Royal Kludge
RK61
Based on 255 Reddit mentions
$45.99
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Budget First Keyboard Recs (<100$)?
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)
...ArgentStonecutter in r/keyboards
January 9, 2026 8:29 AM
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60% keyboards with an option to not have arrow keys under the f layer
The way the RK61 does it is really awful. It overlays /? with the up arrow so you're turning it on and off all the time as you type ordinary text. I would recommend mod-tap arrows. The right hand modifiers (shift, etc) act as arrow keys when tapped and keep working as modifiers when held. I have a p
...ArgentStonecutter in r/keyboards
February 1, 2026 8:52 PM
3
The Anne pro 2
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
...ArgentStonecutter in r/keyboards
February 24, 2026 7:03 PM
3
Any plans for a K6 QMK?
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
...ArgentStonecutter in r/Keychron
May 2, 2026 1:45 PM
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please help a keyboard newbie to buy correctly
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
...ArgentStonecutter in r/keyboards
April 26, 2026 10:40 AM
2
Soooo how bad are royal kludge boards really?
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
...ArgentStonecutter in r/keyboards
April 1, 2026 11:57 PM
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Anyone else his keyboard won't work on ps5?
Had the same problem. With controller this game is not fun to play. Same mouse (Rog Strix carry) and keyboard (RK61) work fine with D4 and ffXIV. Definitely an Ubisoft problem.
rosen22 in r/anno
November 20, 2025 1:26 AM
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What's the best option? (HE or TMR for around 2k PHP budget)
Yep RK software is bad. I am currently using an RK61. Didn't know that Aula had software issues too on top of build quality. Thank you.
Skrenemy in r/PHMechanicalKeyboard
April 29, 2026 6:06 AM
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Can someone please help me me with my RK61 copy & paste issues.
had this exact problem with my rk61 when i was stationed at ramstein 😂 the ctrl keys on these budget boards just start failing after heavy use try remapping ctrl+c/ctrl+v to different key combos through the software, worked for me until i could get a better board. mine lasted like 6 months before th
...Impressive-Remove925 in r/keyboards
April 8, 2026 5:37 AM
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New silent 60% prebuilt or Silent Switches
I don't think that anybody has a 60% with silent switches prebuilt so you either have to get a new keyboard and silent switches or stick silent switches in your existing keyboard. Okay looking at the Amazon link, if that's the specific board it's the SK61 which uses optical switches which are kind o
...ArgentStonecutter in r/keyboards
December 17, 2025 6:24 AM
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