sean4star wrote: ↑His typing technique is typical of anyone conditioned to rubberdomes. To most people that's just how you type. You just pound hard and fast.
My keyboard at work has MX blacks with o-rings. If my co-workers type on my keyboard they always try to pound on it first, but the o-rings prevent the hard bottom-out. Then they start typing softer and before they leave my office they always comment on how great my keyboard is. Even if they have used it and told me before!
My typing style is to bottom out on every keystroke. My favorite switches currently are IBM capacitive buckling spring (IBM XT) and Topre 55g.
I've tried Cherry mx blue, green, brown, and clear. I didn't like any of them, least of all clears at first. However, I replaced the thin ABS keycaps with thick PBT and added O-rings, which made the clears tolerable and even okay. My theory is that this treatment shortened the key travel so that I was not fighting against the increasing force of the clears past the tactile bump and actuation point. Nevertheless, the switches still feel gritty to me, and I am wondering if I ought to try reds or perhaps blacks for the smoother linear feel.
Reds might be too light for me and contribute to errors because of the light actuation force. I have tried vintage blacks on an old Wyse terminal keyboard, but I cannot do a proper typing test because I have not converted the keyboard to USB. The blacks seemed a bit too heavy, but I am thinking that if I install O-rings, it might reduce the key travel sufficiently to block the heaviest part of the force curve.
Given that I already have the Wyse keyboard with vintage blacks, I think I will attach a Teensy and use the Soarer converter to get the keyboard up and running so that I can test it properly while it is operational with a modern computer.
