RK ROYAL KLUDGE RK61 60% Mechanical Keyboard with Coiled Cable, 2.4Ghz/Bluetooth/Wired, Wireless Bluetooth Mini Keyboard 61 Keys, RGB Hot Swappable Brown Switch Gaming Keyboard with Software - White

Really loved this product until some of the keys stopped working. Very disappointed that this keyboard stopped working so soon after buying…bummed. Edit: this company reached out and helped me resolve my issue. The keyboard works great and I feel it was an operator error on my part that made the keyboard not work correctly. Very happy, will buy from this company agai in the future.

During my initial time with this keyboard, I loved it. For a 60% keyboard, it fit what I needed it for and provided a nice RGB experience, all while maintaining a minimalist form factor. This keyboard lasted me a while! Until... I started using the keyboard for gaming. Playing games like Overwatch and Call of Duty felt so nice using a small keyboard. However, over time, I noticed that my W key was starting to not work. I searched EVERYWHERE on the internet on why this could be happening to me. Searching hardware and software, I couldnt seem to find why my W key wasnt working. So, I did what a normal customer would do, and I returned it back to Amazon for a brand new keyboard. I was so happy to find out that I had a W key that worked again! A month later, I was in the middle of a Call of Duty game, when my character stopped moving forward entirely. I would press the W key, however nothing happened. I wanted to investigate, and get to the bottom of what was actually happening. Gateron Red Switch. While I do believe that I received a red switch, I expected to see a Gateron logo printed on the switch itself. However, that was NOT the case. Instead, I was greeted with a Outemu logo printed on the switch. For those who dont know, brands like Gateron, Kailh, and Outemu like to make clone switches from the Cherry MX brand. Gateron and Kailh have gained a lot of traction and presence within the switch-buying market. However, another brand, Outemu, is known as the cheapest switch to buy, and are commonly found in cheap mechanical keyboards. So, if you like buying something and getting something totally different, this is the product for you. It was then where I found the culprit of the situation. A product that claims to sell Gateron switches, which I do dearly love, actually sells a different switch that isnt of the same quality. If you just need something to get through the day and maybe connect with an iPad or a tablet, then this is a great choice. However, if you expect to do any intense gaming, this may not be the one for you.

So far this has been my bedside keyboard originally my for my deskstation Anyways Battery dies after 2 days of use About 7 hours a Day And The buttons in games I cant use more then 4-5 buttons at a time or it will cancel the last ones function for me was sprint in games like apex or Tarkov . Wish they had better functions and information on the keyboard how to use it how to get it in a functional mode it being a 60% keyboard there is a lot of Keys you need to remember

Ive played a lot with budget friendly and even expensive (but not boutique) mechanicals. Any of these RKs are just going to be great. I easily hot swapped some switches from sample packs to make some keys fun, and it was just - as it is - easy. Pros: RK switches were just fine and dandy. Bluetooth, RF, and hardwire capable, great! Good legend / keys Just has everything. Cons/needs improvement Swapping between BT/RF means flipping the keyboard over. Would be better if switches were accessible from sides. Function button does a lot of heavy lifting on the 60% compact like; arrow keys and / buttons require fn+enter to switch between. For people doing data entry, this is bad. For writing I just changed my use of / to because you use arrow keys a lot. This is more a critique of the 60%, wish Id gotten the 65% or anything with separate arrow keys BUT I use this to travel, and compact was a serious bonus. Its really a phenomenal keyboard at the price bracket.. even well above.

My daughter keeps on telling me to get this product online because it’s good price compare to other stores.It’s definitely a good quality too.

Ive used this keyboard for a little while now and I love it so much, but its my first 60% board and I just couldnt get into it. The RGB is amazing, it has some of the best looking lighting Ive seen on a RGB keyboard, the preset RGB settings are awesome and can be really customized even without using the software. The FN bindings are keyboard layout changes took me while to get the hang of. I feel that is product of it being a 60% KB rather than anything with RK, because I even looked at the holy grail Anne Pro 2 and it has annoying keybindings to get over its small size too. I never had any issues with delay, keys not working, functions not binding, I mean overall this was a very nice keyboard. This was my first experience with brown switches, theyre really nice, I like the tactile feeling but overall I think Im mostly into blue switches even thought theyre loud. The bad: I just couldnt get used to using a 60% KB. If youre like me and have used a full size KB or even an 87 key for your whole like a switch to a 61 key is rough. Even using an ancillary number-pad I found myself annoyed with it. Ultimately, this is a gaming keyboard, which is does very well, but I had to work from home on my rig a few times with this keyboard and I was pissed. I dont feel like that should detract from my rating of this product though, because most people hopefully know what theyre getting into. TL:DR if RK makes a full 104 or 108 KB Id buy it without question since this KB was so nice. I jsut cant get used to a 60% KB.

This keyboard is great for gaming. As a gamer myself, this keyboard seems too good for the price! I bought it for about $50 which is crazy for how good this keyboard is. Unfortunately I did return this keyboard because I couldn’t get used to it being 60%. I loved everything about this keyboard so I bought the RK87. I made a more detailed review on that if you would like to check that out. However, if you’re looking for an awesome cheap 60% keyboard, this is the one to buy.

Ive been using this for a few months and my opinions are as follows: if you need accuracy in wireless modes, then this is not the device for you. Im using this to learn to touch type and I cannot use this wirelessly while I do my typing drills as it does not register every 20-30ish keystroke. This wont bother me with regular office use. I also use it wired for my typing drills, but this is advertised as a gaming keyboard and Im sure gamers would not be thrilled at the lack of accuracy. Also, I have a $30 cheaper bluetooth keyboard that has 100% accuracy so there really is little excuse for bluetooth lag in this device. If your planning on using it wired and want an entry level hot swappable mechanical keyboard you can easily mod, this is a good place to start. I swapped the stock keycaps and switches for some ZDA caps and Gateron CAP milky yellow, lubed the stabilizers, and foam modded the case and am happy with the results . So overall a solid 4 stars from me. Would have been 5 if not for the Bluetooth/wireless inaccuracy.

Update: I find the 3-level shifts on the top row make this kbd unusable for programmers who code with vi. It’s simply too awkward to get to necessary characters. I’ve only had it one day and I’ve made three updates to this review already. I love this kbd. It’s as good or better than the HP2621 terminals or the IBM keyboards I used at the beginning of my career and which have been my gold standard measure of keyboards. I have 7 or 8 keyboards here right now that I’ve acquired over the last few years trying to find one I could live with. I think I’ve finally found it with this one. I got this for a 10.5” iPad I keep on a monitor stand as my offgrid desktop. The kbd wakes up instantly with a key press, the backlight is dimmable and has tons of pattern options (17). The brown keys are tight with no wobbling and are just what I was looking for. Not overly clicky but with a good feel for fast touch typing. Overall it’s solid, just heavy enough and with good nonskid pads so it stays put. The cord comes out the back vs the side so it fits my crowded desk better. I was leery of buying a 5-row keyboard because they require you to Fn shift to get to things I prefer to just reach for. Well the one thing we all have in common is the need to be adaptable to keyboards. As you may realize, to design a new keyboard you’re required to move at least one key somewhere it’s never been before in the history of keyboards, promote the size of an unimportant key or minimize the size of a very necessary one, or add new functions like to blow the explosive bolts that eject the peripheral cards. This keyboard emits the esc code from the esc key like it’s supposed to, vi users can safely buy this kbd. Also by default the / key emits the up arrow code, to get a / out of it requires you to shift with the Fn key. That behavior can be reversed by hitting Fn-Enter at which time you have to use Fn-/ to get the up arrow. The size and quality of your monitor is very important but that’s dwarfed by the importance of a a good keyboard.

This keyboard was great for a long time. I bought a little over 6 months ago and have since lubed the switches (Gateron Browns) and even swapped out the keycaps to a sweet vintage looking pbt set. Now right off the bat the performance of this keyboard is great while plugged in, no issues at all. I dont mind really having to use the function keys to use the arrow keys at all. The problem was when i try to use bluetooth. I really imagined this as the perfect keyboard for me to take on the go to do some programming for games at coffee shops to switch between my ipad pro and my laptop seamlessly. And it was that for some time (though never at an actual coffee shop for obvious reasons). Bluetooth would connect easily enough and switching between devices was a breeze. And then one day, it didnt. Just out of the blue one day it stopped connecting to bluetooth. I cant even get into bluetooth settings where the keyboard flashed red to signal that you are switching between different bluetooth devices. Every once in a while it would magically work again, which would make me think that I did something wrong and accidentally hit a combo of keys that disabled it. However after using software that (i had to hunt down on the internet for by the way) it not work. Now the bluetooth is completely shot and unusable. This is really dissappointing because I loved this keyboard and I want to love it again but I just doesnt do what I need to do. I cannot recommend this keyboard, I would just get the purely wired one for less money. unfortunately I now have to shell out money to pay for a more expensive keyboard that works. Royal Kludge if youre hearing this, please fix this and Ill update the review.