Why red switches, if you're a typing monster? Those are "gaming switches", bottoming out like on regular membrane switches necessary to close contacts. MX brown switches with dampener rings around the key necks are the deal for typing a lot. They are silent - if you don't bottom out accidentally. Dampeners have you covered, though - but that's only for accidents, to not hurt finger joints. The goal is to learn to type without whacking the key down to the metal & thus use less pressure that hurt joints & tendons like on must-bottom-out-to-make-contact kind of keys. This works by tactile feedback on contact closure - which happens quite some millimeters before bottom, even if dampening rings are in place.
The blue switches are similar, but have the click.
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Date: 2019-10-30 05:11 pm (UTC)MX brown switches with dampener rings around the key necks are the deal for typing a lot. They are silent - if you don't bottom out accidentally. Dampeners have you covered, though - but that's only for accidents, to not hurt finger joints. The goal is to learn to type without whacking the key down to the metal & thus use less pressure that hurt joints & tendons like on must-bottom-out-to-make-contact kind of keys.
This works by tactile feedback on contact closure - which happens quite some millimeters before bottom, even if dampening rings are in place.
The blue switches are similar, but have the click.