Looking for a good Cherry MX Key Switch Tester

[soldier_ph]

Hey can any of you recommend me a good Cherry MX Key Switch Tester with all Switches on it so Black, Blue, Green, Red, Brown, Silver and Grey ?(and the speed Versions of those) I would like to be able to buy that at a reasonable price on Amazon. I would like to have all of the popular Cherry Switches to try out side by side so that I can determine if I want to either buy an off the shelf Keyboard or build one from scratch, my main use case would be couch/bed gaming so I don't know how that would work with a Custom Keyboard. Have been looking at Solutions like the Corsair Lapdog and the one from Roccat. If you could also find good Switch Testers from the likes of Novelkeys than that would be greatly appreciated too.

 

Cheers

[kelvinhall05]

Switch testers are not an accurate representation of what a switch will feel like to use in day-to-day use, never mind that an actual keyboard will sound different and potentially feel different (keeping in mind that these two things vary wildly between boards).

 

 

I would get a hotswap board of some sort (GMMK or some Aliexpress 60%) and try a full keyboard of switches in that instead. Cherry ones are quite shit so I'd look into other brands. I'm guessing you want cheaper stuff so for clicky I'd get BOX White, for linear Gat Yellow (or Ink Blacks if you can sqeeze them in your budget), and for tactiles I'm honestly not sure, maybe someone else can suggest.

[Skiiwee29]

I personally have the GMMK TKL chassis with ZealPC Healio v2 Silent linear switches and they're great. Some people are detracted by the heavier spring at 67g, but I dont really find it a problem. I had Gateron Silent browns as well before the Healio and they're not bad. They are actually lighter feeling than the healio and while "tactile" there is not a large bump you can really feel when actuating. The bump is also at about half travel. 

 

But i do agree with Kelvin, switch testers will not do anything proper justice because every chassis is different in terms of sound isolation/dampening, construction etc.. so switches will have different sounds between the boards. 

[Dr0y]

Switches tester a kinda a waste of money like they said ... the best thing to do is to test switches in a hotswappable board.

 

as for tactile switches suggestions I will suggest what has been suggested to me by the others and it's the durock t1. 

so far I've tried the cherry brown (awful), kailh speed copper (their only downside is spring ping), kailh box burnt orange (great) and kailh silent box brown (great too).

 

I the ones I've tried I would suggest the box burnt orange if you want a bit heavier spring and rounded distinct tactile bump. 

The kailh silent box brown have a way sharper bump and they feel really nice, they are silenced tho so they won't produce much sound. 

[soldier_ph]

Yeah I know that Switch Testers aren't that great but I rather buy one instead of a full blown Keyboard to try out Switches.