TECKNET Gaming Keyboard, USB Wired Computer Keyboard, 15-Zone RGB Illumination, IP32 Water Resistance, 25 Anti-ghosting Keys, All-Metal Panel (Whisper Quiet Gaming Switch)

This compact mechanical gaming keyboard offers a great balance of functionality and affordability. With a full-size layout, it provides essential keys while saving desk space. The RGB backlighting is vibrant and customizable, enhancing the gaming experience. The mechanical switches deliver a responsive and tactile feel, making it suitable for both gaming and typing. While it may lack premium software customization, it’s a great value-for-money option for gamers looking for reliability and performance.

Nice keyboard layout, easy to use and good quality. My only gripe is you have to reset your chosen keyboard colour every time you turn it on. Minor I know but irritating.

This keyboard is completely perfect and what you are expecting. The quality is great and I love how the keys are super quiet. I also like how the frame is metalic which gives it a great look and feel. The brightness is great and the RGB is cool. It is super easy to setup and get used to. The lights are super easy to adjust and to customize. Great product.

I love this mechanical keyboard! The brushed metal finish is gorgeous, not only does it look good with the LEDs off, but when the LEDs are on the metal really accentuates the lighting. The light-modes themselves are all pretty good, with their being about a dozen or so in all. The usual ones such as breathing, solid on, off, and various patterns. Each row of keys can light up independently of each other. While it doesn’t have individual keys that are able to light up independently like my last Tecknet keyboard, the lighting effect is significantly nicer due to the combination of LEDs and brushed metal.

I wanted a keyboard that doesn’t have a number pad, which means that I can have the keys perfectly centred with my body and the monitor. It’s just good ergonomics. I am a programmer, so as you can imagine having a good keyboard (and ergonomics) is a necessity for this line of work. While I don’t have repetitive strain injury (RSI), many of my friends and colleagues have it. And so I’ve been making an effort to proactively avoid developing RSI as best as I can. I try to make my typing experience the best possible. One thing I do know is that mechanical keyboards are good for ergonomics because of how comfortable they are to type on.

Typing on this keyboard feels really good, and I am not sure how to describe it, but it’s got a certain sense of satisfaction that you don’t get with other types of keyboards (such as the membrane keyboards you get on laptops) due to the tactile nature of the switches. Some people say that popping bubble wrap is really satisfying, and whenever I type on this keyboard or my other mechanical keyboard, the closest thing I can think of to describe the sensation of typing on a mechanical keybord is that it is something akin to the satisfaction of popping bubble wrap.

Although some may disagree, I love the ‘clickyness’ of the blue switches in this keyboard. My other keyboard had brown switches, and I was a little worried that perhaps the blue would be too clicky for me, but now that I’ve been using it I find that I am enjoying it. It feels different, but in a good way. Although I do understand switch preference is a highly subjective thing so best to do your own research. While discussing the switches I should also note that this keyboard also has anti-ghosting technology that I will no doubt find useful since I like to play video games from time to time.

It has a keycap puller conveniently located on the bottom. I’ve already made good use of this, when I decided to clean my old mechanical keyboard, and couldn’t find it’s keycap puller but remembered my new one had one. I like that it’s built into the keyboard because that will solve the problem I had with my old keyboard where I put the keycap puller in a safe place, that ended up being too safe (I can’t remember where it is).

Some expensive brands of Mechanical Keyboard require you to sign into an online service before you can access the keyboard’s drivers (which leads to the comical situation where you need to go online to configure your own hardware such as turning keyboard LEDs!). Technet blows those expensive keyboards out of the water by doing the same thing much better. With this keyboard all the LED settings are tweakable through the hardware itself using physical buttons on the device. I like that this keyboard is plug and play. I can move it from my desktop to my laptop very easily. When this keyboard is plugged in windows will just automatically find the needed drivers, and the LED settings are always available through the hardware.

If there are any downsides to this keyboard I’ve not encountered them yet. The lack of numpad is (for me at least) more of a benefit since I’d rather use an external one that I can then position to my left (which to me feels like the most sensible place for a numpad). But I can imagine for some it might be an issue. It would have been nice if each individual key could be lit independently, but for me that is a luxury rather than a necessity but I could see that some individuals may see it as a drawback. The clickyness of blue switches are all down to personal preference.

It has so many upsides, such as being plug and play, configuration of the LEDs accessible through the hardware, built in keycap puller, absolutely gorgeous brushed metal finish, braided cable, anti-ghosting technology, not to mention how downright pretty it looks like when its all lit up.

All in all, I am delighted with this Tecknet Mechanical Keyboard. I think it goes toe to toe with some much more expensive keyboards while being much more reasonably priced (and without sacrificing any quality).

I have bought from TechNet in the past, they seem to know what they’re doing and do so at a low price, which is why I chose this keyboard over a slightly less expensive alternative.
It sounds amazing. That’s pretty much the only reason you’d buy a mechanical keyboard isn’t it? The feel is good, it is easily much much better than a rubber dome keyboard. I can game with it happily, though I hasten to add if you are buying it to game, your friends are going to either love or hate you, because it is very noisy and to some thats a nice thing, to some its not so nice.
Its back lights are… functional. I wouldn’t say they are pretty, if I’m entirely honest they look rather ugly, but they can be disabled. They are useful for night time typing though, which personally I do a lot, and even if they are ugly, when you do a lot of typing, you will find you only need to look at it to orient yourself, then you don’t have to look again.
Lights aside, the design is very nice, the brushed metal under the key caps is very pleasing to the eye, however, it does look small, and the reason for that brings me into my next point…
There is (as you can probably tell) no number pad. This isn’t too much of a problem, but I have found in a lot of games I’ve had to rebind my shortcuts to ‘pgup’ and ‘pgdn’ to make up for it. Also, inputting numbers is much easier with a number pad in my opinion, but at the end of the day I wouldn’t say that it not being there makes this purchase worthless, it just mildly irritates me whenever I need to put numbers in.
Its macro keys (the ones that launch things like the calculator or turn the volume up) are convenient, though I do not use them very often.
All in all, a decent keyboard that is well built. I would recommend it for someone on a budget that wants a premium feeling keyboard.

This keyboard is perfect for gaming and everyday use! The RGB lighting looks amazing, and the keys feel smooth and responsive. I love that it’s water-resistant and has anti-ghosting, making gaming even better. Definitely a solid buy if you want a budget-friendly but high-quality gaming keyboard!

Mainly, this seems to be a great little keyboard.. Good tactile feedback, interesting backlighting (probably not the colours I’d have chosen, but hey, I’ll go with it.. It’s cheap and feels VERY solid for the price).

The first of the quirks is the font that they’ve chosen for the keys. I suspect this is to try and make it feel more ‘Gamerish’, but on some of the numbers, it makes them a little bit difficult to read. So if you’re someone who needs to look at a key to press it, some of the keys may have you a little flummoxed. Q, O, B, 6, 8, 9 and 0 especially, which look quite like some strange sigils..

The big “What?” moment is the way they’ve decided to set the key markers up though. For all the number keys, instead of the symbol being above the regular keypress and smaller, it’s directly to the right of the actual key, and exactly the same size. Odd, doesn’t help legibility, but we’ll go with it.
The ‘gotcha’ moment is with the Semicolon key. This has the colon to the left, making you expect a colon. Nope, pressing that key gives you the semicolon (which is the correct UK keymap, which the keyboard otherwise adheres to). So, you’d expect the next pairing (left side is single quote, right hand is @) to produce an @ when pressed. Nope. It gives the single quote as expected. The Hash and Tilde keys are similarly correct for a standard UK keymap.

Interestingly, as soon as you get back to the period, comma, bracket, brace and chevron keys ( ,.[]{} and respectively) that strange “Right hand side is correct, left hand is shifted” behaviour comes out again.
If you are a “Look to press” typist, this will drive you absolutely insane.

Then there’s the key below escape. Those of you who also code/use Linux/UNIX know this is where you find the pipe key and backtick. Both essentials.
So, pressing it natually gives you the backtick as expected. Shift pressing it gives you.. No, not the pipe.. The other strange symbol that nobody ever seems to use.
To get ‘Pipe’ (normally shift + backtick), you now have to use Alt+backtick.

So, strange behaviour on some of the keys, plus outright getting it dead wrong on the ordering on the keycaps and NOT being consistent in how they actually work.. Can’t say I recommend the keyboard overall, even to gamers, as inevitably, they’ll need to use the correct keypresses.. So unless you’re a touch typist who never looks at the keys.. Try a different keyboard alas.