Question Is it normal for some of my mechanical keyboard's switches to be short and long?

Apr 21, 2025
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I use a cheap Asian $12 mechanical keyboard (we live in a third-world country—Bangladesh), and I notice that the keyboard's keycaps follow a wave-like curve. For example, the ESC key's switch's stem is longer than my TAB key's switch's stem. Each key in a row has the same stem height. The model isn't very popular, but it's the Game Valley KL-106 keyboard.
 
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I use a cheap asian $12 dollar mechanical keyboard
What is the make and model of the peripheral in question? Proper mechanical keyboards actually start from the $50 and the higher you go the more features/design elements get added to the keyboard(tot he level that it's bespoke).

Cheap keyboards tend to be built with parts that wouldn't have gone into other keyboards/peripherals...think of it as thought hey were just lying around waiting for a home to go to.

(we live in a third-world country)
Which would be?

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I use a cheap asian $12 dollar mechanical keyboard
What is the make and model of the peripheral in question? Proper mechanical keyboards actually start from the $50 and the higher you go the more features/design elements get added to the keyboard(tot he level that it's bespoke).

Cheap keyboards tend to be built with parts that wouldn't have gone into other keyboards/peripherals...think of it as thought hey were just lying around waiting for a home to go to.

(we live in a third-world country)
Which would be?

Moved thread from Graphics Cards section to Computer Peripherals section.
Ok, I added more info in the question
 
I think what you are seeing the key cap design (heights) versus the actual switch having different lengths on the switch steam poles. They are pretty consistent there but as you can see from the below image the type of key caps you have can very greatly on the design / flow of the keyboard from row to row.

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