HUO JI 60% Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, E-Yooso Z-88 with Red Switches, Rainbow LED Backlit, Compact 81 Keys Hot Swappable, Silver and White

Pros: I really like this thing on the surface, it is super cute, has an excellent feel/build quality for the price. The outemu red switches are surprisingly decent, and the keycaps are nice. Even the spacebar is pretty stable and works well hitting it on the sides. I swapped a couple of switches for gaterons that I already had and it seems they are a slightly different height (maybe .5mm taller). But like I said I dont mind the cheaper outemu for a basic keyboard. They give you 5 spare switches so the hotswap is good if you manage to get dead switches. Honestly the hotswap feature is cool but you will double the price of the keyboard if you put in a few better switches. I got my keyboard for 21 bucks which is nuts. I do really wish they did a solid color for the backlight just for the esthetics, but if you hit FN + page down, it cycles through a bunch of modes and you can use ripple or turn off the backlight so thats cool. Cons: Huge issue if you want to use this for gaming (and the product title says gaming keyboard). I think the polling rate is 62.5hz. I was using it for osu and it wasnt working well. It was chord splitting on a 190 bpm song. I used an analyzer and it confirmed the low polling rate. Basically if you use this for gaming you are going to have a lot of input lag/inconsistency. I knew corners would be cut somewhere for this price, but still surprising to see 62.5hz. A polling rate like this is not good for gaming, and if you are playing rhythm games its pretty much unusable. For reference 125hz is standard for USB, but good keyboards are usually 1000hz (including my Bloody B740A I got on amazon for only 35 bucks). Newer keyboards are pushing 4000 and 8000hz. If you are going the trouble of making a gaming mechanical keyboard it might as well be 1000hz or better. Honestly I am sad about this, I would have loved to swap some nice switches into this and mained it for a while, because I love the looks. If you are not playing competitive games, or mostly typing, you may never notice the polling rate. And if you dont think youll notice this, its a very nice keyboard in all other aspects. However, the more I think about it, the more I feel like that polling rate is an unforgivable sin. If it was 125-250, I give 3 stars, 500=4stars, and if it was 1000 its 5 stars. It gets 2 stars for good looks and build quality for the money.

At the time of my writing this Ive used the black keyboard with brown switches for two months now. What I like: -How compact the keyboard is -You get separate function keys and a delete key -Switches are replaceable and mine came with five replacement switches What I dont like: -Metal spring noise while typing -Lighting is nothing to write home about Overall, Id recommend it if you need a small budget keyboard with the function keys. However, I only paid about twenty dollars for it. At the current price of thirty, I find this keyboard to be much more of a harder sell. If I were spending thirty dollars, Id consider spending a tick more and go for a tecware phantom or other keyboard. Hope this helps. I bought this keyboard with my own money and Im not paid to write this review. Just my honest thoughts.

Great keyboard for what you are paying for. I love it because it sounds like an old keyboard from the 90s. Good for gaming as well.

This keyboard fits well on my standup desk and the backlit keys are easy to see. Only negative was on of the keys was defective making it harder to press, but I used the tools provided and the replacement parts and now it works great. I’d never done this before but it was super easy.

Really good keyboard no problems with it so far the my favorite part about it is that it has the color setting where when you type a key it lights up and only when you type a key I think this money is worth the price not too fancy but not too shabby either perfect for gaming especially if you have a small desk like me it leaves so much more space than my other keyboard did for my mouse pad and can actually put my water bottle on the side as well

The keyboard is perfect for gaming and even casual use, the clicks are very satisfying.

The fact that this keyboard allows me to disable the windows button while gaming already puts this keyboard in my top 10. The buttons are crisp and brings my gaming experience to a whole new level (ive been using my laptop keyboard this past 4 years). My big complaint is that I received an obvious used keyboard when Im pretty sure I chose the “brand new” option. Almost all keys have dents on them, obvious signs that the keys in the keyboard has been taken off several times with the tool thing. At first I thought those keys were intentionally designed to have “grips” to make it easier to take them off, but they weren’t even uniform! They all had dents in random places. This product is certainly used and it shouldn’t be advertised as ‘brand new’. Just dissapointed.

Such a great keyboard! Wasn’t expecting much for the price but I absolutely love it! Went from a Corsair K70 to this one and love the key switches on this new one.

I really really like the compact layout. But I didn’t like the lighting. You can’t do one solid color it’s just all rainbow.

They could be more color settings.