Can someone explain why no one makes switches with 2mm travel, instead of 4mm and 3.2mm?

[hollow hill]

I cannot fathom why no one has made it yet. 4mm is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too much and it adds nothing for an enthusiast gamer. And no you can't use O-rings to reduce the distance so don't talk to me about that. I want 2mm to remove a lot of the pointless deadzone. Can you make this please?

[hollow fable]

orings? people use ceramic balls under keycaps to reduce travel distance

also why no one makes them is a question i can only imagine an answer to with my own experience which would be: not enough requests for it

[kind ermine]

They have them for mechanical switches, but they have not made them for magnetic switches yet

They are usually referred to as medium profile

[dapper coral]

Is 3.4 not enough?

@hollow hill

[hollow hill]

unfortunately. feels like so much dead and useless travel

[hollow hill]

oh? can you tell me more about this? where can I find them etc?

[dapper coral]

3.4 for me is already a huge jump

Took me a while to get used to it. Can’t imagine 2mm, and I don’t think 3.2 would be a big change

[hollow fable]

https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005005656676531.html

This is smth another used said they use (although they used a different vendor for smaller ones as they just wanted 3.5mm before those existed)

but they also bought various sizes to play around with it if i recall right

[hollow hill]

you mean going from 4mm to 3.4mm?

[hollow hill]

how exactly do you make these stick under the keycap?

won't they just roll out?

[hollow fable]

i think the last person just hot glued them as they wanted a permanent mod anyway

[hollow hill]

ah jeez dood. I can't do that

[hollow fable]

i can imagine but i can also only name how i heard other people did it

i personally am not in the short travel switch game

[hollow hill]

fair enough my man! thanks anyway ❤️

[hollow fable]

i hope you find a solution or switches that work for you

[dapper coral]

Yeah