For anyone who loves, or is tired of, the sound of their mechanical keyboard: a free sound estimate from its parts, then the fewest changes toward the sound you want.
Thock or ClackHear your keyboard, then change the least
Pick the parts of the keyboard you type on, say the sound you wish it made and where you type. The page draws the board, places it between a deep thock and a bright clack, and lets you hear a rough preview. One run reads how it sounds now and lists the fewest changes toward your sound - then calls it: keep it, tune it, swap parts or rebuild.
1 Your keyboard now
Pick what you know. "Not sure" is fine - it stays unknown and the estimate gets rougher.
2 The sound you want
Where you type
3 How it sounds
nowafter the changeswhere your words point
A synthesised impression from the estimate - not a recording of any keyboard.
4 Tune it
One run reads how your keyboard most likely sounds now and lists the fewest changes toward the sound you described, in the order to try them: mods first (foam, tape, lube, stabilisers), then swapping switches or keycaps, and a rebuild (case, plate or mount) only when nothing smaller can get there. Your room wins over your wish.
The verdict follows a fixed rule on the changes: keep it with none, tune it with mods only, swap parts with a switch or keycap change, rebuild with a case, plate or mount change.
5 Saved keyboards
How the free side works
Every part you pick nudges two numbers by a few points from the page's rules of thumb: pitch, from a deep thock to a bright clack, and loudness. Brass and steel plates, plastic tray-mount cases, ABS keycaps and clicky switches push brighter; polycarbonate or POM plates, gasket mounts, foam, the tape mod, PBT keycaps and tall keycaps push deeper. Clicky switches, tall keycaps, tray mounts and rattly stabilisers push louder; silent switches, foam and gasket mounts push quieter. These are estimates for comparing, not measurements - real boards vary.
Your words are matched against a short list of sound words (deep, thock, muted, crisp, clacky, quiet, rattle, flexy and so on); "not clacky" and anything under "what bugs you" point the other way. Each room has a loudness limit: none alone, moderate in a shared room, quiet on open-mic calls, hushed next to someone sleeping. The run gets these notes, and the page checks the reply against them: real parts and options only, nothing changed to what you already have, the verdict rule, the direction of the changes against your words, the room limit, word limits, and no brands, prices, numbers on the scale, weekdays, he or she, or internal field names in the text.
Before any mod: unplug the keyboard first.