Sound test: Yellow ( linear ) 6:12 Red optical ( linear ) 8:05 Red optical V2 ( linear ) 8:17 Orange ( tactile ) 10:55 Green ( clicky ) 11:35 Purple optical ( clicky ) 12:17 Mecha-membrane ( clicky ) 13:00

keyboards are so over engineered for what they are, i love it

spectacular presentation, the keys are highly responsive while typing.

The videography/post-production/technical quality of your videos is so awesome. Damn. It's a joy just to look at.

VERY comprehensive and properly informative. Thank you for including sound examples. Keep up the good work!

Just found your channel. This video is just awesome! Very informative, visual, and well produced. This level of quality is really hard to find.

Great video, can't wait for the headphones guide.

Best review I've seen on here... and I've seen a lot. Love the colour grading, great audio, and great editing. Your presentation style reminds me of Dave Lee... I think you've taken some inspiration brother 😉 👍🏻

I have the Razer Black Widow. It's super-clicky and super loud. It's typewriter loud. I love it!

Me personally, I'm all about audio feedback and physical. Greens are my favorite. Add dampening foam to remove ping vibration and pbt keycaps...amazing experience!!

Tactile has always been my choice but I might switch to optical linear switches. They sound great.

Amazing content - Thank you so much for spending all the time to put this together.

good video that actually talks about everything for keyboards and which razer boards have witch type of switch

The B rolls and animations were soo SICK! 🔥

Because of your video, finally i bought huntsman v2 tkl red linear optical gen 2. Thanks.

Very well explained. Thanks

Razer’s switch designs are awesome! My favorite one would be the yellow mechanical

Love this kinds of vids 🤷🏻‍♂️🔥

Lovely explanation 👌 great video! Thank you so much❤️

This is the best explanation of key switches I've ever seen, regardless of brand. All the correct terminology, and an excessive amount of detail for each type of switch. For example, this is the first time I've really understood the differences between gen 1 and gen 2 Razer Optical Reds; most people just say something like "they removed the spring ping, and uhh I don't know what else". Regarding optical switches, I think a lot has to change before they can I will see them as "the future". The full size Razer huntsman is a $200 keyboard. Corsair's K100 is $250. A normal mechanical keyboard should cost between $100 and $150. The gaming brands need to get their prices under control. Replacing an optical switch is much harder than replacing a mx-style mechanical switch. MX is great because soldering them on and off the board is easy. Yes, the switch part of an optical switch is also easy to remove, but the actual light emitter and light sensor are difficult to replace. This leads into my next two points: There is no optical keyboard standard. You can't drop a Gateron optical switch into a Razer Optical keyboard or a Corsair OPT-X keyboard. If it works, it's a fluke. Sure, this only really matters for the enthusiast community, but I'm a member of that community so I'm biased towards this issue. And finally: Razer doesn't sell optical switches by themselves. It should be possible to upgrade a keyboard with gen 1 optical reds to gen 2 optical reds, but the only way to get the gen 2 switch is to buy a Razer Huntsman Mini. These issues aren't insurmountable, of course, and I understand that this is the way things have to be for now. But as long as we're looking towards "the future" of optical switches, I think it's safe to dream bigger than what we have now.

Your explanation is the best

Great video and finally a non confusing list!

good video - well put for me and well explained for razer products

This is amazing, I've always thought I wanted either yellow mech, or red optical, but now I know for sure, I want red optical gen 2. The silence is awesome. If not this one then the mecha membrane looks really interesting.

BROOO!!!! LOVE IT!!! thanks so much for all this information so usefull, regards from Venezuela! keep doing that amazing job!

amazing video and information. thank you

Noti gang, currently rocking a Huntsman Mini Clicky thanks to your reviews

Thanks for the times stamps

Thank you for the guide, Hardware Canucks My cousin gave me a Razer KB, and this helps me to understand Razer's KB switches

Absolutely loved this video

Very nice video, thx !

Thank you so much! I made my mind on what keyboard I need. I was using an ornata v1 but I will update to a huntsman v2 with red switches.

God damn it Dimitri, your work is just incredible. Not only are so knowledgeable and articulate but your filmography skills are insane. In the words of Dr. Strange.... TEACH ME! 😅

I have the old 2013 black widow ultimate with green switches and I ADORE them 😍 the sound, the feel, it's amazing. I would like a huntsman next... But the purple switches might take some getting used to

Brilliant video!

Oh damn, quite neat. Even though I am not in the market for a Razer keyboard at this very moment, this is still quite interesting and potentially very useful for the future.

love this kind of vids

I'm really interested in that linear gen2 switch. I was never a fan of obnoxiously loud clicky switches, and even though I love the smoothness in most of the linear ones I've tried, the clackity clack bottom out noise is something I'd love to see mitigated more consistently across all brands. Being an optical switch makes it even more interesting, given my unfortunate experience with key chatter on various cherry MX boards despite my efforts to keep them clean. I like how more manufacturers are steering towards that optical tech, but I hope Razer's efforts to further sound dampening can also be reflected on the market as a whole. Silence is something that isn't catered enough in gaming boards, for some reason.

Super Informative video!!!! Epic!!!

Definitely the best tutorial I've seen for keyboards. Now, I am more sure what I'm going to purchase (A yellow one).

Nice glasses you have. Are they new? I don't think I've seen them before. But they look quite good!

thank you this was so good

This is exactly what i needed. Thank you so much! Red for me :)

The Razer Ornata V2 has such a good sound for being the mecha-membrane Keyboard, and feel. I have to original Ornata, but its still very nice.

Using the red optical switches on the Huntsman Mini. I'm loving it but even I still make accidental typos due to the low actuation point. Wished they came out with the a tactile silent optical switch.

Typing this on a huntsman mini, love it so much!!

the green switches with o ring's become quieter than the purple switches with o ring's?

Damn, great work team! :D

Yellow and green are my favorites!

Nice Video!

Great video

Their orange switches are so nice. I actually prefer their orange switches vs cherry browns.

those quiet red are amazing

Aaaahhhhhh , that purple switch, such comfortable sound.😍

My huntsman v2 analog arrived yesterday, and so far I am liking it. Quite a different feel to my old Corsair Strafe RGB. I like the ability to set the actuation point, so I can have it just as I like it, rather than be dictated to by the switch itself.

I just bought the new Huntsman Elite Linear....and OMG I love it. The speed and response timing has so greatly improved!!! I don't know if I could go back to normal mecha boards T_T lol

Peripherals have so much technology behind them 😅

I’m hoping to get a razer huntsman mini for Christmas and am very exited for the optical purple clicky switches.

I’m using the ProType keyboard with yellow switches in the office and I love it!!!

Goooooooooooood work on light effect !!

the clicky ones sound like rain drops, awesome!

I picked yellow keys on the Blackwidow mini for my upcoming wireless lounge setup, as I've only used Cherry reds and Steelseries fast tactile ones before and thats what I like. I don't really like clicky ones. And also a Basilisk X Hyperspeed, not only because it was cheap but for how long the battery life is.

If they make the huntsman TE wireless with gen 2 red linear switches.

Purple optical is my fav so far!

Linear Red V2 is so unique and I love it on my Hunstman Tenkeyless V2

hi...this video teach me a lot about keyboard. thank you so much for the video, I enjoyed while learning from it. thought I have a request, if possible plz make a video on mechanical keyboard for typing work (gaming is not important here). thank you.. 😀

Dude i never knew that my ornata were that that durable on lifespan. Good to know

Same as you. I am waiting for gen 2 on the Huntsman TKL

Huntsman Gen 2 ... Good performance and good to hear - IMO

The Color Grading is just different, man. How do you do it? Which software you use? All of your videos have one thing in common, good aesthetics image

Would love to see a Black Widow with Purple switches. Also they should license the new buckling spring switches and RGB-ify them. I sooooo miss the old IBM and early Focus keyboards. Nothing that has come since then has mimic'd the crisp break and reset of those buckling spring switches.

Great info :-)

Dmitri looking so fine I'm questioning straightness wtf

running my blackwidow v3 with greens im pretty happy! i also have an original blackwidow chroma i used to use great keyboards all around fantastic company in my opinion

Personally, I agree with you on this. The red linear optical switches are more my style. I recently bought the Deathstalker V2 pro and I absolutely love both the optical switches and the low profile of the keyboard.

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The red sounds so dang good

I have Razer Blackwidow (green switches) I bought back in 2013, first edition i think, and it still works perfectly in soon to be 2023.

That haircut change though! lol

Currently own a Huntsman V2 Optical Analog, it's way better than any keyboard I previously owned, even my K95 Platinum XT with blue switches

Mecha-Membrane feel and sound so good to me. For my next desktop I will definitely have a keyboard with them.

Great video! One question about the red optical gen2: in your video you say the actuation force is 45g, but the razer website says it's 40g. What's the correct value? I was definitely going for the Huntsman TE, but after your review it seems like the Red Optical are still too light and it's easy to press them by mistake. Thanks for sharing!

i wanted the gen2 switches for the razer huntsman te v2 but my dad said that those were on the huntsman te normal and i was kinda disapointed that i didnt get them but im happy i even got a keyboard :)

Great video! Can you do the same thing for Logitech keyboards (and include their Ergo K860)?

Bought a white huntsmen mini, with red linear switches. Tbh such an improvement over mu corsair K70 SE. same travel and actuation distance but the slight increase in force required makes misclicking occur less. Also my huntsmen mini didnt have the space bar stabilizer break after using a keycap puller to remove the spacebar. It’s also surprisingly a lot quieter than the K70 and the smaller form factor is just bliss when gaming. Overall nice typing experience as well as gaming, production use though the small form factor makes it not ideal hut that goes for any 60% board

Thanks a lot. When starts optical gen2? What names of keyboards has it? And what are the names of the gen1 optical boards? I like to by the red ones. But i think normal orange and yellow are good for me to. This is the only left in the video, a list of wich keyboard is available with wich switches. Thanks

I swear I was just searching youtube this morning to know about the latest Razer switches. It’s like you guys were aware of this and posted the video 5 hours ago. I have a youtube channel (small youtuber from Iraq) and I’m trying my best to become a successful channel like HC.. one of my favorites channels ever. Love ❤️

buying the yellow switches great video

Which switch would you recommend in terms of smoothness and responsiveness? The HyperX Reds/Razer Yellows/Razer Optical Reds/Gatreon Silvers.

Great intro, I like it XD.

I have used Green for many years but the board i am using broke last night (black widow elite) and the space bar is messed up. But i think i am going to get the Huntsman v2 and get the purple switches and see how it is. The software has never done much for me and i have never bothered with it but the Razer Keyboards are the best because they come with a great wrist rest for comfort. Great video, thanks for making it.

This is helpful. I wanted to know what kind of regular mechanical switch to look for to get a sound and feel similar to my mecha membrane. I love the sound of Browns on video but I find I dislike how it feels when I use it myself. Looks like I gotta go for clicky. Which I had no idea I would be doing. I definitely won’t like linear.

For clicky, I've had greens over and over and one set of orange. I like the greens a lot better than the oranges but again it's all preference, however there is a reason they got rid of the oranges, they were just not that good at typing (compared to the greens) and not that good at gaming(compared to the yellow), they were very mediocre overall. However at work I actually use yellows now because the greens I had were just too loud, the oranges just feel cheap to me, and when I was on the phones, I had every client commenting on my typing. Since switching over to the yellows, I still get the odd comment if I am really bottoming out but still, I've been won over. I have become so much more accurate bc of how sensitive they can be at first, especially coming from something so forgiving as the green, but I type like a bullet now, over 100wpm. I was always over 75wpm but hovered between 75-80 for years but within a couple days I was over 90 and within a week well over 100wpm ( I blame the razer green and mx cherry blue switches for plateauing me for so many years lol ). I am quite the anomaly though it seems because I I don't really care which I use, it really depends on what I'm doing. I didn't think I would like typing with yellows but like I said, it allowed me to actually hit the speeds I knew I could when typing and it also helped with my accuracy overall. I never get fatigue from using the yellow as I have from long days typing on any type of tactile bump switch. It feels satisfying but after some hours of typing, you wish you didn't have to always press passed to bump to register. Something to note that people like to mention: Just as fast as you can make a mistake on a yellow, you can delete it too, it's all relative in speed and correction. With tactile switches you are less likely to make a mistake but you still will and it'll take longer to type and longer to erase... Yellows are fast all around and actually very comfortable. I never got the hype on orange though, I had one and I sold it after they went out of stock. In my opinion, If you want clicky and tactile you go with Green or Purple or mxcherry blue, nothing else lol. If you want linear, you go with yellow or redv2. And then it's whatever you like more. My home computer will always be super annoying and clicky. Always lol but that's because I won't be typing for hours on end on it. For that I had to go linear. The redv1s weren't my thing but once I tried the yellow switches I haven't really looked back when it comes to work and typing sessions.

I just bought the razer blackwidow pro v3 wireless with the yellow keys I love it

Razer Oranges are actually a nice tactile switch (when properly lubed). The bump is rounded; more like a Zealio than an MX Clear or Holy Panda. A bit too light for me for typing but really good to game on.

I've bought a hunstman v2 with linear red switches, It's soooo silent and feels incredible good. No hearing click when u are playing is amazing but i think razer synapse makes a trouble with icue software, i cant play with my mouse in wireless mode, it makes auto-clicks o it doesnt respond xd.

Damn I am jealous of the changes to the optical reds as a Huntsman TE v1 owner 😭

Will the black analogue switches ever come to a keyboard? A Huntsman TE with black analogue switches will be amazing.

I don't know, the Razer gen 2 just sound mushy... Also those 5 grams could possibly deliver a faster switch so I will get the Huntsman TE and if I dont like the sound mod it... Probably use foam and lube the switches... what do you think?

The Blackwidow Lite was where I entered the game, orange switches, now on third Razer keyboard TE TKL after trying and failing to live with a 60% mini. Red gen 2 definitely best switch but I need my function keys in visual studio.