Keychron V1 75 Wired Mechanical Keyboard QMK VIA Programmable Hot-swappable K Pro Brown Switches Compatible with Mac Windows

The media could not be loaded. 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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

I’ve never heard of Keychron before but I’m genuinely convinced that this is the best mechanical keyboard available for this price range. I mostly use it for gaming and everything about this keyboard is great! You can feel the quality from the packaging and the materials of the keyboard. It looks really good, has a good RGB lighting with a lot of presets. It is compact and I love the size of it. I got the brown switch one as it is said to be quieter than the red switch. The default switches and keys it comes with are super responsive, it has the click to it but doesn’t require much force. Overall, I’m super impressed. Read more