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your geeky friends and you're getting a mechanical keyboard but what key switches should you get now i'm on the record saying that cherry mx switches are the gold standard but there are tons of keyboard enthusiasts who strongly disagree with that statement so today we are conducting a blind test he's now nowhere near me is he with no less than 22 of the most popular key switches to see which ones people including me like clacking on best ruggable rugs are spill and stain resistant and also machine washable they'll stay in place with their non-slip pads and you can use code Linus 15 to get 15 off your order and free shipping at the link below now some of you may remember that we did do a blind key switch test in a previous video but today's test is way better in basically every way we're testing way more key switches all on the same board with the same key caps and with a way bigger sample size of our weird quirky test subjects oh i don't like this chair this is how we do it now we could have simply arranged all 22 keyboards around the room and let people wander around free range but we figured they would get too tired and unfocused to rigorously test each board so here's what we're going to do instead we've divided the switches into three main categories tactile linear and clicky switches so each participant will actually do three rounds of testing that's right and within each round you only ever have two keyboards in front of you at any given time you just tell me if you prefer keyboard a or keyboard b and then i take away the losing board and give you a new one and we used a random number generator to determine which order you experience the keyboards in to remove even more bias so you want to get started i do all right then we'll begin with round one all the tactile keyboards hmm these are not the same what how are these even the same class this is surprisingly different this one's so much more subdued quiet stealthy oh oh no oh oh yeah yeah are these even mechanical hmm it's kind of nice it's soft but not mushy i mean this this might as well just be a membrane oh beautiful oh am i gonna pick this one even though i didn't like it right away these are brutal no thank you i don't really like this one that's your keyboard this is my keyboard that's it two islands silence what's that this is okay this feels familiar very familiar easier to type on smoother these almost feel like they're more premium it's okay it's the tesla i don't like this one quite as much i can't quite describe why this one's kind of chonky still feels a little membraney oh no that's your keyboard that's my board what is it zelios v2 neat it's not like overpowering in the noise it's smooth it's very comfortable this one sings to me you hear that so much twanginess listen to that b feels a little i don't know thin maybe it's just the mechanical sound or the metal sounds that's heavy uh this one's gotta have some strong fingers to use this baby this one's weird it like takes more force to push down right away like the tactile bumps at the top but then it's kind of takes a lot of force throughout there's a lot of resistance which i think is what makes it feel mushy heavy always felt like quality to me but i never liked typing on it as much that would be annoying for me i couldn't type on us all day i like them but there's no way i'd be able to type on them comfortably all day oh i hate that i don't like that i don't like this one nope i feel like i'm at my eye exam all over again and you don't know if the answers you're saying are right but it's just all subjective so it doesn't matter unless there is a right and wrong this is terrible i feel like i'm a typist in a courtroom drama stenographer this one's mildly more satisfying i i can't decide oh these are pretty similar let me do tactile it's pretty light in the press it just doesn't feel like it takes as much pressure to type a is really easy i mean opposite i was saying if i'm typing i would like this one more i have to choose this one yeah this one's nicer this one feels pretty good but i'm pretty sure it's a clone watch maybe just like totally wrong that would be pretty funny the one where you're like i hate that guess what that was what cherry brown nailed it what really i didn't know i'd like cherry browns what a coincidence ah sweet yeah actually i think the keyboard that Linus has at home that i really like is a brown okay what what what category are we in here linear ooh that's gonna be a tough one i can pretty much guarantee i'm going to hate them all why what the relative test sort of like you know do you want poop or diarrhea like oh this is easier to type on than this one this is a bit more of what i want in like a linear switch like really low force oh these these feel like blues i mean they're not but they feel like it oh man you could really press these down quick keyboard b feels really premium for some reason it's like the switch just like has a tighter tolerance so it just goes in smooth and like quickly very smooth very easy to press these ones feel like a little bit more refined almost like the stroke is just smoother overall it feels so tight and just more premium for some reason right off the bat i like this one just like just the feel of it and what is my champion called six to nine tangerine oh 62 gram i just said 16 man yes yes i am a genius i'm a keyboard genius baby the sound and like it just feels like slightly smoother maybe i don't know if that's right but these are really easy going i could type on these all day are they expensive new one is this um do you remember that oh oh my god okay these are very soft holy crap wow i felt like typing on boobs oh god no no i really like this i think i've ever typed on something like this before it's fighting me it's kind of nice yeah it feels really nice i don't know it's so quiet it's stealthy it's like a stealth keyboard these are much heavier tiring and mushy wow so i guess some people must really like having a lot of resistance on their keys eh what have i chosen let's play the lottery the rosa rosalias like if i was at a beach and i needed a keyboard to type on toes in the sand type it away on the mechanical keyboard this would be the one that sounds like the one i have at home no i don't think i like this either am i dead or alive i don't know these feel like blacks or something too much actuation force these are too heavy for me that's your keyboard cool that is a gateron ink black got her on gotta oh boy really light there's kind of a gritty feeling to this oh i don't know this feels actually quite similar to this one over here oh oh this is this is a tight race i don't know these are so similar these might even be the same thing for all i know oh these are really close but i guess i'm going to stick with a telios i've never heard of that what's that like if you like linear cherry keyboards that's probably great i don't i just like things that are easy to type on and don't require much force is this a common one to like oh can i go back to the one with the red ones on the bottom oh we doing clicky next you know i used to like clicky keyboards i really don't anymore they're all loud hey just the way people like them right it's like if you were like if you were like trying to type without bothering somebody and you're like what's the password i really do not like hooky switches oh it's more Jake's thing this could be the best category i already love it click here stronger faster this is not bad whoa whoa that's a sharp click the click on this is very noticeably different if it was cherry i would be very surprised i really like keyboard v it really gives me that very sharp feedback that i'm actually hitting things if i was trying to piss off my roommate oh definitely this one this one's like i'm just pressing down and it's like okay yeah you're pressing boom all right that's fine this one's like engaged i have a feeling this one is polarizing because the click is very like affirmative yeah yeah i don't want to engage thrusters every time i click you're going to run out of fuel that way it's like a short throw but like so nice sounding nope the more i type on it the worse it gets their mind okay these ones are slightly lighter than this keyboard who would use this what a monster and i think i like that because they are a little bit faster but they do have a nice definite click you gotta live alone i'm sorry this one's definitely more clicky and part of me really likes that all right what do we got here sherbert sure bet sherbert sherbert sure bet sherbet sherbert sherbert sherbet sherbet sherbert sherbet sherbert those are brand new i think that's a nice sounding switch it feels good stabilization's nice yeah they feel great wait this one's like almost like grainier these feel a lot like blues the click is so emphasized that i would almost say that they're like fake blues i think oh yes i like i like clicky a lot more this is a bit more familiar feeling i think this one definitely feels more like keyboards that i have experience with i'm trying to keep that bias out of the picture i think that these are blues but i don't know if you told me one of these was a cherry i would guess that it was this one i'm going to guess that these are like the box jades or box navies now this sounds kind of hollow if i'm gonna pick a keyboard based on what it sounds like it better sound good this is a kale blue sure wow i threw quite a few out because they didn't have enough force oh this one really gives you feedback like you can really feel that you're typing this feels familiar oh the click on these switches wow that is aggressive looks like i'm on a typewriter it just makes you feel like you're getting into the mainframe it's almost fatiguing to listen to in the same way that when you listen to like really accurate high-resolution headphones that can be fatiguing because it's like too realistic so satisfying to click oh my god very heavy like brake force like there's a lot of resistance before it goes i think it's all in the way it just like travels down this feels really tight i think if i had these switches in like my control and shift that would be cool or like on a numpad but i wouldn't want to be typing on these all day this feels horrible keep it okay we're done done i don't know let's see box jade i'm happy with that that's sick a new contender enters the ring oh so much louder though these are very obnoxious this is like if you want your co-workers to hate you oh the sound of those are brutal but i like the feel of them that is one generic ass clicky keyboard you like that nope oh cherry yeah well that's a generic keyboard goes to show you how personal a decision this is these are clicky but not obnoxious very suave i like them don't like that this one's more like a oh i feel like if i was writing it'd be good but i don't write that much yeah it's okay a little mushy i think this one right here also kind of weird it has the same sort of like not very much for slots of force not very much that feels odd nope just from a gaming perspective i would definitely go with b again that's the keyboard this is it the box white cool that seems pretty good i've i've never felt happier i still would not pick this actually because i like the other one better but silence they should go back to cookie and then get a divorce that was actually a ton of fun and i am floored by the results that we got we saw a lot of the same switches winning again and again pretty much regardless of the participant's apparent enthusiast level and then oddly enough cherry switches almost never won in the linear and clicky categories but the mx browns were by far the most popular switch among the tactile switches i don't know if that's because of weaker competition in the category uh or if it's because lots of participants were familiar with brown so they just feel like home or maybe it's just plain old a good switch or some combination of the three funnily enough even though i daily drive browns i was one of the ones that didn't end up choosing browns now guys of course we couldn't test every switch in existence we would have really liked to have included logitech's roamer g's for example but those switches use a different keycap mount so we would have needed a custom solution so in the end we asked the community and we tried to source most of the popular ones that they asked for big thanks to drop.com for sending over 25 of their control keyboards full of switches as well as michael at novel keys henry at zeal generation and jason at the key company for providing all these awesome enthusiast switches you guys are heroes and i'm positive there's going to be a lot of people at our office rethinking their keyboards now that they know what's out there i feel like my mind is open open to a message from our sponsor the aorus GeForce rtx 2080 super has eight gigs of ddr6 three HDMI ports three displayport ports and a usb type-c their winfor stack 3x 100 millimeter cooling system helps keep your card cool and naturally of course it features RGB which is customizable through their RGB fusion 2.0 software given that it's rtx it's got ray tracing for more realistic rendering of lighting and shadows and you can check it out today at the links in the video description so thanks for watching guys if you enjoyed this video and you're looking for uh you know what let's do a throwback call out why don't you check out our tour of the omron factory that we did with logitech where we checked out the creation of their roamer g switches you know why don't we link the cherry factory tour as well that'd be pretty sweet how are these things made now you'll know is my head like oriented up in a weird way i almost feel like stevie wonder maybe you don't put that in"}