I bought an mx blue board (QFR TKL) a couple of months ago, and at first I loved it. Because of the sheer joy of typing on this board, I taught myself to type more traditionally after doing some form of advanced hunt and peck for ~20 years (true touch typing is amazing). After getting more comfortable with touch typing on a keyboard, I am finding that the mx blue switch is less than ideal. I am apparently more of a heavy handed typist, and I find the blues to feel really weak and flimsy, even with thick cherry profile PBT caps. Bottoming out feels harsh, and I am starting to feel like the clicky sound sounds cheap (the novelty has wore off by now).
I grew up using buckling spring boards, and not really liking them, I switched to cheap and quiet rubber dome keyboards around the mid-late 90s. I eventually discovered that there was such a thing as mechanical keyboards, and switched to one with mx blues once my previous board started having issues. I definitely like it more than the cheap rubber dome Dell keyboard I have as a backup, which is mushy and lifeless, but then again the rubber dome board is also smoother to type on, and I like the softness of pressing down into rubber rather than springs falling onto a steel plate. This is where the prospect of topre comes into play. Being praised as a high quality rubber dome, Topre is actually quite appealing to me. So I did what any other member on this forum would do in this situation, and ordered a 55g Realforce board. I know that I could probably just wait a few days and judge for myself, but I am curious what I should expect from a topre board compared to an mx blue. I also hope it is significantly stiffer than my mx blues: should I expect this to be the case?