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> I also find that I have fewer typos on the mechanical keyboard - my intuitive guess is that it's due to greater travel and resistance required to actuate a ke
by tasuki 5y ago
> I also find that I have fewer typos on the mechanical keyboard - my intuitive guess is that it's due to greater travel and resistance required to actuate a key.
In what way could greater travel and resistance lead to fewer typos?
- yeahboats 5y agoYou would be less likely to register accidental key presses.
- gh02t 5y agoHarder to accidentally bump extra keys unintentionally. Which is a problem I sometimes have on really low travel keys like on Macbooks.
- doubled112 5y agoAs a real world example: Cherry MX Red and clones engage at about a mm from the top and require almost no pressure to activate. Simply resting your hands on the keys is enough to get accidental keystrokes. Every single miss gets you a key press. Blues engage about halfway down at the click. You can accidentally touch keys without activating them. They are harder to press so resting on them doesn't activate them either.