RK ROYAL KLUDGE RK100 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard RGB Backlit Bluetooth5.1/2.4G/Wired 96% Full Size 100-Key Hot Swappable Gaming Keyboard Red Switch Carbon Mac Compatible

I don't want to harp on the 2.4ghz dongle too hard. They all suck for some reason when you need like eight feet of range and anything has the audacity to break LOS like resting the keyboard on a leg. My 8bitdo controller? Very spotty. Logitech light speed? Terrible. This is no better or worse. I would recommend switching to Bluetooth if you can't have dead on LOS. We got this for our multimedia PC in the living room, which can game a bit. The gaming experience on Bluetooth is perfectly adequate. If you need PRECISION, however, plug it in. Battery life is well over a week of being used about 20-40 mins a day. The typing experience is truly fabulous though. The red switches are thocky and super satisfying, especially at this price bracket. Very linear and consistent. The board looks great and the non-RGB backlight is very subtle and subdued, but feature rich in patterns and brightness. I like the condensed layout that still has everything, F keys are important to me, as is a numpad. And it doesn't do any particularly wonky layout tweaks. I would have liked the letters to be clear for the backlight though. Overall, the price simply is unbeatable. I wish the 2.4ghz was more reliable, but I just think 8 feet for multimedia use of anything on that band is simply never going to work with anything unless I run a USB hub to the top of my TV like a freaking Wiimote motion tracker. While this was bought for the TV, my wife uses it wired all the time for work, and if I needed to replace my custom one for my office, the price makes it nearly unbeatable for the physical quality of the board. Rk makes awesome budget stuff, and this is no different.

Ok keyboard, a little mushy. Main complaint is that 2 of my keys broke, but it was easy to fix with superglue.

This is my second mechanical keyboard. I watched a lot of keyboard reviews before buying and it was a toss up between Royal Kludge and Keychron. Quality for money was my biggest concern and the RK100 met both criteria. The red switches are quiet enough for office use and I've heard they will be quieter with spacers and thick PBT keycaps. I have not added those or taken it apart. I really like it as it is. In a couple weeks I'll probably lube the switches. Ive only had it for a week and wanted to get the true feel of it before I changed anything. I'd buy this keyboard again and I'm tempted to get a 61% RK KB for travel. I should mention the RK100 keyboard does have a good amount of weight to it but would be fine for traveling back and forth to work. The construction of the keyboard is solid. The materials appear to be good quality and overall feel is on point for the price. My only worry are the small switches on the back of the board. They are recessed but worry me they'd still catch or break on something. The magnetic retention of the wireless usb dongle is a nice feature but needs a slightly better hold. I will probably glue a slightly larger magnet in place to hold the wireless usb a little stronger. The bluetooth and RF connections are both adequate for FPS gaming. Key press latency is very very slight, but I believe that is my computer and should probably look into Windows setting for devices to make sure any power saving options are turned off. Measuring the rk100 keypress latency against my wired logitech g412 I did not see much of a measurable difference. Overall this is a very nice keyboard for the money and I'd like another.

Updated April 19, 2025. The customer service contacted me regarding my issue and offered a replacement keyboard. It seems to fix the issue. I think it might be that keyboard was malfunctioned. I appreciate their quick response and customer service. It shows how much they care about their customer. Great job on that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This keyboard is working fine out of the box, but my main goal is to use the customized functions. 1) You need to download the software, but the link is not even on the user manual. I found the download link from the Amazon product page. In fact, the user manual is very simple and does not hint any customized functions. 2) Once I downloaded and used the customized functions, such as changing keyboard lights, redefining keys, and macros, I get the error message ALL THE TIME (see the attached picture)! 3) Worst yet, once I received the error message, most of the keys on the keyboard are non-functional anymore, meaning, I could not even type anything. I could not do a factory reset because the keys were not responding. I could do a factory reset in the software because I kept getting the same error message. I tried restarting the computer but it did not reset (by the way, I could not even type my password so I had to get my old keyboard out). Basically at this point, the keyboard was not functioning due to software error. There was no way to factory reset it. Am I going to risk my money due to buggy software? Absolutely no! This mean unfortunately that I have to stay away from all Royal Kludge keyboards.

From the way YouTubers dump on this keyboard (and RK in general) I was sure that I was going to have to pull it apart and pack it with foam, tape the back, replace the all the keys, and then spend an extra $80 on switches ... however my experience is that straight out of the box, this think Thocks. I say "in my experience" because while watching various reviews and mod videos on YouTube, I noticed that the older videos had no case foam under the mounting plate or under the PCB, while more newer ones had all of that. Didn't stop them from doing the mods anyway and then having a before and after sound test to show off how much better it sounds, but with my unit it sounds exactly like the "after." So I am guessing that RK was watching the early videos for ideas on how to improve the product, and implemented all that in the factory. There are 2 issue I have with this keyboard, but first I will go over everything else: The construction is so solid and dense that the weight of it makes you think that it has an aluminum case, but it is just high quality plastic (and a big battery acting as an anchor). The USB passthrough is completely unheard of on hot swap mechanical keyboards under $400, while non-hardwired cables are fairly rare on commercial units under $200. The wireless option is nice, but I doubt I will ever use it, and "carbon" is the keycap theme that I would have put on it anyway. For the last 4 months I have been obsessively browsing sites for some combination of features that this offers, only to randomly stumble upon this holy grail of all of them in one package, plus a dirt cheap price. Now the two negatives: First is the right shift key is half width of normal, so I keep missing it with my pinky and hitting the up arrow, and second is that RK seems to have discontinued this model as their website lists it nowhere & sketchy community links to google drive files is the only way to get the firmware up / Key & RGB customizing software package. ... so if this thing appeals to you; get it now instead of waiting and have it go out of stock down the road.