RK61

I know it's not a popular board, but I personally think the latest QMK-based RK61 is quite nice... but not with the stock layout. The standard RK61 layout is terrible. Awful. It's designed by someone on acid. BUT... If this is the QMK RK61 you can program it to use the right hand modifiers as arrow

It's a fairly old board, there's nothing particularly special about it other than the cool programming trick with the arrow keys. It's also soldered which is kind of something to avoid. It's mostly historically interesting. It was amazing when it came out but now any QMK board is almost certainly be

40%: Inland MK47 * ($35) 60%: Redragon K717 Alcor * ($33) CIDOO QK61 * ($60) Skyloong GK61 QMK/VIA * ($54) Royal Kludge RK61 QMK/VIA * ($40) Womier WK61 Pro * ($31) YMDK DK61 * (barebones, $88 wooden case, $38.50 bare PCB) KBDcraft Adam 60% * ($70 lego case) 65%: Womier VK66 Pro * ($39) Womier Q61 v2 * ($42)

If you feel up to installing new firmware or at least wiping the layout with a new JSON file, I've been using the Royal Kludge RK61 as a platform for firmware hacking. The stock layout is terrible but since the source code is posted it's easy to modify and with 16 layers in VIA there's plenty of roo

If you get the RK61, get the QMK version so you can fix the awful default layout, either using VIA (some ideas and instructions and layout.json files) or with custom firmware (link).

The only RK keyboard I would recommend is the wired RK61 and only with custom firmware. The stock firmware has awful layout. No keyboard comes with really good silent switches. You will need to swap them out anyway. For a wireless board, either the Nuphy Air60 v2 (the previous generation) with Gater

The Q4 is tray mount so won't have the loose switch issues. South facing, though. North-facing options: Skyloong GK61 QMK/VIA * ($54) Royal Kludge RK61 QMK/VIA * ($40) The GK61 is GH60-compatible (proof) and has a default layout with mod/tap arrows. The RK61 has a crappy default layout but this fixes

Get a QMK board so you don't get "helpful" keyboard software preventing you from changing "system" keys. Particularly for a 60% board because you can use mod-tap to create a virtual arrow cluster. Any QMK board has 1k polling. Faster than that doesn't really help. For a magnetic board the best optio

Can't disagree with this. These are both decent board options. The default layout on the GK61, with the mod-tap arrows, is better, but the GK61's gasket mount is a bit more premium. I don't think the prebuilt switch options are that much of a big deal, especially on a 60% board where a 70-pack of sw

LOL These are all Legacy boards so they use the terrible legacy Royal Kludge driver, so long as you don't care too much about key positions and the function layer and using the keyboard on anything but a Windows box, it's probably not an issue, but if you ever want to do anything interesting in the