MX Brown Vs MX Speed - My thoughts

[Gimpymoo]

Have spent a few days with each.

I am coming from a membrane background, never spent more than £15 on a keyboard.

When gaming, the difference I find to be minimal although I am not "pro" by any means.

The difference comes when typing, my stupid self just cannot get used to the speed switches to be able to type accurately, too sensitive for my goofy brain/fingers.

I find the browns offer a light touch, not heavy or tiresome to use but at the same time, have a satisfying feel to them. You know you are using a mechanical keyboard but is also slightly lighter than a membrane except with a very very minor "bump" which I find to be VERY satisfying. You know you have pressed something

The speeds are sooo soft to press, lovely infact but honestly, a rats fart can be detected as a key press. If you need to spam keys, these will be the awesomeness of keys but personally, the only thing I really mash are the mouse buttons

I want to like the speeds, I really do, they are a wonderful achievement but the Browns in comparison feel just "right", across the board and I do not feel as though I am missing out in any way with using Browns over speeds.

If I used my PC exclusively for gaming, I still think my preference would Browns, just because of the "feel" but that I understand is very subjective.

Just my personal preference but interested to hear others thoughts.

 

[Dougsnake]

Been looking at a lot of keyboards lately since my g910 has developed a fault where its double keying or not registering at all ,ive never had a cherry switched keyboard before but I came to the conclusion after some research a brown switch would suit me if I went that way, (if I could get over the disco light show on rgb cherry keyboards) so its interesting to read your thoughts

 

[EsaT]

MX Speed is just little shorter travel version of MX Red, so you can mostly put both to same category.
Very light switches with little resistance before press is already registered.

So while less needed pressing force can be considered as speed advantage, if you're feeling incomfortable/unsafe about accidentally pressing key any theoretical speed advantage flies through toilet seat.
In gaming you simply have to have that keyboard feel "in spine" without needing to think about it.

Been looking at a lot of keyboards lately since my g910 has developed a fault where its double keying or not registering at all ,ive never had a cherry switched keyboard before but I came to the conclusion after some research a brown switch would suit me if I went that way, (if I could get over the disco light show on rgb cherry keyboards) so its interesting to read your thoughts

Brown is safest Cherry MX.
There's neither light or heavy resistance before actuation point making accidental pressing hard, but thanks to non-linear curve it's also light to keep pressed.

But besides disco lights you likely wouldn't like clickety clacketyness of undamped Cherry MX.
Before G810 used MX Brown G710+ (with factory installed o-rings) for nearly five years and more muffled smoother sound of Romer-G is so nice.
While Cherry has Romer-G like noise damped MX Silent, those are only available with Red (or harder Black) force curve variant.
Topres have nice soft sound, but they are totally dark/lightless if wanting to see key cap markings.

 

[Gimpymoo]

So while less needed pressing force can be considered as speed advantage, if you're feeling incomfortable/unsafe about accidentally pressing key any theoretical speed advantage flies through toilet seat.

That is the thing, I was fine using the Speeds for gaming, no problem at all. Regarding the "speed advantage", what does this boil down to?

It was typing where everything flew out of the Window for me

 

[Little_Crow]

I bought a keyboard with MX Browns, and I'm really happy with it, but find the bump to be barely noticeable.
I find I typo a *lot* more on it than my previous membrane board and the one I use at work, but I think that is just down to not having the hours on it and would improve if I did any amount of serious typing on it.

I didn't try any switches but researched the switch types extensively and came to the same conclusion as yourself - they're an excellent middle ground switch.
If an equivalent keyboard with MX Red switches, was on sale for £50 or so I'd probably buy it to try out and see which I prefer. Since I have 2 PC's setup, it's be no loss to have a 2nd mechanical keyboard

 

[HazardO]

I like cherry blacks the most, but it's very had to get a nice TKL keyboard with the these days (in the UK). I have reds at home for gaming and browns at work (I much prefer the browns over the reds though).