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Comment by lars_francke | Hacker News Reader

Does anyone know where I can get a switch tester from that includes all these keys?

I'm in Germany. I found some but they are not for the low profile ones. I found this: https://keycapsss.com/switchestester/switch-tester/174/kailh... but it's sold out.

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KPrepublic have a tester that includes all four of the Glove80 switches (Brown, White, Red, Red Pro) [0] and also a cheaper one that excludes the Red Pro [1]. (I ordered the cheaper one after reading the review.)

[0] https://kprepublic.com/en-gb/products/kailh-choc-switch-test...

[1] https://kprepublic.com/en-gb/products/acrylic-switch-tester-...

a sidenote: I did use a switchtester a friend lent me and thought I had found my favorite switch only to realize, that typing on a switch-tester is vastly different to typing an actual keyboard. :(

Thanks for the heads-up, I'll keep that in mind.

I've typed the last 20 years on the same keyboard and all those "clicky", "linear" etc. things don't mean much to me so I hope to benefit by just testing those different styles to get a feel for it

You can get a basic impression of what the differences are, but I agree with the GP that it won't really tell you how typing on an entire keyboard with those switches will feel.

You won't find a switch tester for all choc switches, because there are way too many to fit in normal size switch testers.

SplitKB's product page lists 15, and that's not the entire product line:

https://splitkb.com/products/kailh-low-profile-choc-switches

I only need the four that are available for the Glove80 and they seem to be available from splitkb, excellent. Thank you!

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