TTC Bluish White vs TTC Golden Brown V3
Stroke depth is the widest real gap between the TTC Bluish White and the TTC Golden Brown V3, 0.5 mm of it, and it shapes the bottom-out you hear in the player below. Our full switch library puts these two on each other's shortlist, and the player below is the fastest way to settle it: match the volumes, then work down through the table and the verdict.
Hear them back to back
simulated from real specssound loads on your first tapShortcuts: press A or B anywhere outside a text box to fire that burst. Use the volume trims to loudness-match the pair before judging which sounds better.
Spec by spec
| Spec | TTC Bluish White | TTC Golden Brown V3 |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Tactile | Tactile |
| Brand rates force at | actuation | actuation |
| Actuation force | 42 g | 45 g |
| Bottom-out force | 50 g (our estimate) | not published |
| Pre-travel | 2 mm | 2 mm |
| Total travel | 3.5 mm | 4 mm |
| Silent (dampened) | No | No |
| Factory lubed | Yes | Yes |
| MX-compatible stem | Yes | Yes |
| Price tier | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Street price | varies | varies |
TTC advertises an actuation force for both of these, so the two headline figures in this table are measured at the same point and can be read against each other. The figure marked "our estimate" is our own derivation and not a manufacturer number, because TTC publishes no bottom-out figure for the TTC Bluish White. How that derivation works .
Verdict
Stroke character is a tie. Two tactiles feel alike under a finger, which pushes the decision onto the rows below the type row. Stroke depth separates them too: 4.0 mm on the TTC Golden Brown V3 against 3.5 mm on the TTC Bluish White, which you hear at the bottom as much as you feel it. The TTC Golden Brown V3 is the firmer of the two at actuation, 45 g to 42 g, though 3 g is not much to choose between. Nothing here separates by use case: the TTC Bluish White is our pick for gaming and for typing, and it is the one that carries less across a room. Take the TTC Golden Brown V3 only if you specifically want measured mid-pitch tap, medium bump.
- Overall pick
- TTC Bluish White
No use case rescues the TTC Golden Brown V3 here. The TTC Bluish White wins gaming, typing and the office question alike, so the block collapses to one.
Force curves
TTC Bluish White
TTC publishes no bottom-out force for this switch, so the 50 g at the end of the stroke is our estimate and the run into it is dashed. Everything up to actuation comes from the published numbers. How we derive it.
TTC Golden Brown V3
TTC publishes no bottom-out force for this switch, so the dashed end of the curve is an estimate, not a spec. Everything up to actuation comes from the published numbers.
TTC Bluish White or TTC Golden Brown V3: the long answer
Read the spec sheet once, carefully, and most of this decision makes itself. They register at the same 2.0 mm, then part company on depth: 4.0 mm on the TTC Golden Brown V3 against 3.5 mm on the TTC Bluish White. Type is not in play. Both are tactiles, and both raise a bump close to the point the press registers. Spring weight barely separates them, 3 g at actuation with the TTC Golden Brown V3 on the firmer side, which most fingers will not register. None of these gaps is large. Stack them up and they still point somewhere, but gently.
Sound decides more of these arguments than force curves do. Put them through the player above and the TTC Bluish White lands as poppy muted tap with a big rounded bump where the TTC Golden Brown V3 lands as measured mid-pitch tap, medium bump. Both packs are synthesized rather than recorded, so read the comparison as a faithful sketch of each voice and not as a measurement of it.
On the practical side, both are mid priced. Factory lube on both, so the smoothness you hear in the player is roughly the smoothness you get.
The scoring gives up trying to divide this pair: the TTC Bluish White is our pick for gaming, for typing and for a shared desk. On speed, the honest answer is that either would do, and it wins on a margin too small to feel. On typing feel, nothing about it gets tiring by the afternoon, which is the whole test for a writing switch. On noise, it is the quieter of the two once the room is listening. That leaves the TTC Golden Brown V3 to anyone who preferred its voice in the player above, which is a good enough reason on its own. None of this beats hearing them yourself, which the player above lets you do in about a minute.
For either one on its own terms, read the TTC Bluish White page and the TTC Golden Brown V3 page. Or leave switches aside for a minute and run your current keyboard through the free keyboard tester.
Frequently asked questions
Is the TTC Bluish White or the TTC Golden Brown V3 the better gaming switch?
We pick the TTC Bluish White for gaming. The two are close enough for gaming that either works; our scoring defaults to it by a small margin.
TTC Bluish White or TTC Golden Brown V3: which one is quieter?
Nothing in either one is built to reduce noise, so on raw volume this is a tie decided by your keyboard rather than your switch. What you will actually hear is a difference of pitch and texture, which the player above shows better than a sentence can.
Which switch is heavier, the TTC Bluish White or the TTC Golden Brown V3?
The TTC Golden Brown V3, by 3 g. Both figures are published at actuation, 45 g against 42 g, so they are measured at the same point and can be read straight.
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