KiiwiBlue Alps switch sound
Alps SKCM Blue, a click leaf design from the 1980s with a crisp snap. Type below to hear it, recorded from a real board.
Type the words below. Headphones make the difference obvious.
What it sounds like
Before Cherry MX was everywhere, Alps switches were in a great many keyboards. The SKCM Blue uses a click leaf, so each press ends in a crisp, bright snap.
Its click comes from a different mechanism than the plastic jacket in a Cherry MX Blue, and it sounds different for it. Play the two back to back below.
At a glance
Compared with
Cherry MX Blue
Cherry's clicky switch, recorded on ABS and on PBT keycaps.
IBM Model M
The buckling spring from the 1984 IBM Model M.
Kailh BOX White
Kailh's BOX White: a crisp click bar, lighter than the BOX Navy.
Get the Blue Alps sound on your Mac
Kiiwi has all 38 packs, this one included, and plays them under the keyboard you already own. In your headphones, from the menu bar. $4.99 once.
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