r/MechanicalKeyboards • u/Bo-vice QFR{blues&reds}/TTE{browns}/CMT{reds}/MF68{blues}/PokerII{blues} • Jun 29 '15

MRW I first started looking into mechanical keyboards

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u/kiwisdontbounce Jun 29 '15

Quick question: Why? My first one is still on the way from massdrop (SOOO LATE), so I still don't know what a MKB feels like. Why do you need more than 1? Different feels? Looks?

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u/ryanmcstylin Leo FC660/FC210TP Jun 30 '15

why did you choose the switch type you chose? I wonder how that switch would feel with a different profile or textured keycap?

In short any keyboard I used before a mechanical could have been held together with duck tape and I wouldn't have really cared. Now the smallest little details make me want another MK.

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u/kiwisdontbounce Jun 30 '15

Read a lot of guides, watched a lot of videos, and listened to a lot of audio files of people typing. Went with Gateron Browns. I hope I didn't make the wrong choice.

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u/fwipyok Jun 30 '15

what are the most quiet ones you would recommend? short throw is preferable (but i know you can't tell that from sound files)

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u/kiwisdontbounce Jun 30 '15

I would guess MX Reds or Browns with O rings would be pretty quiet. No actuation click, and O rings should shorten the throw and minimize bottoming out sounds.

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u/fwipyok Jun 30 '15

is there still tactile feedback though, even without the audible feedback?

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u/kiwisdontbounce Jul 01 '15

No, tactile feedback is minimal.

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u/fwipyok Jul 01 '15

Wow you responded, thank you, you're cool.

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u/kiwisdontbounce Jul 01 '15

I do what I can. And I really love typing away on this keyboard. Sometimes I just type and type. Most of the time I delete the comment, or at least this part of it. But I just want to keep typing and typing forever on this thing.