Please vote for your winner of the Best keyboard switch 2015.
By voting in this category, you can win ErgoDox PVC cases and keyboard carry cases from FalbaTech!
This is the final round. See the first round and second round for reference.
The final round ends on Monday 14 December, 20:00hrs UTC. You can change your vote until the end of the round. The winner and full results will be released soon after the vote closes. EDIT: The winner has been announced here.
The official nominees are:
Alps SKCL/SKCM switches
Introduced in the early 1980s, Alps SKCL/SKCM series switches, aka complicated Alps, are a design classic with a range from delicate, damped tactiles to succulent clicks; and an impenetrable vortex of no return for wiki writers the world over.
Classic clicky Blue Alps switches: jackpot!
Gateron switches
Gateron keyswitches are clones of Cherry MX keyswitches, and have a lot of buzz this year as the first worthy rival to the true Cherry. They have gained great popularity because of an innovation called "availability", that Cherry has struggled with, as well as a smoothness modern MX lacks.
You just better not be thinking of putting Cherry caps on these fellas.
IBM buckling springs
The famous, legendary, and downright notoriously loud IBM buckling spring is a mainstay of the mechanical keyboard realm. IBM made the king of click with an unusual design of switch where the spring buckles outwards instead of compressing. Buckling spring is at the heart of IBM's highly prized Model F and Model M families of keyboards.
Buckling springs from a 1996 Greenock blue label IBM Model M, made in Scotland, from girders.
Project Zealio switches
"Project Zealio" switches are a custom switch project by Zeal PC together with Gateron. The springs are gold-plate, the housings are fully transparent (not translucent), and you don't have to be <INSERT EXCLUSIVE CONTRACT COMPANY NAME HERE> to get them!
Project Zealio Purple prototypes, clear as ice.
Topre switches
Love/hate: take your choice. There's no ignoring Topre. Topre switches power the "Only one Made in Japan electrostatic capacitive non-contact type keyboard in the world". They're either the most overpriced domes on Earth, or magic inside the greatest keyboards in the world today.
Experience the "Feeling of oneness with cup rubber".
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