Wireless mechanical keyboard recommendations?

[M25Ops]

Personally, I'd be happy to go with the Logitech G915, but it's so god awful expensive for what you get. Same with the other big gaming brands (Logitech, Razer, SteelSeries, EVGA, etc).

 

I was looking at RK Royal Kludge and the RedDragon K556 Pro, but I thought they were way to cheap to be very good quality (anyone have their own stories to refute this?

 

I just want a decent wireless mechanical keyboard, and it just seems hard to find. If anyone has some recommendations based on the below criteria, I'd appreciate it:

 

1) Must have a numpad (96% or 100%+, sorry but I am way to used to it and I actually use it alot)

2) Must be backlit (doesn't need to have RGB, but I prefer red, I could adjust to other colors if needed)

3) I don't mind spending the money for a good one, as long as it's good quality (Big names like Logitech and Razer, you're paying for the name and gimmicks. What good is have rigidity if quality sucks and the cable stops charging the stupid thing)

4) If software is required to run it, it better be decent and not full of bloat (I'm looking at you Razer!)

 

If I'm wrong about the RK Royal and RedDragon brands, and they meet the above, I'm more than welcome to save money on them.

 

[WereCat]

There are plenty of mechanical keyboards that have BT for wireless you can use in a pinch (with latency) but I don't know any that are made to be used wirelessly all the time as it just makes no sense because then you need to plug them in to charge anyways and there is little to no reason to not have it just plugged in as you don't tend to move keyboard around like a mouse.

With all the requirements you have it's even more difficult.

[seon123]

The Keychron Q6 Pro comes to mind. Bluetooth wireless is always a bit hit or miss no matter the brand, as is as Keychron's customer support (might be worth getting from Amazon, in case you want to return it), and having lights on will always reduce the battery life quite substantially. For software, it supports VIA, so you don't need any software running, and you can configure the keyboard in the browser if you want.

https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q6-pro-qmk-via-wireless-custom-mechanical-keyboard

https://www.amazon.com/Keychron-Programmable-Double-Shot-Hot-Swappable-Switch-Grey/dp/B0C49KPRPL

 

Epomaker also has some options, although the wireless ones don't support VIA.

https://epomaker.com/collections/96-keyboards

 

1 hour ago, M25Ops said:

I was looking at RK Royal Kludge and the RedDragon K556 Pro, but I thought they were way to cheap to be very good quality (anyone have their own stories to refute this?

Different versions of keyboards like the Corsair K95, Razer Blackwidow, Steelseries Apex etc have always been similar in quality and features to $30 Redragon keyboards, so I don't see why it would be significantly different for their newer wireless equivalents. If you get them from Amazon or another store with a good return policy, you could just try them and return them if you're unhappy.

[GarlicDeliverySystem]

3 hours ago, M25Ops said:

1) Must have a numpad (96% or 100%+, sorry but I am way to used to it and I actually use it alot)

2) Must be backlit (doesn't need to have RGB, but I prefer red, I could adjust to other colors if needed)

3) I don't mind spending the money for a good one, as long as it's good quality (Big names like Logitech and Razer, you're paying for the name and gimmicks. What good is have rigidity if quality sucks and the cable stops charging the stupid thing)

4) If software is required to run it, it better be decent and not full of bloat (I'm looking at you Razer!)

For full-size keychron is still my safest go-to, so have a look at the K10 Pro, the V5 max (the V6 max doesn't exist yet, sadly) and the Q6 Pro and Max. The latter ones are pretty expensive, for that amount of money you can build pretty nice customs. The 100% is an issue though.

 

Now, most of these only have BT wireless, with only 90Hz polling rate. Not sure what this means for latency and how sensitive you are to this, but competitive FPS gamers might be picky here. The MAX versions have 2.4GHz in addition to BT, so they should have better latency afaik. However, I use wired peripherals for games and have no real experience with this kind of stuff.

 

However, as a compromise: would a e.g. TKL plus numpad be an option for you? Like these:

https://epomaker.com/products/cidoo-v87?_pos=12&_sid=32a750b94&_ss=r

https://epomaker.com/products/cidoo-v21?_pos=10&_sid=32a750b94&_ss=r

 

Using a dedicated numpad would allow you to expand the list of available keyboards quite a bit.

 

 

[M25Ops]

3 hours ago, GarlicDeliverySystem said:

For full-size keychron is still my safest go-to, so have a look at the K10 Pro, the V5 max (the V6 max doesn't exist yet, sadly) and the Q6 Pro and Max. The latter ones are pretty expensive, for that amount of money you can build pretty nice customs. The 100% is an issue though.

 

Now, most of these only have BT wireless, with only 90Hz polling rate. Not sure what this means for latency and how sensitive you are to this, but competitive FPS gamers might be picky here. The MAX versions have 2.4GHz in addition to BT, so they should have better latency afaik. However, I use wired peripherals for games and have no real experience with this kind of stuff.

 

However, as a compromise: would a e.g. TKL plus numpad be an option for you? Like these:

https://epomaker.com/products/cidoo-v87?_pos=12&_sid=32a750b94&_ss=r

https://epomaker.com/products/cidoo-v21?_pos=10&_sid=32a750b94&_ss=r

 

Using a dedicated numpad would allow you to expand the list of available keyboards quite a bit.

 

 

I looked at Keychron stuff, but I don't like that the default keyscaps aren't shine through. I should have been more specific.

 

But I'm guessing I could just go with the barebones kit and make my own...

 

Do you know any keycaps that shine through on their site? Doesn't seem to be a filter option for that.

[GarlicDeliverySystem]

My best guess are these two:

https://keychron.de/collections/all-keycaps/products/iso-abs-full-set-keycap-set

https://keychron.de/collections/all-keycaps/products/black-transparent-osa-full-set-keycap-set

 

The rest all appears to be non-transparent.

 

Other brand you could take a look at are Ducky and GMMK. The latter is somewhat overpriced for the stuff they sell, but they have a decent configurator and options last time I checked.

Regarding Ducky, I'd go with the One 3 as that finally has hotswap options. They also sell keycaps, so there might be shine-through ones as well.