Most POPULAR Switches? Reacting to Linus Tech Tips' Blind Switch Test 

This shows that if you put a linear switch inside a pool of tactile switches, people will pick the linear switch

Typing this on Cherry MX Browns and you can't stop me.

3:28 a legendary mousepad was born.

"it's all subjective" Mx browns get called terrible "YES"

keep grinding bro this channel is heat and has the potential to explode

1:18 This man who works at Linus tech tips is the best person alive.

Great video! The music's a little loud over your voice though.

I’ve never laughed so hard at a video about mechanical keyboards 😂. You gonna do well man

My friend got MX browns in his ducky. I haven’t talked or seen him in about a year now.

I have been using MX browns forever since everyone has talked about them. Yesterday I was messing with a switch tester and found browns dead 💀 to me when you compare it with others. I was shocked 😳 that I have been living this lie.

When he screamed "YES" at the MX brown part I legit jumped I was so startled lol

I have a different take on why MXBrowns won: people don’t like tactile switches that much. Browns are the least tactile, near linear switch.

after getting my switch test kit and SEVERELY underestimating the status quo of switches on the market, this video was 100% refreshing to see.

"thinking about r/mk" same, dude... same

Make "it's all subjective," "let's all love one another" mechanical keyboard guys lose their minds with this one WEIRD trick: TOPRE GANG TOPRE GANG TOPRE GANG TOPRE GANG

3:22 and a legend was born.

When I realized that they preferred Cherry MX Browns than Holy Pandas, I'm rethinking my decision of ever subscribing to Linus

You should reach out to LTT and revisit this blind switch test. You can bring your lubed switches/different keyboard cases and have them be blown away

You probably have the most entertaining tech channel I’ve happened to stumble upon, great stuff!

I am so happy to have found your channel. It is one of these youtube gems you stumble across once in a while. Great content, keep it up!!

Preference in keyboards generally do end up swaying heavily towards what "people are used to using." My first week on T1 tactiles were meh, and then they were suddenly my daily. I wonder how they'd feel after using certain switches for a full week as opposed to just "touching them a few times" and then jumping out because the water was too cold.

Yes I hate cherry mx browns, yes I use them, we exist.

oh my goodness. i am so glad i found this video. you literally put all my thoughts as i was watching this video into words!! the blind test video was so hard to get through.

fun fact: your channel got me into keyboards. one months later and nearly 70 hours of p;lanning and im building my build in august! (specs are tofu 60, dz60pcb from kbdfans, standard kbdfans case foam, a brass plate, and bannana split switches (in a group buy which is why they are taking so long to arrive) will film switches but not lube, but i will be lubing stabs. overall, super excited for this build, thanks for getting me into this community glarses!

glarses secretly has a cherry MX brown keyboard that he uses when his viewers are asleep.

1:24 I got heart attack at that part lmao

3:22 And that ladies and gentlemen, was the birth of a new legend.

Hey mate nice to see you up there in subs!

All I care about when it comes to a keyboard is how my left hand will feel after using WASD and Left Shift for about an hour straight. I never even considered the sound of a key until I came accross these videos.

Another great video! Thanks for the laughs man. Keep the coming!!!!!

YOU REALLY DESERVE LIKE 1 MILLION SUBS U MAKE SOO GOOD CONTENT THAT MAKES ME ENJOY UR CHANNEL SO MUCH!

Your videos are so good, I laughed so hard to the "CLICK" of the box jades, keep going like this, I think you deserve a lot more of subscribers:)

Lol Ive been daily driving browns for like 4 years now. I bought myself a GMMK compact and am going to be lubing my some gateron yellows. Would have gone inks but out of stock. Also look out, i'm coming for your world record!

lol I just got my first mech with browns, and I'm loving it (next kb will deffo be something more tactile though) but your content is great!

Hey man, love the vids and the effort put into them! I'm not that into keyboards but I enjoy your videos a lot. I discovered your channel yesterday and already I am planning to build a custom instead of buying one off the shelf (it's hard to get parts here in Turkey, but hey). Anyways man, keep on keeping on. Your videos are awesome, keep them coming.

I like how this guy is a keyboard enthusiast but has a meme outro for his videos. Quality content

Here's what i like about my mx browns: I don't want them super clicky like the blues, i don't want them linear either. The browns have that small tactile bump just enough for me to rest my hand on the key without pressing it. It's tailored for me.

I LIKE YA CUT G. keep it up bro, binging rn.

I came across your channel a few days ago and i can`t stop watching all vids have something funny and are super entertaining! keep making great content! (also my fav is the trying to sneak onto the computer but dad likes keyboards)

I’ve watched for a few weeks and never checked subs and was thoroughly surprised how low it was. Great videos/Great channel

0:49 lmaooo. Love your channel, keep going

Jesus, this is just hilarious. Keep up the vids! Subbed.

love your channel, that humor and editing style deserves way more subscribers

This is the reaction video I want not some guy saying wow every 2 seconds and narrating everything we see on the screen. Keep up the great work

At this moment I’m not asking myself why I’m watching this video I’m asking myself how am I enjoying this so much.

1:19 renai circulation? Woah you must be a cultured man

I love how you make skits with switches they are hilarious

I find that the subtleness of browns bump is ideal if you lube them (smoother) and place wasd's red o rings (the smaller ones for less noise, but not mushy) in a cherry profile keycap (better feel/lower profile). With this setup you press through the very light bump and you get the light bottom out directly after. This leads to a very fast, focused, and accurate gaming/typing experience without a unnecessarily larger bump/click.

Love your humor and editing style! xD

First board had browns. Current board has reds. My next board is either going to be Gateron MITO Cyan 60g (linear), or the Zealios v2 67g (tactile). I can't decide! Leaning more towards the Gats because I will be pairing them with the GMK Skeletor set, and those colors, ;crisp; But I feel like we all start with a light-weight switch, and most of us hear about " reds are best for gaming". But over time we mature. We understand the phrase is big box branded propaganda. And we now want that medium to heavy switch because we aren't little kids anymore... WE WANT THAT THICC THOC!

I'm pretty new to getting into various different types of switches myself. I recently got a board fitted with Kailh speed coppers, having never really used tactile switches before but always thinking they would be a nice fit for me. While it was in the process of being shipped to me, I ended up at a Best Buy mainly to pick up a mouse and tried out a few key switches they had set up for demo purposes as well while I was there. As I got to the MX Browns, I got a bit worried about my choice of switch for my board. Immediately I was like..."ew. god i hope all tactiles aren't this bad." Fortunately when the board came in and I tried them out I was able to breathe a sigh of relief as I really enjoy them. A couple lessons to be learned there for people in my shoes just starting out though. 1: Try out different switch types before you commit to buying (hell buy a switch tester if you can) and 2: don't judge an entire category of switches based on one particular switch.

3:07 laughed my arse off

Ya know, I've had a shit week. This video, it's a whole lot less shit now :)

yo, They didn't even test the holy pandas, they just glossed over them, not even caring at all

Two years in, this video was my entry into custom mechanicals (not the linus one). I am now typing this on an Odin v2 with lubed and filmed box ink blacks with gmk red samurai. I blame you for everything :P

The linus video was actually what got me into the custom keyboard scene, and I am loving my Zealios v2s

So from this small research we can conclude, that when herd behavior is taken away, cherry browns are decent.

Dude, your videos are hilarious!

"Yeah, my preference" My favorite Glarses quote

So I just found the community and love what I see. Atm I have a k70 in browns I have used it for 8 months and never knew it was soposed to be tactile. Like 8 months in and I just realized they are not just heavy linears

I couldn't even watch that video when it came out, so you're a better man than I. :D

You nailed that ending scene

That Box Jade click bit was one of the best I've ever seen omg I died

You should do a blindfolded guessing switches video. That would be really fun to watch-- like a competition with all the other keyboard junkies you have done videos with.

someone : likes cherry mx browns Glarses : Ｎ Ｏ

I feel that if they included gateron browns, they would feel somewhat familiar to most but with a smoother press. Maybe then mx browns wouldn't have won

"click. *bass filled boom*" funniest shit ever istg glarses is an absolute maniac.

gotta love the pre meditated lens turn

3:06 OMG I LAUGHED SO HARD ~ God tier Love the vids bro :D never stop

This man is underrated

I ordered £50 worth of tactile switch testers recently and im so excited to try them all out. The one's im most excited to test are the TTC and C3 fruit switches (kiwi's, dragon fruits, watermelons) as well as the kinetic labs switches. I love the whole spiel of novelty "enthusiast" switches but i want to try out tactiles ( i currently use cherry silent reds which are... very linear) for my first proper custon board. Great video as ever!

It makes sense that most people could unintentionally prefer the types of switches they use all the time since typing is very memory-driven, and the weight/feel you're most comfortable with is most likely the one you've already been using for years

Out of all the switches mine are 100% linears BTW i love the feel of those linear switches which i think are called Cherry browns?

My conclusion after looking around for a bit: Cherry is like the keyboard Bose, very liked by the masses but hated by the people who are into the hobby lol

I have rewatched this video way too many times for my own good.

Would've loved to see your picks from their lists. Hilarious video though!

engaging algorithm. we desperately need people in the space who actually know keyboards...

programming on mx brown's tried different switches took me around 3 month as i gave the keyboard around a week of time to get a hang on the switch. Tried various Cherry color's (red, black, clear) tried holy panda, tried zealious. Many are saying Brown's are "linear" but to code on something like red switches is for me personally horrible i didnt knew when i pressed the button and made many mistakes. On something stronger tactile like the Panda's it happend that i sometimes didnt pressed the key fully ( i directly noticed it and could correct it compared to the red) also the "hard" actuatin point made me type slower but all in all i liked the Pandas and they had the best "sound". So why the brown's? First they are tactile its subtle but thats exactly what i need i can differentiate if i pressed the button or not i dont need much force and can type fast the sound is crappy but i wear a headset basicly all the time so i dont care and they are not loud , really dont understand why people say they are not tactile i mean you can dislike them that they are not tactile enough but literally everybody should feel the even subtle bump if they type everyday on a keyboard. btw. non native english speaker and wrote on my phone so dont hate me :P.

0:49 That ''oh'' says everything.

I was watching the video of you trying Cherry MX Browns for the first time first and then came to this video. When the results drop and it shows that Browns won the tactile category I started cracking up at your reaction lol.

“Cuh-lick” 😂

Watched two videos. This is the third. 0:25 you just gained yourself a subscriber 👌

For some reason one of the first switches I used was cherry brown and since then they still have a spot in my heart.

Hey dude found your channel recently and fuckin LOVE your style and humor. I’ve gotten into custom mechanical keyboards and it’s seemingly very niche right now but I know once it’s big you’re gonna EXPLODE and I can’t wait for it. I’ve been running a Corsair K95 with Cherry Browns and after reading so much about other switches and seeing the collective agreement on them it’s made me realize the mistake I’ve been making 😭😭

The second they have a negative opinion about mx browns he freaks out. Love it

I’m gonna go buy some Mx browns now, thanks :)

that video from LTT actually got me into the custom scene lol

Been watching a few of your videos this morning for the first time. Heard "Everybody's Circulation" and double checked to make sure I hit subscribe.

1:18, everyone liked that

Bro every time Linus tries to do enthusiast keyboard stuff he just drops the ball. This one in particular. Keep up the good work on the channel my guy.

Holy shit, I brought my first Brown and now I understand "Cherry MX brown is tactile" joke

typing this on a macbook laptop keyboard with butterfly style switches that doublepressss alot and you can't stop me

Typing on browns but I'm gonna try to get some glorious holy's

As a newly inducted keeb enthusiast this content is gold!

It took me 2 minutes in to realize you're having a laugh, but also have a strong opinion. Gained a sub, I'm excited to watch your catalog of videos after the laugh I just had! Cheers :)

watched this vid with Beyerdynamic Dt1770's. when you clicked that box jade switch? man, I felt that through my bones.

You should react to Linus’s video of him building a keyboard. IT HURTS to watch. He uses browns and it costs him 70 DOLLARS. He also uses these awful keycaps. It just hurts

0:45 lmao that made me laugh so hard. How could they even say that?

3:10 this is the best out of context moment ever

i did a 100% blind test between like 10 different switches. gateron reds came out on top, even beating out holy pandas... crazy stuff