{"id":185,"date":"2013-12-07T22:18:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T22:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:43:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:43:03","slug":"which-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/which-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Which switch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an awkward period between first getting interested in mechanical keyboards and actually going out and buying one with confidence. A lot of this stems from one question&#8230; &#8216;which switch?&#8217; With four common Cherry switches, a few uncommon ones and other options altogether, it&#8217;s not an easy task.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s best to try out keyboards with different switches before you commit to buying one, but often it&#8217;s hard to try all of the ones you&#8217;re interested in. Perhaps your local shop only has Red switches, or your friends all have Brown. In this case, a &#8216;which switch&#8217; guide like this one will hopefully give you a better idea of which switches seem best for different purposes.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, let&#8217;s get right into the flowchart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/whichswitch2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-195\" title=\"whichswitch\" src=\"\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/whichswitch2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/whichswitch2.png 600w, https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/whichswitch2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/whichswitch2-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve got your result, you&#8217;re much closer to finding the right keyboard for you.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to learn more about the different Cherry switches, you can view <a title=\"An introduction to Cherry MX mechanical switches\" href=\"http:\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/an-introduction-to-cherry-mx-mechanical-switches\/\">our introduction to Cherry switches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you got a Cherry MX switch, you can have a look at our popular Filco Majestouch keyboards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=648\">Filco Majestouch-2 w\/ Blue (&#8216;Clicky&#8217;) switch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=646\">Filco Majestouch-2 w\/ Brown (&#8216;Tactile&#8217;) switch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=647\">Filco Majestouch w\/ Black (&#8216;Linear&#8217;) switch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=1037\">Filco Majestouch-2 w\/ Red (&#8216;Soft linear&#8217;) switch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you got Topre, you&#8217;ll want to have a look at our Topre Realforce Keyboards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/keyboard_search.asp?SG=T\">Topre Realforce<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you got Matias, then check out the Matias Quiet Pro (and its louder cousin, the Matias Tactile Pro):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=1023\">Matias Quiet Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyboardco.com\/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=786\">Matias Tactile Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope this was helpful. If you&#8217;ve got any questions or queries, please let me know in the comments below, on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/keyboardco\">@keyboardco<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/keyboardco\">on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an awkward period between first getting interested in mechanical keyboards and actually going out and buying one with confidence. A lot of this stems from one question&#8230; &#8216;which switch?&#8217; With four common Cherry switches, a few uncommon ones and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/which-switch\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Which switch?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[10,25,16,14,24],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-guides","tag-filco","tag-infographic","tag-matias","tag-mechanical-keyboards","tag-topre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thekeyboardco.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}