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Review on ๐ŸŽฎ Exquisite Gaming Experience: Redragon K580 VATA RGB Backlit Mechanical Keyboard with Macro Keys, Media Controls, and Macro Recording (Brown Switches) by Joe Duncan

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Perfect for OCD guys like me.

So I have an odd thing that I'm REALLY happy about having "zones" defined on my keyboard. It's probably cool for gamers to color code keystrokes, and for editors to code hotkeys, etc., but for me it's all about the "organization" of the keys. My letters are white, tab-caps-shift are yellow, numbers are blue (as is fn), the arrows and escape and windows keys are red, ctrl-alt options and all page navigation keys (home, page up, etc. ). ) are purple, the punctuation and math keys are orange, and the F1-F12 keys are green, along with the spacebar, enter, and backspace. I don't know WHAT it makes sense to me, SOME of these are obvious (white color is the most legible so it's clear the letters are white and the numbers on top and on the numpad are blue and it's legible too) , but why did I choose yellow only for three buttons, for example? Why green for the F keys? I don't know, and it doesn't matter - the thing is, I love that I COULD make a keyboard like this and it makes it itchy that I didn't know about. It really helped my typing - I'm not a "terrible" typist, but I have a hard time typing without looking at the keys. Having the letters as the only white keys and being surrounded by colors allowed me to see them a bit on my peripheral, which meant I had to look less often, and now I actually don't "need" to look almost all the time (unless I use a lot of punctuation in quick succession or don't use keys I don't use often). That was cool, I'm almost thirty and it's the first time I don't feel a little stupid typing because now I don't have to keep track of every key press. But it also just looks cool, and that's probably more important to most people. Also, JUST for the record, I'm having so many problems with my stupid, lame work keyboard right now that it's one of those little chiclet keys that just, ugh. I'm so used to having a loud, firm CLICK with every tap that smaller keyboards are literally annoying. I despise my laptop keyboard, my friends' stupid keyboards, the keyboards in my work office, etc. Nothing beats that CLAKKLAKKLAK feeling when I'm typing for someone. Anything I type to anyone, my fingers feel like toy machines, it's simple, it's awesome, it's very hard to describe the real tactile feeling of typing anything on a mechanical keyboard, this is the next level.

Pros
  • N-Key Rollover: 104 anti-ghosting keys allow multiple key presses at the same time. Floating keys and red-brown switches bring you a great gaming experience with fast response and less switching noise.
Cons
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