Keychron Silent Switch

If types of switches had souls, these Yellows would be my soulmate

I am a 20+ year IT professional who works fully remote, and happens to enjoy PC gaming from time to time. Because I live in a multigenerational household, there seems to always be someone at home besides myself, even during normal business hours. These Yellows Switches are essentially perfect for my use case: Tactile, to reduce fat-finger/typos when typing for work, but actually silent for hard-typing/gaming situations so I don’t disturb family members in other rooms. In my 15+ years of using mechanical keyboards, I’ve used so many switch types. From Keychron’s Browns, to other brands’ Green, Purple, and even Orange “Silent.” While I’ve been ok with the actuation force of those other switches, I always found them extremely loud or quietly “clicky” at best. These yellows however, are actually dead silent (except for maybe some bigger keys on the board, like Return or Spacebar—but I think those have more to do with a larger (more plastic) keycap than the actual switch itself)! I don’t hear any plastic-on-plastic sound at all. I love these and am going to buy more to replace the Browns on my 10-keyless V3!

Fantastic un-recognized switch!

I prefer tactiles, and I both prefer and require silent switches due to my job duties (I am on video conferences every day, and I constantly type throughout them... this is not just a matter of annoying co-workers). These are the most silent switches I've used, and they are silky smooth as well with very little wobble. Shockingly, the tactility is also superb. I have 4 keyboards outfitted with Gazzew Boba U4 (and the earlier variants) which are expensive boutique switches. With shipping they end up costing close to $1 per switch. Their tactility is excellent, and they are smooth enough for me, but they are not completely silent. Some call it 'ping' but I don't really like that term. It doesn't sound like the spring to me, but rather the leaf. These Keychron Silent Switches (no pretentious name) have just become my favorite. They are smoother and quieter than the Bobas, but the weight tactility is almost identical as the 65 or 68g U4. I don't know what else to say about them. They are exactly the switch I've been looking for. As quiet as a membrane switch, but with the feel of a high-end boutique tactile. To top it off, they are about 1/3 the price of the Bobas. I actually removed all of the Bobas on my main Q6 and replaced them with these, and so far I prefer it. I don't know about longevity, but if my opinion changes I'll come back here and report on it. I wear out PBT keycaps (at least aesthetically) so if the switches have longevity problems, I'll find out. I almost hate to say those things, because the Gazzew switches are really great and the fellow is very pleasant and has improved the mech keys community, but these cheap switches are the bomb. There is another review here that gives 1 star, saying the stems are loose and key caps fall off. I don't find that to be the case AT ALL. In fact my Bobas are loose with most key caps, and these switches hold tight to my mt3 /dev/tty BPT caps, my OSA caps, and my KSA caps. I don't know if it was a batch issue or the caps the other person was using, but these stems are NOT loose on any of the caps I've tried them on.