RK ROYAL KLUDGERK61 Wireless 60% Triple Mode BT5.0/2.4G/USB-C Wired Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, Compact 61 Keys Bluetooth Mechanical Keyboard with Software (Hot Swappable Blue Switch, Black)

Well, I’ve been after a small white mechanical wireless keyboard for some time now, intended. It to look at Amazon in my hunt as when you type the parameters “gaming” and “keyboard” into the search, the amount of pure rubbish that turns up is incredible. However when I read a top 10 list of 60% keyboards on a trusted review site and this guy featured, I thought I’d take a look.When it arrived I was amazed at the quality. For less than £50 I thought it was gonna be a bit cheap feeling, but actually it’s expensive feeling. It has a solid chassis, next to no deck flex or twist. The actuation of the key switch set is fantastically clicky and tactile (if that’s what you’re after), and even though it’s Bluetooth ive not noticed any discernible input latency (though I’m not a competitive shooter kinda guy or anything).I’ve been using for over a week now and apart from the initial charge, only charged it once (after 5 days of fairly heavy use), which took no time at all due to its usb-c interface, which can also be used to make it wired.The blue backlight is excellent. It can be super bright if you want, but I turn it right down to lowest and it’s still great. Each key is individually lit and can be individually turned on or off, and there are many different lighting patterns. Colour cannot change though, it’s cyan all the time, but looks really well implemented.The one I have is the American key layout, so if you’re set on UK layout then this isn’t for you, but I just changed my windows language settings to add “English (US)” as well as “English (UK)” so I had the option to change my keyboard language to match the RK61’s key layout. It’s very easy to get used to.Overall I’m extremely pleased with my purchase and would recommend anyone to give this board a go. It really did surprise me.

Great keyboard, long battery and good lighting

UpdateThe seller got in touch following my review and will hopefully update the instructions. They genuinely seemed to care about our experience, which is why I've added a star.Worth noting that function key and space bar resets the keyboard.Original reviewGot this for my son's birthday. The instructions are truly awful. After we managed to connect it, we had two issues:1. Some letters didn't seem to work, including letters u and I.2.The number keys didn't work.After much research, I discovered that the keyboard has an option to use the central keys for specific commands e.g print screen. This should be turned off by default. Found the key shortcut and they worked.Similarly with the number keys, once I found the shortcut I got them working.The instructions also don't tell you how long it takes to charge and the battery life.Overall it seems to be a good keyboard let down badly by poor instructions.

This is my first ever keyboard review for my first ever proper mechanical keyboard, please be kind :)So, the Royal Kludge RK61. A fairly popular 60% board due to its cheap price (I got mine for NZD56 on discount with shipping and insurance on BangGood). From what I read from reviews from other people before purchasing this board, it is found to be quite divisive. Some praising its cheap price and functionality and others condemned it for various reasons, of which some I will explain on my review. Anyway, let's get down to the review, shall we?What is this thing? Well it is a White Royal Kludge RK61 with the RK Red switch, which I assume to be a clone of Gateron Reds. I am going to review the switch first since I don't particularly have a good knowledge of switches and just wanted to get this out of the way. As I said before, my guess is that this is a clone of Gateron Reds with transparent housing. This means a couple of things for me. One, that it feels quite smooth in my fingers, especially compared to the MX Blacks and Reds that I have felt. I still can feel a little bit of scratchiness when typing but I assume that this will be fixed easily with some lube. Secondly, regardless of what I say above. The biggest characteristic that I feel from this switch is that it is wobbly as hell, like the stem of the switch feels loose. It almost feels like one of those Cooler Master Mem-Chanical switches (Rubber Dome w/ Sliders over Membrane) but somewhat smoother. My plans for the switches are either lubing them and replace the springs with SPRiT 150g or replace them with either Linjar or CreamsAnyway, enough of me talking in the field that i do not master very well. We're moving on to the part where we discuss keycaps and build quality. Now this is something that I do have some knowledge about. it is quite a light keyboard on 700g. The reason for this is that most if not all the materials in this keyboard are made out of cheap plastic, they feel really scratchy. The board feels cheap overall, which is fair considering it's price (USD37). That is cheaper than some PCB's like the DZ60 or the GH60. I took apart the board, the case is held in place by 4 phillips head screw. That's easy enough to open. Inside I found a 750mAh battery loosely glued to the case (did I tell you guys that this thing is wireless?) and a Cypress CYW20730 Bluetooth controller. The PCB itself is not screwed to anything once opened. The screw from the case goes directly to the plate that sandwiches the PCB and the PCB is held to the plate with two small plastic tabs. It uses a rather shady HFD1101KBA micro controller, I have yet to successfully find any documentation regarding this part. When I first received the board, anything involving the USB system on this board feels super tight. The areas that I'd like to highlight is the female micro-USB connector on the board and the male USB-A connector on the included cable. I am worried that this might lead to a shortened life-span in the long run, but for now it is fine. The keycaps feels really cheap I'm not going to lie. The keycaps from my old Cooler Master MasterKeys Lite L looks and feels so much better (Look! I swapped the escape key). I'm personally not too fussed about RGB implementation but the Cooler Master keycaps makes the RGB lighting shines brighter. Other than that, there's not much to say about the keycap. Lastly, the spacebar stabilizers is very noisy, the whole board is reasonably silent when typing but the spacebar stabilizers makes a rather metallic noise when pressed vigorously.Moving on to the cons. There are a lot of things that should have been given it's own section in this paragraph, but the problem is that there is a lot of them. So I am going to compound them together here. First of all, the layering of the nav cluster, f keys, and symbols, and everything. Going into 60% for the first time, I tried to prepare myself to use the function keys for multiple layering of key function in a small keyboard. But boy was the layering in this thing horrible. First and foremost, it is moody and inconsistent. I understand having layering is important in a small keyboard, but when your alphabet, number row, and backspace key are all in a different layer from each other, then we got a problem. And the fact that you need 2 different combination of layer to get to the question mark is simply terrible (Fn+left shift press, then Fn+right shift hold while pressing the question mark key). And that's just one layer, there are inconsistency on layering across the board (pun not intended). The software is somewhat serviceable but my biggest problem with the board is that it BSoD my computers, somehow. Now I don' know if this problem is exclusive to me or not, but from my sample size of 2 AMD systems, it may look like it is a widespread problem.In conclusion, you get what you paid for. If you just want to test the water with the whole SFF on a keyboard thing, $30 something won't hurt. For everyone else, get an Anne Pro 2 or a Ducky One 2 Mini.