I'm from Seattle, WA and am so excited to find such a place with all keyboard geeks. I started with mechanical keyboards a few months back. The first one was a Das keyboard non-printed with brown switches. Then I got a Das with blue switches. I would prefer browns over blues. So I customized one from wasdkeyboards with browns. Now it's my daily driver. I recently purchased an HHKB Pro 2 Type-S from EK. The Topre switches feel really nice but I'm not sure if I will make a move. I will probably receive my Vortex ONI with red switches tomorrow. I'm much more confortable with reds when coding. I'm actually thinking about reselling my HHKB and getting a Realforce 87.