Cherry MX Blue MX2A

Sound & feel

MX Blue uses Cherry's click-jacket design: a loose white collar around the stem is held under tension, then released at actuation to fly down and strike the housing. The result is that unmistakable high-pitched click, paired with a tactile bump timed to the same moment. Cherry markets Blue as a 60 cN switch, but that is the pressure-point force at the click; the technical table on its own product page puts contact closure at 50 cN. That 60 sits in the click-peak row here, not the bottom-out row: Cherry publishes no bottom-out for Blue, so the bottom-out row is blank rather than carrying the click force under the wrong label.

Because the jacket is a separate part, Blues carry a little looseness in the stroke and a faint rattle on the upstroke, part of their charm to fans, an irritant to detractors. Click-bar designs like Kailh BOX White produce a crisper, tighter click by comparison. Blue was carried into the 2023 MX2A revision along with Red, Black, Brown, Speed Silver and Silent Red, so current stock gets the reworked spring and rails, though Cherry does not list factory lubrication for it.

Blues are for people who want their typing to sound like typing. They are a poor citizen in shared spaces, but on a desk of your own they turn every sentence into percussion.

Sound on this page is synthesized from the switch's published specs and community-documented character: an honest simulation, not a recording. We're progressively replacing simulations with our own studio recordings. How our sounds are made

Compare it

• Cherry MX Blue MX2A vs Kailh BOX White , or jump to Kailh BOX White
• Cherry MX Blue MX2A vs Gateron Blue , or jump to Gateron Blue
• Cherry MX Blue MX2A vs Cherry MX Green , or jump to Cherry MX Green
• Cherry MX Blue MX2A vs Kailh BOX Jade , or jump to Kailh BOX Jade

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