RK ROYAL KLUDGE RK84 Wireless RGB 75% Triple Mode BT5.0/2.4G/USB-C Hot Swappable Mechanical Keyboard, 84 Keys Bluetooth Gaming Keyboard w/High-Capacity Battery, Clicky Blue Switch

The keyboard looks great and during the daytime is usably great. But at night the visibility of the keys is illegible. Even using the [ugly] software to adjust things does not help. I have 2 different key caps on the board and neither are easy to see at night. I’d like to also mention that I typically use a white light, but it comes off pinkish and not true white. The battery is really, really bad. It will hold a charge for only a few hours of use to the point where I leave it plugged in until I have to charge my headset or something else. Again, adjusting settings helps a little but not much. I shouldn’t have to sacrifice backlight to have a charged keyboard for more than 3 hours. I’ve experienced dropped inputs semi regularly as well. As a previously competitive gamer, I know my actuation distance and if I’ve pressed a key. There have been many games over the months that a key press has not gone through and caused me to suffer. On a positive note, when this keyboard is working it feels great! The two height settings are comfortable and the keys feel great to press. It really fit the bill for aesthetically what I was looking for (besides the RGB color sharpness). They would definitely need to refine the design a bit before I’d buy another board from them though.

Bought this along with the Keychron K2. At the end, I returned this board. Quick thoughts: Pros: Great backlighting with the RGB. The lighting patterns I prefer on this board and its definitely brighter than the K2 RGB backlight. Included passthrough USBs are a very nice feature to have. Dongle option instead of just Bluetooth (note, that dongle does have a short range on it so you want to mind where you plug it in. Preferably on the back of your monitor if your monitor has USB ports on them. I bought the Gateron Red switches and the switches on the Royale are definitely quitter than the Reds I have on my keychron. Cons: Out of the gate the led for the P key was flickering. You can see in the included photo. The top keyboard is the Ryoale and the bottom is the Keychron K2. Was NOT please to pay full price for this board only for it to not be in 100% working condition. The stock keys themselves are a bit harder than the Keychron K2. While I like the sound of the RK, I prefer the feel of the K2. The build quality on the K2 (if you do get one, get v2 with the aluminum body) is far superior than that on this board. The keycaps themselves, while they are backlight compatible, the icons on the F keys arent. Just the text is backlit. K2 text and Icons on those are both backlit. That attention to detail is important. The wireless dongle, again while present does have a very short range. The Royal is smaller than the K2 and I have big hands, so I felt a bit cramped when typing. No issues at all with that on the K2. Im typing from it now. No stock keycaps for macOS. While this will work via bluethoth or dongle, it would have been nice to get a set for the macOS as I use both devices. K2 the initial keys that come with it are macOS focused, but have swappable sets for windows. In the end, especially with the led on the P key being defective, this one had to go. Not a bad board, just quality isnt all that there (at least with the board I received), the feel of the board, and the details just didnt stand up to the other board I was comparing it against. YMMV.

RK84 80% With linear red switches. For starters - YES, this keyboard works on Mac! It even says so in the description AND user manual. It has a Mac mode and a Windows mode right on the keys! I can’t speak for the software - I imagine that may only be usable on windows - but it is swappable, and it is compatible with both! I own both and use it on both so I promise you that it is. You can even swap the windows key with the alt key to where the command key normally is on a Mac when you switch the keyboard to Mac mode if you’d like. Much more comfortable! That said - here is my review: While this Mechanical keyboard is considered to fall under the “budget” end of mechanical keyboards for its size - this keyboard is a great value. Hot-swappable switches, swappable keys, works both wired via USB-C, or wireless via any of its 3 different Bluetooth channels or it’s 2.4ghz USB, and even has two pass-through USB (type A) ports on the back for added convenience. It comes pre-built (although u would’ve loved to assemble it), is compatible with Windows AND Mac, and it even has software! All for under $90? That’s hard to beat. I’ll be honest — this is my first mechanical keyboard, so take that for what you will. However, believe you me when I tell you that I did my research (and a lot of it) before purchasing this one. Seriously, it’s been months. This Royal Kludge RK84 met all of my criteria for a starter keyboard and then some. Has all the keys I really need (including a couple for convenience), could connect to two computers (but not at the same time), has red linear switches, is hot swappable, had decent battery life, adjustable RGB backlight, USB-C, and doesn’t break the budget (around $100 since this is my first mechanical keyboard). I also wanted it to show up the next day, so keep in mind that these thoughts also include that I searched primarily on Amazon (which may or may not have limited me here, although I didn’t feel that it did based on the options I found on YouTube and other forums as well). The selection on Amazon is quite decent for boards in this price range. I digress. Being a budget pre-built, and despite watching video after video on this mech (let alone probably 15-20 other keyboards), I was super unsure of what to expect after opening the box. I was nervous that it would feel super chintzy. I almost expected it to. I was worried it would rattle and clunk, it would be lightweight, and that it would feel cheap. More so, I was worried that I would be disappointed. However, that was not the case at all. I am currently blown away at the features and quality of this board (and I’m a picky guy). Considering I could’ve spent double for a keyboard with the same (or even fewer) features that this bird has, confirms to me that this is a great starter levied for me, or for just about anybody who wants to affordably ‘dip their toes’ into the mech world. I can’t speak much for longevity, but I am confident in saying that this is an awesome option among the many in its price range (at least on Amazon). I’ll upload a video of it completely stock later, but there isn’t all that much rattle considering that things are minimally lubed from the factory - if at all. Now, no decent review is complete without an honest list of cons. After using it for a few hours this afternoon I have come upon a few things that are less desirable - but to be expected. - The user manual could be considered somewhat confusing at parts. Not that bad, but it’s mostly just pictures so some things are left to the imagination. For instance, the P button blinks indefinitely until you either pair it with the 2.4ghz USB dongle included, or switch the keyboard into Bluetooth mode and connect it. - There is some rattle in the stabs — but again this is to be expected and isn’t severe enough that it can’t be fixed fairly easily. - The case does sound a bit hollow/cheap — also an easy fix. It doesn’t feel cheap though (as a reminder). - The brightness could be slightly more adjustable, although there is enough adjustability for me to be content. All things considered, this is a great keyboard. I would recommend it to anybody who thinks they might be interested in the enthusiast-side of mechanical keyboards. Easy 5 stars from me.

It is a decent keyboard with respect to hardware. The keyboard I got was the newer 2021 manufactured one, and it does not have any issue with the 2.4ghz connection. It works flawlessly for approximately 5 feet of range, after which it starts missing many of the keypresses. One thing to note is that the latency benefits are not that much for this 2.4 ghz connection compared to Bluetooth 5.0. We should not expect Logitech lightspeed level of performance. It is just a good option when the device you are connecting to does not have Bluetooth capabilities. The switches used in this keyboard are actually very acceptable. Not the smoothest. Lubing the switches should surely help. The stabilizers are also decent. The keycaps are very good abs keycaps for the price. Overall the hardware is on par to, say Keychron k2 v2. Out of the box, these keyboards are a huge upgrade from cheap membrane or mechanical keyboards. Although, these keyboards wont match in out of the box typing quality to keyboards like Yunzii Akko. Issues arise when dealing with the firmware and the software. The device has a really unintuitive battery level indicator. The official instruction says: Spacebar will flash 3 times when battery is not full, 5 times when it is fully charged. For me, even after charging for 10 hours, the space bar never flashed 5 times. I reconnected the keyboard as well to reset the keyboard, but that did not help. Further, there is no way to know even an approximate estimate of charge level. So, there was no way to confirm if the firmware was failing to show full battery, or if the battery actually did not charge. Another major issue is that the backlight turns of in 15-20 seconds when in wireless mode, irrespective of the sleep time set in the software. In wired mode, the backlight stays on for the correct amount of time. Overall, all these issues add up and make it difficult for me to recommend these to anyone who cannot ignore such irritations.

Buena calidad, confiable y cómodo. NAAH DE LOCOS :)

If youre just getting into mechanical keyboards that you want to customize this is a great option. There are so many mods out there, you can easily make it sound to your personal preference.

Mi primera incursión al nicho de los teclado mecánicos, disposiciones, perfiles de teclas, switches y demás, sabía de estas cosas muy por encima graciass videos aleatoriamente vistos a los lsrgos de los años atrás y finalmente opté por dar el salto (Gran salto por cierto). Timar la desición de qué driver comprar fue bastante dificil en especial con este en específico gracias a los controversial que son su reseñas por sus apartados de conectividad pero aquí van mis experiencias: Yo hice la compra de este teclado a finales de octubre y lo recibí a primcipios de noviembre tras decidir cancelar el envio de otro keyboard el cual en su momento pasó a ser mi primera opción tras la constante observación de los problemas de conectividad que comentaban cientos de usuarios en foros y reviews de YT, no obstante al final decidí arriesgarme con este puesto que tras todo lo recopilé de infirmación, el teclado a priori solo sufría de problemas por sus drivers y me alegra haber cmabiado de opinión a último momento puesto que para nada he tenido problemas desde el instante en el que lo saqué de la caja, conecté y encendí y asi hasta el día de hoy con más de 1 mes de uso (Ya veremos en los consiguiente meses). Revisión de apartados: - Construcción, no tengo mucho que decir, su peso y solidez son bastante siprendentes, el plástico no se le ve de mala calidad, difucil de flexionar y probablemente puedas partir un par de cocos con este teclado sin demasuado problema. - La disposición 80% es exactamente lo que buscaba, teclado de tamaño reducido ya que el pad numérico solo tiene sentido si haces contabilidad a mi parecer, y yo que estudio programación agradezco el deshacerme de las TK y conservar las teclas de función. - Switches RK Red y el perfil de teclas; hasta donde tengo entendido lo switches propios de Royal Kludge intentan simular a los gateron y suelen decir que los primeros no son malos pero tampoco nada destacable, funcionan bien y se siente sólidos y en lo que a mi respecta, no soy un entusiasta de esto aún, soy muy nuevo en cuanto a la experiencia propia se refiere, pero elegí los rojos porque me gusta la respuesta rápida, directa sin sensación clicky, muy contento con ellos y las teclas ABS de perfil OEM se sienten cómodas aunque algunas de ellas tenian pequeños defectos de fabricación en su parte baja (Los bordes de terminación inferiores que dan hacia el tecladi) en el día a día ni se nota. - Conectividad, no tengo ninguna queja aquí... Tri-mode, con un dock que añade 2 USB tradicionales para conectar otris dispositivos (Solo cuando el tecladi está conectado via usb al pc) , conexión bluetooth 0 problemas, unos 10 metros y muy rápida (Aunque la más lenta de las 3, aun podrías jugar a un shooter si lo quisieras y no notarias la diferencia a menos que juegue competitivamente en altas esferas, el dongle funciona excelente a una distancia de máxima de unos 8 metros, de ahí en adelante empieza a perder pulsaciones aleatoriamemte, estando en el escritorio es el método que suelo usar tanto para jugar como para programar y tipear siempre, y la conexión por cable, pues... Ya te la puedes imaginar, raro será que llegue algo fuera de sitio cuandi me toca usarla a causa de quedarme sin bateria. - Batería, a no ser que mantengas el RGB encendido, este bicho dura lo suficiente cimo para que te olvides de que se supone que debes cargarlo (Si no fuera poruqe cuando está bajo de carga la tecla FN comienza a parpadear en verde. - Características varias, el RGB tiene un brillo decente, nada dle otro mundo pero me cumple perfecto para el tipeo nocturmo que es para lo único que lo uso, que sea HotSwap me deja la posibilidad de modificarlo a futuro lo cual es muy buena feature, el marco desacoplable es otro detalle de diseño bastante cool y por último los accesorios, un key puller muy normal y, las patas traseras, un agregado que se agradece tener aunque habría preferido las del tipo built-in, la altura del teclado es algo mayor de lo que me esperaba peri con el tiempo me acostumbré al igual que su inclinación así que no suelo usar las patas. Estoy ya es muy extenso así que me detendré aquí, simplemente les animo a darle una oportunidad y si no quedan satisfechos siempre lo pueden devolver :).

I ordered both the RK68 and the RK84, the RK68 had blue switches and the RK84 has brown switches. The size of the RK84 is literally one key row bigger than the RK68, if its strictly desk space youre looking for, I would choose the RK84 10 times out of 10. The placement of the keys is also much better on the RK84, on the RK68 the delete key and the print screen key should be swapped. Its absolutely crazy that they would decide to place the print screen in the top right, and the delete key underneath that. As for the connectivity issues that many people speak about with their dongles, get an extender or move the USBs to somewhere other than the back of your motherboard. I have a Razer Orochi V2 and when that is plugged into the rear of the computer, I have significant connection issues. Much like every mouse Ive ever used, besides the G Pro wireless. In order to counteract this, all you need to do is move your USBs from behind all that hardware, to wherever the front USB is on your computer, if you dont have that or those are full, get a desktop USB stand and plug it into that. You would need to do this with 99% of wireless receivers on the market anyway. The range on the RK84 is about 20 feet to maintain perfect connection (i.e. every single key press will still be received). As for the ergonomics, if you havent tried either browns or blues, go with browns. If youve tried blues but not browns, go with the browns. If youve tried blues and reds but hated the linearness of the reds... go with browns. The blues are a little hollow sounding but are amazing to type on, however the sound that they make is enough to make you go insane if you have to write a 10 page paper like I have. The browns have enough bass to make you feel all funny inside, hitting the spacebar is like listening to the lowest voice in a barbershop quartet. Overall, this keyboard is amazing and if youre deciding between the RK60, RK68, RK71, and this one. Get this one. The battery life is so much longer that you will only have to charge it maybe once a week with moderate to heavy use.

This keeb doesnt sound or feel too bad from the factory. Throwing in new lubed and or filmed switches, nice keycaps, and good stabalizers brings this thing above the bar for its price. The only thing you can do otherwise is fix the hard mount, whichever way you decide to alleviate the harsh bottom out it will make this keyboard absolutely phenomenal. Ive tempest taped the PCB, foamed the case, threw in lubed/filmed oil kings, switched caps for Mistel DBS PBT, switched stabs for durock v2s, and did a custom gasket Mount. With all that done let me tell you, the work is definitely worth it. This keyboard punches WAY above when you mod it out.

(1/14/2022 Update): Im calling it quits on this board and going to a Keychron Q1. Off the bat, I want to make it clear that its entirely possible I just got dealt a really unlucky hand with the board that was delivered to me. So many others have positive experiences, and the RK Rep Cassie I spoke to and her team reach out to me directly to try and troubleshoot issues with my board. Even after I had already gotten a refund. They put a lot of effort in and that should be acknowledged. So as previously stated, initially I had issues with the board taking over a minute+ to connect to my computer in wired mode every time I booted my computer. Now after a number of back and forth emails and firmware sent via a google drive, it still checks for a wireless connect first but then switches to wired after about 2-3 seconds. Much better. Then it would search for a wireless connection after shut down. (A letter will be flashing). Not great but Im out of the room by then so didnt bother me too much. Still. This was after a LOT of back and forth emails. (Super pleasant ones mind you.) But yeah, I didnt get a keyboard to want to deal with its connection/software. When removing the keycaps, occasionally a switch will get pulled up with it. Thats fine. However after it happened with my 1 key, I found that the node itself had come close in one corner. So I was no longer getting a signal from my 1 key since it was no longer inserted. I opened the case, figured the solder had come loose and when I went to solder it (thats flux in the picture) noticed the entire copper contact place had actually come loose all together. I reattached it the best I knew how. Reassembled the board, only to find it still no longer worked. So yeah, Its been months and theres just way too much thats come up with a board that I no longer even intend to use so Im calling it quits. While I still have faith in Royal Kludge as a company. Partially because of Cassie and how much attention and effort she put in, I dont think Ill be revisiting their boards for the time. (However I do really dig the build. And if I did get another RK, Id probably steer away from anything wireless). I emailed them my ending thoughts and issues so hopefully it can be used to better improve their boards down the line since Id REALLY love to see them succeed and iron these out. I dont want dirt on their name if my board was just an unfortunately weak made one out of the hundreds of titans. Im only providing this update and leaving a neutral 3 stars so as a buyer, you could look out and get ahead of these issues if you experience them as well. Ideally, if the first amazon rep I spoke to hadnt been a complete poop show, I mightve just been open to replacing the board with anther RK84. But Im pretty dang happy with my Q1. So Id rather not have another board here going to waste. I wish RK the best! Hope Cassie and the others have a happy new year. And finally put a close to this chapter. (I got the RK84 with red switches. Running on a Desktop PC. Everything from the board to the USB cable is stock and in box. Unmoded. And was never opened up before the loose stem.) ----------The Original Review------------- So my board is having an issue where theres a long delay upon start up before my keyboard will connect with my PC and allow me to type. And upon shut down, the P key will flash continuously. (Presumably trying to pair) Im currently working with the Royal Kludge reps to resolve this. ---In the mean time, here are some issues Ive had and things Ive learned-- 1. So AceGadgets is a authorized distributor for Royal Kludge. So that answers whether or not I got a real board I presume. Peace of mind there for me. However 2. Not really a fan of Aces return policy. If I were to do it again, Id honestly probably purchase from Royal Kludges site directly. At least on their site, they appear to have a 30 day satisfaction guarantee. Ended up having to speak to 2 different amazon reps to process a refund for the bugged board I received. The first one is where all of my frustrations lie. Basically the rep tried to tell and force me to just eat the cost of the board that came bugged. That said, Royal Kludge reached out to me directly and have been putting in effort in trying to troubleshoot and resolve the issues of the connection delay and forced wireless searching(?) So its nice knowing the company actually cares.