type faster on rubber dome than topre
if you were to spend the time to get used to it, blacks are probably the best mx switches for raw speed but for me they're not enjoyable to type on.
That seems possible in the light of my limited hands-on experience with the blacks in my sig, which has been my best buddy's keyboard for a couple of years now. It was a bit hard to avoid making mistakes on it, but otherwise it was pretty good for a piano-like technique (as opposed to the pecking technique). In other words, it was good for beginning to press another key before you got your other finger off of the previous key. This requires some resistance in the switch, and tacticility isn't ideal for it. Like I said, hampered accuracy was the downside.
scissor switches are probably the fastest overall because you're hardly pressing anything
I'm inclined to agree, though only up to a point. I've had rather extensive experience with the
Natec Medusa, a very good, very solid, very well-designed, wonderfully affordable high-end scissors board for the equivalent of, like, twelve bucks. I've bought three so far, or four maybe, possibly recommended more. Caution: Medusa 1 may have been better than Medusa 2, and I've seen a guy claim the sound was better on 1, so there might be switch and/or case differences.
So, with Medusa 1, it was almost like typing on the desk itself — 9 mm height, low-profile keys… which was precisely the problem with it, eventually. CTS/RSI made me go back to the previous tall-key Logitech rubber dome (E110, IIRC), which I had previously replaced with the Medusa also because of hand pain. Later, I bought a Hama 570-something, which was a bit more expensive and a bit more bouncy — the switch was practically a typing accelarator. However, it was just that little bit too bouncy, and the architecture of the board (no wonder given <$20 price range) was not good enough for extremely fast typing — keycaps would fly off occassionally, because of the corners of neighbouring keycaps getting in the may of my fingers while releasing previously depressed keys.
And that was when my mech adventure started — still, won't ever say a bad word about scissors. It's a hybrid switch all right, and the scissor IMHO does fulfil the principal criteria to refer to it as a very basic mech switch (metal is not necessary), whereas the remaining presence of the rubber dome prevents it from being a mech board, of course, but doesn't somehow fail to make it a hybrid switch on the same grounds as IBM's old switches are, or even Topre; it only is, obviously, so much more basic. But the basicness and the low price and the low-key (no pun intended) marketing shouldn't distract our attention away from the fact that scissors are, in fact, a hybrid switch. It's a very affordable hybrid solution that's got an extremely good bang-for-the-buck ratio. And with the right scissor board you're probably typing faster and giving your hands a break.
I type at the speed of imagination.
Jokes being jokes, I kinda know a bit about that.
I'm a translator, which is different from a normal writer, as it's text in, text out. I always have an original ('source') that has to be converted into a different language, unlike typing from dictation or writing your own stuff.
Different translators have different techniques, but I, for example, often end up going back mid-sentence when I realize syntactical or grammatical differences between the languages are, after all, going to force me to change the structure of the sentence, or there is some better phrasing or terminology I think about on the fly, so I'm often in constant movement. In some of those situations, my typing speed (rarely below 70–75 wpm but rarely exceeding 90 and probably incapable of exceeding 110) is the bottlenecking factor, in others my thinking brain struggles to catch up with the rate my fingers want to type in (which contributes to just typing and then rewriting the sentence if necessary as opposed to stopping to think and then typing only the final outcome in). Translators rarely are slow peckers, but they also rarely exceed 300 characters per minute (~60 wpm). Hence my ability to type much faster due to a lot of non-translation writing, far less leisurely paced, gives me an edge, and I can sometimes translate the traditional norm of approximately 1500 words in one hour rather than one day. What's particularly interesting is that your fingers putting pressure on your translating brain can impose a faster translation rate and eventually teach you to translate faster, as well, comparably to simultaneous interpreting.
I could probably be a monster with Dragon Dictate, except I can't really dictate off the top of my head. I need to see the text right in front of my eyes, not in my imagination, and I'm a sucker for optimized, finalized syntax and vocabular, at least when at work. Besides, my English accent wouldn't be ideal for speech recognition, and I'm not sure fast-spoken Polish with flat articulation is going to be machine-recognizable any time soon. In fact, I'm not sure Transgaryens (Mothers and the occasional Father of Dragons) have any speed advantage on me at all. I'm pretty sure they don't feel vomit-inducing hand pain anywhere near as often as I do, though.
One of these days I'm going to sign up for classes again. Typing does keep me from bouncing off/on the furniture though 
Drinking less also does that.
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Personally I feel it's a solid combination of the switches and the amount of time I use it. I find that I can type really fast and smoothly on my HHKB due to the switches being somewhat lighter for me, as I'm a pretty heavy typer, and I've had the board for almost a year now, using it 40+ hours a week.
Just feels right to me 
Makes sense to me. I've been noticing the same thing with blues for me. Perhaps the previous switches were just too heavy or inconsistent or something else like that and/or just simply not enough time to get used to that one switch (especially considering the lifespan of cheap keyboards when you must have proper actuation on every key). Poor self-taught ten-finger technique can also be an impediment to higher speeds, I guess. Oh wait, I had a co-ordination impairment diagnosed as a child. That could be it.
