 You finally gave into peer pressure from 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 52 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 Linus15 to get 15% off your order and free shipping At the link below 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 Don't like this chair 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 gonna 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 use 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 So much more subdued Quiet stealthy. Oh No Oh, oh, 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 like this one. That's Your keyboard this is my keyboard to islands is islands. What's that? This is okay Oh 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 chunky still feels a little membrane II The Zelios V2 It's not like overpowering in the noise it's smooth it's very comfortable. Oh This one sings to me you hear that So much twanginess listen to that Be feels a little I don't know Finn maybe it's just a mechanical sound or the metal sounds So it's got to have some strong fingers they 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. Have you 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 this 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 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 It's tonographer. This one's mildly more satisfying. I I can't decide Oh, these are pretty similar We need a tactile. It's pretty light in the press. It just doesn't feel like it takes as much pressure to type Hey 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 nice. This one feels pretty good, but I'm pretty sure it's a clone Watch me be just like totally wrong. I'll be pretty funny What cherry brown nailed it Oh, what really I didn't know I'd like Jerry Brown's what a coincidence Sweet Yeah, actually, I think the keyboard that Linus has at home that I really like is a brown Okay, what what what category we in linear linear? Who's gonna be a tough one? I can pretty much guarantee I'm gonna hate them all what what 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 Just feel like glues. 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 cold? Wow six to nine tangerine 62 gram I just Yes Yes, I am a genius. I'm a keyboard genius, baby Huh the sound and like it just feels like slightly smoother Maybe I don't know if that's right, but these are really easygoing. I Could type on these all day Are they expensive? new one Whoo is this some Do you remember that? Oh My god, okay These are very soft. Holy crap Wow Fully typing on boobs. Oh god. No, no I think I've ever typed on something like this before it's fighting me Kind of nice Yeah, it feels really nice, I don't know so quiet 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 Hey, what have I chosen? Let's play the lottery the Rosa Rosalia's Rosalia's like if I was at a beach and I needed a keyboard to type on Type it away on the keyboard. This would be the one I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just typing on the keyboard Sounds like the one I have 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 Get her on ink black Get her on ink black Black ink Oh boy Really light There's kind of a gritty feeling to this Oh, I don't know Does this feel actually quite similar to this one over here? Oh, 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 All these are really close but I guess I'm gonna stick with a T-Lios 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're doing clicky next, you know, I used to like clicking keyboards. I really don't anymore They're all out. 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 I What's the password I really do not like cookies which is oh It's more Jake's thing. This is gonna be the best category. I already love it Click here stronger faster Whoa, whoa 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 I Was trying to piss off my roommate fool. 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 engage I have a feeling this one was polarizing because the click is very like Affirming. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to engage thrusters every time I click you're gonna run out of fuel that way It's like short throw but like so nice something Nope, the more I type on it the worse it gets there my cake. These ones are slightly lighter than this keyboard What a monster and I think I like that cuz they are a little bit faster But they do have a nice definite click you kind of 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 sherbet sherbet sherbert sherbert Sherbert sherbet sherbet sherbet sherbet sherbet That's a nice sounding switch. It feels good. Stabilization is nice Yeah, they feel great Where 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 is a bit more familiar feeling I Think this one definitely feels More like keyboards that I have experience with and 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 gonna guess that these are like the box jades or box navies Now this sound 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 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 The click on these switches Wow that is aggressive. It's 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 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 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 It's so much louder though These are very obnoxious. It's 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 Make Oh cherry That's a generic ass 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 was more like a 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 force lots of force not very much that feels odd Nope just from a gaming perspective. I would definitely go with B again Is it the box white cool? Most of pretty good. I've never felt happier. I still would not pick this actually because I like the other one better, but silence 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 participants 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 Or if it's because lots of participants were familiar with Browns 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 gonna be a lot of people at our office Rethinking their keyboards now that they know what's out there feel like my mind is open Open to a message From our sponsor the aorus g-force rtx 2080 super has 8 gigs of gdr6 3 hdmi ports 3 display ports and a usb type-c their wind force 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 callout 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 romer 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 don't put that in