 Two years ago, Logitech released the G613, the first mass market, truly wireless gaming mechanical keyboard. And since then, China's been doing what China does best. Copying it. A lot. So we picked up most of the, what seemed like pretty good value, mechanical wireless keyboards off of Amazon, and we're gonna be taking them all for a test drive. This video is brought to you by the Corsair Vengeance 6182 gaming PC, featuring an AMD Ryzen 3000 series CPU, Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro memory, and much more. Check it out today at the link in the video description. 🎵Music🎵 You can tell G-Cord took some inspiration from Corsair for their packaging of the wireless mechanical keyboard, although Corsair usually uses a spell checker. Make sure you got 200 birds of hard disk space, okay? Packaging is not exceptional, but sufficient. I'd expect it to arrive in one piece, or two pieces, as it were. Remember, this is wireless, and it comes with its own 2.4 gigahertz dongle. It can also operate in wired mode, but I was a little disappointed to find that it uses a micro B connector. It does have a braided cable though. And it turns out it's got built-in RGB lighting effects. Everywhere else on the box, it just says mechanical keyboard. But if we look at package contents, it says wireless mecha membrane gaming keyboard. Usually, it's advertised as mechanical feel. I would describe the build quality as satisfactory for 60 bucks. Not a ton of deck flex though, especially considering it's a full 104 key size. The on-off switch is on the bottom. That's a bit of a drag. Whoever the OEM for this keyboard is, because maybe it's not G-Cord, provides the option with this chassis to have a wrist rest that clips on here, but clearly that was not included in the box. Initial impressions of the switches? Not great. I would describe the keycap stability as average at best. I'm happy to see double-shot keycaps at this price point though. That means that A, the light shines through, which is good, and B, that Legend, whatever you might think of the style of it, is never gonna wear off. Wait... These aren't RGB. They're just colored LEDs that are arranged from red to green to blue. All right, you guys got me. But if you were to tell me, hey look, this is like a $40 mechanical keyboard, and it's another 20 bucks, 25 bucks for wireless, even without RGB lighting, it still doesn't look like a terrible value, at least so far. Bring on our next contestant. My favorite thing about the GK89 right out of the box is that they just wear their inspiration from car brands right on their sleeve. Moto Speed! People like cars, right? Well, this is a keyboard that's like a car. This looks like it comes from the same damn factory. This is exactly the same keyboard, but with blue switches, isn't it? This is exactly the same keyboard! I totally called it, boys! This OEM has the option to include a wrist rest. You know one thing I didn't mention last time but should have? Yeah, they've both got a bit of an undesirable twanginess to them. I do prefer these switches though. They're a Timu as well, okay. Obviously the keycap stability is identical. The wrist rest meets expectations. Actually, no, it's not great, is it? I wish it was a little taller. At the price we paid, I actually quite like this. It's not trying to pretend that it's got a multicolored LED lighting scheme. At $70, it's a bit of a tougher sell, but still not terrible. Next, you shall use the GameSir. The GameSir? Please tell me it's called GameSir. Oh my god, I love that brand name! So this is using TTC mechanical switch. This is the GameSir GK300 1 millisecond wireless mechanical gaming keyboard. This one's got a big old battery in it. If the specs are anything to be believed, that's about... That's more than double the capacity of the first ones we looked at. This is a nice feature. It's got both 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth connectivity. So the backlight turns off in a minute and it'll go to sleep in 120 seconds. This is a tremendous gaming slogan. GameSir, gaming is winning. They've clearly never seen me game. And that is a pretty nice looking fully custom wrist rest, even if it's not especially well constructed. Kind of plonk the rubber feet on the bottom of the keyboard into these little grooves on it here. The power of gravity! Yeah, that's actually kind of ingenious. I like it. It doesn't hold on especially well, but... In actual use, I don't see that being a problem. Initial feel impressions are not bad. Reasonable deck flex. I'm a little bummed that the height's not adjustable, but I think I know what happened here. That has got to be where the battery is stored. Also, this is an underrated feature. Somewhere to put the freaking dongle when you're not using it. That is absolutely fantastic. That is a supple cord. A little short, but supple. So we're going to go into 2.4 GHz mode. It is backlit. I love that they've moved the on switch for the keyboard to the front. This is a big improvement and it's got some other creature comforts. So it's a different color depending on the mode. Blue for Bluetooth. Green for 2.4 GHz. And it blinks red if your battery is low. I'm not a huge fan of not having dedicated indicators for num lock and caps lock. This is a fairly feature-rich keyboard considering the price point is at 55, 65 bucks. The construction of this board doesn't have nearly the same resonance as those other two. I have never tried TTC switches before. So I think I like these better than the Atemu Blues for sure. Even the idea of this thing is pretty darn good for like some generic keyboard off of Amazon. Like it's got these nice rounded corners, super slim bezels on the chassis. So it doesn't take up an unnecessary amount of space on your desk. So right and left give us access to different effects, I think. These gaming ones are apparently for PUBG, Apex Legends and Fortnite. That'll age well when those games definitely stay super popular forever. This ticks a lot of boxes for me at this price point. At the same price, the Velocifier... Velocifier? Yep, the Velocifier VM02WS is gonna have to impress me a lot after my experience with the game, sir. A non-braided cable, but that does include hook and loop fastening. We're back to a more classic look with wider bezels and kind of a chunkier feel to it. But I don't necessarily think that that's a bad thing. We've got all the indicator LEDs that I could ask for. That USB type-C connector that I'm really pleased to see. Pretty basic bottom. I wish that these rubber bits were integrated a little bit better. You can see those would be really easy to lose, but at least they're there, I guess. And oh no, we're back to the bottom mounted on-off switch. Overall, it's got kind of a basic, corporatey look and even feels kind of like an office keyboard. This seems... Oh yeah, we well over a kilogram. Typists and programmers. These seem to be a brown clone of some sort. As expected, it is brown in color, so that seems to be what they're going for. Many of you will probably know this, but Cherry's patent on the original MX switch design expired a few years back. So you can find pretty much everyone and their dog making clones of their switches now, with everyone adding their own little bit of flavor. I'm not a huge fan of what they've done here, but as overall a lover of the Cherry MX brown switch, this is pretty comfortable for me, and even though this doesn't have a metal front plate or anything like that, the construction overall is quite solid and the plastics that they are using feel like good solid plastics. No twang whatsoever either. Just like the other ones, it's got backlighting. Unlike the other ones, there's not a lot of control. There's brightness up or brightness all the way down. Something to notice that while some Amazon reviews do mention alternate lighting effects, we could not find any way to activate that or any mention of it in the manual, so maybe it's possible some people are actually receiving an entirely different keyboard, but at least the one that we got, I actually quite like it for 60 bucks. Like this is the most solid feeling keyboard out of the bunch, and if I didn't need any gamery features or gamery aesthetic, I actually quite like this, and USB-C makes that as a big deal to me. So far these have been shockingly good. Are you saving the crap for last? This thing looks terrible. Really not a lot of information on the outside of the box here. Included keycap puller and one of my dials fell off. Let's just go ahead and put that back on there. Both of these dials spin completely freely. I have no idea at this time what they do. Why does this have a cord permanently attached to it and an on-off switch? Wait, is this even a wireless keyboard? Wait, what the hell? The page says it's wireless. The reviews say it's wireless, but this is what we got. You've got to be kidding me. It's just not even wireless. What? And there is a wireless version that some people have. Oh, so some people get a wireless one. Yeah, because otherwise, why would it have an on-off switch at the bottom? Oh, wait, it's just for the lighting. It is true RGB though. Blue clones from Jixian? Jixian? Switches are a little cheap feeling. Not a very nice actuation bump. These keycaps are terrible. The ridge, especially on the space bar, given that it doesn't have a way to prop it up out of the box. Oh, okay. I mean, the lighting effects are definitely better than any of the ones we've seen so far, but there is power draw associated with the processor that's required to change around lighting effects and stuff like that. I can understand why they would leave it out of a wireless one. Okay, what's this one do? So spinning it is next song, previous song. Oh, okay. Clicking it is pause. Pressing it and spinning it is volume up and down. That's actually not very comfortable to use. Shouldn't that just be spinning it? Yeah, because you end up like getting your thumb jammed in between the pause key and the volume wheel. Nope, I'm not impressed. I'm out. I'm done. Forget it. You're done. Okay. An ill assortment of various parts. Is that right? Royal Kluge. These three are all from the same brand, but they are slightly different models. So we've got the RK61, RK71 and the SYNC87G. I'm going to start with the 61, which presumably is a 60% keyboard. That's weird. I don't see the wireless dongle in here. Is it possible we misplaced it? No, it's glitchy. Oh, oh, lame. All right. Well, that automatically disqualifies it for gaming use. Overall, the build feels not great. Not bad. Part of why it's as stiff as it is, it's just because it's such a small layout. We've got a USB micro B again. It's got a variety of lighting animations as well as controls for both brightness and speed of the animations. I'm not a huge fan of these shrunken down layouts at the best of times, but there are certain SYNs that they can commit that bother me more than others. This one retains the Windows key, which I personally really like to have. There's so many Windows shortcuts that require it. This I find confusing. So I'm at arrows by default and function this shift gives me a question mark. Let's try the 71. One of the keycaps fell off in the box. That's always a good sign. You didn't check out the switches. Oh, yeah, I didn't check out the switches here. It looks like they're using their own branded switches. This is an RK blue. I would describe their RK switch as feeling fine. Actually, there's nothing that really bothered me or stood out as being really different from an MX blue. These are from the same brand, but these are very different looking designs. So first of all, this is kind of cool. These appear to be little magnetic feet. I don't know how well these are going to stay on here, but hey, they're there. Also, there's a place to hold your wireless dongle, but I don't actually see it. So is this a Bluetooth only model? There's no dongle? Nope. Well then, yes. Thanks, James. Oh, it's got some cool lighting effects on the bottom. All right, pairing mode. Here we go. That was painless. Going from 61 to 71 keys, we get dedicated arrow keys. Also, I found the legend to be a little bit more intuitive here. That is clearly brightness up and down. That is clearly speed up and down. Backlight's not very bright on this one. Oh, is this a more Mac optimized one? Interesting. Oh, yeah, look at that. It's got option and command and all that stuff on here as well as Windows. And then this is really cool. So there's five different profiles here and you can quickly with a function press switch between different devices. So you could have this keyboard paired with your PC, your Mac, your phone, your iPad, and then just shwippity, shwoppity, switch between them. So this is like the multitasker keyboard and it's USB type C, which I really like to see. I could get into this. This is just bigger enough that you've got proper dedicated arrow keys. And I would find this a lot less confusing to use. Finally, the Sync 87G. Another USB type C model. Pretty hefty feeling. You know, this is kind of a classic feeling one, kind of like the Velocifier. These have got to be brown clones. They're Atemu Browns. The twangy sound is not nearly as bad as the first ones, but definitely not as good as the Velocifier stupid switch in the back like that again. And another. Oh, wow. Okay. Well, at least the rubber thing is a little harder to get off on this one. Interesting. This one's not Bluetooth at all. So we've got an included dongle again. So I can go ahead and plug that in and maybe it'll come to life now. Yep. No pairing process required. And you know, I like the Atemu Browns a little bit better on this one than I did on the other one. And it's got true RGB backlighting. Look at that. That's not bad. I could forgive some of the build quality compared to the Velocifier. It's got a caps lock indicator and it's a 10 keyless layout. So there's obviously no number lock. Lots of lighting effects on this one though. So that's pretty cool. How much is this guy? $52 to $55. Really? That is not bad. I'd say it's pretty well balanced. The Atemu Browns are fine, even if they're not my favorite. RGB lighting. It's like reasonably well built. And it's got USB type C as well, which I didn't even mention just now. And that's a pretty big one for me. I like it. Now I got to pick favorites. Oh, any one of these three I think you could buy for between $55 and $65 and be pretty darn happy with it. They've got some trade-offs. So the Velocifier here I think is really my office keyboard weapon of choice. USB type C. Not a ton of lighting stuff, not a ton of frills, but the build quality of this one really stood out from the rest of the pack. The Cluj 87 ends up being actually kind of like a 10 keyless version of that. It's got great RGB lighting. It's still USB type C and felt pretty darn good to use it. And then if I had to give anything the number one award, I actually ended up really liking the GameSah. It's got a massive battery. It's got good lighting on it. I actually really liked the key switches compared to some of the other off-brand key switches that we checked out today. Right, and I can't forget the dongle holder. How did nobody else include a dongle holder? How much more does it cost to have a little place to stick a USB? I have a special award for the Cluj 71. If I happen to sit at a command station where I had a lot of different devices to use, this is absolutely the one I'd get. And I think they did a pretty good job of balancing making it small and compact enough to carry with you without compromising just basic functionality like arrow keys like they did in the 61. Speaking of basic functionality, one of my basic functionalities is creating epic segues. This video is brought to you guys by FreshBooks, the small business accounting software that's custom-built for how you want to work. FreshBooks is a simple way to be more productive, more organized, and to get paid quickly. With FreshBooks, you can create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds. You can set up online payments with just a couple of clicks to get paid up to four days faster. 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