V1 75% Wired Mechanical Keyboard, QMK/VIA Programmable, Hot-swappable K Pro Brown Switches, Compatible with Mac Windows Linux - Carbon Black

I'm learning touch typing at old age. I was looking for good keyboard with longer key travel, but did not expect this level of quality. Everything is pretty much perfect. Beautiful to look at, good key action (brown switch) with some light tactile feel, nice sound of the keys (creamy = muffled, deeper). The keys have no wobble, while shape of the key makes easier to detect the edge (to avoid other keys). Upper rows are sloped up and bottom has feet at the end. Keyboard is quite heavy and very stable. I appreciate ability to switch between Mac and Windows and extra key tops for it. USB-C cable is of high quality. It comes with tools to pull the key tops or keys. Even the box it came in is nice (I'm going to save it). In spite of my poor typing skills I've worked with many computer keyboards (starting with IBM), but this keyboard is the finest by far. Highly recommended.

This is the best keyboard I've had to date, and I like the tacticile feedback and mechanical feel of this one. The lighting effects are cool to look at, though I don't notice it much when really typing. I will say that if you are a super heavy typer (like me), get some more durable keys that won't wear down quite as fast. The spacebar will start to get smooth for example, and you can get some higher quality keys which are incredibly easy to pop on and off. I do write a lot more than most people, so I'm hard on keys. Most of the people reading this won't need new keys, but a select few of you might know what I mean. Just get the more durable, thicker keys, and you're off and running. Great keyboard, and worth it. I did this one for my Mac, by the way, and it works great.

I test-drove 10 keyboards to use at home with a Mac setup, plugged into an external monitor. Ultimately, Keychron was the best for me overall. I landed on this V1 for home and the V5 (same exact layout, but with added number pad) for the office. CRITERIA: One of the most important things to me was that the arrow keys had space around them, because I use the all the time, by feel. Many keyboards have these shoved within all the other keys, and no difference. I originally thought I wanted a 75% keyboard, which had the most options for offset arrow keys. I also wanted a delete key in the upper right, because I use that all the time. Again, without looking. WHY THIS ONE: This layout was the best of all worlds for me. It has offset arrow-keys (just enough to separate.) It has my enter and delete keys on the outer edges. It has a knob (a like to have, not MUST to have. Of all the keyboard brands I'd tried, Keychron was consistently high quality, without any bugs or issues. In my search, I'd also tried many different switches. I found BROWN were perfect for me. I wanted some tactile feel, but without extra "thock" or whatever the kids are calling it these days. I thought I might like blues, but found them to be too clicky -- meaning there was an extra, fake click, that felt like clipping a playing card in your bike spokes to sound like a motorcycle. Brown feels right. Feels old school. Feels solid and is not too noisy. I thought I might like the Keychron K8 or K8 Pro. I didn't like the bezel around these. It created an extra lip that my fingers had to go up and over. I like how the V-series has no bezel. They're very comfortable. As mentioned, I also ended up buying a V5 for work. Keychron also won-out because they have Mac keys. Lastly - I was originally hung up on wireless, but here's the thing. I work a hybrid situation. 2 days at home, 3 in the office. I never trust that my keyboard is fully charged, so I leave it plugged in all the time any way. Plus, even if I went wireless, I didn't want it failing in the middle of work, and having to dig out a cable, and find an empty USB slot. I found it easier to just admit to myself, I need wired, and will have to deal with that cable on my desk at all times.

I am impressed how nice this keyboard is for the pice. It's heavy and seems like a nice build. I went with the red switches which feel easier to actuate than cherry mx switches for torpe switches. It's a great upgrade from some gaming mechanical keyboard I have been using for years.

Update to below: After following some suggestions online, I was able to make the spacebar sound considerably better and I think I will hold on to this keyboard even though I'm still a bit on the fence. (I stuffed the spacebar with some foam and sticky tack.) The overall feel is fantastic and the sound of the other keys is great, but the issues below are still a bit disappointing. If you do order this keyboard, I highly recommend trying out some others alongside it just to see which ones feels and sounds best to you. I wanted very badly to like this keyboard. I'm, even typing up my review on it right now just to give it one last chance to impress me. But sadly, I think how the space bar sounds is going to be the deal-breaker. For some reason, the space bar is considerably louder/"sharper" sounding than all the other keys. So every time I finish a word, it is loudly punctuated by the space bar. While I appreciate the space bar's enthusiasm in announcing to all present that I've finished typing a word, this is not something I want or need. I've seen some people saying elsewhere online that this is normal or that you need to fill the space bar with foam or something, but the other keyboard I've been trying out does not suffer from this issue, with the space bar sounding more or less like all the other keys. I don't think the new keyboard I was prepared to spend $100 on should need a piece of foam, but maybe some people regard this as a feature rather than a bug. I've now switched over to the other keyboard I recently ordered and I'm back to having a normal sound when I use the space bar. I was also surprised by and did not like was the fact that the characters on the stock key caps are not translucent to the RGB lighting underneath. Now, I'm not someone who usually wants the letters on my keyboard going crazy with a bunch of colors, but having characters illuminated for when I need visibility is a major selling point for me. Without character translucence the RGB actually makes everything harder to see. And I'm saying this as a touch typist who only occasionally looks at the actual keys. Now for the positive. The keyboard seems very solidly built and I absolutely love the feeling of the keys and the key presses. Even the shape of the keys is great and I love how my fingers feel on them. The sound of the keys other than the space bar is also top notch. The volume/mute knob is another nice touch that feels very solid/well made and gives the keyboard a little old-fashioned analog flair. I also like the coloring of the keyboard keys, since it provides some visual cues without being completely over the top; though honestly this isn't a huge plus for me. If it weren't for the issues listed above, I would definitely keep and use this keyboard whenever I didn't need a number pad. But as it stands, it's sadly going to go back to Amazon.

First off, let me say that I am a novelist, which means that I do a LOT of typing. Currently I'm working on an epic novel that is over 1.5 million words long. I mention this because my review of the Keychron V1 is based on its feel and functionality for TYPING, not gaming. Recently I found myself getting bored with typing on the keyboard I was using (a Qwerkywriter typewriter-style keyboard), so I started shopping around for a different one. Over the course of a month, I bought a dozen keyboards and ended up returning eight of them. Of the ones I kept (a Durgod Taurus 320 TKL with blue switches, a Royal Kludge limited edition with yellow switches, and a Steelseries membrane style keyboard), they were all terrific, but each had a tiny problem. Like "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," one keyboard was too hard, another too soft, etc. But then I got the Keychron V1 (with red switches) and was BLOWN AWAY--by everything: the packaging, the palpable quality, and most of all by the smooth, crisp, quiet and effortless typing experience. The Keychron V1 is just right, or GOLDILOCKS as I put it. Every day, I write for 8 to 12 hours, producing between 2,000 and 5,000 words a day (the equivalent of 8 and 20 typed pages), which translates to a LOT of typing, so I need a keyboard that is going to be a joy to type on (and won't tire out my fingers). The Keychron V1 is that keyboard. I'll definitely keep and use (from time to time) the other keyboards I mentioned--we all need some variety--but in the V1 I see a true workhorse. From the moment I pulled it out of the packaging and experienced its heft, its gravitas, I knew it was going to be my go-to keyboard, and the one that will carry me through to the finish line on my epic novel. The keyboard has a couple features that I won't have any use for (e.g., the RGB backlighting), so I won't speak to those. I have no idea how this will perform for gaming, but I CAN attest to its perfection as a typing keyboard. If you are someone who does a lot of TYPING (a writer or a coder), do yourself a favor and GET THIS KEYBOARD. At about $100 it's a bargain.

The Keychron V1 is the perfect keyboard for me. It is a great value for a robust, responsive mechanical keyboard that feels great to type on. The plastic housing is sturdy & has enough weight to stay in place well, without shifting around during typing. I nonetheless find it easier to move around as needed than its metal bigger sister, the Q1. The keyboard has a nice sound to it too, particularly with the red switch option. No metallic pinging here! Brightness of the RGB backlighting will depend on your keycap selection, and Keychron themselves offer many alternate keycaps you can choose for the keyboard. Replacing keycaps & switches is easy, especially with the included tool. Do note that the rear USB port is inset, so some lower profile USB-C cables may not sit in all the way. Overall, the V1 is a great choice if you want a highly customizable mechanical keyboard that already feels great out of the box & doesn't break the bank.

I used the apple magic keyboard for the past 2 years. I decided to get a mechanical keyboard and tried a couple keyboards from different brands with mac layout. Ultimately, I settled with this keychron keyboard. It feels and sounds great. I got the brown switches and the keys are easy to press and have a good tactile feedback. My fingers also really enjoy the shape of the keycaps and the separated arrow keys. I type faster and more accurate on this keyboard than the apple magic keyboard that I used for 2 years. It really looks and feels like a professional keyboard for serious work. I'm a software engineer and I've found it pleasant to code in this keyboard. When I'm the heat of coding, this keyboard keeps up with me. Highly recommended.