BSUN Agarwood Switch Review

Figure 1: Just the tip of the iceberg, all pun intended.

It has not been a good week.

I normally try and kick off the front end of my full length switch reviews by sharing some positive and/or funny details about my life outside of keyboard switches and the stuff that I have going on in it, but even I sometimes have bad weeks that are just too rough to ignore. This first week of February has certainly been one of those. From unexpected expenses popping up, to my favorite little arthouse movie theatre being shut down through showings I wanted to attend because of a leaky roof, and even cutting myself badly enough to go to the hospital, I just can’t seem to catch a break. Unfortunately for me as well, not even this review feels like a safe haven from the week as I feel compelled to have to address real world decisions and consequences here today – something I have pretty routinely tried to avoid over the years. For the vast majority of my time writing for you all, I have focused on one thing and one thing only – switches. While the occasional dip into my personal life is a bit of an exception to this rule, it’s almost exclusively employed to remind you all that I both am human and somewhat more complex than just my fascination with switches. As a rule I’ve especially been cognizant of avoiding politics and discussions of them as this really doesn’t feel like the appropriate place for voicing of my opinions, whatever they may be. However, political decisions here in the United States have culminated to such a point that, as crazy as this feels to write, they have also begun affecting keyboard switches of all things. For those of you both unaware outside of the US and those stuck here alongside me, recent rulings by the Trump Administration have caused shipments from China below a threshold of $800 to now be subject to import taxes and tariffs that they previously were exempted from as part of the United States’ de minimis exception for packages from China. Put more plainly, since virtually all switches are made in China with the exception of those made by Cherry, this means that all switches for US based consumers have significantly increased in price across the board overnight.

For those of you immediately revolting against my claim by pointing to some sparse news articles that are suggesting this rule is on pause or not going into effect at all, in similar fashion to how the United States Postal Service flip flopped on not shipping packages inbound from China over the course of just 24 hours, I would encourage you to go look at the responses of the vendors across this hobby. As a result of the wishy washy nature of this administration, and their assumed plan of wearing down consumers and the general public through a deluge of confusing, inconsistent, and sometimes directly contradictory executive orders, people are simply assuming the worst and acting accordingly. Across the board several keyboard vendors have already decided to flatly increase the cost of switches being sold to consumers in the US, make changes to their shipping costs to try and manage whatever the true outcome of these decisions are, and generally push all of the increased costs onto us as the consumers. While this is completely expected and fair of them to do, it doesn’t make the situation any less stressful for us as the purchasers. While I fully intend to continue reviewing and detailing switches over the next few years, and certainly don’t aim to stop collecting them any time soon, the reality of the situation is that these plans, retractions, and re-announcements by the government will have consequences on my ability to maintain doing such. If it doesn’t strongly affect me, then it likely could affect the general hobbyists among you. If it doesn’t strongly impact the more dedicated among you either, then the hobby as a whole will be affected by a reduction in people seeking out their first keyboards and an assumed contraction in the switch markets and options out there available for us. I simply cannot predict what the full ramifications of this decision will be. The only thing that I can predict is that the support that you all have shown me over the years on various social media platforms, on Patreon, and even here through reading these articles will continue to grow in importance as everything gets more costly in the years ahead. So thank you for joining me here on this weekday/weeknight morning/afternoon/night and reading yet another switch review. Feel free to touch the screen to select the type and time of day as if this was a partially interactive blog.

Switch Background

To put it about as bluntly as I can, the BSUN Agarwood switches were chosen for this review based solely on their performance and not a single ounce of their context. In all reality, these don’t have much of a story intrinsic to them at all, be it a front, side, or backstory. However since I am the writer of these reviews, I do get to flex my editorial power and inflect some degree of personal context into the story of these switches – and especially so when I will forever look at them and be reminded of a specific time, place, or moment in life. Sometimes this is the only way I get to share perspectives on keyboard switches with you all that I sit and think about constantly in my free time. To me, the BSUN Agarwoods will likely be some of the very last switches that I’ll review for some time that won’t cause me to have to radically reconsider my thoughts on the idea of ‘price per performance’ if I can stomach the increased price to get them in my hands and tested. You know, because of that whole tariff war de minimis import thing that I discussed about in the introduction or something. Though if you think that I’m voicing my frustration with this decision and the inconsistencies surrounding messaging and enforcement of such just because it affects keyboard switches and handful of manufacturers in China, you may be surprised to learn that those silly keyboard push button switches will be far from the only things that will be affected by such changes. That is even if this plan were to be pushed out just to spite manufacturers like Gateron, Kailh, BSUN, and so on. See, as dedicated keyboard hobbyists and switch nerds we really only ever consider and discuss the mechanical keyboard switches that these manufacturers make. Take BSUN as our completely topically relevant example – most people likely think of them first and foremost for their colorful YOK Panda switches that came out hot off the heels of the GSUS Pandas and helped to forever bury the dreaded $5 per switch Holy Panda aftermarket at the time. Other people may think of the Sarokeys collaborations made with BSUN, such as their all-in-one BCP (Black Cherry Pie) switches that still stand to this day as one of only a few fully stock imitations of famous frankenswitches. Me personally, I’m reminded of the white stemmed, pink housing EMT switches every time I think of BSUN as those were put into a keyboard build of mine that I used for graduate school for many years of late night and weekend work. But of all of those people on that list, I’d bet a good amount of money that I’m one of the rare few who realizes that BSUN has not only been around longer than the custom mechanical keyboard hobby as we know it, but that they’ve been producing a whole range of different products outside of keyboard switches for that entire length of time. You didn’t think all of these manufacturers just made keyboard switches right?

Figure 2: Promotional image from my original Pandaverse article showing off some variations of YOK Pandas in Blue, Red, Grey, and Green.

Originally founded in 1993 as ‘Xuhua Electronics Co. Ltd’, BSUN actually got their start as a small electronic parts manufacturer producting sockets, headphone jack slots, and internal and external wiring for electronics of various sizes. Having grown in size and acquiring their wire producing division in 2007, it wasn’t until shortly after Cherry’s patent lapse on their MX-style keyboard switch design that BSUN decided to take up the task of also producing mechanical keyboard switches. And that was their third different business unit they had expanded to included on top of everything else that they had already been producing for over two decades. Alongside their OEM style BSUN switch offerings which I picked up when I first encountered them myself back in 2017, they’ve also expanded to produce electronic wiring harnesses, RC jacks, networking jacks, and even USB ports that you would see soldered into phones or small rechargeable devices and technology. While I promise you that I won’t slip into the realm of reviewing loose USB ports any time soon, a brief scroll through the full list of their product offerings was certainly a bit interesting enough to keep me entertained for several hours earlier in the week. Just their push button section alone has over 75 different offerings and is varied enough to remind me quite a bit of the variety of designs and implementations that existed among vintage mechanical keyboard switch manufacturers only a handful of decades ago. In fact it so explicitly reminded me of this that I went digging through my storage boxes to pull out a pile of keyboard-adjacent switches gifted to me by a friend who is a vintage keyboard collector themsleves. Among this pile of not-quite-keyboard vintage switches is everything from a full unit rubber dome and pole calculator unit, a switch that has long wires to it that was believed to have served as an opening button to the lid of a typewriter it came from, calculator buttons with folded leaf designs eerily similar to that of Cherry, and all manner of other odd, inventive technological designs. While some of these switches were very clearly implemented in keyboards and computer terminal systems, looking both at BSUN’s modern offering page and this box of odds and ends here makes me appreciate just how much variety there actually is out there in the world of “switches” when I really only ever thinking about it in terms of its keyboard-specific ones.

Figure 3: Snapshot of just the first page of BSUN's tactile push button switch catalogue.

Figure 4: Full calculator module with keycaps and metal circuitry pins protruding from upper edge.

Figure 5: Switch with a whole slew of wires soldered to each of its four metal pin outs.

Figure 6: Set of three odd switch designs including a calculator switch with a bent leaf (Left), a spring-based LED lighting mechanism on a switch (Middle), and an "inverted" tactile bump mechanism that slides the small plastic clips over the fixed bumps in the bottom of the housing (Right).

The reality of this meandering tangent that I’ve taken us down is that BSUN is far from the only manufacturer of “switches” as we know them that behaves in this fashion. Huano is another great example of a modern switch manufacturer that I’ve discussed here on this website dozens of different times that also produces something other than keyboard switches – switches for mice! (The clicky thing next to keyboards, not rat-sized keyboard switches.) Turns out there is not only some decent variety that already exists among mouse switches out there, but that they are continually improving and expanding upon their offerings in active competition with other mouse button producing companies you may have heard of like Kailh and Omron. Speaking of Omron, does that name ring a bell in your mind for anything other than their B2R, B3G, or B3K keyboard switches? How about blood pressure cuffs and medical devices. I’ve seen Omron branded medical devices for sale at my local Walmart for years now just an aisle or two down from my favorite toothpaste and deoderant. We as a mechanical keyboard community think of these manufacturers as just making keyboard switches and so our expectations and frustrations are often levied at them directly based on this assumption. “Why doesn’t < factory name here > care about the community and make their switches smoother.” “This manufacturer has shit tolerances, they don’t even try at all!” While there are a few instances of switch companies that exist in this hobby that do outwardly produce only keyboard switches at scale, and those manufacturers often have large OEM switch contracts that dwarf the amount of sales that they get from aftermarket consumers like you or me, the vast majority of them are producing keyboard switches as just one of dozens of product offerings. The products that BSUN produces go in, well, quite a lot of stuff. Game controllers, calculators, ATMs, phones, the switches for the AC or windows in your car, any number of kitchen appliances like air fryers or coffee makers, and a whole lot more than that. Hell even some famous “keyboard” switches like Cherry’s Hirose switches were largely produced later in their life for Yamaha-branded music sequences of all things. There’s a lot more switches out there in the world than just keyboard ones, and the brands we love to fight over for our keyboards make up a surprising amount of interactions in our day to day lives if you stop to look around a bit. Decisions to try and curtail their sales to large markets like the US not only make our lives as consumers more difficult throughout all points of the day, but will actively disincentivize them from spending R&D to create more crazy, wacky designs like those you saw in the photos above. It’s from this perspective where my sadness comes this week in writing this background. It’s not just about the BSUN Agarwood switches. It’s not just about keyboard switches at large. It’s about how these decisions will make everything – pricing, availability, variety, and creativity – for all push button switches worse for all of us in the near future.

Figure 7: Just a couple of the various different colors and types of mouse switches that Huano has produced.

Soberly trying to ground this review back into the content and switches that brought us all here today, the BSUN Agarwood switches first made their debut as early as August of 2023. Picking up a significantly greater amount of steam following their adoption by more mainstream western keyboard switch vendors such as Kinetic Labs, Unikeys, and Milktooth in late 2024, these switches have gained a decent amount of community notice based largely on the marketing around their “T3” material stems. Coming with additional lube from the factory and a rather vibrant yellow housing that makes them a bit hard to try and ignore, these 58 gf bottom out linears remain available and in stock from these aforementioned vendors (and a few others) around a pre-tariffed price point of about $0.55 per switch. While the community is generally more aware of these than some other recent BSUN-made switches such as the Tai Chi, Bumblebee, and KiKi Red/Blue switches, it is uncertain how long these will continue to be stocked for or if BSUN intends to produce more than the initial allotment that they likely manufactured.

Agarwood Performance

Appearance

At the highest level, the BSUN Agarwood switches come in vibrant yellow housings with fleshy purple colored stems that are not particularly reminiscent of anything, and especially not the fragrant wood that they are named after. Despite not looking like any design specifically nor really having any BSUN-specific branding on them, these switches are still easily recognizable as being made by BSUN though on account of the sheer eye punching nature of the yellow color used in the housings. While there have been some other manufacturers which have produced switches with yellow colored housings over the years, none quite seem to capture the same degree of vibrancy and tang that BSUN first did in their YOK Yellow Pandas, followed by their BSUN Banana switches, and now their Agarwood switches. That being said, though, these switches do still appear just a smidge more golden and less neon yellow than those other previous yellow BSUN incarnations. Despite a lack of specific external details that aids in the identification of these switches, there are some sub-part details that are at least unique enough to warrant a closer inspection. Discussion of these sub-part details may be found in the paragraphs and photos below.

Figure 8: BSUN Agarwood switches and their components.

Looking first to the sunshine golden yellow polycarbonate top housings of the BSUN Agarwood switches, we’re greeted with not a whole lot of unique features that really make these housings stand out nor modify their performance. Perhaps the single most notable point of the top housings is the purely decorative mold marking, which can be found on the outer lip in the carved out center circle of the LED/diode slot region. On this edge and stretching from the thin rectangular LED slot all the way to the outer edge of the housings of the BSUN Agarwood switch top housings is a single upside down capital letter mold marking. While this location for a mold marking and overall housing design is far from unique among modern mechanical keyboard switches, I have yet to see ones which have an inverted mold marking of any form in this location. Externally, the Agarwoods have virtually no other identifying marks and not even an indentation in the nameplate region of the switch. Internally the top housings are equally barren, with only some housings having light traces of factory lubing that is able to be seen on the sides where the slider rails rub against at the start and end of the strokes.

Figure 9: BSUN Agarwood top housing external design showing long thin LED/diode slot with centered circular indentation, backwards capital letter mold marking in that indentation, and lack of distinctive nameplate.

Figure 10: BSUN Agarwood top housing internal design showing no distinctive details that appear to alter or modify the push feeling of these switches.

If “fleshy purple” was perhaps too strong of an initial color choice for your mental imagery, then perhaps consider moving next to the ‘overexposed polaroid of a pastel Easter egg’ purple colored T3 stems of the BSUN Agarwood switches. (I really should have a part time job naming new Crayola crayon colors.) Roughly about average in size at around 13.00 mm in total stem length, these feature a mixed bag of old and new design features which have been seen in various forms in other switches countless times over. This specific stem has the combination of tapered slider rails, a tiered center pole, and small ejection circles over the stem legs of the switch – all of which are coated in a thin factory lubing that can be seen at right angles in the light. While I wish I could comment more on the quality, overall feeling, or general essence of the “T3” material used in the stems of these switches, I still have yet to find a good explanation as to what plastic this acronym is supposed to actually be referencing. Proprietary plastic mixes and custom blends are kind of neat for obscuring those sorts of things.

Figure 11: BSUN Agarwood stem front and back sides showing tapered slider rails, normal length tiered center pole, and trace amounts of factory lubing on various surfaces.

Finally arriving to the sunshine golden yellow nylon bottom housings of the BSUN Agarwood switches, we’re again greeted with a good number of details and design features which have been partially seen in countless other switch designs. Internally this includes ribbed slider rails, a large and flat south side spring collar, and even mold ejector circles that are raised and in the base of the bottom housing. Unlike other mold ejector circles which have been discussed here before, it does seem as if those present in the BSUN Agarwood switches are more wide set, and almost seem to collide with the path of the slider rails in the stems at the point of bottom out. Externally, the BSUN Agarwood bottom housings clearly come in 5-Pin/PCB mount variety and feature really only a mold marking as an interesting point of note. This mold marking comes in the form of a small, inverted number located in the region between the two metal PCB pins and set out closer to the top edge of the bottom housing than the wall of the center pole hole.

Figure 12: BSUN Agarwood bottom housing internal design showing ribbed slider rails, flat south side spring collar, and wide set mold ejector circles in the base of the housing.

Figure 13: BSUN Agarwood bottom housing external design showing PCB mounting pins, wide open LED/diode section, and inverted number mold marking between the two metal PCB pins.

Push Feel

At the top end of this review I had said that I had chosen the BSUN Agarwood switches in particular purely for their performance and having nothing at all to do with their context. I suppose in a weird sort of way that is a bit of a lie as the push feeling of these switches largely feels like running into an old friend at the store that you’ve not seen in many years. (So it’s not quite their context context but their performance context, if that makes any sense at all.) In a world of linear switches that has been slowly morphed into one dominated by switches that have shortened travel distances and aggressive bottoming outs onto their stem poles, the nearly full 3.970 mm stem travel of the Agarwood switches that is capped off on either end by firm, muted, and substantial full bodied housing collisions reminds me a lot of what sought after linear switches were like almost a half-decade ago. With a smooth but not overly smooth feeling of them granted by their moderate factory lubing, they almost remind me in a way of some of my first “perfect” hand lubed switches both because of their smoothness and depth in housing collisions and also the subtle and somewhat noticeable inconsistencies in between the switches across the batch that I received. Given that T3 stems also didn’t exist at the time that I’ve mentally traveled back to in 2017 upon testing them, it is worth noting that this feeling is likely largely driven by the housing construction and factory lubing more so than any material input being provided by the stem material choice. In spite of that arguably ignorable flaw of slight inconsistency, the BSUN Agarwoods are otherwise rather technically solid and don’t really have any exotic issues that need mentioning here at all, such as spring ping, stickiness at bottom out, or even the commonplace scratch. Do not let the lack of complexity in the force curves for these switches nor the fact that they have absolutely zero technically remarkable features in their design fool you into thinking that I’m blowing these switches up well beyond what they are worth. These switches are simple, well executed linears that check the boxes for a previously common and prized archetype of linears that is slowly but surely turning into a niche.

Figure 14: Force curve diagram for the stock BSUN Agarwood switch.

Sound

Like many of the switches that I covered when I first started writing switch reviews on this website, the BSUN Agarwood switches again invoke tradition and echo the classic idea of having sound notes that might as well be more or less indistinguishable from their push feeling notes. The Agarwoods are fairly quiet linear switches with a sound profile that is entirely driven by the extremely well balanced deep, firm, and subtly fuzzy soft housing collisions that give the switch an audible heft that makes them feel more substantial than the plastics that comprise it. By direct comparison with the vague mental idea of the sound of sharp, pointy, and aggressive stem pole bottom out linears, the Agarwoods may as well be a metaphorical ‘dark roast coffee’ with their deeper and more complex notes that aren’t as readily in your face. There’s really not much to pick out in the overall sound profile of these switches that is negative, save for that of the noted inconsistency above. While the switch to switch variation is a bit more present here in the sound of the switches than their push feeling, which arises as some switches sound more thin and narrow than others, or some occasionally have bottom outs that feel a bit anemic and light in their force, it’s still far from detrimental to the overall experience of using these switches. This variation is also decently well reduced once the switches are included in a full keyboard build that has keycaps, a case, and all the insulating features that held round out even more roughly sounding switches.

Wobble

The most “2017 coded” feature of the BSUN Agarwood switches, ironically, is that of their noticeable but not likely problematic amounts of N/S and E/W direction stem wobble. Present ever so slightly more in the N/S direction than the E/W direction, it’s not likely that this will bother most users but its also certainly far from what BSUN and most other manufacturers are capable of producing in their switches in 2025.

Measurements

If you’re into this level of detail about your switches, you should know that I have a switch measurement sheet that logs all of this data, as well as many other cool features which can be found under the ‘Archive’ tab at the top of this page or by clicking on the card above. Known as the ‘Measurement Sheet’, this sheet typically gets updated weekly and aims to take physical measurements of various switch components to compare mold designs on a brand-by-brand basis as well as provide a rough frankenswitching estimation sheet for combining various stems and top housings.

Figure 16: Numerical details regarding the stock BSUN Agarwood switches.

Have you ever wanted to be bombarded with more switch data than you’ve ever seen at any point in your life before? Consider checking out the ‘Force Curve Repository’ hosted on my GitHub that contains all force curves that I take both within and outside of these full-length reviews. In addition to having these graphs above, I have various other versions of the graphs, raw data, and my processed data all available for over 1000 different switches for you to use however you see fit. Check it out via the ‘Archive’ tab at the top of this page or by clicking any of the force curve cards above.

Break In

Break In Notes

17,000 Actuations

- The BSUN Agarwood switches go through quite a bit of changes in their first 17,000 actuation cycles, most notably becoming a bit less smooth and having a sort of mildly chalky feeling scratch texture to their strokes assumedly due to factory lube migration.

- In addition to the changes in push feeling, the BSUN Agarwood switches also increased in stem wobble presence in both N/S and E/W directions.

34,000 Actuations

- At 34,000 actuations, the noted shift in the push feeling of the BSUN Agarwood switches begins to infiltrate their sound profile. In addition to that chalky scratchy tone becoming slightly noticeable, the bottom outs of the switches also begin to have some housing collisions that sound slightly more sticky and less soft than they did in their stock form.

51,000 Actuations

- At 51,000 actuations, the changes in the BSUN Agarwoods largely seemed to have stopped or at least slowed in frequency. Of all of the changes in their feeling noted above, none appear to get much worse or much more noticeable after the switches have been broken in to this point.

Figure 18: Comparative force curve diagram showing no substantial change in the force curves of the BSUN Agarwood switches throughout the break in process.

Comparison Notes to Other Notable Linear Switches

Note – These are not aimed at being comprehensive comparisons between all factors of these switches as this would simply be too long for this writeup. These are little notes of interest I generated when comparing these switches to the BSUN Agarwood switches side by side.

Figure 19: Switches for comparison. (L-R, Top-Bot: Mitarashi Dango, Akko Mirror, Keygeek Oat, Cherry MX Orange, Wuque Studio Morandi, and Gateron Deepping)

Mitarashi Dango

- Looking at the comparative force curve between these two switches below, you’d be led to believe that the Mitarashi Dango switches feel like they pull up to their bottom out a lot sooner than the BSUN Agarwood switches. In hand, however, these switches both feel as if they take on a nearly complete, full length downstroke.

- The BSUN Agarwood switches are a bit smoother than the Mitarashi Dango switches, though almost certainly due to a slightly heavier application of lube. The Dango, by comparison, are lubed thinly enough that some material scratchiness can be felt behind them.

- These two switches are fairly comparable on their overall stem wobble, though it should be noted that the Mitarashi Dango switches are equal in magnitude in their wobble in N/S and E/W directions whereas the BSUN Agarwoods are not.

Akko Mirror

- The Akko Mirror switches are across the board the more superior linear switch between the two of these, with significantly less stem wobble, a smoother overall stroke, and a better availability, vendor support, and price per performance metric.

- In terms of their overall sound profiles, the Akko Mirror switches are a bit more sharp and higher pitched than the Agarwoods as a result of the Mirror’s stem pole bottom outs. The Agarwoods, by comparison, are much more deep sounding and bass heavy in their tones.

- These two switches are comparable to one another in terms of their overall smoothness, though the BSUN Agarwoods do feel as if they are slightly more heavily lubed from the factory than the HMX-made Akko Mirror switches.

Keygeek Oat

- Of all of the switches on this comparison list, the Keygeek Oats are the only ones which have a noticeably deeper, more muted, and more muted set of housing collisions than the BSUN Agarwood switches. It could be at least loosely insinuated that this is due to the Keygeek Oats having housings made entirely of nylon whereas the Agarwoods are only polycarbonate over nylon in construction.

- In terms of both the N/S and E/W directions, the Keygeek Oat switches have less stem wobble than the BSUN Agarwood switches.

- The comparative force curve between these two switches does seem like it suggests only a subtle difference between them, however the difference in the force increase rate is definitely noticeable between these two switches in hand.

Cherry MX Orange

- Despite these two switches seemingly having nearly identical force curves to one another, the MX2A-style barreled springs in the Cherry MX Orange switches make them feel slightly more progressive and parabolic in their force increase compared to the more linear, consistent increase in force in the BSUN Agarwood switches.

- Surprisingly, the Cherry MX Orange switches even have slightly less stem wobble in the N/S and E/W directions than the BSUN Agarwood switches.

- In terms of their head to head smoothness, as most people would expect the BSUN Agarwood switches are much more smooth and consistent feeling across their batch than the Cherry MX Orange switches. This is also true in spite of the fact that the MX Orange switches are lubed using Cherry’s improved MX2A platform.

Wuque Studio Morandi

- While the Wuque Studio Morandi switches have an ever so slightly more pointy bottoming out than the Agarwoods, they are the most comparable to the Agarwoods in terms of their overall housing collision depth and firmness out of any of the switches on this comparison list.

- There is less overall stem wobble in the N/S and E/W directions of the Wuque Studio Morandi switches that I’ve tried than the BSUN Agarwood switches.

- The smoothness of these two switches is fairly comparable, however I do feel as if the Morandi switches that I have in my collection are ever so slightly more heavily lubed and have a bit more of that ‘hand lubed’ aesthetic to their stroke than the Agarwoods.

Gateron Deepping

- The Gateron Deepping switches are surprisingly similar to the BSUN Agarwood switches in terms of their overall stroke feeling, smoothness, and housing collisions. The most notable difference between these two comes in the form of their housing collision depth, with the Agarwood switches feeling slightly more firm and muted than the Deepping switches.

- In terms of their stem wobble, the Deepping switches are ever so slightly less wobbly than the BSUN Agarwood switches in both N/S and E/W directions.

- For the similarities in their stroke feelings that they do share, the BSUN Agarwood switches do still sound a bit more deep and soft at their bottoming out than the Gateron Deepping switches.

Linearity

Figure 26: Absolute and relative Linearity and Slope values for each switch in this comparison section.

Figure 27: Qualitative comparison of the normalized Slope and Linearity for each switch in this comparison section.

If you are just now seeing this section for the first time and are a bit confused as to what I am talking about when discussing ‘Slope’ and ‘Linearity’, I highly suggest checking out my article titled ‘On Differences in Linear Switches’ where I explain what this section is for and how it came to be! For a bit of a shorter answer, know that this is part of my ongoing attempt to better quantify and articulate differences between linear switches which have historically not been captured in discussions about them.

Scores and Statistics

Note – These scores are not necessarily completely indicative of the nuanced review above. If you’ve skipped straight to this section, I can only recommend that you at least glance at the other sections above in order to get a stronger idea of my opinion about these switches