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Nomination rules:
Please suggest nominees for the best keyswitch in 2017. You have to give a short motivation for each suggestion. It may be an old switch or newly released switch. You cannot nominate switches you are selling or associated with.

Current suggestions:

• Vintage MX black... because it's the best linear switch obviously!
• Retooled Cherry MX Blacks, they are as smooth as vintage blacks
• Kailh (Pro) Purple, it's a genuinly nice, tactile switch, of which there aren't too many of
• Kailh BOX white, because click bar and awesome
• Beamsprings, the switch everyone should get to try out
• Kailh Box Heavy Pale Blue
• IBMs buckling springs - click clack, click clack
• Green alps as they are a loverly linier switch, just the right weight, sound amazing and are quite smooth
• Non-Dampened SKCM Cream, although they are niche and not very known about, they feel veryyyy good. Just overall perfect
• Cherry Silent MX linears -- lovely switches when lubed and eerily quiet
• Alps SKCC Green, they are superb linear switches which are available NOS at a reasonable price (excl. shipping to EU) in the form of Pingmasters. Great weighting and really, really smooth, can't ask more from linears.
• Alps SKCM Brown, because they're currently hipster switch of the year and deserve the nomination.
• Alps SKCM Blue, one of (if not the best) best sounding switches
• jailhouse blues: an unique tactile MX-type switch, optionally very quiet, and a brilliant modding idea in the first place.
• Skcm Orange alps timeless and relatively accessible
• Kailh x Novelkey's Big Switch Blues. It helps clicky lovers like myself share the love of clickies to the rest of the world!
• I really like the Kalih Speed Bronze switches.
• Matias Quiet Click – because it carries on the Alps tradition and is a great compromise between your own touch (tactility) and the sanity of those around you (dampened up and down stroke)
• I call for MX Silent Blacks also
• Futaba MA series for being a highly underrated and overlooked clicky switch, quite a few DT users have discovered this gem
• 30g topre, because it is seldom talked about but offers a very unique and take on one of the most well-respected switches available
• Ergo-Clears: a classic but still amazing. I like it lubed and with a 67g spring instead of a 62g classic spring.

The first round ends on Sunday 26 November, 19:00 UTC.

Vintage MX black... because it's the best linear switch obviously!

Retooled Cherry MX Blacks. They are as smooth as vintage blacks.

Kailh (Pro) Purple. It's a genuinly nice, tactile switch, of which there aren't too many of.

Kailh BOX white, because click bar and awesome

Beamsprings. The switch everyone should get to try out .

Kailh Box Heavy Pale Blue

I want to nominate IBMs buckling springs. Click clack, click clack.

(They share enough similarities to be lumped together)

I will nominate green alps as they are a loverly linier switch , just the right weight , sound amazing and are quite smooth.

andrewjoy wrote: ↑I will nominate green alps as they are a loverly linier switch , just the right weight , sound amazing and are quite smooth.

Aw man, if only all linears were like SKCL Green .

Chyros wrote: ↑

andrewjoy wrote: ↑I will nominate green alps as they are a loverly linier switch , just the right weight , sound amazing and are quite smooth.

Aw man, if only all linears were like SKCL Green .

I couldnt disagree more if I tried

Chyros wrote: ↑

andrewjoy wrote: ↑I will nominate green alps as they are a loverly linier switch , just the right weight , sound amazing and are quite smooth.

Aw man, if only all linears were like SKCL Green .

How come you like green alps but dislike brown mx? They feel absolutely identical with their faint tactility.

Khers wrote: ↑

Chyros wrote: ↑

andrewjoy wrote: ↑I will nominate green alps as they are a loverly linier switch , just the right weight , sound amazing and are quite smooth.

Aw man, if only all linears were like SKCL Green .

How come you like green alps but dislike brown mx? They feel absolutely identical with their faint tactility.

Hahahaha xD .

I have an SKCL Green review planned for hopefully not too long into the New Year, I can't wait to revisit them .

Non-Dampened SKCM Cream, although they are niche and not very known about, they feel veryyyy good. Just overall perfect

Cherry Silent MX linears -- lovely switches when lubed and eerily quiet.

Myoth wrote: ↑Non-Dampened SKCM Cream, although they are niche and not very known about, they feel veryyyy good. Just overall perfect

+1 for my favorite tactile switch

Alps SKCC Green, they are superb linear switches which are available NOS at a reasonable price (excl. shipping to EU) in the form of Pingmasters. Great weighting and really, really smooth, can't ask more from linears.

Alps SKCM Brown, because they're currently hipster switch of the year and deserve the nomination.

I'd nominate SKCL Cream or SKCL Brown or SKCL Striped Amber but they're all too obscure

Alps SKCM Blue, one of (if not the best) best sounding switches

wiki/Alps_SKCM_Blue

E3E wrote: ↑Alps SKCM Brown, because they're currently hipster switch of the year and deserve the nomination.

I'd nominate SKCL Cream or SKCL Brown or SKCL Striped Amber but they're all too obscure

Beat me to it, SKCM Browns are some of the most interesting discrete switches out there.

jailhouse blues: an unique tactile MX-type switch, optionally very quiet, and a brilliant modding idea in the first place.

Can we somehow create a full rainbow if I nominate SKCM Orange?

Khers wrote: ↑I want to nominate IBMs buckling springs. Click clack, click clack.

Came here to say this. I therefore second your nomination.

depletedvespene wrote: ↑

Khers wrote: ↑I want to nominate IBMs buckling springs. Click clack, click clack.

Came here to say this. I therefore second your nomination.

Model F or Model M, I wouldn't consider them the same.

I... was hoping that question wouldn't come up.

Skcm Orange alps timeless and relatively accessible

Kailh x Novelkey's Big Switch Blues. It helps clicky lovers like myself share the love of clickies to the rest of the world!

mike52787 wrote: ↑

Chyros wrote: ↑

andrewjoy wrote: ↑I will nominate green alps as they are a loverly linier switch , just the right weight , sound amazing and are quite smooth.

Aw man, if only all linears were like SKCL Green .

I couldnt disagree more if I tried

I have one green alps on my board and I'm constantly wishing I had a whole keyboard of them.

I really like the Kalih Speed Bronze switches.

Jailhouse Blues - Jspacers made by TheVanKeyboards make this mod simple.