YUNZII QL108 Typewriter Style Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Full Size Hot Swappable RGB Backlit Keyboards Metal Panel Retro Punk

So far I love this keyboard. I have been wanting a retro style typewriter keyboard and looked for hours online to find one that was silent (or was hot swappable to switch the keys). If you're looking for a clicky style keyboard with lots of light functions, you'll like this, however as others mentioned, the lights are installed to light up the wrong direction so the white light actually almost blinds you. Some of the individual keystroke RGB options are tolerable but I'll probably keep the lights off entirely. I swapped out the switches with the DUROCK Silent Linear switches in Daybreak color which exactly match the switches of this keyboard but are a silent linear switch and it was a super easy swap out. It is near dead silent and very smooth typing now I am shocked. I thought there was still going to be some residual typewriter clack sound so if you're looking for a quiet retro keyboard seriously give this consideration if you're willing to swap out the switches. Keyboard is super elegant looking and for the price, an amazing value. Time will determine if they key letters wear quickly, but overall it's a very smooth typing gorgeous keyboard (with my personal switch modifications). Read more

Having learned to type on my grandfather's 1930s-era manual typewriter, I am a huge fan of these retro-style keyboards. I have been using a Royal Kludge for a couple of years now and I think this Yunzii is compatible in almost every way. The keys are solid and have a great feel to them, making them easy to use. In particular they work well for gaming where you don't want a lot of errant input. For touch typing, the slightly longer throw reminds me of using a manual typewriter and requires me to use more effort than I am accustomed to using anymore. However, for gaming I love the fact that it does take just a fraction more effort to activate a key than your normal keyboard, keeping me from firing my rocket launcher inside my vehicle in GTA5 as I look everywhere but forward and the world map tries to pop up. The quality is good and the keyboard has a definite heft to it that should keep it from moving around under all but the most extreme of typing input. I can't make it move, but the weight and power of your typing may vary. The only place I give the advantage to my Royal Kludge keyboard is in letting the backlight through the keys. For the Yunzii, the keys don't allow the light through, which means in low-light conditions it can be hard to read if you are using bright backlighting. The keys themselves aren't that hard to read -- white on a dark background, but in lower-light conditions, if you prefer to have a brighter LED background, the keys can be overwhelmed. My Kludge, by comparison, lets the light shine through, so the higher you turn up the backlighting, the more gets through the keys. I haven't found this to be a huge problem, but it is something of which to be aware. Other than that, I love the looks, the solidity, the programmability (of which I will use only a fraction), and the key feel. I think at the price, it is a winner. Read more

Love the sound when typing. So many compliments. In fact was talk of the office! Read more

This is a PC keyboard with keycaps visually styled to resemble mechanical typewriter keys from 100 years ago. The keycaps are round and flat instead of the standard shells, the switches and keys are raised from the keyboard surface, and the switches are mechanical and make a loud clacking sound when pressed. This is advertised as a gaming keyboard and I used it with an MMO game and was impressed. The keys feel good to press and they are reliable - one press makes one loud click and registers one entry, which seems obvious but I didn't realize how bad my previous keyboard was until I started using this one. The round keys take some getting used to but it's not bad. I'm using the keyboard to type this review, I've only had the keyboard a few hours, and I feel 90% comfortable with the difference in typing experience versus a regular keyboard. The mechanical switches are loud enough to distract others who are in earshot however. This keyboard has many good qualities, it's built well, looks nice, works well, has some nice features and accessories, and can be custom configured via downloadable software or website. The problem involves the backlighting and the keycaps. The multi-colored, flashing lights on the switches look great, maybe good enough to use with holiday decorations, but they don't help when using a keyboard. There's also an option for solid white lights, but that leads to the worst problem with this keyboard. The keycaps are "shine-through", so lights in the switches underneath the keys are supposed to glow up through the caps, and illuminate each keycap so that the character on the keycap can be seen. But on this keyboard, the lights don't line up correctly with the keycaps, so when you look at the keyboard the characters can barely be seen, if at all. Turning on the lights on the keyboard actually makes the keys more difficult to read, not less. Almost all of my typing is done by touch but once in a while everyone needs to look down to get their bearings and not being able to read the keys is inconvenient. The best way to see the characters on this keyboard is to shine a dim light across the keys from one side, and I've been using a small portable lamp for this. Otherwise, the keyboard needs to be used in a very brightly lit room, and then the characters on the caps can only be seen faintly. The advertising for this keyboard is deceptive, especially the still pictures that show the characters glowing and readable. The videos that show the keyboard in use are more accurate, there's no glowing effect on the characters, but the lighting in the videos is all done from the side to help the faint characters show better. There were several ways this problem could have been avoided. They could have used keycaps with larger characters, they could have used keycaps with painted-on lettering instead of shine-through, the lights could have been positioned at the tops of the switches instead of at the bottoms. This product seems to be the result of miscommunication between design and build teams, or perhaps a flawed production run. I like the keyboard for gaming better than my old keyboard but I will replace it as soon as I get another mechanical keyboard and I can't recommend this one to other consumers. Read more