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My first mechanical, cherry red or black? need help!

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#1 ·
The use will be mainly for gaming, but also for typing (forums, e-mails, chat).

I've always had a membrane keyboard with touch and high profile keys similar to the Dell L100 or Logitech G105, the keys neither too hard nor excessively soft, and they have a certain resistance for prevent being pressed very easily/accidentally when I usually lean my fingers on W-A-D for gaming.

I don't know if must go with cherry black or cherry red, any recommendation? which of them is more similar to the membrane's touch/hardness? (like the Dell L100 or Logitech G105) would be the cherry red keys too sensitive or the cherry black keys too hard? in practice is it much difference?

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I'd go with cherry blacks - they're much closer to membrane keyboards than reds which are way lighter. Reds have an actuation force of around 45g whereas Blacks and domes are around 60g.
 
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I would say Browns are the best for the new comer imo, because rubber domes have a bit of a tactile "bump" to them when the collapse and pop back up. but they are softer than blacks. I think blacks would be very odd along with reds because of how they offer no tactility until you bottom out which is very very very odd.

Blues are a bit stiffer but make a loud clicky and have more dominance as a typists key. they are the most like a scissorswitch key feel(chicklets/Chocolates and laptops, which are "half" mechanical with rubber dome contacts but physically guided keys).

I went with blues because they feel the most like a scissorswitch, which is what I like the most. Scissors feel much less mushy and much more tactile than standard rubberdomes. So there's that.
 
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I've only tested (although very quickly) in a shop a razer blackwidow (cherry blue with clicky) and I liked pretty, keys are slightly softer than my membrane I think, and with a nice touch. About reds and blacks I don't know, but are 15g very noticeable? black is more harder than a g105 membrane?

With my budget, my options are for red cooler master quickfire pro, and for black ozone strike, similar price. In design I like more the ozone, but I don't want wrong with the type of cherry because I'm going use it many years. Probably should I go first with the black and if I find the keys more harder than my membrane return it and go with the red?
 
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I've only tested (although very quickly) in a shop a razer blackwidow (cherry blue with clicky) and I liked pretty, keys are slightly softer than my membrane I think, and with a nice touch. About reds and blacks I don't know, but are 15g very noticeable? black is more harder than a g105 membrane?

With my budget, my options are for red cooler master quickfire pro, and for black ozone strike, similar price. In design I like more the ozone, but I don't want wrong with the type of cherry because I'm going use it many years. Probably should I go first with the black and if I find the keys more harder than my membrane return it and go with the red?
yes, 15g is VERY noticeable, believe me. i have started on a CM storm quickfire rapid with MX blacks, but i found out i was getting pain in my finger joints during longer gaming sessions (i.e. a couple of hours in BF3, where you push and hold down keys, as i do for sprint and crouch). all solved itself after switching to reds, they are way lighter and feel better to me
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btw. i'm typing this on a filco mj2 with reds
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#12 ·
If youre a touch typist - go with Red. If you want the "coolest" typing experience, id say Blue - theyre loud, clicky and just plain very satisfying to type on.

Somewhere in the middle are Browns. I just use Red myself cuz while Blue felt awesome, it was just too damned loud - even with orings.
 
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