AKWOX 9-Key Cherry MX Switch Tester, Keycap puller, keyboard Keycap, O-Ring Sampler Tester Kit

This is one of the cheaper testers that are floating around but that does not make it any less, adding the o rings was a nice touch as well. They key cap puller is not great, but these keycaps are easily removed with you fingers it is quicker too. I also like the clear keycaps as it helps to identify what switch you are touching.The mounting plate is quite sturdy and holds the switches securely enough and does not flex around too much when pressing them, swapping in other switches so far has not weakened it as it holds onto them quite firmly too. The 9 * 9 was big enough enough to allow to isolate my favourites from switches I liked though of course it will not allow for a 'full hand' feel but at those sizes tester sets tend to get on the same price level as the actual keyboard components themselves which defeats the purpose of a tester.I would recommend this product as the 9 * 9 allows for playing to get a more through feel for the switches than the smaller testers and this one has a solid build at a good price point, not to mentioned it comes bundled with some o rings which is not always the case.

Before putting down £100+ for a keyboard with Cherry MX switches, I wanted to try some out. This is well built (and good feeling keycaps) with a good selection of Cherry MX switches. It's a bit pricey for what it is, but I'm happy with the purchase.It took a short time to figure out which was which; it would have been nice if they had labelled them somehow. To help you: white is clicky, clear is tactile, and the two greys; one is linear (like the black) and one is tactile (like the clear).Only real issue is that the switches come out of the unit easier than the keycaps, so if you use the keycap puller that comes with it, out pops the whole switch, so you end up using your fingers to pull the keycaps off, but I guess you won't spend much time doing this before you remember which is which. Minus one star because of this. It would have been nice if all keys were wired up to an LED so you can find the actuation point of each switch. I guess I expect too much... DIY idea!There are 3 clicky type, 3 tactile type and 3 linear type. Once you've decided you like a particular one, good luck finding a keyboard with something like the clear switches in. Most have either blue, red or brown (the switches with lowest resistance) so maybe look for a keyboard first and once you realise you are limited to those three (unless you want to import from abroad) then you should know if you want clicky, tactile or linear before you buy this and you probably want the lowest resistance ones anyway unless you fancy having to press keys harder than really necessary. So this just helped me confirm what I had originally thought I'd settle on, and now it makes a nice toy to fidget with.

This is a good starter kit to figure out the best keyboard type for you, before committing a lot of money into the wrong thing. Comes with the nine most common Cherry switch types and transparent key caps so you can more or less see the switch colors. The O-rings come mounted already. The switches appear to come mounted in some random layout, but you can re-arrange them in whatever layout makes sense to you. Note that this kit does not come with the silent switch types or anything else fancier than the most common Cherry keys.

It does what you need, but it's very poorly made and O rings are pre-installed, which made it a hastle to take them all off, and the fact it's £20 is overpriced when you can get entire mechanical keyboards, while not cherry mx, for £30 to £40 so for 9 switches it's quite expensive.

This is an excellent key tester for Cherry key switches. Before this I purchased another on Amazon which I returned. That had a metal frame and the key switches were not held securely which created unnecessary noise and unwanted feedback and this meant that testing did not provide very accurate feedback.This is entirely different. A wider selection of Cherry key switches than the other key switch tester that I purchased and the key switches are held very securely in the plastic mount, so securely in some of the holes that the key switches can take some removing.Another benefit to this tester is that it includes O Rings which slightly reduces the key travel and noise. There are other size O rings available but these do give some idea to any benefit to using O Rings.M.Way Keyboard Keycap, 17-Key Cherry MX Switch, Keycap Puller, Mechanical Keyboard Swappable Switches, Sampler Tester Kit for Cherry MX / Kailh / Greetech / GATERON / RazerI highly recommend this key switch tester to anyone who wants a mechanical key switch keyboard. A decent price and a very good package.I like the Cherry White or Cherry Clear key switches after trying this key switch tester. I thought that Cherry Brown would be what I might like but after testing I prefer Cherry White with a nice soft click much less noisy than Cherry Blues and firmer feel than Cherry Browns. I would prefer Cherry Clear to Cherry Browns TBH.

It's a great and fairly inexpensive way to test the most common Cherry MX switches (although it would have been nice to include more like the Silent Red).One problem I have is that switches can easily be pulled when trying to remove the cap but at least it's fairly easy to remove the cap from a detached switch.It also did not come with O-rings

This was really useful to start working out what you might like or not like. It's not perfect as its hard to understand what type of switch is really like until you have a keyboard full of them but this does help.And once you do get your keyboard, chances are you will want to modify some switches, and I have used the plastic cut base as a switch holder while lubing up a keyboard.You can also scavenge parts from these switches as well if you need!