how long are cherry mx blues activated for

[regicide]

I was wondering given a light typist, how long would the cherry mx blue switches be 'closed' for?

As their activation and reset points are near the middle and very close, a typist who knew the switch well enough could have a very accurate press that activates the switch for a short period of time (at or just past the actuation point and then immediately release)

Is this kind of information available anywhere?

[keyboardlover]

I personally don't know, but I see you're from New Zealand. Sorry to hear about the earthquake and I hope you weren't affected. Sorry to go off topic.

[Tony]

There's a delay time after a key registers before the keyboard registers another key again, even if the user is holding that key. You can set that delay time in registry.

Here: http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=14561

[regicide]

I am actually looking at programming a controller and trying to find out how much of a window I had to 'catch' the key press during, so my question was concerning the switch hardware itself. Sorry if I phrased it poorly.

@keyboardlover thank you for your thoughts, thankfully I am a while away, although we still felt it.

edit: so its NOT SPST? if you hold a key depressed does the switch not stay closed?

[regicide]

Thanks for that ripster
Just found on the spec page the <5ms you quoted.
EDITED sorry dud'd out there for a moment and though not open meant the switch is in a closed state when not pressed, very dud of me >.>

Cheers guys.