i feel like he's in my head right now a little bit disappointed i'm not gonna lie oh god
you're probably wondering what's going on and it all started with a discord call betty betty i've
got a cool idea what i challenge you to build the loudest most annoying keyboard possible
like a dare yeah but like you'll probably get paid by ad revenue okay i'm down but in return you also
have to do something instead of the loudest most annoying keyboard you have to make the least
annoying keyboard you could possibly make it should be zero depth no negative 10 decibels
in volume i'm in well guys i think i'm in a little bit over my head on this one i'm really happy to
say this is one of my first collabs with switch and click as you can see i've been challenged
to build the quietest keyboard possible and i'm sure gonna try my best if you want to see
her perspective of the challenge then click the link in the description or in the top right when
you're done watching this video it's definitely worth a watch oh man anyways the rules are pretty
simple we had to spend over 300 and we couldn't do any weird external modifications to our boards
like putting a speaker in it for example but that didn't stop me from putting a library in there
then we'll be graded by our other youtuber friends on who performed the challenge the best it is i
david not glasses i am squashy boy i have one this is andy that's a pretty big cast right so betty's
gonna be the loudest keyboard and we'll see who wins but anyways let's get started three two one
so blast off we did and boy howdy this video is gonna have some struggles in it in my quest to
build the silence keyboard i knew i needed foam so i picked a board with a ton of foam in it aka
the sun 68 so my goal is to make the quietest keyboard ever and what's quiet libraries and
we'll get back to that one also what else is quiet boba gum switches that have been really over lubed
and whales in the ocean i guess so i went with whale pbt keycaps which are new whales are quiet
right whoa what is it mr whale what 73 of the people watching aren't subscribed right now
what they need to hit subscribe right now because it's free and otherwise hippie is going to lose
the challenge y'all know what to do without any further ado i had to get into the build because
i had a challenge to win or at least not horribly lose you know i thought about the board for quite
a while with the requirement of spending 300 i had to just start off with a bang and go with
the sun 68 which costs 350 on its own but here we want more of a bang so the sun 68 is actually
very perfect as it's filled with a ton of foam is gasket mounted and doesn't reverberate very much
okay but if you're new to keyboards you're like what's going on gasket mounted foam i don't i
don't even know what this guy's saying so all of these are elements that will mod out the keyboard
and reduce the amount of sound that it'll produce you know you put foam in something
it'll it'll capture all those little sound noises things yeah so this is great and all we've got
the board but we need to prepare the board for the build which requires a variety of things
first i'm gonna have to unscrew it as i need to get on the insides we'll see why pretty soon here
to unscrew it i used my wow stick wow and then a little bit of magic to finish it off right
about now i imagine betty from switching click is probably doing something really devious and high
effort but you know me i'm just taking a keyboard apart so this foam is very awesome and kind of
rubbery i don't exactly know the material but it's quite nice and we have to take this apart for a
very specific reason now i tried to do a couple different foam mods or play-doh mods and other
things to random boards but i honestly couldn't get anything that isolated sound quite as well as
this board now these are stabilizers and they were definitely the bane of my existence as i couldn't
get them not to rattle with how warped my plate was but we'll talk about the plate warpage later
now the moment you've all been waiting for how is hypio gonna make this board extraordinarily quiet
what is he going to do to overcome the challenges that he's been presented with
i thought about this one really hard i got to the drawing board i did idea after idea but in the
end i came to one conclusion the only way to make this board quiet was with a library like libraries
are quiet right yeah big brain genius idea now how am i going to translate this to the board
well of course i'm going to cut out library.jpg and put it inside of my keyboard it's legally
not allowed to make noise now so i think i win so with my secret weapon buried inside my keyboard
it was time for the assembly which you know i've had smoother assemblies before and this board is
a prototype if i didn't mention that already and that kind of explains why i've had a little bit of
trouble with it but first it wouldn't be a board without switches am i right gamers or non-gamers
i'm sorry in this case we chose the boba gums from gazoo these are a silent linear and they've got a
very light 50 gram spring in them so i don't press them too hard and make a loud bottom out noise now
silent switches are very very unique and also i really don't like them very much they kind of feel
mushy and just like they feel like they just have no soul so in a way this is a
very cursed build as well now you're probably thinking oh hypio what makes a switch silent
what's the whole deal with that great question you guys ask the best questions well as you can
see here through my very very shaky footage the switch has a little dampener built into the rails
this dampener up dampens the sound yeah no duh but that wasn't enough i had toby aka barrett creative
lube these very very generously with crytox 205 g0 and the springs were looped by gazoo separately
this should lead to the ultimate quiet typing experience like so quiet but first i had to figure
out how to get these in my board yeah because my plate is so freaking warped i had to just like put
the switches in the plate by themselves and then figure out how to put them into the pcb later now
this is a do not try this at home hipio moment do not try this at home hippia moment but i'm
just gonna drop these on there that's how you install switches right easy peasy and then oh god
oh god why is it so warped no oh i did ah this is yikes all right i wasn't able to fix this
this is part of the prototype but it's fine it won't affect the final build at all right
right so ignoring that let's just put the board together you know let's hide it let's hide our
little failures and oh the usb port barely aligns and then let's just screw this together so fast
that we forget what happens ah hypiotech here howdy hey i forgotten what happened
wait oh we're doing this we're doing a collab guys i made it cool did i do good
oh yes anyways i think this will perform the quietest of any switch i really could have chosen
i thought about doing an electric opacity board but those tend to be a little bit louder whale
pbt keycaps from kinetic labs nice now okay listen here i know what you're gonna say these are just
regular keycaps you're lazy hippie oh this video is uninspired gosh and i mean geez that's a very
nice comment thank you so much i tried a couple different keycap options and i'm sure that would
be very interesting to watch but i didn't record it however i did try the silicone keycaps the most
and those would have been perfect however they did not fit any board that would have worked for this
build so i digress whatever oh the the magic's already done the keycaps are already on cool these
keycaps are very sleek and you know what i could call them muted even huh get it that's a sound pun
okay so you've built a keyboard hip yo now what great job so now that the board's built i think
it's time to check in on betty and show this off to the other youtubers which i'm a little bit
scared about it is i david not glasses because busy doing some other really important stuff i
am squashy boy you may know me as squashy boy but you can call me squashy boy hi everyone uh this
is andy i've prepared something very very special for them so special howdy howdy howdy howdy howdy
an asmr presentation that's so great to have you here
i'm really sorry we're gonna get pewdiepie i made the quietest keyboard possible
and that's a fair question i'll show you
in one second but first let me take a sip of my protein shake
even a sip was silent a picture of a library that is a picture of a library
and then i folded it up and put it in the keyboard that way it wasn't allowed to make noise
he put a piece of paper inside it's nothing because it's a quiet keyboard you are tapping
it as light as possible it's like you're going like do you hear that
that's a little bit of ticking damn it wow could you go into a library of a keyboard that started
ticking no because a librarian would go shh no ticking stabs in my library this is this i'm
a little bit disappointed i'm not gonna lie that's actually pretty quiet but
you know the ticking the ticking staff is that good wow there's no rentals again
that's pretty cool i need this he needs this hippo did a really quiet keyboard you
know that library mod and uh basically zero sound overall that board is freaking silent
okay they actually liked it more than i expected and that was genuinely surprising if you want to
see betty's reaction make sure you go watch her video it's in the description now it's time to
visit switch and click and see what they've created is it a monstrosity is it perfection
who knows but uh i guess the only way to find out is to give it a watch here we go
i found the perfect specimen so hollow yet not hollow enough there's more i can do
oh my god it looks so scuffed or the screws or the feet
these switches are perfect but i can do better louder now they're ready
i don't know if we can count do we do we count do we count that i don't know i don't know the world
oh god it does sound awful she's not even hitting the spacebar oh god no great job eddie uh-huh
director bye michael betty bit oh i can't watch that again that was insane honestly you nailed it
yeah they honestly did an incredible job and i'm kind of blown away it's genuinely the worst
sounding keyboard i've ever heard in my life but i think that one screw is kind of cheating but after
watching both videos it's time for the youtubers to vote there's a lot of deliberation going into
this and i'm a little bit scared what they're gonna say did i take it did i make the quietest
keyboard i gotta give it to switch and click for their presentation the movie effects and straight
on lao t-bone the winner is gonna go to the silent board it was really executed well i love the meme
of it and if there was an award for cinematography it would definitely have to go to betty and they
both did a great job some of the mods that the switch and click team did yeah those things are
more obvious i guess for a loud board but i feel like they put a lot more effort in and the end
result shows i think hikio hasn't done enough here to take the dub yeah let me give this to betty
sorry well a massive congratulations to switch and click for winning now i have to make you guys some
type of real trophy or something and i'll post that on a youtube story so make sure you subscribe
for that also a special thank you to the youtubers that helped out with voting like squashy glasses
and andy make sure you check them out in the description as well but you know what i have one
more thing that might make my keyboard a little bit more quiet so let's check that out eh we've
got one desk mat um two desk mats three desk mats four five six oh look at that one seven yeah so
those last two will be available in kinetic labs pretty soon and they're my desk pets by the way i
feel like seven desk mats might be cheating as far as sending it to the boys goes but you know what
this is for a hippie tech video so we're doing pretty good just take a listen to these stabs
and let me know what you think there's a tiny bit of ticking but that's because of the plate warp
please
shhh well i have my mic set to the same standards that i do for any of my sound tests and you'll
find out with this final sound test that it's incredibly incredibly quiet speaking of sound
tests i'll be leaving you with one of those and make sure you watch the whole thing to support
my youtube algorithm overlords if you also want to support my overlords then hey consider subscribing
and also consider checking out switch and click and all the youtubers that were in this video
i had a lot of fun making this board and participating in this collab and i hope you
guys had fun watching it as well i think this board is pretty dead silent and i'm honestly
really really proud of it and you know it's not about winning it's about the friends you made
along the way although winning would have been nice and finally a special thank you to exco matt
sun x creation fenney joseph carrang no way cool keys plotty platinum aquarius for being members
of the hippo's chosen tier and hitting the join button down below wow very cool guys keep it up
bye
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