HK GAMING GK61 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard 60 Percent | 61 RGB Rainbow LED Backlit Programmable Keys | USB Wired | For Mac and Windows PC | Hotswap Gateron Optical Black Switches | Blue

It’s a wonderful hotswappable opto mechanical keyboard with Gateron yellows which are linear
I have added foam in the base and I gave lubed the switches with super lube and have put the custom Akko world tour Tokyo keycaps and the keyboard is amazing to type on and also for gaming. It’s a fast switch and buttery smooth after the mods.
It is great even at stock but better when modded

The price is also very reasonable. A couple of months ago it was around 14K like so many other 60% keyboards on Amazon India where sellers list prices of keyboards which costs $50-$200 as high as INR 15000- 45000 ( plz regulate the prices …. it’s daylight robbery )

I already had a few keyboard but none were really good and still more expensive than this one.
-Doesn’t take much space on my desktop
-Despite the limited amount of keys, it is very easy to understand and customize.
-Most satisfying feel I’ve ever had, each touch feels like pressing little marshmallows due to the very little effort required to press the keys. Excellent for gaming, especially in games where you need to press tons of keys.
-Super silent, I can game at night without making my family cry in despair

I never excepted it to be THIS good. In fact I can’t even find a single flaw.

Don’t fall for the “fastest keyboard in the world” scheme. You will not notice the difference between optical switches and mechanical switches. Although, it is hot swappable which makes it convenient for a beginner getting into the hobby of keyboards. I would personally go for the MZ60 instead as it is compatible with any mechanical switch, whereas this keyboard only supports gateron opticals.

I bought the Gateron Brown ones. The only objective negative I found its the keycaps and its stabilization. The ABS keycaps aren’t as sturdy as PBT ones and the keys wobbles a bit. Doesn’t affect its performance but does feel cheap. RGB is great. Arrow keys can be permanently switched on. Gap between keys is appreciated. Great for gaming and typing.

The subjective negative is that brown switches aren’t good at feedback. The bump you feel is very slight, plasticky, feels almost like annoying pothole on the road rather than a good bump. Compared to metallic ‘click’ from the blues, these feel nothing. My light fingers could only feel them while I typed slowly, not while gaming nor while typing fast. And its not “silent” you will hear the “clack” when the plastic keycap hits the plastic base when pressed hard, present in every keyboard, which does make loud noise. The only silence is there is no metallic click sound.

Product is amazing but unfortunately one of the key is broken not properly function. It’s would be great if the key was not broken and function properly.

Son loves it, especially as he can change light settings

Ok, let’s skim over the obvious things about this keyboard. Should you buy it in comparison to other boards? Yes. Does it come with a lot of cool features? Yes. Is it worth 90 CAD? Absolutely. How do the Gateron Optical switches fare in comparison to Cherry MX? Very similar and you won’t be able to tell the difference. Does it have voice-activated RGB? YES. Now, what are you waiting for empty your wallet already.

Es un buen teclado, es muy buena la relacin calidad-precio y es totalmente recomendable, es hotswappable pero al ser optico solo se puede cambiar a switches pticos que son un poco difciles de conseguir, tambin las keycaps no son las mejores pero son bastante aceptables y pues puedes comprar otras y cambiarlas, pero fuera de eso sigue siendo un buen teclado

PROS:

-El tamao lo hace portable, lo cual es conveniente.

-El tamao tambin deja ms espacio en el escritorio para usar a placer el mouse cuando juegas. Antes tena un teclado completo y a cada rato chocaba con el teclado sobre todo en FPS.

-Luces brillantes, los LED y el color blanco hacen resaltar los efectos y colores!!

-Montones de efectos de luz!!! y varios layers para poner efectos customizados.

-Compr el teclado con los switches BROWN, y es un placer super suave teclear en ellos, mucho mejor que sonido agudo de click de otros switches.

-El cable es de excelente calidad USB C, con cubierta tejida.

-Excelente para programar si te acostumbras a teclear con la distribucion en Ingls.

CONS:

-Es teclado en Ingls, si ests acostumbrado a un teclado en espaol entonces requieres configurar ste como teclado ingls internacional para poder poner acentos y la virgulilla arriba de la , de hecho estoy usando este teclado ahora mismo y apenas estoy haciendo memoria muscular en los dedos para sacar los caracteres en espaol. Pero vale la pena honestamente.

-El software de configuracin es bastante crptico, te toma algo de tiempo tratar de encontrar cmo funciona y dnde moverle para instalar nuevos efectos.

-No tiene pies de goma de los que se sacan para levantar la parte trasera, aunque no es tanto problema en realidad.

Al final le puse 5 estrellas porque el precio es un super deal comparado con lo que te d, y es un super placer teclear en este teclado y se v increble la verdad, es fcil ignorar los pocos contras.

Opte por cambiarme a este teclado por el espacio necesario para jugar, pase de tener un teclado Corsair K70 enorme a este de 60% y la verdad es la mejor inversin que he realizado, responde rpido, aumenta el espacio del escritorio, su ruido puede ser un poco fuerte para muchos, pero cuando ya estas jugando creme que no vas a notar nada, llevo ya usndolo por un par de meses y es la mejor compra que he realizado

Pros.
– Excelente material
– Muy buena sensacin al tacto
– Buena construccin y iluminacin del producto

Cons. (ninguna que afecte el producto)
– El software es un poco bsico y confuso
– Tardaras un poco en acostumbrarte al uso pero despus es una joya

This keyboard is hands down one of the BEST options for budget 60% keyboards. I have the blackboard with gateron brown switches and custom keycaps and it feels and types really good. The only downside would be the stabilizers on the spacebar which could be fixed by lubing them, however not bad for stock stabs. Very satisfied

Tengo un teclado con pad numerico y me ocupaba muchsimo espacio en el escritorio, asi que decid cambiarlo por uno 60% y no me arrepiento. Este teclado es una chulada.

-Rgb bastante luminoso
-Tamao perfecto
-Calidad / precio
-El click del switch azul es bastante satisfactorio

This keyboard is fast, small and has insane lighting. If you cant afford a ducky or other expensive keyboards you should buy this. Although you should buy a separate ley cap puller because the one it comes with is terrible. The key cap puller I use is the one that comes with razer keyboards.

Excelente teclado gaming, ideal para ocupar menos espacio cumple perfectamente su funcio

Want to try out your first mechanical keyboard?

This is the review you have been looking for!

I have recently switched from an Apple’s wired keyboard to my very first mechanical keyboard. Here is my experience.

General observations:
– Since my old keyboard was low profile and was a membrane keyboard, I needed a bit of practice to get used to the feel.
– This is more personal, but it is quite a bit noisier than a membrane keyboard. Even if I bought the Gateron red switches version, you can hear me type from across the house. (To fix this issue, I will be trying o-rings soon and update this review with some statistics.)
UPDATE! The o-rings helped reduce the noise from the keycap’s plastic hitting the switch. It won’t make a huge difference, but it’s better than nothing when using mechanical keyboards at night.
– Probably the best entry-level mechanical keyboard there is on the market.

Pros:
– This 60 % keyboard still has all the keys you might need on a normal full-size keyboard. You can access these keys using the fn key or lock them by pressing on fn + q/w/e/r. You will have access to the arrow keys, the f1 to f12 keys and the other 9 keys that no one ever uses (insert, delete, page-up, page-down, home, etc). You will NOT have a numpad, although I am pretty sure you can add one through their software. Using a Mac and/or worried about medias keys? You can install Karabiner, which is a software used to remap your keys! I personally switched the Windows key with the left Alt and set my function keys to allow me to change my volume and play or pause my videos using fn + f(something).
– The switches are hot-swappable. You can remove them and replace them with any Gateron switches! I have not tried with other brands (because I do not own any other switches), but the manufacturer said Kalih switches will not work on this keyboard.
– It has an IP rating of 64 for water resistance. That means it is protected from total dust ingress and water spray from any direction.
– The way they curved their keys increases my typing accuracy and comfort.
– Very little wobble on the keys and it will not impede your typing.
– The RGB looks great!
– Small, portable (you can unplug the cable), not too heavy and quite solid. I was not able to twist it.
– It won’t slide on your desk and you can reposition it easily too.

Cons:
– While gaming, the edge (facing my way) on the space bar hurts my thumb. I think a slightly curved edge would offer better ergonomics.
– There is a microphone somewhere under the spacebar for one of the lightning setting. I DO NOT know if it can be used for spying, but I would personally rather remove it. I will be attempting to disassemble the keyboard and check the PCB if it’s easily removeable or if desoldering is required. (I will update this review once it’s done!) THIS MICROPHONE IS NOT MEANT TO RECORD AUDIO. IT IS ONLY FOR THE LIGHTNING EFFECT.
UPDATE! The microphone is round and soldered to the board. You can either desolder it to remove it, but I do not know if it will break the keyboard or not. I don’t have a desoldering kit, so I cannot attempt that. Instead, I decided to cover it with hot glue. It probably won’t prevent my fbi friend from listening to me, but at least, the sound will be muffled. 😉
– When removing the keys using the keycaps puller tool provided, it scratches the glossy sides. Also, it will dent the base of the keycaps. I would personally suggest using a wire keycaps puller.
UPDATE! While installing my o-rings, I have used a wire keycaps puller (got it in the o-rings kit) and that did no damage whatsoever on the keycaps. This is definitely a must-have for anyone who would want to remove their keycap for any reason!
– There are barely noticeable dents under most of the keys. It is either because they have been already removed once using their plastic keycaps puller or because it was how these keycaps were manufactured.
– Many people have complained about their software saying that it has a poor interface and is a bit hard to use. I HAVE NOT tried it since it seems like it is not available on MacOS.

Should you buy it?
If you are looking for the best most affordable mechanical keyboard, you should definitely get this! It surpassed all my expectations. For that price, you cannot not get it.

Disclaimer
I have paid this product with my own money. I would never recommend something I would not buy myself. If you think this was useful, please upvote this so more people can see it! Thanks!

Want to try out your first mechanical keyboard?

This is the review you have been looking for!

I have recently switched from an Apple’s wired keyboard to my very first mechanical keyboard. Here is my experience.

General observations:
– Since my old keyboard was low profile and was a membrane keyboard, I needed a bit of practice to get used to the feel.
– This is more personal, but it is quite a bit noisier than a membrane keyboard. Even if I bought the Gateron red switches version, you can hear me type from across the house. (To fix this issue, I will be trying o-rings soon and update this review with some statistics.)
UPDATE! The o-rings helped reduce the noise from the keycap’s plastic hitting the switch. It won’t make a huge difference, but it’s better than nothing when using mechanical keyboards at night.
– Probably the best entry-level mechanical keyboard there is on the market.

Pros:
– This 60 % keyboard still has all the keys you might need on a normal full-size keyboard. You can access these keys using the fn key or lock them by pressing on fn + q/w/e/r. You will have access to the arrow keys, the f1 to f12 keys and the other 9 keys that no one ever uses (insert, delete, page-up, page-down, home, etc). You will NOT have a numpad, although I am pretty sure you can add one through their software. Using a Mac and/or worried about medias keys? You can install Karabiner, which is a software used to remap your keys! I personally switched the Windows key with the left Alt and set my function keys to allow me to change my volume and play or pause my videos using fn + f(something).
– The switches are hot-swappable. You can remove them and replace them with any Gateron switches! I have not tried with other brands (because I do not own any other switches), but the manufacturer said Kalih switches will not work on this keyboard.
– It has an IP rating of 64 for water resistance. That means it is protected from total dust ingress and water spray from any direction.
– The way they curved their keys increases my typing accuracy and comfort.
– Very little wobble on the keys and it will not impede your typing.
– The RGB looks great!
– Small, portable (you can unplug the cable), not too heavy and quite solid. I was not able to twist it.
– It won’t slide on your desk and you can reposition it easily too.

Cons:
– While gaming, the edge (facing my way) on the space bar hurts my thumb. I think a slightly curved edge would offer better ergonomics.
– There is a microphone somewhere under the spacebar for one of the lightning setting. I DO NOT know if it can be used for spying, but I would personally rather remove it. I will be attempting to disassemble the keyboard and check the PCB if it’s easily removeable or if desoldering is required. (I will update this review once it’s done!) THIS MICROPHONE IS NOT MEANT TO RECORD AUDIO. IT IS ONLY FOR THE LIGHTNING EFFECT.
UPDATE! The microphone is round and soldered to the board. You can either desolder it to remove it, but I do not know if it will break the keyboard or not. I don’t have a desoldering kit, so I cannot attempt that. Instead, I decided to cover it with hot glue. It probably won’t prevent my fbi friend from listening to me, but at least, the sound will be muffled. 😉
– When removing the keys using the keycaps puller tool provided, it scratches the glossy sides. Also, it will dent the base of the keycaps. I would personally suggest using a wire keycaps puller.
UPDATE! While installing my o-rings, I have used a wire keycaps puller (got it in the o-rings kit) and that did no damage whatsoever on the keycaps. This is definitely a must-have for anyone who would want to remove their keycap for any reason!
– There are barely noticeable dents under most of the keys. It is either because they have been already removed once using their plastic keycaps puller or because it was how these keycaps were manufactured.
– Many people have complained about their software saying that it has a poor interface and is a bit hard to use. I HAVE NOT tried it since it seems like it is not available on MacOS.

Should you buy it?
If you are looking for the best most affordable mechanical keyboard, you should definitely get this! It surpassed all my expectations. For that price, you cannot not get it.

Disclaimer
I have paid this product with my own money. I would never recommend something I would not buy myself. If you think this was useful, please upvote this so more people can see it! Thanks!

Thought I put a quick review. I’m coming from an old Corsair K70 mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX brown switches. Thought I would get a much more compact keyboard for the desk and for gaming. Overall impressions is good. The keyboard case is single piece of plastic which is mostly matte with some gloss highlights around. The plastic case is decently thick so that in tandem with the steel backplate, the entire thing feels really solid and does not creak or flex under reasonable torque. There are no adjustable feet on the keyboard, just 4 large rubber feet. The keyboard is connected via a usb-c cable which is nicely braided so it has a nice look to it. Braided cables has heaps of “memory” to it so it’s fairly stiff, but given its going to be connected to your keyboard, which doesn’t move, I have no complaints.

The keycaps have a matte finish on the top, with gloss-finish on all sides. This is very different to the keys on my K70 which was all-gloss. The matte finish is definitely a winner because it doesn’t show fingerprints readily. The gloss-sides however show off grime, dirt, scratches and dust easily. You have to be carefully when removing the keys on this board with the included the keycap puller because it will scratch up the gloss-sides of the keys! The Shine through legends are decent and allow the backlight to shine through. The font is a bit “gamery” but not as bad as some others and I soon got over it quickly. However, the thing you WONT get over will be the white-printed secondary legends on the keycaps. You’ll notice that this keyboard has its F-keys, arrow keys and other functions (num-lock, scroll lock etc) as secondary functions. These can be quickly accessed by holding “Fn” in the bottom right and pressing the relevant key. The problem is that these legends are not durable. The appearance of the printing is great; It’s nice and crisp. But it fades incredibly easily. I’ve only used the keyboard for a few weeks and the printed legends on the A-Z part of the keyboard has this dull stained look. So far the legends haven’t started peeling, but the white print stains easily. For some it might not be a problem because you’ll hopefully remember the location of all the keys by them. But is definitely something for the manufacturer to improve upon on the next iteration.

The RGB lighting is cool. All the colours under the rainbow, except for white. The white colour looks more like a light blue. Odd, but definitely not a deal-breaker.

The Gateron Optical Brown switches feel pretty marvelous. They are very smooth, with a tactile bump much more pronounced that the K70’s cherry mx brown. The downward travel is also smoother, with noticeably less “grit/sandy” friction feeling. This makes the key travel feel much shorter. I’m not sure if its true, but these optical brown switches feel like they have a much shorter travel distance than the mx browns. I got used to it, and am not sure if I prefer it. For typing, i feel like I want a little bit more travel distance for comfort. It feels abrupt as I’m bottoming them out. Perhaps I need more time. The only other thing is noise. It doesn’t have a loud click, but you will definitely hear them thud everytime you poke them the full distance down. I found it to be louder than my K70.

Lastly, it has no wrist rest. This is the one thing that I missed from the k70. I’m definitely a wrist-rest user. The K70 has an included plastic detachable wrist rest. Although nothing special, it allows me to be a bit “lazy” when playing games on an extended session as I can rest my fingers on the wasd keys and that’s all. Without the wrist rest, I certainly felt the strain of holding my hands up on the wasd keys. What I 100% missed is the “detachable” aspect of the K70’s wrist rest. If you move your keyboard, the wrist-rest moves with it. Unless you glue your wrist rest to your GK71, every adjustment of the keyboard will require a follow up adjustment to the accompany wrist rest which gets very frustrating.

Otherwise that’s it. If you are wondering if you should buy this keyboard for $80AUD, then go ahead. There’s definitely worse that you could buy. The only problem is the cheap secondary legends printing on the keycaps.

Durante un par de das estuve buscando un teclado que fuera demasiado pequeo, opt por uno de una sola mano. Pero por error encontr este teclado. Le sus caracteristicas, me fascinaron completamente el echo de tener switches opticos. Anteriormente usaba un Razer BlackWidow. El cambio a este teclado fue simplemente extraordinario. La velocidad de respuesta es bastante buena, hasta el momento no me ha fallado en lo absoluto. Estoy tan satisfecho de este teclado y su funcionamiento que prximamente volver a comprar otro. En cuanto al material que esta realizado, esta bastante bien echo y no parece ser de un material simple, El RGB es bastante bueno los LEDs los trae en la placa base, no en la superficie. Es un detalle que le quitara ese 0.1% de recomendacin. Pero en cuanto a calidad y el precio en el que es vendido. Para mi este teclado ha pasado a ser el base para juegos competitivos, principalmente FPS. Recomendado al 99%. En cuanto al software, haba ledo que era bastante malo. Pero en cuanto lo he descargado yo, tiene una interfaz muy amigable y simple. Y solo sirve para lo que es, macros e iluminacin. En si el teclado podra decirse que es “Plug and Play”. Para encontrar el software solo hay que escribir en el buscador “jikedingzhi”, ser la primera opcin que aparezca. Est en chino la pgina, pero tampoco es muy difcil de entenderla. Solo basta con poner el cursor encima de cada pestaa sin dar clic y leer a donde nos redirecciona. As hasta encontrar el de “Descargas” donde estar el software.

Honestly a very good deal. The optical switches are very quick, comparable to my logitech g pro keyboard after doing some reaction tests.

Typing is smooth, the entire thing feels sturdy. I swapped the keycaps with Razer PBT keycaps.

This 60% board is great! I would take points away for the software it uses but after spending a few minutes online looking around for an older version of the software (which happens to be the better one) I just set up my board how I wanted it to run using the onboard settings and it’s been great.

I’ve purchases 2 of these so far with red opticals, and I’ll likely end up buying 2 more of these boards simply because the cost is so low and it comes set up out of the box. The initial build quality is great and while the keys may be a bit clacky they’re still much quieter and smoother than any other stock keyboard I own. I ended up buying a set of PBT oem caps with this and I have some SA caps on order, but even with just the oem caps I was blown away by how fast and responsive this board was.

As for modding, I purchases several sets of additional switches out of the available linears (yellow & silver) and currently I’m using the silver ones with PBT oem caps after having spent the time to lube the switches. The feel and sound of this board with the listed changes is amazing!

I have yet to start using the yellows since I’m waiting on a few parts to mod the hell out of my second board but I already know it’s going to be easy to do and I’m expecting the outcome to be AMAZING.

The best keyboard you can get for the price, I installed a wood case, and you can upgrade the switches any time.

The keyboard overall is great, its sturdy. The model i have does have optical switches, which are different than the traditional mechanical switches so keep that in mind if you’re looking to try a bunch of different switches; optical switches are quite tricky to source in canada and there are only a few varieties. I’ve swapped the keycaps on mine but the stock ones are also quite nice. I’m only giving it 4 stars because the product is great, but if you want to customize the lighting and create macros, the software is pretty much required. The software for one is very hard to find, it took some digging. It is also quite difficult to use, and took a while of playing around to get the desired effect.

Best keyboard I have owned, too bad the black version wasn’t available at the time, I did however get a set of pudding keycaps in black and keyboard turned out amazing! Blue switches are super loud and clicky! Can barley hear the old lady complaining about me gaming! More clickity click to drown out the naggity nagg!

Works quite well for such an inexpensive keyboard. I like that it’s small enough that I can place it right overtop of my laptop’s original keyboard. It’s mildly annoying that the number and function keys are combined into one, same with the arrow keys, but it doesn’t ruin the experience. The RGB lighting is pretty good, though as others have mentioned the R|G|B LEDs under the keys are visibly separated a bit, which makes the transitions between colors not quite seamless. That’s a fairly minor aesthetic issue, though, it still does the job. Overall, for the size and price I paid, I’m quite happy with it.

Great value for what you’re getting. Brown switches are very accurate and have a satisfying click to the touch. RGB is very vibrant although when turned up to full brightness, the keyboard emits a faint high pitched noise. It’s not super loud, but noticable. The other downside is the software, not really well put together although you will get the hang of it with a bit of looking around it.

This keyboard is amazing for the price my first 60% keyboard and I really enjoy i

I am a B1G gamer and the keyboard is p100 for all the games I play. The Gateron Blue optical switches offer a great typing and gaming experience in my opinion. The RGB is a very nice bonus as well, it is smooth and I really like that you do not need software to cycle through the preset effects. My only 2 dislikes are very insignificant, but the RGB software because it is in some sort of Asian language, and on my keyboard the enter key doesn’t fully reset if I press the key then quickly press it again I don’t get the tactile bump or click from the switch but that is probably something I can fix easily later on (probably something to do with the stabilizer). Overall this keyboard has amazing value and can be easily compared to the competition. It has exceptional build quality, very good RGB and I really like that the keys are hot swappable so is one of the keys does break I can quickly replace it with a less used one. This keyboard would be perfect for someone who travels a lot and doesn’t want to dump $100+ into a 60% keyboard that can break. I will definitely recommend it to my friends. 9/10 keyboard

I customized my board with HyperX PBT keycaps and this is what the lighting looks like. This is such an amazing board for the given price point and in my opinion this is king of the budget 60% keyboards. The optical gateron brown switches are a bonus, better than cherry mx and quicker .. the only down side is that you can only use optical switches on this board.