Wingtree Pink Pink Switch Review

Oh look at that, another two weeks have came and went and we’re back here again for yet another switch review! Honestly, I couldn’t even begin to tell you where the time has gone between the last one and this one. The past few weeks have simultaneously felt as if they were ten minutes and ten months long, and with the wild swings in mental states that come with that sort of effortless flitting through time dilations, it does leave me feeling that the past few weeks have been hard to pin down. While I could easily punt the rest of this introduction by blaming my wonky time experience on the seasons changing, allergies, or all of the yard work that I’ve been doing in the rare few seconds it has stopped raining here in Ohio the past few weeks, it’s actually because of a bit of a secret that I’ve been keeping from you all. Well, that is a secret to everyone except my loyal Patreon subscribers who have seen my personal monthly updates over the past half year or so. The secret has been about my real life job, and moreover just how stressful it has been. Yeah I know, some big secret that ‘work feels overwhelming lately’; Who among us hasn’t felt crushed to death in some weeks this past year by the global economy, supply chains, AI-driven labor force reductions, tariffs, and everything (including time) seemingly being as inconsistent as ever? I really do mean it though that work has been worse than normal over the past half year or so. While I won’t trash this company directly as it would both be unprofessional of me and to some of my coworkers who I know read these reviews each weekend they are posted, I can say with confidence that my time has come to leave. And so these past few weeks have been so incredibly busy and turbulent for me because I am finally leaving. I’ve remedied the stress that work has been providing by simply signing paperwork for a new position at a new company just a handful of days ago, one which I’m incredibly excited for the opportunities at. Though I am still spending my conventional two weeks’ worth of notice hashing out my current project load and work and making sure that they are handed over to other lucky souls at the company I currently work for, I can say that a large source of stress in my life will hopefully be long behind me here in just a short handful of days.

Figure 1: We're coming up on my final shift at the local long day factory later this week!

Whether you’ve directly heard me say as much through my monthly Patreon updates or perhaps have inferred from the not insignificant number of times I’ve pulled up short on long term content goals like quantifying tactility or writing more shorts about switches, know that the glanced over stress from the previous workplace has been a pretty substantial boulder hindering those goals. Sure there was the whole process of buying and moving into a house as well as my previous neighbors threatening to kill me and my girlfriend that were also distracting towards the tail end of 2025, though the pressure and responsibilities from the current place have been some of the single longest, most sustained stressed that I feel like I’ve had since the website was first brought online. This has of course hindered my desire to come home and be as creative with my content and writing goals as I know I’ve wanted to be. Do I think that moving to another company will completely solve all of my problems and make me a new, 100% better Goat? No, of course not – it too will have strife, difficulties, and challenges like any work place. However, I have to think that moving out of this current environment and where things were headed there will hopefully allow me to get back to both feeling like myself as well as continuing to evolve the website more in some of the creative ways that I’ve just not been able to find the spark for the last half year or so. Hopefully you too will see the effects of that soon. Before we go ahead and get into the Wingtree Pink Pink Switch Review, though, I want to round out this introductory section by saying thank you to all of you readers for the continued support of me and this website not just over the years but especially in the past few months with the stresses being piled on as high as they were. While I know that many of you will see the same review cadence and consistent scorecards and force curve updates as par for the course and as if nothing was going on behind the scenes, it really was leaning on your support and grace over these past few months that made this as doable as it was. This all wouldn’t be possible without the broader mechanical keyboard community.

Switch Background

In spite of all of the now fully revealed personal life chaos that has been distracting me from the longer, more dedicated content and articles that I’ve been wanting to work on over the past half year or so, one of the small writing successes that I have been fairly proud about has been the interconnectedness of the backgrounds of the last handful of switch reviews. As covered in the BSUN Golden Apple, WEKT Lucy R5, Taro N Sweet Potato V2, and Sillyworks x HMX Waverider V2 Switch Reviews, the BSUN Identity Crisis and how this long running, well known name in keyboard switch manufacturing has become interconnected with names like LICHICX, WEKT, Wingtree, and an entire rat’s nest of brands sprawled amidst each of those factories has been one of the more complex histories I’ve ever parsed out in this format. How could one possibly write about switches from such a wide range of manufacturers, times, and types in the background of just one of those numerous offerings? I’ll give you a hint: it’s just plainly impossible. And while I had joked in the last review that I had finally thought that I’ve encountered the limit of chaining stories of backgrounds of switches together in consecutive reviews, I have yet one final link to add to that chain here in the Pink Pinks. I do swear that this one was entirely unintentional, however, as I had actually bought these switches many months ago with full intent to review them long before setting down the arc of the BSUN Identity Crisis. As we stand here today, it just so happens that the Wingtree Pinks Pinks make one great addition to this story and the many turns that it has taken over the past few months based on a slew of small details – They’re true LICHICX reincarnations through Wingtree, they stand as direct, true to form silent linear foils to WEKT’s “LICHICX” silent linears, they’re the first and cleanest connection link between Ruben, Wingtree, and LICHICX, and above all they’re pink too boot! Long time readers will know of particular fondness towards pinks switches above all other colors.

Figure 2: It's not like the very first switches I reviewed and used in my first long term writing keyboard were pink or anything...

Rather than being viewed through the rehashed lens of BSUN and the retelling of all the historical underpinnings that have been spread out over the past few months of reviews, the Pink Pinks are ones that can more easily be contextualized starting from Wingtree as a manufacturer. After all, they did just seemingly pop up into the background of the Taro N Sweet Potato V2 Switch Review and lingered there as if Ruben, Wingtree, and LICHICX were all joined at the hip from the very start for several years now. This couldn’t be further from the truth of how things were though. While Wingtree has felt like it has been around for a couple of years now on account of western-facing vendors like Divinikey and Unikeys stocking a wide range of their offerings, they actually first showed up on the switch scene a bit less than a year ago in August of 2025. First popping onto the market with the release of tandem linear and tactile ‘Yunie’ switches with white and orange stems (respectively) nestled in all blue housings, then followed up rapidly by releases of a green-stemmed Yunie HE switch and full black housing Yuying linears and tactiles, Wingtree very quickly seized western awareness with marketing posts and videos of these switches leading off with their wide white, green, and black boxes with “WINGTREE” branding shown off by those aforementioned vendors. Following the successes of these releases in both entry level, OEM-like linear and tactile offerings, Wingtree then very rapidly turned their sights towards producing custom colored, MX-latch style switches effectively at the demand of any eastern or western designer interested in them. Waiting barely two and a half months after their ‘inception’ as a manufacturer, something which feels a lot less blazingly fast in hindsight knowing that Wingtree was actually a spinoff of BSUN engineers and not just some random people looking to get into the switch market, they began flooding the market with tons of these custom designed offerings including KM16s, KM17s, Corals, VDVs, BM10s, BM11s, 277s, and Qingyans to name an exhausting but far from exhaustive list of switches produced. Somewhere in the midst of those rapid fire switch releases and closer to the tail end of 2025, it was theorized by switch collectors and enthusiasts in the west that some of these MX-latched Wingtree linears and tactiles were actually somewhat connected to the remnants of the switch manufacturer LICHICX. Arriving at this claim on account of some of these switches having top housing molds that look nearly identical to the rare few MX-latched switches that LICHICX produced, such as the LICHICX Durian Ice Creams, as well as Wingtree being both very responsive in general on their TaoBao storefront and strangely cagey about being directly asked about this connection. This suspicion, though, would only remain as such for just a handful of more months until 2026 was finally reached.

Figure 3: Not included in the exhaustingly nonexhaustive list of Wingtree offerings are these GOAT.WORKS collaborations that I feel so sad that I've not been able to get for the collection yet.

Figure 4: Wingtree branded boxes used in their initial releases of Yuying and Yunie switches in late 2025. (Photo from YouTuber Desten Sheng)

Wasting no time in fulfilling their assumed New Year’s resolution of being as attention grabbing as possible in the switch space, Wingtree began their year of production with a January 10th announcement of a switch entirely foreign relative to anything that they had produced prior – the Wingtree Pink Pinks. While these switches are fairly mundanely described as polycarbonate over nylon silent linears with a roughly 45 gf. bottom out weight, a fairly normal 3.8 mm stem travel, and a three-part colorway they were definitely a pile of contextual ‘firsts’ for Wingtree as a manufacturer, and not just ‘first of the year’. These were (one of) the first Wingtree switches to be sold that featured a ‘RUBEN’ nameplate (only two weeks behind the announcement of the Corals), the first Wingtree switch to feature winglatch style housings and a dustproof stem, and the first to be manufactured using LICHICX’s old patents and molds – something which they very directly marketed around. Unlike the MX-latch top housings that were hotly debated for some months, the Pink Pinks were without a doubt produced by Wingtree using the exact LICHICX molds that they claimed to be using while also helping build the case for the connection of Ruben and Wingtree together, and in turn through other switches back to BSUN. With the acquisition of and production using molds from LICHICX that were so incredibly popular during their brief stint as a silent switch focused manufacturer, the expectation was that this was going to be a pivot point for Wingtree – a real change in pace or offerings that would allow them to directly compete with the claims of LICHICX revival by other manufacturers like WEKT. Surprisingly, though, the release of the Pink Pinks has hardly marked much if any inflection point in the types of switches that Wingtree has been deciding to crank out as we continue further into 2026. Sure, there have been releases teased by them for Wingtree-made, LICHICX-based switches such as the Xilan Silents, SU LAB Puer Tea Mutes, and Berry Chirdom Cheese Mutes, but with all of those being on ZFrontier, eastern-facing storefronts and hardly discussed in the west at all, the Pink Pinks still stand out months later as comparatively novel for Wingtree. They still arguably have staying power as the shining example of the connections between BSUN, Ruben, Wingtree, and LICHICX months after I first started the process of deconvoluting the connections between them all.

Figure 5: Marketing photo of the Wingtree Pink Pink switches as found on Unikeys' sales page.

As stated in the previous paragraphs above, the Wingtree Pink Pink switches first debuted on January 10th, 2026, and still stand to date as the one shining example of a western-accessible, true-to-form LICHICX revival manufactured by Wingtree. Marketed as being “just like” the LICHICX silent switches that were incredibly popular in the west such as the LICIHCX Lucy V1-V4 switches, these switches were made with polycarbonate over nylon housing constructions with winglatch style housings, a lightly weighted overall spring, and a three-part stem design identical to the silencing mechanism first debuted and popularized by LICHICX. Despite directly using the patents and molds that were presumably acquired from LICHICX during their bankruptcy auctions following their closure due to financial troubles, the few places where Pink Pinks are presently stocked in the west as of the time of writing had them fairly cheaply listed around $0.40 USD per switch – a price that is both presumably slightly higher than in their eastern facing listings but surprisingly cheaper than iconic LICHICX silent linears that came before them. In addition to being slightly cheaper than previous silent linears that came from the same molds, the Pink Pinks have also been offered on Unikeys in both 40 gf and 45 gf bottom out – something not all that uncommon to see both from Unikeys and from modern day eastern switch releases. While Wingtree has been generally good about continuing to stock and produce offerings as far back as when they first burst onto the scene with the Yuying and Yunie lineups, they also still have a short history relative to other switch manufacturers; It is entirely unknown just how long these switches will be stocked for and/or if Wingtree will continue to manufacture Pink Pinks from LICHICX molds if they have sustained interest from the community at large.

Pink Pink Performance

Note: While I’m not sure specifically which weighted variant I received for my collection, I presume that this review is specifically about the 45 gf bottom out Wingtree Pink Pink switches based on the measured force curve found in the sections below.

Appearance

At the highest level, the Wingtree Pink Pink switches come in a three-part colorway that is only one-part pink despite what their two-parts pink name would suggest. Even if these switches were to be canonically true to their name and feature two pink components or even be entirely pink if the name isn’t as literal, they would be far from the first switches to take on either those hypothetical colorways or their very real one. While their combination of dustproof stems, winglatch housings, and custom colors certainly help exclude their origin from the majority of manufacturers as for quite a long time custom colored winglatch style housings were relegated to the likes of Kailh or more recently KTT, there’s still quite a few switches that these could be easily be confused for from afar. Even up close these could likely be construed as being of LICHICX origin instead of some newer manufacturer like Wingtree, though I suppose that is entirely appropriate given that they were made from the original LICHICX silent linear molds. The one key feature that helps break the deciding tie between a LICHICX and Wingtree origin, though, is their stylized, small font ‘RUBEN’ nameplates – ones only seen from the sub brand that spun off from BSUN and ultimately ended up turning into Wingtree, one of the modern companies known to market their switches as continuations of LICHICX silent switches. As these switches were entirely molded from original LICHICX molds, there’s a lot of fine details to cross reference against switches like the LICHICX Lucy V1s which have been covered previously on this website. Discussions and general documentation of these similar features may be found in the paragraphs and photos below.

Figure 6: Wingtree Pink Pink switches and their components.

Looking first to the lightly pink polycarbonate winglatch top housings of the Wingtree Pink Pink switches, these are the only components of the entire switch to do justice to their distinctive name. (One which I feel compelled to squeeze in right here has absolutely made my word processor hate me as a result of the consecutive doubling up of identical words.) Unlike the LICHICX Lucy V1 switches which first brought LICHICX to the forefront of the community, the top housings of the Pink Pink switches feature no through-switch LED/diode slot and instead feature a wide open space to accommodate a wedge shaped diffuser with a regular grid diffusing pattern. (It should be noted these diffusers did appear in the designs of some later iterations of Lucys beyond V1s.) As well, they feature stylized ‘RUBEN’ nameplates that are significantly smaller and with raised text unlike the larger, engraved ‘LICHICX’ nameplates of their original predecessors. However, beyond these two features the housings inside and outside look fairly damn similar to the LICHICX switches that came before them, down to some of the smaller, vestigial features on the interior which clearly do not influence the feeling of the switches at all. While I’m uncertain if this feature was seen in older LICHICX switches that were produced closer to the end of their reign or not, it is also worth noting that the Pink Pink top housings have a very small, upright oriented single capital letter mold marking in the upper left-hand corner of their housing interior underneath the edge nearest the nameplate region. It is also entirely possible that this could be an addition made by Wingtree from the original LICHICX molds for purposes of lot tracking from production.

Figure 7: Wingtree Pink Pink top housing exterior featuring 'RUBEN' nameplate, front side gap for attached LED diffuser edge, and winglatch style connecting clips.

Figure 8: Wingtree Pink Pink top housing interior showing nearly identical features to previous LICHICX-made switches as well as a small capital letter mold marking in the upper left-hand corner of the housing.

Moving next to the three part creamish white and clear stems of the Wingtree Pink Pink switches, these are most definitely the singular components of the switches which most closely match their LICHICX inspirations. While that isn’t to say that the top housings and bottom housings aren’t somewhat close, the Pink Pink stems are identical to the Lucy silent stems not only in their three layer silencing mechanism, non-tapered slider rails, and mold markings on the front and back sides of the middle dampening layer, but even down to the dimensional level. Based on caliper measurements shown below here as well as those from the original LICHICX Lucy V1 Switch Review, these two stems are almost beat for beat similar down to the hundredths of millimeteres in size in every direction, with their only substantial difference being that the Pink Pink stems having an ever so slightly longer stem than the Lucys. While this would lead one to think that there then must be some LICHICX-made silent linear stem that was comparable in stem length, of the 23 total stems from LICHICX switches that I’ve measured as per my Composite Measurement Sheet to date, none are within a couple hundredths of a 13.02 total stem length as seen in the Pink Pink switches. While this is far from an exhaustive measurement set on my behalf and even further from disqualifying of these stems from their LICHICX mold origins, it is definitely worthwhile noting that Wingtree has potentially had some influence in ever so slightly tweaking the designs of these components from their original LICHICX molds.

Figure 9: Front and backside of the Wingtree Pink Pink stems showing their three-part middle dampening layer silencing mechanism in identical detail to that of LICHICX-made silent linears before them. Also note the non-tapered slider rails, rounded scenter poles, and indented rectangles on the front and back plates of the upper cream colored layer.

Finally arriving at the rose red modified nylon bottom housings of the Wingtree Pink Pink switches, these too feature quite a few details that are clearly reminiscent of, if not altogether identical to, LICHICX molded switches of the past. Internally, these features include a short south side spring collar, ever so slight dampening pads at the base of each slider rail, and partially enclosing walls that extend from the leaf holding tabs around the top half of the center pole hole walls. As well, the center pole hole walls and shaft of the Pink Pink bottom housings appear to be non-tapered, flat, and perfectly uniform along their length like original LICHICX switches. Externally, the similarities continue down to their housing structure (sans LED/didode slot) including their PCB mounting pins, inverted mold marking in between metal PCB pins, and ever so small slit above the mold marking near the edge of the housing .The only notable difference in the Wingtree Pink Pink switches from the original LICHICX Lucy V1 switches is that the mold marking is smaller in font size despite being identical in location and font boldness, or lack thereof.

Figure 10: Wingtree Pink Pink bottom housing interior showing dampening pads at the base of the slider rails, a small south side spring collar, and a straight, flat topped center pole hole onto which the stem bottoms out.

Figure 11: Wingtree Pink Pink bottom housing exterior showing PCB mounting pins, a small, inverted mold marking between metal PCB pins, and a small through-housing slit above that marking commonly seen on older LICHICX switches.

Push Feel

Looking back towards my original LICHICX Lucy Switch Review in preparation for outlining this review of the Wingtree Pink Pinks, I saw that I had initially described the silencing mechanisms that I was then experiencing for the very first time as simply feeling “strange”. However, as years went by and dozens more releases came from LICHICX leveraging that unique dampening mechanism, that strangeness morphed first into the commonplace and then finally into the norm and expectations for high end silencing mechanisms in the MX platform. The three-part stem design first introduced by LICHICX, which used a dampening middle layer sandwiched in between two solid parts of the stem to induce bottoming outs onto the stem pole holes in the bottom housings and conventional topping outs, produced housing collisions that were incredibly firm and with exceedingly little, if any, squishiness, though did still feel dampened and not the bottom out of a normal switch. Despite being many years down the road from both those very first LICHICX switches and now their tenure as a manufacturer, Wingtree has absolutely managed to nail the feeling of those very switches in the Pink Pink silent linears. Largely unphased by differences in typing speeds, both the topping outs and bottom outs of these switches are dampened with a toughly firm yet still soft and forgiving feeling that makes the housing collisions perfectly well balanced despite being across two different housing materials. As well, the Pink Pink switches are also quite well lubed from the Wingtree factory, carrying with them a smoothness that is not overly heavy nor sloshy feeling from overlube and yet also not thin in spots or subtly scratchy in others, just like their predecessors. I’ll even go so far as to say that these share a similar small caveat to the LICHICX switches before them in that even the Pink Pinks have some small degree of variability across the batch that I received with respect to how consistently they maintain their firmness at bottom out across different typing speeds. While some switches do feel (and to some degree sound) a tiny bit more squishy and come across more noticeable than their normal feelings at more aggressive typing speeds, these differences are exceedingly subtle and unlikely to require adjustments or special selection of Pink Pinks for use in a singular build.

Figure 12: Force curve diagram for the stock Wingtree Pink Pink switch.

Sound

Given just how similar the push feeling of the Wingtree Pink Pink switches was described relative to the LICHICX silent linears that came before them above, you’d have to expect that the only way they don’t also sound exactly like those original LICHICX switches would be if Wingtree somehow absolutely botched the execution on this metric somehow. (It’s not as if it would be the first time that a manufacturer completely missed the mark on re-producing a switch that they had already seen widespread success with prior…) Unfortunately for the haters out there, though, there is no choke story to be had here in this section – Wingtree absolutely managed to nail the exact lack of sound in the Pink Pink switches that the original LICHICX silent linears had. The Pink Pinks are virtually entirely silent to listeners at a distance and even at an up close viewing and typing experience they have little to no sound coming from the switches themselves. In fact, using these in a board really just emphasizes how much errant plastic noise can come from keycaps, stabilizers, and choice of plate material in a board which would otherwise be drowned out by the sound of any given non-silent switches. The Wingtree Pink Pinks have no spring pin, no scratch, no strange crunches or creaks, and really have no super wide swings in tone or volume across typing speeds either. Of all of those less savory features, only the latter shows up here some tiny bit, with those more aggressive typing speeds having some degree of sound accompany them at bottom out to match their change in push feeling as noted above. Other than that, there’s hardly anything at all left to say about the sound of these switches, something which I suppose makes perfect sense for a switch that is supposed to be silent and largely free of sound.

Wobble

There is a moderate but not overly bothersome amount of equal magnitude N/S and E/W direction stem wobble in the Wingtree Pink Pink switches that likely wouldn’t bother too many users except for those particularly picky about this metric. While equally as unlikely to be bothersome, it is worth noting that there is some degree in cross-batch variability on this metric to with some switches being ever so slightly more wobbly than others. However, this spread is not to such a degree that switches would be required to be cherry picked through in order to find a matching subset for any singular build.

Measurements

If you’re into this level of detail about your switches, you should know that I have a switch measurement sheet that logs all of this data, as well as many other cool features which can be found under the ‘Archive’ tab at the top of this page or by clicking on the card above. Known as the ‘Measurement Sheet’, this sheet typically gets updated weekly and aims to take physical measurements of various switch components to compare mold designs on a brand-by-brand basis as well as provide a rough frankenswitching estimation sheet for combining various stems and top housings.

Figure 14: Numerical details regarding the force curve for the stock Wingtree Pink Pink switches.

Have you ever wanted to be bombarded with more switch data than you’ve ever seen at any point in your life before? Consider checking out the ‘Force Curve Repository’ hosted on my GitHub that contains all force curves that I take both within and outside of these full-length reviews. In addition to having these graphs above, I have various other versions of the graphs, raw data, and my processed data all available for over 2000 different switches for you to use however you see fit. Check it out via the ‘Archive’ tab at the top of this page or by clicking any of the force curve cards above.

Break In

Break In Notes

17,000 Actuations

- After 17,000 actuations, I was surprised to find that the Wingtree Pink Pink switches had increasingly more noticeable housing collision sounds across the entire batch of switches broken in. While definitely more noticeable with respect to their bottom outs than top outs, the Pink Pink switches broken in this far had sounds at all typing speeds that matched those of the stock Pink Pinks at elevated typing speeds.

- There was a slight increase in both N/S and E/W direction stem wobble of the Pink Pink switches broken in to 17,000 actuations.

34,000 Actuations

- After 34,000 actuations, the Wingtree Pink Pink switches remained largely unchanged from the differences first noted at 17,000 actuations. While trying to blindly identify those broken in to 17,000 actuations versus 34,000 actuations I was completely unable to do so regularly.

51,000 Actuations

- In addition to the changes in overall tone and bottom out feeling as noted first at 17,000 actuations, the Wingtree Pink Pink silent linears that were broken in to 51,000 actuations also began to take on slightly squishy lube tones at bottom out, as if all of their factory lubing migrated right into the exact crook of the stem that bottoms outs. I was a fair bit surprised to see this here as this was not something that I recall having experienced with the LICHICX switches previously.

- In addition to the development of a more squishy sounding bottom out, the Wingtree Pink Pink switches broken in to 51,000 actuations also had a further slight increase in both their N/S and E/W direction stem wobbles.

Figure 16: Comparative force curve diagram showing no substantial, consistent change in the force curves of the Wingtree Pink Pink switches throughout the break in process.

Comparison Notes to Other Notable Silent Linear Switches

Note – These are not aimed at being comprehensive comparisons between all factors of these switches as this would simply be too long for this writeup. These are little notes of interest I generated when comparing these switches to the Wingtree Pink Pink switches side by side.

Figure 17: Switches for comparison. (L-R, Top-Bot: WEKT Lucy R5, Cherry MX Northern Light, LICHICX Lucy V1, Kinetic Labs Gecko, Kailh Turbo Silent Red, and Outemu Butterfly)

WEKT Lucy R5

- While the WEKT Lucy R5 and Wingtree Pink Pink switches do feel comparable to one another in terms of their bottom out strength and force, the dampening pads on the Lucy R5s are ever so slightly softer and have a bit more of a give to them than the Pink Pink’s dampening material. In turn, this does also cause the WEKT Lucy R5s to not get nearly as loud throughout their break in process as the Pink Pinks did.

- There is a comparable amount of N/S direction stem wobble between these two switches, though the WEKT Lucy R5s do have ever so slightly less E/W direction stem wobble than the Wingtree Pink Pink switches.

- In terms of their smoothness out of the box, the Wingtree Pink Pink switches are a tiny bit more smooth than the Lucy R5s, completely missing out on the ever so slightly soft scratch feeling that the Lucy R5s have if you’re really being picky about how they feel.

Cherry MX Northern Light

- When compared head to head, the Wingtree Pink Pink silent linears are far and away significantly more quiet than the Cherry MX Northern Light switches at all phases of their stroke including topping out, bottom out, and the linear stroke in between those regions as well.

- There is a comparable amount of N/S and E/W direction stem wobble between these two switches, though the Cherry MX Northern Light which I have does appear to perhaps be a hair bit better on this metric than the Pink Pink switches.

- While these two switches have dam near identical downstroke force curves as one another, the factory lubing on the Cherry MX Northern Lights does make them feel as if they are slightly more forceful through their stroke than the Pink Pink switches and their lighter, more precise factory lubing. It’s an extremely subtle difference, I will admit, but one of those rare moments where the force curves really don’t show every minute difference in feeling between two switches.

LICHICX Lucy V1

- As these have been heavily compared in the full length review section above, there should be hardly any doubt to you all that these two switches are the most comparable to one another on this entire comparison list. The bottoming out firmness, the overall lack of sound, and even the stem wobble are surprisingly consistent from some of these earliest produced LICHICX switches to their modern day, Wingtree-produced versions.

- Surprisingly, when I was getting these switches out for a review I did really note just how ‘yellowed’ the top housings of the original LICHICX Lucy switches have become. While they’re far from yellowing to the same degree as switches like Gazzew’s Boba U4 plastics, it is pretty surprising looking back seeing just how green the original Lucys have become relative to their original release date baby blues.

- One strongly notable difference between the Lucy V1 switches and the Wingtree Pink Pinks, though, is their release day price. Yes, I am aware that LICHICX-made switches are hardly available if at all anymore, though the release day price for the LICHICX Lucy V1s was around $0.60 per switch whereas the Wingtree Pink Pinks debuted in 2026 at $0.40 after markup through western facing, eastern accessible vendors like Unikeys.

Kinetic Labs Gecko

- There is significantly less N/S and E/W direction stem wobble in the Kinetic Labs Gecko switches than there is in the Wingtree Pink Pink switches.

- Despite what the differences in their comparative force curve below would suggest, the Wingtree Pink Pink switches do not really feel as if they are all that much lighter than the Gecko switches at the start of their downstrokes. While they definitely do feel as if they bottom out around the same overall force as they clearly do, these don’t feel as if they are 10 to 15 gf apart at the start of their donwstrokes.

- While the Kinetic Labs Gecko switches were quite good for conventionally dampened silent linear switches from Gateron, they simply produce a ton more noise than the Wingtree Pink Pink switches on account of their top-of-the-line dampening mechanism as inherited from LICHICX.

Kailh Turbo Silent Red

- In spite of having non-traditional dampening mechanisms affixed to their housings rather than their stems, the Kailh Turbo Silent Red switches still do not manage to be nearly as quiet as the Wingtree Pink Pink switches either throughout their stroke or at either end of their housing collisions.

- While these two switches have comparable amounts of N/S stem wobble as one another, the Kailh Turbo Silent Red switches have significantly less E/W direction stem wobble. For that matter, the Turbo Silent Reds hardly have any stem wobble at all in that E/W direction.

- The Wingtree Pink Pink ultimately feel smoother, more effortless, and ever so slightly lighter through their stroke than the Kailh Turbo Silent Red switches despite their comparative force curve below showing them to seemingly have almost identical strokes as one another. Like other comparisons made on this list, this likely is due to Wingtree more precisely and deliberately applying their factory lube in the Pink Pinks than Kailh did in their Turbo Silent Reds.

Outemu Butterfly

- As a result of sub-par factory lubing and conventional stem dampening mechanisms, the Outemu Butterfly switches produce a lot more noise at bottom out than not only the Wingtree Pink Pink switches, but most of the other silent linears on this comparison list.

- The Outemu Butterfly switches have significantly greater N/S and E/W direction stem wobble than the Wingtree Pink Pink switches.

- The comparative force curve between these two switches below is perhaps the most true to life representation out of all of them in this comparison section. The Pink Pink switches do in fact feel heavier than the Butterflies both throughout their stroke as well as at their point of bottom out.

Scores and Statistics

Note – These scores are not necessarily completely indicative of the nuanced review above. If you’ve skipped straight to this section, I can only recommend that you at least glance at the other sections above in order to get a stronger idea of my opinion about these switches.