TECKNET RGB Gaming Keyboard, 105 Keys, All-Metal Panel, 15-Zone RGB Illumination, Silent Keyboard with Wrist Rest, 25 Anti-ghosting Keys, IP32 Water Resistance, USB Wired…

I’ve tried so many inexpensive keyboards. My problem is that they always get good reviews and they look great online through the pictures, but then they end up being cheap plastic in person. This keyboard is amazing. I was looking for a keyboard that is good with the hotkey commands like CTRL + C, and CTRL + V. I copy paste very fast and I need the keyboard to register my commands quickly without mistakes. This keyboard does all of that. The raised keys have a nice feeling and the keys are very quiet, which works for me. The keys feel a little bit tactile but with a membrane feel, because of membrane. The spacing between the keys make it easy to type without looking down so much and the RBG is adjustable. You can switch off the RGB lights, change the light pattern/breathing, and/or pick your favorite light color. The wrist rest is metal. The keyboard housing is metal. The keys are not metal. This is a nice, inexpensive keyboard that works well.

I just got this for $20 since there was a $10 coupon, I wasn’t expecting the keyboard to be such good quality for the price and extremely customizable! Best bang for the buck!

I love this mechanical keyboard! The brushed metal finish is gorgeous, not only does it look good with the LEDs off, but when the LEDs are on the metal really accentuates the lighting. The light-modes themselves are all pretty good, with their being about a dozen or so in all. The usual ones such as breathing, solid on, off, and various patterns. Each row of keys can light up independently of each other. While it doesn’t have individual keys that are able to light up independently like my last Tecknet keyboard, the lighting effect is significantly nicer due to the combination of LEDs and brushed metal.

I wanted a keyboard that doesn’t have a number pad, which means that I can have the keys perfectly centred with my body and the monitor. It’s just good ergonomics. I am a programmer, so as you can imagine having a good keyboard (and ergonomics) is a necessity for this line of work. While I don’t have repetitive strain injury (RSI), many of my friends and colleagues have it. And so I’ve been making an effort to proactively avoid developing RSI as best as I can. I try to make my typing experience the best possible. One thing I do know is that mechanical keyboards are good for ergonomics because of how comfortable they are to type on.

Typing on this keyboard feels really good, and I am not sure how to describe it, but it’s got a certain sense of satisfaction that you don’t get with other types of keyboards (such as the membrane keyboards you get on laptops) due to the tactile nature of the switches. Some people say that popping bubble wrap is really satisfying, and whenever I type on this keyboard or my other mechanical keyboard, the closest thing I can think of to describe the sensation of typing on a mechanical keybord is that it is something akin to the satisfaction of popping bubble wrap.

Although some may disagree, I love the ‘clickyness’ of the blue switches in this keyboard. My other keyboard had brown switches, and I was a little worried that perhaps the blue would be too clicky for me, but now that I’ve been using it I find that I am enjoying it. It feels different, but in a good way. Although I do understand switch preference is a highly subjective thing so best to do your own research. While discussing the switches I should also note that this keyboard also has anti-ghosting technology that I will no doubt find useful since I like to play video games from time to time.

It has a keycap puller conveniently located on the bottom. I’ve already made good use of this, when I decided to clean my old mechanical keyboard, and couldn’t find it’s keycap puller but remembered my new one had one. I like that it’s built into the keyboard because that will solve the problem I had with my old keyboard where I put the keycap puller in a safe place, that ended up being too safe (I can’t remember where it is).

Some expensive brands of Mechanical Keyboard require you to sign into an online service before you can access the keyboard’s drivers (which leads to the comical situation where you need to go online to configure your own hardware such as turning keyboard LEDs!). Technet blows those expensive keyboards out of the water by doing the same thing much better. With this keyboard all the LED settings are tweakable through the hardware itself using physical buttons on the device. I like that this keyboard is plug and play. I can move it from my desktop to my laptop very easily. When this keyboard is plugged in windows will just automatically find the needed drivers, and the LED settings are always available through the hardware.

If there are any downsides to this keyboard I’ve not encountered them yet. The lack of numpad is (for me at least) more of a benefit since I’d rather use an external one that I can then position to my left (which to me feels like the most sensible place for a numpad). But I can imagine for some it might be an issue. It would have been nice if each individual key could be lit independently, but for me that is a luxury rather than a necessity but I could see that some individuals may see it as a drawback. The clickyness of blue switches are all down to personal preference.

It has so many upsides, such as being plug and play, configuration of the LEDs accessible through the hardware, built in keycap puller, absolutely gorgeous brushed metal finish, braided cable, anti-ghosting technology, not to mention how downright pretty it looks like when its all lit up.

All in all, I am delighted with this Tecknet Mechanical Keyboard. I think it goes toe to toe with some much more expensive keyboards while being much more reasonably priced (and without sacrificing any quality).

The shipping was fast. The keyboard is gorgeous!