How are these compared to blacks? I am using reds now and I am just making way to many typos with my fat fingers when compared to my old board with black switches.
I will let you know very soon. I should be trying the board by september 18th so i'll let you know at that time ok
Me again! Currently typing this on MX Silver as we speak (Ducky One Side Print TLK MX Silver). It's good, very good. This new iteration of MX switch is very refreshing.
While it took a moment to get used to it, the threshold (lower in mm, higher physically) gets comfortable fast. Very fast. For the light touch-type kind of typist in here, it is really something you should consider.
It's a linear switch that offers little resistance like the MX Red yet it bottoms out before the actuation point (tactile nod) of an MX Brown. That means it is to be considered very much like a tactile switch, where the actual tactile feedback is bottoming out. I think Cherry realized most people just bottom out on the keyboard, therefore raised the threshold and that what you end up with.
Versus my current favorite (MX Brown), it feels somewhat home, as instead of the tactile register bump, you bottom out (a little sooner). It's MX after all, therefore i expected it to be very similar.
The claim of faster input is definitely true; you can feel the difference from the get go. Well, you SEE it mostly. It's hard to explain; as i type this, checking the text appearing on the screen, it's not the same pace as with the other MX Brown keyboard. I have no noticeable difference in WPM in between this board and the previous one (MX Brown), yet the text appears more smoothly, faster than previous.
As i read my previous paragraph i understand it sounds confusing lol, but i am having a hard time explaining the difference.
The input is registered faster but bottoming out sooner doesn't magically make me type faster. Does that make sense?
Oh but one really annoying issue is that whenever i try to press a if i get a little on its left side i might turn on caps lock involuntarily. As it requires very few travel distance to activate the thing, a slight bump does it. Therefore MX Silver is prone to input mistake. That being said, if you aren't very accurate with your typing, MX Silver isn't for you,
On a final/side note, the Ducky One board feels superb. High quality keycaps, high quality casing, well written documentation and the possibility to have every keys as a macro key is nice. It looks classy (white side print on black pbt) and the built in functions are cool. It can emulate a mouse also lol.
Two heights feet are cool too, and there's a route for the Micro-USB Cable if you want it either on the left or right. Overall great board, i highly recommend it. The price is right, just like the poker.
It also came with a set of blue keys for ESC/Enter/Backspace/arrow keys/numpad enter (even on the TKL board).
I guess that's it. Any questions feel free to ask!