amazing.

13:19 [Music]