RANKING VINTAGE SWITCHES thread

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Which vintage switches are the best? (Select up to 10)

AT&T Buckling Spring
5
1%
AT&T Magnetic Separation
1
0%
Acer Switch
0
No votes
Alphameric Foam and Foil
0
No votes
Alps Buckling Spring
3
1%
Alps Magnetic Reed
0
No votes
Alps SKCC Green
2
1%
Alps SKCC Tall Cream
3
1%
Alps SKCL Green
17
4%
Alps SKCL Yellow
4
1%
Alps SKCM Amber
7
2%
Alps SKCM Black, Bamboo
1
0%
Alps SKCM Black, Pine
3
1%
Alps SKCM Blue
34
9%
Alps SKCM Brown
8
2%
Alps SKCM Cream
4
1%
Alps SKCM Dampened Cream
0
No votes
Alps SKCM Dampened White
2
1%
Alps SKCM Neon Green
5
1%
Alps SKCM Orange
29
8%
Alps SKCM Salmon
8
2%
Alps SKCM White, Bamboo
0
No votes
Alps SKCM White, Pine
14
4%
Alps SKCP Plate Spring
7
2%
Alps Snap Action
0
No votes
Apple Hairpin
1
0%
Aruz Switch
2
1%
BTC Dome with Slider
8
2%
BTC Foam and Foil, Linear
0
No votes
BTC Foam and Foil, Tactile
0
No votes
Can Tech Buckling Spring
0
No votes
Cherry M7
0
No votes
Cherry M8
0
No votes
Cherry MX Black, Vintage
8
2%
Cherry MX Blue, Vintage
2
1%
Cherry MX Brown, Vintage
4
1%
Cherry MX Clear, Vintage
5
1%
Cherry MX White
0
No votes
Cherry MY
0
No votes
Cherry Solid State Capacitive
0
No votes
Digitran Capacitive
0
No votes
Fujitsu Dome with Slider
0
No votes
Fujitsu Leaf Spring, Clicky
5
1%
Fujitsu Leaf Spring, Linear
7
2%
Fujitsu Peerless
1
0%
Fujitsu Tactile Magnetic Reed
2
1%
Futaba MA, Clicky
4
1%
Futaba MA, Linear
0
No votes
Futaba MD
0
No votes
Futaba ML
0
No votes
Honeywell Hall Effect
4
1%
IBM Beamspring
28
7%
IBM Buckling Spring, Model F
47
12%
IBM Buckling Spring, Model M
24
6%
ITW Magnetic Valve, Full Height Linear
3
1%
ITW Magnetic Valve, Intermediate
0
No votes
ITW Magnetic Valve, Low Profile
1
0%
KPT Switch
0
No votes
Keytronic Magnetic Reed
0
No votes
Keytronic Tactile Foam and Foil
0
No votes
Keytronic Vintage Foam and Foil, Linear
0
No votes
MEI T-15
0
No votes
Marquardt Butterfly
2
1%
Marquardt Series 6180
0
No votes
Marquardt Series 6184
0
No votes
Maxi Switch Dome with Slider
0
No votes
Maxi Switch Vintage Linear
0
No votes
Micro Switch Microswitch Switch
1
0%
Mitsumi KKQ Type
0
No votes
Mitsumi KKR Type
0
No votes
Mitsumi KPQ Type
0
No votes
Mitsumi KPR Type
0
No votes
Mitsumi Miniature Mechanical, Clicky
0
No votes
Mitsumi Miniature Mechanical, Linear
0
No votes
Mitsumi Miniature Mechanical, Tactile
0
No votes
Mitsumi Standard Mechanical
1
0%
Multitech Foam and Foil
0
No votes
NEC Vintage Linear
0
No votes
NTC Oval, Clicky
5
1%
NTC Oval, Linear
0
No votes
Oki Gourd Spring, Linear
0
No votes
Oki Gourd Spring, Tactile
1
0%
Olivetti Dome with Slider
0
No votes
Omron B3G-S, Amber
2
1%
Omron B3G-S, Cyan
1
0%
Omron B3G-S, White
1
0%
ProWorld Cherry MX Clone
1
0%
RAFI RS 76 M
0
No votes
Robotron Hall Effect
0
No votes
SMK 2nd Gen, Clicky
18
5%
SMK 2nd Gen, Linear
1
0%
SMK 2nd Gen, Tactile
1
0%
SMK J-M0404 Vintage Linear
0
No votes
Scorpius Dome with Slider
2
1%
Space Invaders, Clicky
11
3%
Space Invaders, Linear
8
2%
Space Invaders, Tactile
0
No votes
Stackpole Switch Grid
1
0%
Topre, Vintage
13
3%
 
Total votes: 383
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hellothere

26 Nov 2020, 17:40

Rayndalf wrote: 25 Nov 2020, 04:32
karlmartin95 wrote: 24 Nov 2020, 16:05
hellothere wrote: 20 Nov 2020, 23:31
I'm going to register 50 accounts just so I can vote for Cherry MX Brown :P.
MX Brown Vintage is actually very good, I'm using a Compaq MX 11800 with that switch right now.
Cherry's new browns in the G80-3000S TKL actually feel good too. My daily driver is a Kinesis Model 130 with "vintage" browns and I've had a couple 11800 and a 1838 and all of them were really pleasant too (that's a lie, the 1838 still needs a full clean up, the switches are filthy).

Honestly I have yet to feel browns I hate, but I never tried a Cherry board from 2005 or a Logitech board from 2012 so I've been lucky. I think the new browns (retool black era I guess) are good.
FWIW, I liked Cherry MX red and Cherry MX brown before I started to get into vintage keyboards. I thought blues were OK-ish. The moment I tried an IBM Model M, I realized that those MX switches were definitely not as good as advertised.

I've not tried vintage brown or vintage black. Several of the reasons include me determining that I don't particularly care for linear switches, nobody can determine a good date range for "vintage" browns or blacks and/or which keyboard should have these, and because there's more interesting stuff out there.

I have made two keyboards, one with NovelKeys Jades and one with NovelKeys Navys, which you can argue are MX clones. I think both are excellent switches and I recommend people try them.
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