Educational

Lubing switches is satisfying. It’s also tedious. Pre-lubed switches are good enough out of the box that you can skip the work.

Soldered vs hot swap switches compared: durability, repairs, compatibility, gaming performance, and how to choose the right design for your keyboard.

Hall Effect vs optical switches and mechanical compared. Learn how each registers a keypress, handles Rapid Trigger and latency, and which suits gaming.

Switch actuation force explained: compare how 45g, 55g, and 67g switches feel for gaming and typing, then choose the right weight for your fingers.

Lubing switches changes sound and feel completely. The step-by-step process I use, plus the lube I’d buy if I were starting fresh today.

Wooting kicked the door open a few years back, and every switch maker with a magnet supplier has…

Optical switches get sold like they’re some kind of unfair advantage. You’ll see spec sheets bragging about “light-speed…

Here’s the truth nobody selling switches wants to lead with: “silent” switches aren’t silent. They’re quieter. Sometimes a…

Every “best switches for FPS” list starts the same way: light weight, low actuation, linear. That’s not wrong,…

Every couple of weeks, someone messages me asking which switch is “best for gaming.” It’s the wrong question….