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Welcome to the gay clicky clacky keys club!

Takatakataka 👇👇👇

Welcome to the fold brother

BEWARE

custom mechanical keyboards is a rabbit hole that not many people can afford to fall into

there are a mindboggling number of websites to buy switches and other parts from and most of it is limited run only

I prefer tactile switches

MX Red switches are a crime perpetrated against living beings with hands

Try some Box Jade's. They're really nice and clicky. Like popping bubble wrap.

Welcome to the family, enjoy your stay.

My advice is don't get into it as a hobby. Take your mechanical keyboard and enjoy it for what it is unless you have plenty of money you want to burn or become fixated on ergonomics, comfort, or aesthetic in your day to day typing experience.

That's very impressive, Comrade Raccoon.

Switch stan here, since you want snappy switches i would almost rule out Linear ones, that leaves Clicky switches and Tactile switches.

For clickies there are the Kailh Box White (light spring, light click), Jade (light spring, heavy click) and Navy (heavy spring, heavy click). Dont listen to anyone recommending Cherry MX blue switches, the Kailh box switches are way better.

Your Outemu Browns are tactile switches, with the different brands of "brown" always being light spring switches with very light tactile bump that is in the middle of the keystroke.

With tactiles it gets the most complicated because while Linears just vary in sound, weight, and smoothness (mostly at least), Clickies, add the heaviness of the click itself into the mix but generally all have the click in the middle of the keystroke, while with Tactiles the position of the Tactile bump varies a lot between different Switches and will alter the feel of the switch a lot.

Since you want more snappiness id look for either a tactile with a larger bump that is further up at the beginning of the keystroke (maybe a stronger spring, but a strong spring can also cause the bump to be less noticeable) like the boba u4t, or a clicky switch like the Kailh box jade or navy switch.

I just wanna say how impressive it is that you can type so fast with those tiny little paws.

Here's a frontier I want you to experience: 25g. and lower Kailh Choc switches.

They will probably require a different PCB because of different footprint (position of legs and contacts), but lightweight Chocs are sooooo satisfying, the actuation force is so small that resting a finger on a key can press it and it's GLORIOUS

Also, try split keyboards! My hands rest on the table, I don't need to move them, I just adjust the keyboard halves. And I can put a bowl of soup, a laptop, or a fully sized cat in between them!

Welcome to one of the more expensive hobbies a normal person might still fall into! Are the switches in your board hot swappable? Cause if not, just know changing switches would require desoldering and soldering on the new ones. But if you have a hot swap board you can just pull them out

20 wpm? I think your keyboard was just really bad or in bad condition

Now the keys glide effortlessly.

I feel this emote so much.

Lubricated mechanism can make it even better, if it didn't come pre-lubed up. It's effort to go through the mechanism on every key applying it but I can confirm it's worth.

what mmo mouse is that?