If you despise Topre heresy, read no further.
I decided I'd do an almost blog like post on my experience with Topre in the form of the FC660C over the course of a week or so and finishing off with a proper review. Hoffmanmyster, being the generous dictatorial overlord that he is, let me borrow his FC660C for an unspecified period of time. I don't think I'll keep it longer than two weeks, but it's an open borrowing. He even trusted me with a sexy as hell Pea Soup Clack, a Sifo's Soul BB V@, and a couple of Binge Caps. We'll see if that was a wise decision
So far my thoughts on Topre are mixed. When I got the FC660C, I sent Hoff this message:
"I'm typing this on the FC660C right now. It's taking some getting used to, but it's not bad. Right off the bat I noticed that flat it's too flat and that standing on the legs, it's too tall, but the switches feel much better than I remember mkawa's Realforce feeling. They feel heavier, though the landing is a little weird for me."
"There's just something weird about the landing so far. I may get used to it, but it just is so abrupt. "
I finished out the night using it for gaming and typing and it still felt weird to me. On day two, I decided I still have a weird love/hate relationship with Topre. It is by far the smoothest switch I have ever used. I cannot deny that it's pleasant to press the switch to the bump since it just feels like a glide all the way to it. The bump is almost too much for me though. It's so severe. You have this gentle glide down to this massive tactile bump. I love my Ergo Clears, but the Topre bump feels bigger. The bump is nice and smooth and crisp most of the time, but occasionally gets an almost mushy feel to it. The smooth yet crisp is a weird combination.
Up until the landing, I could see myself growing to love Topre, but the landing so far is killing Topre for me. I've always been a heavier typist. I don't bang the keys around and thud them bottoming out, but I'm also terrible at floating them to just past the point of actuation without bottoming out. Topre switches feel like I have to bottom them out and that bottoming out comes so quickly and so severely that I'm beginning to think that it may be a deal breaker for me. It's just such a heavy and unpleasant landing that it ruins all the niceness of the switch leading up to the bottoming out.
I'm hoping they grow on me and my opinion changes, but as of day two, I still can't find myself loving Topre like I do MX and Alps. Alps just have character to them that makes them fun and MX just feel so nice to me since I don't have to thud them into the bottom of the switch.