@tenpapa
★★★
HPE runs a bit harder than UPE, which gives it a crisper bottom-out -- fun, though lubing it myself was a hassle. That crisp click paired with a clacky bottom-out felt like a genre I hadn't tried before. It shows its best side in a clacky board like the QK65. Lube a bit heavier than you'd think to kill the scratchy fee
Geonworks
★★
Surprisingly ordinary. Yeah, you can hear that metallic sound, but I kept thinking "isn't Macaron just better?" (lol)
Tecsee
★★
It lands somewhere between Creamy and Clacky, I guess (lol). It's factory-lubed and genuinely very smooth, but in the end I couldn't get into it. For clacky sound, Macaron is still my favorite right now.
Mechbox
★★★
Compared against Dragon Ghost, this lands in an awkward middle ground -- it's neither a crisp clacky switch nor a deep thocky one. Just... hmm.
DeskHero
★★★
Lube it yourself and it transforms into a genuinely creamy switch.
Prototypist
★
A switch I gave up on quickly -- it felt heavy. Which is odd, since its actuation force is actually lighter than Box Cream's... maybe it comes down to the stem material and pre-travel?
NuPhy
★★
The numbers say it's heavy, but the spring's rebound makes it feel surprisingly light in practice.
Divinikey
★★★
I don't really feel the triple-stage bump. It's fairly ordinary -- and for an ordinary switch, $0.57 each feels on the expensive side.
KNC Keys
★★
I actually prefer Sarokeys BCP -- its longer stem gives it a louder sound.
KPrepublic
★★
Compared to the T2 and Crepe -- launched alongside it -- this has a calmer sound, and its stem feels softer since those two run harder. Typing it next to the T2 and Crepe, the different sound made me go "oh!" at first, but stepping back and thinking objectively, it's not actually that distinctive -- just another sound
UniKeys
★
A switch with a lot of unanswered questions. If you lube it yourself, the stroke ends up surprisingly smooth. But the pins bend easily -- maybe because of cheap materials?
KPrepublic
★★
A fun switch that packs in 8 tiny bearing balls. That said, it's not really about a crisp clicky feel -- it's more about a gliding sensation.
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