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i actually really don't like mechanical keyboards. yes, the clicky ones, everyone's favorite. i'm sensitive to noise and using a mechanical keyboard makes it harder to concentrate for no good reason at all you can take my rubber domes from my cold dead hands

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Most of the switch types aren't clicky, like MX Brown switches which are still tactile (can feel when they activate) without the click. MX Blue is similar with the click, and what many people use. There are also rubber dampeners for silencing noise from bottoming out the keys.

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Nah, browns are still clicky compared to membranes, even with o-rings.

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It probably depends on the switches, but there isn't an audible click from activation with mine which are actual Cherry MX Browns. They do make a bit of noise when they travel, mostly when they pop back up, but it's not much different from a non-mechanical keyboard in my opinion.

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There's no click like you get with blues, but it's still much louder than a membrane. Enough that people would complain if I was typing while on a conference call.

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I'm not so sure. I think nearly all the noise is from them popping back up, so there's a bit more noise but it depends on key travel distance. It's very similar to the noise from running your finger back and forth across a key to make it bounce around.

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The friction makes a tiny bit of noise (less than popping back up) but I've lubricated the switches and I can't really hear that. I'm not hearing the actual switches but rather the keycap hitting the top, which isn't really very noisy, and applies to some extent to any keyboard.

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It's certainly louder than a chiclet keyboard with tiny key travel. I don't think it's much different than a rubber dome desktop keyboard with decent key height and travel distance. On the loud end of the scale, sure, but not that much different. I've compared it to them.