which switch?

[AL1V3]

Romer G linear of razer yellow?

I play fps games.

[EsaT]

What's you current keyboard/what you're used to?

Anyway non-linear Romer-G would be safe first switch unlike very light linear switches and with internal noise damping to down and upstroke not as loud as typical mechanical switch.

(every mechanical keyboard is more or less lot noisier than typical membrane keyboard)

[AL1V3]

1 hour ago, EsaT said:

What's you current keyboard/what you're used to?

Anyway non-linear Romer-G would be safe first switch unlike very light linear switches and with internal noise damping to down and upstroke not as loud as typical mechanical switch.

(every mechanical keyboard is more or less lot noisier than typical membrane keyboard)

I use a crappy cherry mx blue keyboard but in my best buy they both display romerg linear and razer yellow and a linear keyswitch is amazing for me, but i didnt have much time with them so i want to know which one can give me the upper hand, i know romerg is 1.5mm to register a word but the full distance is 3.2mm. Razer yellows are 1.2mm to register but 3.5mm to hit its full distance. So which one is best, i usually bottom out the key, so should i look for faster register times or faster time the key resets.

[geo3]

If you are just after a linear switch there's much better options than Razer or Romer-G.

[AL1V3]

Ok like what? And not cherry speed, its too loud.

[RobFRaschke]

Cherry silvers are much quieter and have negligible over travel with a 1mm oring added. ? Just to play devil's advocate.

[EsaT]

8 hours ago, AL1V3 said:

I use a crappy cherry mx blue keyboard but in my best buy they both display romerg linear and razer yellow and a linear keyswitch is amazing for me, but i didnt have much time with them so i want to know which one can give me the upper hand, i know romerg is 1.5mm to register a word but the full distance is 3.2mm. Razer yellows are 1.2mm to register but 3.5mm to hit its full distance.

MX Blue should be called as MX Retro for all the ruckus it makes...

Anyway it's non-linear clearly tactile switch.

So very different in feel from very light linear switches, which simply keeps going down with light force until suddenly it's in actuation point.

Stronger MX Black would have more initial "resistance" before actuation point.

But because of bottoming force being linear amount stronger, it could get tiring to keep pressing keys down in games. Especially some crouching/running key with weakest finger, pinky.

 

I used hour or two to compare behaviour/feel/noise of Black, Blue, Brown and Red switches five years ago before getting my first mechanical keyboard.

Chose MX Brown, which had enough of feel to minimize risk of accidental pressing of it to actuation point from resting finger on it.

Very light linear MX Red just didn't have much of feel until going near bottom of travel.

And having to keep avoiding resting fingers on keys too heavily more consciously would certainly slow down things.

 

Any "hair split" distance difference to actuation point would be completely insignificant compared to that.

Shortened travel variants of MX Red have even less tolerance for avoiding accidental presses:

They would basically register key press at point where your MX Blue's tactile "bumb" starts.

By pressing key very slowly you can basically "simulate" how little travel that is/how much there's feel.

 

3 hours ago, AL1V3 said:

Ok like what? And not cherry speed, its too loud.

If you want actually clearly quieter keyboard than your current there just aren't much choises.

Most mechanical switches are simply designed to fail to give damn about noise.

 

Logitech G710+ (MX Brown) was one of those rarities with factory installed o-rings and hence actually quieter than typical mechanical keyboards.

And it still has that very sharp "clickety-clacketyness" when pressing keys faster.

O-rings simply don't do anything to slider hitting roof of switch frame/housing hard, causing also key cap rattle.

Preventing that needs rising keys slower, obviously slowing down things lot.

G810 I got at winter is clearly quieter with lot calmer/smoother noise profile, thanks to Romer-G's internal damping to down and upstroke.

(bigger keys with extra stabilizer mechanism still have sharper noises when pressed in certain ways)

 

Though feel is certainly different from MX Brown:

MX Brown has that light linear "loose" travel for ~1mm before (narrower than MX Blue) tactile bumb starts.

While with shortened travel in Romer-G its wider and shallower bump starts basically instantly.

Took fair week to get over that feeling weird.

After that big difference to G710+ was how much louder/sharper noise G710+ has.

[RSX7]

I'm not going to stop you from buying what you wish, but I've heard not-so-good things about Romer-Gs and RAZER as a whole. I'd do some research first (if you haven't already), and if you find both to be not worth the price, you can find some key switch testers and take it from there.

 

Those things I mentioned, I should probably talk about them. I've heard RAZER products only work for about 2 years, and Romer-Gs don't feel that great. Although, take what I'm saying with a HUGE grain of salt, because I don't have personal experience with them.

[geo3]

8 hours ago, AL1V3 said:

Ok like what? And not cherry speed, its too loud.

Gateron, Kailh, Tealios. 

[Eliptic]

9 hours ago, AL1V3 said:

Ok like what? And not cherry speed, its too loud.

You could try cherry mx red. i have them in my keyboard and I can definitely recommend them. they're not too loud and they have the linear feel that your after

[LeongTap]

Avoid Razer as they are overpriced as f and of lower quality no matter how they market it to other brands.

I own Cherry MX Blue, brown and red. I end up with Brown as my favorite. Blue is just too noisy (but i admit it was my favorite when i bought all 3, after 4 months of usage, i got tired of the loud clickyness especially when your mic is on)

The red switches lacks that satisfying click once you press down so Brown is just the middle sweet spot for me anyways.

Try going for standard keyboard layouts and then latter you can further customize them with PBT keycaps. I bought a logitech one which i liked the keyboard typing experience but found out the dame CTRL and Spacebar aren't standard and end up with all my keycaps white except the CTRL(s) and Spacebars.