Mechanical Keyboard Switches as Fast As Possible
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Cherry MX keyboards switches - They're all different from each other, but what they have in common is they are ALL better than membrane switches. Yuck.
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Linus. The only man who would balance an expensive GPU for the sake of entertainment.
Much Doge well its not expensive anymore, but back then... yeah.
TheFluxyFlux That comment was made 'back then'
Will Kjellander
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u tell mi m8
***** Zimbabwe
back when "as fast as possible" was fast
+Randomdeath5 I just noticed I at least watch Linus for over three years, most likely more than four lol
Omnilatent haha
@Cloudy Silver no one cares
@Cloudy Silver 2020, it's just getting longer... but also more infos as well
yes
Apparently, UA-cam has a full-screen shortcut in *F*. I never knew that.
M also mutes the video
+Gameactive k pauses :D
+Gameactive and J makes the video jump 10 sec back, while L 10 sec forward
Spacebar activates the last action.
+Gameactive C activates closed captioning
he's balancing a gtx 680 like its a 5 cent pen.
+Miguel James Martinez except it's easier than a pen
just to show he's rich
Right now, it pretty much is.
Yup, it is now.
Oh how times have changed
1:30
Linus has a tiny stroke before filming that take
+minecraftwithkitties i thought i was the only one who noticed
i dont get the point
now i get it
Nice profile pic u got there ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+nbvdkamp Why, thank you ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I see you're a fellow osu! player as well ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
INTEL SNOWBOARD WTF?!
Shengran Putis McMuffin with built-in INTEL-processor to calculate those (probably) good-looking stunts xD
xd
+Shengran Putis McMuffin but its not compatabl with and GPUs.
Powered by Intel HD Graphics.
Powered by Intel GMA 950 Graphics to make it look like a PS1 game
I really want to buy a mechanical keyboard but my dad says they're a waste of money, I want to show him this vid but Linus has earings. LoL
This comment really made me lol. Thanks m8! :D
you will stuck on membranes forever.
marketing biases...
Melvern Soelaiman what do you mean by that?
MaxiTunerJaypee you dont need them becoz they are pricey and wont work as we expected than membranes.
Melvern Soelaiman what do you mean by won't work as we expected?
The first time I heard MX Blue switches when getting into mechanical keyboards it brought back repressed memories of my mom's old keyboard. She could type 136wpm and she did it on a loud clay keyboard and as she was a total workaholic she would keep us awake all night with that constant click and clack.
Dat Boi Yeah mine is 79. Her's is crazy and at that she was self taught.
I do ~110wpm
atleast i have that going for me
Austin Duffy She can't type that fast on anything but, a clissic IBM keyboard or today on a Cherry MX blue keyboard. She has been using those keyboards for close to 30 years.
Le Leedler i feel sad
get necroed
Blue switches are bae
says the nat
gitrekt
omg
***** Is this... Is this a furry who agrees with what I agree with? You can live... just don't enforce your furryness on us.
Much Doge But of course!
MAY BLUE SWITCHES PREVAIL
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I see linus on so many channels XD
get necroed
[InsertNameHere] get double necroed
He has 5 channels
Linus is everywhere on UA-cam...
Linus is UA-cam.
Valkyrie Linus is love
creepersssssBOOM Linus is life.
So is beachil
I tried to do the same with my GTX 780, I almost dropped it :)
Too right mate, a lot of damage could have been dealt...
I'll try it with a 570 :P
There is a special place in hell for people like you there are starving PC's even in the USA who would kill for a card so great.
Well, can't say the card is working, that's the part of the reason I bought a 780.
It was actually a GTX 580 TwinFrozr II that broke on me, not a 570. It worked for some time, then it started showing artifacts everywhere even when booting, causing blue screens of doom and random crashes.
Not really a card someone would kill another for. I'm not that much of a scum bag to break something so expensive.
I meant to the guy with the 780.
Brandyn G first world problems
Stop giving me heartattacks with that gpu
He was probably doing that over a gym mat.
That GPU is more than my whole setup at the moment
Just realized that fast as possible is F.A.P...
You sir are the smartest person I have ever met on the interwebs
And???
0:59 "speaking of..." I felt the sponsor is coming. But apparent no! How different is 2020!
Greens are basically VERY heavy blues. I've only tried them once and they are quite uncommon right now.
omg had a heart attack at that card balencing!
I'm an AMD guy but I gritted my teeth when he was balancing that nVidia card...
team brown switch
Liam van der Vyver ...well, half way
Rick Hey i'm new. Can you tell me if a brown switch is more suitable to MMO type gameplay? I've read that this is the case, and why does it work for you? Thanks.
Jayanth Kumar Brown switches are also called "hybrid", it's sort of a mix between blue and red. It's both for gaming and typing, but I don't know if brown is best for MMO, it's more of a all-rounder.
+EvokkiHD where did you get your ducky 4s? I litteraly can't find any because they sell out so quick >_< also ducky 3s and 2s
Your my savior...
I started using computers in the early 90's, when all keyboards were mechanical. When membrane (or soft click as we called them) came out, we all switched with no delay. I find it hard to believe you would want to go back to that shit now.
I and many others prefer mechanicals over membrane. I also find it hard to believe that you would want to stay with that shit now, but we all have our opinions.
I think you guys switched to membrance keyboard is because of the bunkyness and loudness of a mechanical keyboard at that time. Also the early 90s there are not many option for switches available, so mechanical keyboard seems to require a massive amount of force to type on. Nowaday you got so many option to choose from, with different layout and switches, making mechanical keyboard much more attractive.
***** Yep, they does sell contoured mechanical keyboard. look into the ergodox or kinesis advantage
As for the loudness of the switch, cherry mx blue (and razer's "green" switches) have both the tactile bump and the click sound, so it'll be loud. if you like the tactile feedback but not the noise, look into the mx brown. If you don't even like the tactile feedback, linear switches like mx red will be more suitable. both of those switches has a lighter activation force than mx blue, so gaming on them is way easier
***** Yep! they're not always about the click. I personally use a cherry mx brown board and without the click, the lightness of the key and the slight tactile bump still make up for an awesome experience! I can float on the board effortlessly.
As with the kinesis, it's kinda hard to try out one in person. But kinesis is offering a 60 days no question refund so you can testing out the keyboard, which is pretty sweet.
I completely agree. I absolutely love my membrane keyboard. The key's soft forgiving feel combined with the extremely short keystroke allows me to type almost twice as fast as on a mechanical keyboard. Plus they have a distinct release point where the pressure under your finger drops to almost zero. It allows me to know exactly when a keystroke has registered, and it allows me to rest my fingers on the keys and still know exactly how much force I can apply before they give way.
0:27 thats the EXACT keyboard I use
lil poor bum XD
+Clorox Bleach Its a mechanical keyboard
What one is it?
Compaq
Thanh T not usb
1:50 jesus christ! that gave me a heart attack
tonton9598 im dead😂
“As Fast As Possible”
0:34 - 1:50 are actually all you have to watch, I've just saved you 53 seconds.
Great video! Those little animations for each switch type was VERY helpful. I feel like I have a clear understanding of what the differences are now. If only I had the money to buy one of these fancy keyboards!
1:22 Yes, feel that spot baby. And yeah, I'm gonna be that guy!!
I would throw myself at a mechanical if not for that "distinctive sound" that is WAAAAAAY to loud for me.
avoid blues and use o rings...
Not all of them make a sound, you should know that if you watched the whole video.
I reckon if you got mx red switches with o ring dampeners it would be passable compared to membrane based keyboards.
Then use reds or browns.
Ah yes, because mx silent with o rings are also loud
1:30
For a brief moment, Linus recalls the horrors of 'Nam before snapping back to reality.
I love these videos. It's great to have a quick "go-to" answer when people ask me questions! Thanks, Linus!
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Brian Patrick van Oers made my day xD
Welcome back to another As Fast As Possible Session!
"A FAP SESSION"
2:00 haha GTX 680 rememebr when those were a ting
Geez, that 20 second intro. And people are complaining about the 7 second one you guys do today, lol.
cherry mx brown is my favorite, blue is so hard to press, also nice graphics card balance, first time to see linus holding something and not dropping it after 3 seconds
What's faster an intel snowboard or an AMD snowboard?
They were going to race them ,but the AMD died.
@@KrunalRindani this didn't age well
@@KrunalRindani Wow do things change
@@hamzerpanzer i know right...
@@wibs0n68 yea! hats off to AMD tbh...
It's just a 680. Nvidia already made those worthless through planned obsolescence.
tried it on 1080 and 980ti
Especially cause it's a friggin' 3 year old video!
*Published on Mar 5, 2013*
***** 3 years go by, and the nvidia card is already a door stop. This is what you pay a premium for.
Richard Smith That's not NVIDIA's fault... If they come up with better technology and better games that make use of it you can upgrade and take advantage of that or play the games that run in your 3 years old Graphics Card...
I GOT A LINUS AD FROM UA-cam IM NEVER SKIPPING IT
Of course it's less annoying because then you don't watch it. What kind of sponsor would pay for a spot that no one will watch? These sponsorships keep Linus Media Group running (they buy us food and new equipment and stuff) so I hope you can put up with them.
Blues
I think I'm a brown guy.
I'm a white guy (no pun intended actually).
I don't think there are any black guys
mazdarati2 I was a black guy for a while
WTFDalis I'm blue.
*cough*
I'M BLUE, DA BA DI DA BA DIE, DA BA DI DA BA DIE
He's actually sort of right, with anything other than blues (and its variations such as I think greens and clears) the sound comes from the bottoming out, the key cap hitting the switch housing and/or base plate. If you don't bottom out they can be almost silent. This is why o-ring dampeners exist, they go over the stalk oft he switch and dampen the caps impact making it quieter.
Don't forget buckling spring Model M keyboards, still made and sold today by Unicomp!
And please put the commercial at the end of the video, instead of the beginning... it's less annoying that way.
Anyone game on blue switches?
me
I game on a SteelSeries Apex 350 Membrane Keyboard because I don't like mechanicals.
why u dont like mechanical keyboard??
Gung Nanda To me, they are hard to type on. Also, please fix your grammar and spelling. Please. No disrespect if English isn't your first language, though.
Oh yeah sorry dude iam still learning english
A 20-second ad is disproportionately for a 2-minute "quickie" video. If the sponsor requires the ad to be that long, then at least do a "donut": a quick teaser intro to the video's topic, then the ad, and then get back to the video content.
If u reply that would be funny
The ads are really not a problem.. We're watching these awesome videos for free and your getting paid to make more of them. Nothing to cry about here move along children.
Actually, for a proper typist, failure to "bottom out" is the leading cause of fatigue and RSI. A key switch that is too "soft" also causes problems which is why "cushion-stop" keyboards were phased out in the 80s.
im getting a mx blue razer black widow tournament
guess what NOBODY CARES
Mx blue on a razer keyboard? Blasphemy
I do not regret getting my mech keyboard. It is awesome.
2013: "you can feel the tactile bump of mx browns"
2021: "Browns are my favorite scratchy linear"
For gaming, I found my switch types not to make any real difference at all. For TYPING, however, this CherryMX blue keyboard is just amazing.
Why are you trying to balance a graphics card
+RC Goober He was given a challenge by the sponsors as per the request of the subscribers. :P
IBM Model M yo
A dream, but my friends keep complaining, when i am talking with them over Teamspeak ^^'
Isn't that a buckling spring keyboard?
RagingRealm It is, but that's jusat another type of mechanical switch.
I know, the original mechanical keyboards.
***** OH GOD A DESKTOP KEYBOARD WITH A MOUSE NUB! :) this is really cool and I want one now.
Can't imagine a rig that keyboard would fit nicely with, except those old beige prebuilts
Here's my input from a game developer; TXAA and FXAA for example are screen-space effects meaning they search for jagged edges and blur them on the screen. Ones such as MSAA are your REAL Anti-Aliasing effects that for the most part produce better results but at a cost of more frames per second. The reason why games switch to using fake SSAAs are because the deferred rendering engines don't support real AA methods without hacks like in Crysis 2/3 but they aren't very efficient.
The preroll ads WERE turned off for a while, but he turned them back on.
2020 Everyone
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I don't have one, I think the click sounds are cool, but don't they bother after gaming for a while?
***** That's the other thing, I always hear other people's keyboards on you can hear them in gaming videos.
But I would guess if you get a good mic it would solve that.
My friends and i who use them have resigned ourselves to the clicking.
James Yeow Having shitty talent and get famous is a thing now a days, I dont really care about him lol
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honestly if you are gaming or listening to music on your headset, you cant really hear the keyboard anyways, and if you get red's or browns you don't really hear them at all.
I use MX Blues and I game all the time, I LOVE them! I don't particularly care that they're loud. It's a satisfying sound.
The article this video was attached to was very helpful, more so than I found elsewhere. I've been aware of mechanical keyboards for some time but I never invested any time into reading up on them and was not aware of the significance of the various switch types. This video was also helpful with visual identification of the differing switch types. Despite that I found the details listed in the article all the more necessary and I'll be going with brown. Thanks. :D
Truthfully (and I know this is often said) I really don't like gaming on a mechanical keyboard - typing however is simply delightful.
what keys color (type) do you prefer?
***** For typing? I'll go with blue everyday. For gaming I'm using a keypad these days so I've got the best of both worlds :D
Cool, I decided to go with brown I can do without the click :)
what about the green razer switches? waht are those
The same as blue
Alex Shi razers own brand *dogshit
MrKieranc123 You dont have to call him that
i called the switches dogshit not him
MrKieranc123 I know i was just being silly
Bought mechanical keyboard for $120. Regretting it.
Why ?
why
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why
why
I believe that with only cherry mx blues can you hear that sexy clicking sound. As for a budget board, check out the Coolermaster quick fire pro. It's often on sale on NCIX too!
This channel has nothing to do with NCIX -- this is Linus's own business venture now -- so it shouldn't only be limited to products that NCIX sells.
Now that I know what a mechanical keyboard is I don't wan't it. I like my keyboards to be as quiet as possible and prefer it for the people I play with too because when you have skype open and play with someone who has a mechanical keyboard it will drive you crazy, well at least it does drive me crazy when I have to hear every key press the person I am talking to is making.
Mechanical keyboard is not as loud as you think. I have a cherry mx brown keyboard, not as loud as those showed in the video.
Then that person is using the blue switches. They're the most loud. I use reds as of now, and I can say that they're not much louder than your typical membrane keyboards. I'd imagine it's the same with browns.
see the problem is not ur keyboard its the fact that u use skype :P , use something thats worth your while like teamspeak (it has push to talk and voice activation that will only activate your mic when you talk so it wont pick up background noise) there are sooooooo many different kinds of software you can use to talk to friends or other gamers :)
EliteRman121 Skype has push to talk, look at the options, but when I'm gaming I do not wish to press a button when I want to say something, my fingers are already occupied on the game.
That is why we have mouse and keyboard with extra programmable buttons :P, what game do you play anyway that occupied all 10 of your fingers, I have fingers left to push to talk even in MMO gaming.
For anyone curious, chiclet keyboards are just very flat membrane keyboards. The very short distance to press them are not very tiring at all compared to the original bulky keys. Chiclet keyboards are also usually pretty "clicky" and in my opinion are just as fulfilling.
Thanks for making these easy to understand and comprehensive videos, great job LMG:) It really helped me when choosing my new Keyboard :)
Laser mice use an infrared laser as their light source (it's dark underneath the mouse - it needs light to see!)
Optical mice use a (red commonly) light.
My model M is twenty years old and it still works, and I found it at a yard sale cheaper than buying a brand new cherry switch keyboard.
No way! I have that same Compaq keyboard on my desk right now! Found it at a thrift shop and liked the way the keys felt.
He didn't mention the new buckling spring Model M keyboards available from Unicomp, either... strange, because Linus himself is a big fan of the Model M.
Linus you do a great job making all these videos. Every time I type in something one of your informative videos come up.
The clicking sound of the blues sounds like the doors in The Stanley Parable.
Yep just like up and down control volume, left and right adjust the time 5 seconds, J & L do the same but for 10 seconds, while K and the space bar controls play/pause. Also 0 on the num pad will restart the video, and 1 to 9 splits the video into 9 sections (ex 5 would be halfway through the video)
i like that feeling of the key being easy to put my finger on(so light) and having that feeling from the activation bump. i think i prefer brown switches from this
Thanks for the summary. Sounds like I need to find a red/brown keyboard that I like the layout of.
That scene with the balancing GPU was fake. Everybody knows that Linus drops everything.
ok how is this in my recommended 7 years later?
He is the same, no matter what timeline is, he is the goddamn same
Straight and to the point with clear, easy-to-understand explanations. You are a god.
The one thing I do like about membrane keyboards is that it's quiet as opposed to sounding like a military battlefield.
I prefer having thoses Intel ads than having a CoD ad or an ad about shampoo and coffee.
I still use a Mitsumi KPQ keyboard that's 20-25 years old, and it's clear by now that its key technology (using some rubber cylinders inside) will never appear again. So now I have the choice between recycling someone else's dirty keyboard (knowing that I simply can't find an AZERTY one anymore, and will have to use a QWERTY in AZERTY mode), and to switch to another type of keyboard.
I'd really like to find out which key technology is best for me. Mitsumi keys activate at the very bottom, quite good to cancel a keypress when you know you've made a mistake (I do that all the time, unconsciously). But there's also something I like, I can press keys by their corners. On other keyboards, I've noticed that pressing keys from their corners would generally block. Switches are also very light.
From what I understand, none of the Cherry switches activate at the very bottom, it's pretty much always near the middle, and they only vary in force & sound :(
I used to think mechanical keyboards were basically basic membrane keyboards because usually tech gets smaller ex:
CRT to LCD
I don't mind it, so long as there isn't a 30 second UA-cam ad right before it.
First tech-quickie I've actually learned something! Good stuff! (here's to not actually having googled it before)
Simple, let me sum it up for you.
Supersample AA > Adaptive Multisample AA > Multisample AA > No AA >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Post-processing AA
I mostly like them too, mainly because I'm used to them, but also because the ones I use make relatively little sound.
No, it it from the way the activation system works. There is a little bump in the black and blues that gives feeling and makes sound.
The way he just plays with the graphics card...
I don't mind, what ever pays the bills is good in my book. Been wathing your video's for a few years now and I also memorized your live stream schedule. Have not missed a single episode yet. keep up your awesome work!
Just watched the stream where he discusses retirement. Thought I'd come back and take a look at the first video I ever saw of Linus.
Time went by awfully fast.
TIL that J is 10 sec, and K pauses UA-cam videos, while testing out my own buttons.
I'm still using my dell oem keyboard still 5 years later after this video.... been planing to upgrade all this time...lol
The Cherry MX Green switch is a medium stiff, tactile, clicky mechanical keyboard switch in the Cherry MX family.
The ultimate guide for mechanical keyboards. By jayz two cents. Is actually better explaining key switches.
What I did was I went to my local computer store (Microcenter) and I tried a few ones. I've only tried Red, Blue, and Brown. My Mx Red was having problems so I went with brown and I love it. Honestly, I can't stand blue, they feel like they're going to break to me, although I am very sensitive to noises.
red for gaming, the rest for typing
Was expecting that GPU at the end to be suspended by fishing wire or something, and was expecting Linus to drop his hands away from it.
Brown are basically red and blue together
I made the jump to mechanical keyboard after using the same membrane for 18 years. I'm not happy with wasting that much money. I'm probably going to go back to membrane for $7 and be very happy with my ability to micro the keys while gaming.
That graphics card balancing act at the end gave me a heart attack
This isn't 'mechanical keyboard switches as fast as possible', this is 'cherry mx switches as fast as possible (well some of them)'....
Because Cherry MX is almost ubiquitous in the market.
Not really, especially not now. But regardless he could have just said that there are other switches out there, even if he would say nothing about them other than that. Or rename that vid like I said above. Either option would make this vid factually correct.
***** well 5 of my 7 high end keyboards have non-cherry switches. But probably 100% of people's first mechanical keyboard is a cherry MX board. But people might buy a topre board as a first if it was a little more known. It's not very likely though since topre is expensive and buckling spring is more of a collector thing so yeah, cherry is ubiquitous in the entry level market, but I can tell you that I'm a topre man now.
That's convenient, I JUST looked up the switch differences yesterday night.