(Answer requested by Terry Turner)
It’s not the clicks, per se, but the positive tactile feedback that tells you that a key has been depressed enough to register the keystroke.
On a well-made mechanical keyboard, all the keys will “break” their upward resistance with the same amount of pressure (i.e. they’ll generate the click and register the keystroke at the same point in the up/down movement). This reproducibility and predictability speeds typing.
On a poorly-made keyboard, different keys might require different amounts of pressure to register the keystroke; or all the keys might requite heavy, or pounding, or full-travel keystrokes; all of which slow down a fast typist.
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I need audible feedback when I type because it alerts me if key action actually happened, and serves as a reminder to visually check if the correct key was actually pressed. I am a hunt and peck uncoordinated old guy, and Clicky is a big help if the right cound is chosen.
Clicky = ClicKey at https://www.grc.com/freeware/clickey.htm
cound = sound
Hope my errors are totally caught.