RK918 Wired Mechanical Keyboard RGB Backlit Full Size 108 Keys Red Switch

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1. Rowan Zane Fortier Verified Buyer – 7 March 2024

   This is my first ever keyboard, and it’s really fun to type on. It feels smooth and buttery, in a way. It’s a bit clicky, but the clicks are oddly satisfying. The colour functionality is cool, and I like the handy shortcut to open calculator.
   Intuitively, I feel like the volume + and – buttons should be swapped, and there should also be a way to control monitor brightness.
   But other than that, this is a solid first keyboard that I really enjoy using.
   

2. Honest feedback from an honest guy Verified Buyer – 25 March 2024

   The Royal Kludge Keyboard (RK918) is undoubtedly one of the most striking RGB keyboards I’ve ever laid eyes on. I first spotted it in a product demo video on a particular social media video and was instantly smitten. Thankfully, the video creator included the product description, making it easy for me to snag one for myself. Although I experimented with other, pricier brands, the Royal Kludge Keyboard’s with their brown switches provided just the right balance of tactile feedback and noise for my tastes. I must admit that the attached photos show a significant change (hello gold keycaps!), but the combination of gold and RGB creates a stunning visual effect. While Linus claimed it was the ugliest keyboard he’d ever seen, I beg to differ. It’s a love-it-or-hate-it situation, and I’m definitely on the “love it” side. Royal Kludge Keyboards have a unique flair that sets them apart, and this one truly embodies the “RGB’s biggest fan” spirit. Swapping out the stock keycaps for gold ones was a once-in-a-decade kind of project for me. As in I hope I only have to do it once every decade! The keyboard cooperated beautifully. I even added some resin jeweled keycaps for extra uniqueness. It’s become one of the most exceptional keyboards I’ve ever owned, and it’s a joy to have. The vibrant RGB aesthetic and bright illumination make it stand out as a work of art. Admittedly, the button shortcuts for color changes can be confusing, but there are plenty of online tutorials to help with manual adjustments. I don’t use this keyboard daily, rather, saving it for gaming sessions when I need a full-sized option. I love it just the way it is and see no need to change anything. If I had to make a suggestion, I’d request the addition of a clicky feedback knob for system volume control. Nevertheless, the brown switches provide excellent feedback without being too loud. The cable’s length is generous, allowing for use up to 6 feet away, and the aluminum body exudes quality. Owning this keyboard is a genuine thrill to own and customize.

   

3. Yuniper Verified Buyer – 3 April 2024

   Just got this in today and I’m already in love. (forewarning the pink pudding key caps I ordered separately, only the basic white keys come with this key board) I got the brown tactile keys and they have just enough click to sound satisfying and relatively quiet. The lights work great, they have LOADS of different settings and are easy to adjust. Replacing the keys was also super easy with the included key remover tool (idk what it’s formally called lol) and putting them back on was even easier. it’s everything I wanted from a keyboard and over all 5 stars all around.

   

4. Sonia Valadez Verified Buyer – 19 May 2024

   Love love love , works just excellent so worth it , totally recommend it

   

5. Stefany Fernández Verified Buyer – 4 June 2024

   Los colores son muy bonitos y es cómodo. Puedes personalizar tus luces guiándote del manual. Excelente para ambientar tu setup. Es pesado y no se siente de mala calidad 👌

   

6. Jesus Calderon Verified Buyer – 11 July 2024

   I’ve had this for a few months and love it but wish it had a type c connector instead of a fixed cable, the rgb is nice and keys feel smooth and responsive

   

7. Brandon wood Verified Buyer – 6 August 2024

   Everything on the keyboard is great, except the plus key is jammed down somehow?? It’s like stuck in limp mode. Really sucks bc I don’t wanna go through the return process. So I’m stuck with it. But the keyboard is good only reason for the 3 star review is the limp plus key that hopefully doesn’t cause any issues while gaming.

   

8. Melissa Verified Buyer – 21 August 2024

   Me encanta como luce y además me gusta mucho que las teclas no sean excesivamente ruidosas!!
   

9. Somewhere in Canada Verified Buyer – 11 September 2024

   I just got my keyboard today and wow am i blown away. This board is beautiful, this is my first time building a pc and i’m so excited to try it out. Way more rgb settings than i expected!!! if you’re looking for aesthetic this is the one for you!

   

10. Jimit P. Verified Buyer – 9 October 2024

    This is such an amazing keyboard!!! I use it everyday at work and all my coworkers loveee it and some get a lil jealous heh. I bought this in pair with a mouse because I hated those old default ones. This is so refreshing to look at everyday and not be bored at work. So many different options and color setups. You can also even setup macros!! I just love it!

    

11. David Verified Buyer – 14 October 2024

    I love every bit about this keyboard, besides the fact that it doesn’t have a coiled cable. The sound, the feel, the rgb settings…👌🏻🔥 I love it so much I bought a 65% keyboard from RK!

    

12. StingyGamer Verified Buyer – 19 October 2024

    This keyboard is really pretty and the switches feel pretty similar to cherry reds but not exact. I love that the edge of the board also lights up. I swapped the keycaps out with a set of galaxy caps I bought a few years ago and it looks amazing, this keyboard came with a key puller so that made the swap easier. The white kepcaps that come with the keyboard are nice as well, I’m definitely keeping them in case I get tired of my galaxy caps. It’s pretty easy to adjust the rgb settings for the edge and key backdrop once I played around with them to get a feel for what I wanted, too. I like that you don’t need any software or have to set up any kind of account to adjust the rgbs, and you can adjust them as soon as you plug it in. *UPDATE* After a week using the keyboard, something I want to note is that some of the larger keys, specifically the left Shift and numpad Enter, can be a little tricky to press. They seem to get stuck at an angle and don’t want to press down properly unless I hit the very center of the key and go straight down. It can be annoying and I deducted a star from my original review because it does interrupt my typing on occasion. I also have smaller hands, so this may not be as much of a problem for folks that have larger hands with a longer finger span/reach. Other than that, I’m still really happy with this keyboard.

    

13. Willhslade Verified Buyer – 12 December 2024

    Great mechanical keyboard, the keys feel solid and sound clacky the way I enjoy but aren’t too loud to annoy the neighbours. The lights are customizable using certain function keys and you can customize the colour, the movements, and the lights in the base. The white is very sleek and classy and I’m enjoying using this keyboard very much. I use it for work, not gaming, and write a lot of emails. My typing accuracy has improved as my fingers don’t slip or accidentally hit more than one key unlike with my old flatter key keyboards.
    

14. Sawyer S. Verified Buyer – 22 December 2024

    This keyboard is well built! Feels strong and looks great!

    

15. Anonymous Verified Buyer – 10 January 2025

    This keyboard is excellent quality for the price! Was very impressed. Good heavy weight to it. I have the Blue switches, nice clicky sound that I love (reminds me of a typewriter). Keys feel comfortable against the fingertips. Great for being productive with programmable keys. The customization of the keyboard lights is an added plus, can change the colors to suit the mood of the day (like calm colors for work & fun bright colors for gaming). Great mechanical keyboard to start off with! Solid buy!

    

16. KLT Verified Buyer – 16 January 2025

    This review is for home office use only. My 1st rgb keyboard was membrane 2 years ago which wasn’t bad but when the letters on the keycaps started fading, after some research, I decided to try a mechanical brown switch rgb keyboard because they are the “baby” the blue and red switches made lol (not too loud or quiet). Those are nice switches too; however, having experienced both blue and brown, I decided to try red switches. I type fast and needed an inexpensive but quality board that could keep up w/o too much noise. I purchased both the white and black boards with red switches (switches aren’t hot swappable but keycaps are replaceable). The rgb is beautiful and bright on both boards. I replaced the keycaps with G.Skill crystal crown (both colors) and also bought a silver keycap set found on go-keyboard.com which intensifies the brightness of the rgb lights (see attached video) and creates a pretty quiet keystroke sound. I must say, imo, the red switches aren’t much, if any, quieter than the brown but the key response time is much faster so I can now type w/o skipping letters. After 4+ weeks, despite not being a hot-swappable board, I can say I’m very satisfied. I’m sure there are better/worse products on the market but for the available features, various rgb options and price, this one is great.

    

17. ghennah Verified Buyer – 22 January 2025

    I got the red switches, just because lol. It’s got a lot of patterns, it might get stuck a bit but if you flip between the different modes it’ll change. I bought this just to get cute keycaps. The lock keys all light up wight when activated that’s much appreciated. I’ve only down some test taps, but I’ll update after a few game plays.

    

18. Anonymous Verified Buyer – 4 February 2025

    I will start by saying I’m not a gamer, I only bought this for work because I really like clicky keyboards. Only got it a few days ago and I love it and have gotten used to typing on it very quickly. The interactive options are really cool and I find myself switching modes for the keys and side lights sometimes a couple times a day to just keep it fun. It is pretty bright and good for when I’m working in the dark (usually). We will see how long this will last but for the price I can’t complain at all!

    

19. Imnami Verified Buyer – 4 February 2025

    I was really excited about this keyboard, it has a lot of led light settings and it works great but my word it is loud/clunky when pressing the keys. It works great though.

    

20. James Teck Verified Buyer – 9 February 2025

    The product is great! 👌😁 Boxed and well packed 😊

    

21. Moazed Verified Buyer – 9 February 2025

    This whole thing is amazing
    

22. Kelly Verified Buyer – 1 March 2025

    just got this yesterday but omg i love it sm!! its such a good price has lots of colour options and sounds so satisfying

    

23. D. C. Fletcher Verified Buyer – 1 March 2025

    Bought one of these RK918 108keys clicky blue in 2019, still going strong. This new one is a linear red to replace a spouses corsair keyboard which had developed bad chatter.

    The build quality of this new RK918 keyboard is still excellent and going by my experience and that of many online; Chinese switches for whatever reason, regardless of brand; seem more consistent and reliable long term than German made Cherry switches. That pretty much means I will likely shun any of the big gamer brands for keyboards from now on.

    Cannot go wrong for the money. Only wish is it had a detachable lead, and would gladly pay an extra $10 for that Kludge.
    

24. Markings18 Verified Buyer – 3 March 2025

    It is a lil plasticky, but I mean it’s made out of plastic. Anyways, i loooove this keyboard. Wouldn’t change anything! Love the brown keys. L

    

25. strifesgirl05 Verified Buyer – 5 March 2025

    I get so many compliments on my keyboard at my work office. It clicks. It clacks. It lights up and inspires me to type more.

    

26. WillGeek Verified Buyer – 6 March 2025

    after getting a keyboard named logitech that was bad i got this new keyboard and its perfect the light is very good the material is good !

    

27. Calloway Franklin Verified Buyer – 8 March 2025

    Really good for the price, all the LEDs are super cool and it’s pretty easy to customize the lighting. The only Downside is the software to program the lights it’s pretty difficult to find for this exact model

    

28. S. D. Verified Buyer – 10 March 2025

    I use this keyboard for work and could not be happier with it. The brown switches make typing so much easier a massive difference from may old Logitech. My hands are much less tired after a long day. I originally purchased for the beauty of it but came away with far more benefits. I would definitely recommend to anyone that wants a led keyboard. So far no cons. It is my new favorite thing.

    

29. Mr. R Verified Buyer – 13 March 2025

    I don’t like that RK changes their line up yearly and I don’t like that they’ll charge $9 just to get the pop up leg replaced but then I realized something. We’re getting top tier performance, key swap compatibility, and legit options like brown, red and many of the cherry standards at an aggressive price.. This made me realize at the end of the day, we’re getting way more than what companies like Logitech have to offer for a fraction of the price without any real need for software bloat and BS. I’ve tried many different key caps and swap them with ease!

    

30. I Am Groot Verified Buyer – 14 March 2025

    The quality of the keyboard overall I’d definitely give it a 9/10 for the price and features. If you’re wondering what kind of sound the keyboard makes for the red switches it’s more of a clock clock sound (Not Glock Glock). For keyboard enthusiasts I’m going to assume a nice majority of people know what that means lmao. I think my favorite part about the keyboard is being able to not only swap them for different swappable keys but being able to customize the keyboard even further using macros. The customization allows you to assign keys to open programs for example, or even cerate key combination combos that may be useful for specific games (Perhaps very useful in mmo’s). I’ve assigned some of my keys to open up steam, opera, messaging apps, or even spotify. If you’re an RGB enthusiasts this is probably right up your alley. The only twos con I’d give it is the light brightness intensity and being hard wired, even at full blast I feel it could still be brighter. Then again, if you look at my images I have a combination of keys being used that have a translucent look through them and some keys are solid tops that don’t have any light going through them. Even then when I had them at stock they weren’t as bright. Still very noticeable but if you wan’t something that has huge buff to their lighting, this is probably an 8/10 for lighting intensity. As for being hard wired, I thought it was gonna be a keyboard that can be swapped for another swappable cable. I had to put my customized cable to the side unless I decide to open the keyboard up and just hard wire it up myself. Too lazy for that. I went from silver switches on one of their older model keyboards that I customized to this red swappable switch. Me personally I love the clock sounds and feel to the keyboard, it isn’t so annoying lol. Probably not as fast as silver switches but definitely still better than any stock switch you’ll see out there. When it comes to programming, I love it. When it comes to gaming I definitely love it for its versatility and responsiveness. Overall 9/10.

    

31. Wallify1123568kp Verified Buyer – 1 April 2025

    I purchased this keyboard to swap out for an Animal Crossing theme for my wife. The keycap swap was easy, and looks amazing. Where this one really shines though is in the typing experience. I love it. Just the right amount of tactile and weight. The keyboard itself doesn’t more around on the desk, and has an enjoyable sound signature. The only down side I have found to this board is the LED ring around it. You can turn it off, or down, it just seems like its a bit too much for my tastes. This is 100% personal preference though and has no impact on how the board functions. All in all I am pleased with this purchase.

    

32. Clark Hernandez Verified Buyer – 4 April 2025

    that’s what “white” looks after a month after purchase

    

33. Mae Verified Buyer – 12 April 2025

    This is my first mechanical keyboard and as someone that games a lot and works from home, it works so well for both. In the first picture you’ll see my new keycaps but it goes to show you that this keyboard looks amazing. I also love the fact that I can adjust the brightness if needed. I added a video of the different variations, but I highly recommend giving this a try. I also went with red switches.

    

34. Miyah Verified Buyer – 15 April 2025

    Was a little skeptical heard of bigger name brands but this one had great reviews and a little less . definitely great needed a good keyboard to work from home and im in love i will never look back . love how smooth it is love the clicky sounds as typing really great investment don’t second guess this one . Also, arrived earlier then expected

    

35. Tammy Verified Buyer – 15 April 2025

    I use it with my macbook pro, i needed to buy a dongle to connect it though because it didn’t have the type of port this keyboard had.