The Quick Fire Rapid – With Cherry Red Switches!
I’ll quickly showcase keypulling before actually bringing up the Quick Fire up to my rig for physical testing.
Using the key puller is incredibly easy to do! Simply align it so that its teeth are in a vertical orientation like so, slide it down until both teeth click, and pull straight up to disengage the keycap from the mechanical switch. To replace a key, you simply line up the new keycap on the empty switch, and push it down until it has a solid grip on the switch.
A quick turnover of the Quick Fire reveals three tracks for you to run the USB cable, for whichever best suits your desk setup. Plug in the cable before running it through one of them! I ran mine through the channel exiting the right-side (the left one in the picture). The tracks themselves are a teensy bit narrower than the width of the cable, which makes it a little bit challenging to actually get the cable sitting along the entire length of the track. However, once pushed in, it will be held very securely.
There are no fancy driver installs or the like after plugging in. I simply added the USB to PS/2 converter, plugged the Quick Fire into that, and was instantly ready to go!
Cherry Switches are the best switches.
At times, yeah, the Reds are a little bit too sensitive. Every now and then, I’ll hold shift too long and get two caps at the beginning of my sentences instead of just the one that I asked for. I’ve also noticed that since acquiring the Reds, I’ve been making a few more errors that look “lik ethis” instead of “like this”, where my fingers are jumping the gun from moving so quickly across the board. However, with practice, I’ve reduced those significantly.
And the bottoming out thing really isn’t a problem for me. I know that I could get a hell of a lot more typing speed if I trained myself to only push down halfway to where the key actuates and gets detected, but I am far too used to a full press to do that. Full presses haven’t bothered me in the slightest. Like I said, I really do like the clickity-clackity sound that I get as each key bottoms out. And even then, I’m still experiencing a lot less typing fatigue.
Thanks for the detailed response. I just got my Quickfire Cherry Blue 2 days ago and I like it a lot. I do typing as much as I game and they’re great.
I love the size of the keyboard, it takes up hardly any space and makes the keyboard more in the middle of my seating (since the numpad is gone) which makes it even easier to type.
I just ordered a QuickFire a few days ago from Newegg, except I got the Cherry Blue. I’ve heard from virtually everyone mechanical keyboards are great, the only problem comes with picking the right color having never used one before.
My question would be, do you feel the cherry red is too sensitive? The one thing I hear about reds is that they bottom out because they are so light to press, this sounds like it could present a problem. You mentioned that you had no problem typing with it, and that’s the big thing for me. I type more than I game and my fingers get sore pretty easily, so I was debating between the Blue and the Red.
From my understanding, Blue / Brown are good for typing and Red / Black is best for gaming, but since I seem to be more sensitive to keystrokes than most computer users I figured red might actually be a better bet for me. Basically, do you have any extended impressions for the Cherry Reds when it comes to typing?