Hello… I chose my UHK to be boxy and clickety but I am realizing I need something less loud and with less force. I am keen to give the linear soft ones a try but don’t want overseas shipping.
There are options on Amazon for replacing. Please share any experience with non-UHK replacement key switches. Thanks!
I am also keen to try out some of the low-profile options on the switch keys. Again, the goal is to make them as quiet as possible and easy on my fingers. I also read about people lubricating their switches to make them less “hard”. Is that a real thing ? How does one go about doing that with the UHK v2 ? Thanks
There are options on Amazon for replacing. Please share any experience with non-UHK replacement key switches. Thanks!
Well, there are hundreds of options, and at the end of the day, experience depends on personal taste ¯\(ツ)/¯.
As far as I can tell, above silent red / pink sound as an excelent choice given your requirements.
Personally, when it comes to tactiles, I like switches with no pre-travel, and short travel distance. I am now using tecsees medium tactile, and although it took some time to get used to them, I am happy with them now. (They are pretty loud though.) I am also quite happy with kailh copper speed switches. (They are pretty loud too.)
I don’t mind linears, and am thinking of using them for a silent keyboard sometime in the future.
I am also keen to try out some of the low-profile options on the switch keys
Low profile switches are not compatible with UHK due to different pin layout.
There are some compatible medium-profile switches, but as far as I know, nothing silent. See The "low profile" UHK - #13 by Zetaphor .
I also read about people lubricating their switches to make them less “hard”. Is that a real thing ?
Yes, although I have no experience with that…
How does one go about doing that with the UHK v2 ? Thanks
Just as with any other mechanical keyboard I guess. Take the switches out, disassemble them, lubricate them, put them back together and back in your keyboard.
This is not UHK specific, so you are likely to find relevant information on general mech keyboard forums, reddit, youtube.
Have you also looked into O-rings? I’ve put O-rings on some of my keyboards, and it improved the typing feel and sound a lot. They make the travel a bit shorter until you bottom out, and the bottom is softened and becomes more silent. I’ve used them successfully on Cherry blue switches (clickety), and they kept the “click” but became much more silent on the bottom “thuck” – if that makes any sense… 
Aren’t you supposed to not bottom out when touch typing on a mechanical keyboard?
Afaik, the loud thing about mechanical key switches are key releases, not presses.
Depends. Some people hit the key until it bottoms out. Also, for some the O-rings also help “bounce back” the key quickly. It’s really much a question of personal taste and previously acquired habits.
Try the Akko Lavender, tactile with low force. Really easy on the fingers and great for speed.
Isn’t that rather an urban legend? All the average mechanical keyboard typists I have seen bottomed out. I tried not bottoming out and it is not really possible for me without a lot of effort.
@kareltucek are you able to type without bottoming out, how are you doing it?
Also there is at least as much noise coming from bottoming out compared to releasing the keys based on my test (especially on the UHK) with “average” (non silent) switches.
@gss, I have the Gazzew U4 silent switches, they are very good, but I think a one would need to put a lot of effort into lubing to make it perfect, I’m pretty picky though.
@vpal, thanks 
Now you’ve got me self conscious of how I perform every key stroke.
I went and typed a bunch of random stuff and found there are 3 ways I hit the keys.
I have cherry or kailh (can’t remember which came with the UHK 60 v1) browns. I think I can manage > 50% of key presses without bottoming out at all when I try.
With linear keys, I could go a few sentences without bottoming out, but then I would shift my wrist up or down and either miss activation or bottom out. So, I switched to the brown switches for the tactile feedback.
Most of the benefit for me came from not bottoming out at full force like the non-mechanical keyboards encourage.
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are you able to type without bottoming out
I believe so, at least most of the time.
how are you doing it?
Well, in the first place I am not using Gazzew U4. Those switches feel to me like someone tried to extract the essence of a membrane switch and then tried to make a switch that is more of a membrane switch than an actual membrane switch. I find those extremely uncomfortable, and indeed, they seem to me as designed so that they can’t be used without bottoming out.
Right now I am typing on kailh copper speed switches, which give a pretty strong counter-force right after the tactile bump, so they actually feel like I have bottomed out even though I have pressed them only some 2 millimeters and have another 1.5mm to go. Not the best feeling either actually.
In the office I am using pinks and then some nonstandard silents that have a very light tactile feedback. In any case, no matter if I am bottoming out with them or not, the press ends softly, and (with nonclicky nonsilents) my noise is coming from releases only.
summarized exactly why I love them. Somehow those silicone dampeners give you a really gentle bottom out. Something like a Topre keyboard with mechanical switches. But I completely understand why someone does not like them.
