Recognizing keyboards by sound

[Pyretti]

Hi there!

Every time I hear someone typing on a keyboard I try to recognize the keyboard by the sound it makes. I do this especially when watching movies.

My friends reactions are quite priceless when I tell them: "That guy in the movie has to be using a buckling spring keyboard!"

It just sort of naturally to me...
Are you guys also trying to recognize the keyboards you happen to hear?

[kaiserreich]

People around me tend to use scissor switches and Cheap rubber domes, I can tell the difference immediately.
As for sound between Browns and Clears, that is a bit harder.

[Human]

Hi there!

Every time I hear someone typing on a keyboard I try to recognize the keyboard by the sound it makes. I do this especially when watching movies.

My friends reactions are quite priceless when I tell them: "That guy in the movie has to be using a buckling spring keyboard!"

It just sort of naturally to me...
Are you guys also trying to recognize the keyboards you happen to hear?

You trust the sounds from keyboards in movies?

Seriously I won't do it. I assume that those sounds are most probably being tuned or added to give you the feel of the actors are typing. I though so because there is no way for scissor-switch/rubber dome to be that much clickly and loud in real world...

It is more accurate to blindfold typing on it than listening to it.

[Surly73]

It seems just about every movie uses a Cherry MX for keyboards, even if that's not what's pictured in the actual film.  Sure, I can tell buckling spring, from Cherry from Topre, but I would never expect to be able to tell the sound difference between the Cherrys (blue excepted, of course).  Modding Cherrys with O-rings would throw that off too - it's usually the distinctive bottoming out sound that tells me Cherry.  In my limited-compared-to-some experience with Topre, it sounds pretty distinct too.