Best keyboard switch 2013

[Belfong]

Um, I just realize - how can we miss out Topre??!!!

That has to be a winner!

[JBert]

It seems the classic buckling spring switch is also missing!

Tactile, aural and technologically refined, it's a great switch as long as you can live with its drawbacks.

[ماء]

It seems the classic buckling spring switch is also missing!
Tactile, aural and technologically refined, it's a great switch as long as you can live with its drawbacks.

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[Call for nominees] Best keyboard clicky switch 2013

[webwit]

That would work once but not yearly. It's not like the movies where there are a bunch of new releases each year. So each year it would be voting on the same thing, Cherry MX Blue vs IBM vs Alps vs Matias.

[Belfong]

That is true but every year the number of people using mechanical has increased. Their opinions matter even more as we now have a bigger sample. If you are voting for obscure switches that maybe just 2 people have use, that's not best-of for 2013 as it was not properly represented.

[Muirium]

I nominate Cherry MX green. Both to further split the Cherry vote and because they are honestly my favourite MX. That's why I built my first custom board around them.

ماء how do you like the greys you bought from 7bit? I have a linear grey and a tactile grey, and they're too heavy even for me! Definitely intended as space bar switches.

[bhtooefr]

Matias Click.

Because Quiet Click shouldn't get all the glory. And because it feels amazing - great weighting, quite early tactility, but chunkier tactility than, say, Alps whites.

[ماء]

ماء how do you like the greys you bought from 7bit? I have a linear grey and a tactile grey, and they're too heavy even for me! Definitely intended as space bar switches.

switches,I yet plug on a keyboard,so for typing are both,I have not tried
but in my opinion, dark greys(blacks 80g) quite good than greys tactile but for while linears really really boring

[Findecanor]

BTW. If there existed a tactile, locking switch in the MX line-up, I would have nominated it.

[Broadmonkey]

I nominate Cherry MX green. Both to further split the Cherry vote and because they are honestly my favourite MX. That's why I built my first custom board around them.

Good call. 2013 has really been the year where it has gained a lot of popularity and recognition. I don't imagine most people would have guessed a commercial gaming branded keyboard with only greens would have been available in 2012!

[Daniel Beardsmore]

BTW. If there existed a tactile, locking switch in the MX line-up, I would have nominated it.

Tactile lock switches kinda suck. Alps SKCLJC feels kinda sharp and grindy, and the only Futaba "modern" lock I have (as opposed to the old linear lock) also feels similarly rubbish. I just checked my old SMK lock switches, and while it's not a linear switch, the subtle change in force doesn't really have any useful indication to the user.

I presume there must be some locking switches that are tactile and feel nice?

[Findecanor]

Hmm.. A friend of mine misplaced my C64, so I can't check if its lock switch (presumably Mitsumi) was any good, but I remember it as being tactile. It has been years, though.