Hi fellow keyboard enthusiasts! After lurking around this forums for quite some time, a question came to my mind I need some sort of advice on. Of course I know that you cannot tell whether I will like a certain switch or not but I hope that you can share at least some experience on this.
First of all I am not new to mechanical keyboards. I am using a board with MX Blues for 2.5 years now. I bought this board since I got annoyed by those cheap rubber dome keyboards. Especially I wanted to learn touch typing or at least a more effortless version of typing since on my previous keyboards typing for a prolonged period of time could get very tiring. Since I mainly use my keyboard for typing and coding I went for Cherry MX Blue switches since the tactile and clicky feedback really felt great. I still think that those are great switches but I am afraid they are not the perfect ones for me. The main reason for this is the fact that I still bottom out more or less constantly. I know that this not that bad but I really would like to stop this behavior especially for the noise it creates. I guess the main problem actually is the tactile feedback. You need a certain force to activate the switch. After this point the force needed drops down again (probably not telling anything new to you here
) But this drop in force almost instantly makes me bottom out the key. It is like I either don't activate the key or I put it to the metal.
Because of this my first thought was to get some stiffer switches. Greens or clears are almost impossible to get around here so I went for blacks. A friend of mine who owns a board with MX Blacks currently is on vacation so he lend me his board. Currently I am typing on this one. But I really don't know whether I can accommodate to this. At first a linear switch feels rather weird if you are used to blues. But I think that I could actually get used to the linear feeling. It is not that bad all I think. What bothers me is the force needed to actuate the key. If using the keys isolated it feels perfectly fine. E.g. reading this forum I am too lazy to switch my hand to my mouse to scroll so I use the arrow keys. This really feels great. But if I am typing normally the switches feel much stiffer. On one hand this is great since this instantly reduced my bottoming out by a huge margin. On the other hand I sometimes miss keystrokes since I don't press the key strong enough. This is especially true for the keys I hit with my ring finger or my pinky. Or it feels like I didn't activate the key but actually I did. I guess this is mainly because I am not used to the heavy switches yet. I am using this board for just some hours. But this now arises the main question for me: Will it be easier to accommodate to the heavier blacks or maybe reds? Or maybe even browns? Since there are no other boards available to me I ordered one of WASD's switch testers but it will take some time to ship I guess. But then again trying a single key feels entirely different that typing on a board full of them. Again for a single key blacks feel great to me but for constant typing it feels somehow too heavy at points.
So since you probably won't be able to tell me "this is the perfect switch for you", from your experience what is easier to "learn"? A heavier or a lighter switch? I am somehow stuck here since I don't have enough money to just go on and simply buy them all.
