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Hello everyone. I need a silent keyboard to offer my girlfriend so I can sleep at night while she works. She is using her laptop membrane keyboard and that is too loud (it's an HP Pavillion 14-br000np).  The keyboard I've seen advertised as 'silent' are at least as noisy as that. Is there a keyboard you guy can reccomend? Specially one I can easily find on retail near me.

 

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7 minutes ago, bejamartins said:

The keyboard I've seen advertised as 'silent' are at least as noisy as that.

Buy a USB ThinkPad keyboard, the typing experience on it is actually pretty good IMO.

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stick foam on all the keys and write the printings on with a marker pen

 

try those Dell or HP or Lenovo etc membrane keyboards they send out along with prebuilt desktops, they are very cheap on the used market and their soft end-stroke point should minimize noise from key strokes that bottom out the keys.

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you could always go for some sort of touch keyboard, or you could always go the option which will cause zero sound from keystrokes, because you dont press things, you use voice commands, or as Amir likes to call them, Job Commands. I swear if nobody gets that reference ill be angry and sad at the same time, but more sad. 

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membrane keyboards, like the cheap af dell and hp ones can be pretty slient. if you dont mind spending a butload of money you could get something with topre switches and a damping rubber matt, but i have only seen 60% keyboards like that

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Or just get some MX Greys and put dampening rings around the caps so they don't clack. Also great typing experience.

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Matias Quietpro. Or one with silenced Cherry MX or Gaterons, or Zilents. With lubed stabilisers. 

I think Topre ones are quiet, though a bit unsure. 

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cherry browns are pretty silent but still louder than membrane as they use a mechanical mechanism for the key press. the best you will find if a membrane or cherry brown or cherry brown clone as they are meant for quiet.

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2 hours ago, bejamartins said:

Hello everyone. I need a silent keyboard to offer my girlfriend so I can sleep at night while she works. She is using her laptop membrane keyboard and that is too loud (it's an HP Pavillion 14-br000np).  The keyboard I've seen advertised as 'silent' are at least as noisy as that. Is there a keyboard you guy can reccomend? Specially one I can easily find on retail near me.

 

Thanks in advance.

The more silent keyboards I know of are mx silent red, silenced gateron switches, zilents, and silenced topre.

The most silent keyboard I know of are silenced realforces or hhkb types'.

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1 hour ago, seon123 said:

Matias Quietpro. Or one with silenced Cherry MX or Gaterons, or Zilents. With lubed stabilisers. 

I think Topre ones are quiet, though a bit unsure. 

Topre is silent on downstroke, upstroke is quite loud. Silenced topre fixes that. 

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49 minutes ago, Turretgaming said:

cherry browns are pretty silent but still louder than membrane as they use a mechanical mechanism for the key press. the best you will find if a membrane or cherry brown or cherry brown clone as they are meant for quiet.

This is really bs. 
1- membrane =/= rubber domes; If you say membranes are silent then youre model ms are silent which they aren't.
2- Mx brown in no way is meant to be quiet, they have no mechanism for dampening. Mx browns are still quite loud when you bottom out or when the slider hits the housing on the upstroke. Actual silent switches designed to be quiet are

 

Type-s Topre
Mx Silent Red/Black

Silenced Gaterons 
Zilents 
Silent skcm creams and other silenced alps 

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1 hour ago, LukeTheCoder05 said:

Or just get some MX Greys and put dampening rings around the caps so they don't clack. Also great typing experience.

Mx greys? lol wut? Mx greys are meant as a spacebar switch for Mx clears and Mx blacks, your hands will be tired as fuck if you make a keyboard with them. Also, dampening rings still leave the upstroke quite loud.

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3 minutes ago, b emoji said:

Mx greys? lol wut? Mx greys are meant as a spacebar switch for Mx clears and Mx blacks, your hands will be tired as fuck if you make a keyboard with them. Also, dampening rings still leave the upstroke quite loud.

oh... I only have experience with MX Blues. (Not helpful in this case.) What are the low-pro switches corsair has?

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Just now, LukeTheCoder05 said:

oh... I only have experience with MX Blues. (Not helpful in this case.) What are the low-pro switches corsair has?

Those are the new cherry low profile switches I think. 

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13 minutes ago, Froug said:

Those foldable rubber keyboards.

Silent AF.

THIS

 

those keyboards make no noise at all

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