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Originally Posted by DragonChi
I'm on the fence between blue and brown switches.
The blues have a nice clicky tactile feel. I got to try the keys at NCIX once. But as other have said, they're loud.
The browns are like the blues but have a rubber ring at the bottom to stop the clicky sound when the keys bottom out. Though, on wiki, the force to press the key down is about 20% less than the blue. So I not sure if they're prone to typos or misclicks...
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It's not that the browns have a rubber stopper, it's that they don't have an 2 piece plunger that clicks on activation. You can see it here:
The blue has that extra piece on the plunger that 'slams' down after getting past the actuation point
Browns have a one piece plunger that has the tactile feel, but not the clicking sound.
You can actually install rubber o-rings on them dull the click a bit. This also shortens the actuation point
Also because of this 2 piece plunger, the blues actually de-actuate at a higher point than they actuate. That's what makes them not very suitable for gaming. I had issues even in Don't Starve, where I would be walking and making minor adjustments to go diagonally... once in a while the key didn't de-actuate so it didn't register a key press.
Then you have red and black, which have no tactile feel at all. They just slide up and down, and hit the actuation point about halfway there.