Hello this is the Provoked Prawn and this is the Royal Kludge RK96 this is a wireless keyboard
with 96 keys hence the name and as you can see an interesting one with a very white finish now
this is a very affordable keyboard that packs in a number of really interesting highlights this is
an unboxing video and I'm going to be showing you what's included in the box but more importantly
talking about this incredibly feature-rich wireless keyboard which comes in a ridiculously
low price of 63 pound sterling which is remarkably affordable it's about 79 and considering that
has Bluetooth wireless hot swappable key switches USB passthrough and all sorts of other things I'm
going to show you in this video it's incredible for the price a wonderful setup also comes with
a magnetic wrist rest which has a highlight of its own that I'll talk about in a minute
a detachable USB-C cable for charging purposes some spare switches in the box along with
a key switch and keycap puller as well allows you to customize it and pull out the keys and
swap them out for others if you so wish now this keyboard is available with blue brown or red Royal
Kludge switches which are very similar to cherry mx style or Gataron switches but more importantly
as you'll hear later on in this video it's also built with comfort and quiet in mind and that's
because it happens to have a wonderful setup that includes not only lubed stabilizers but also two
layers of silencing high density foam and I was struck by just how wonderful it sounds to typo
and what it feels like as well and there you can see the magnetic wrist rest snapping into place
and I want to quickly talk about that because it's the little things that really make this keyboard
and one of the things for example is the design of that wrist rest you'll notice just under the
directional arrows there's a little notch in the keyboard where the magnetic wrist rest snaps into
what this means is that if you go to push the keyboard as I found and move it around on your
desk but you push on the wrist rest at the same time it doesn't push off as easily as it would
if it was just a flat straight wrist rest it's a simple thought like that and only makes the design
look nice but makes it a bit more convenient too obviously also with the keycap and key switch
puller in the box you have the option to swap out the switches but also you get some extra ones in
there so if you find that you broke some or some wear out over time let's say there are some under
heavy use that include obviously the WASD keys if you're going to be gaming or directional arrows
then obviously you have extras included that you can just change out yourself and I'll show you
how to do that in a second so already seeing some very nice highlights of this but more importantly
it has a lot of other things that are hidden below the surface so this is a wireless keyboard that
packs in some serious battery power it packs in a 3750 milliamp battery which is said to last up
to 250 hours with the lighting turned off and it also has fast charging capabilities now I've not
been able to test 250 hours but I will say that it is nice to have the option you also have Bluetooth
5.0 and the wireless 2.4 gigahertz dongle included and you'll notice that you have convenient media
controls as well there's a nice little tiny volume wheel on the side there and you have
media playback buttons buried in the function row as well so you can see for example f6 f7 and f8
is like stop rewind pause play skip and you have volume adjustment in there and as you can see
there's also hardware level lighting effects now this isn't an RGB keyboard it does however have
a nice little blue backlighting to it and you can obviously adjust between various different schemes
by just using the various different controls at hardware level you can see for example that
function and print screen adjusts you can also adjust the speed of it with functional directional
arrows and you can go through different schemes by pressing function and q w and e and also if
you press function and backspace you can choose which buttons on the keyboard you want to light up
by just pressing those buttons and then pressing function and backspace again to sort of stop it
I won't say that the lighting is particularly fancy I am under heavy video lighting to capture
this footage so it perhaps shines a little bit better than this but I wasn't blown away by the
lighting I think that's the one area that lets this keyboard down but for the price considering
all the other things that you're getting it's a minor complaint about what is otherwise a really
interesting and fascinating keyboard for a number of different reasons there's also some software
that's available that allow you to customize between 20 different lighting effects and
I'll show you a little bit of that later on and you can tweak the various things in it but here
you can see me simply adjusting the lighting by just pressing buttons on the keyboard so even at
hardware level you can just turn the lighting on and off and adjust it in the way you want to and
obviously that's nice to not have to worry with software you don't need to install the software
but if you want to do things like record macros or change key switch presses then you can do that
with the software now the keycaps come off easily enough with the included puller that tool also
has a key switch puller on the other side so you can just flip it around and then you can pull the
switches out as I said these are Royal clutches switches they are marked as such but they do
look very similar to Gataron reds for example so they're pretty sweet switches for gaming
on and reasonably quiet you can get blue or brown switches if you prefer it's a personal preference
thing I'll give you a sound test to show you what the red ones sound like at the end of this video
I'm also going to do a separate video where I'm upgrading it with Gataron yellow switches
and I'll show you the difference between that if you come back for that video that I'll link to in
the description as well now the other thing that's interesting about this is it's hot swappable which
means that you can take the switches out while the keyboard's turned on replace the switches
and see them in action to make sure that they're actually working while you're doing it which makes
it convenient for putting new switches in and testing that they're working it also supports both
three and five pin switches so you can see when you pull the switches out for example that they
have the plastic pin in the middle and then two metal pins as standard but you can also get five
pin switches and put them in here so you have a flexibility in what you're installing you'll also
see the blue LED on the underside there and what that does I apologize for the flashing effects
that's coming through on the video that is some of the effects on the keyboard but also the settings
on the camera was causing it to just flicker a little bit more so just watch out for that it
isn't like I said not particularly fancy in terms of the lighting but this is a small complaint over
what is a very feature-rich keyboard as you can see keycaps are obviously quite nice as well they
are very white it's very bright looking keyboard because of this setup and they do let through
quite a bit of the lighting through the etchings I think lettering on it's pretty good what you will
notice from these various shots is you'll see that there are various other hidden settings or
extra settings on a lot of the keys you'll see for example that a and s allows you to switch between
mac and windows layout and as I said already you have the dedicated media volume you also
have multiple different buttons for adjusting the lighting and changing your media playback
and other things you'll notice there are also like a home and delete keys built into the middle of
the keyboard as well as the keyboard itself see a very long keyboard with all the normal keys but
extra keys buried in extra function layer so you just need to press the function key to access them
on the back you'll find there is a little spot for the 2.4 gigahertz dongle and obviously also
you have adjustable feet at the rear you'll also notice there are two switches one for turning the
keyboard on and off and the other one's switching between wireless and Bluetooth mode so you have
the option to choose what of those modes you're using obviously 2.4 gigahertz will be more stable
if you're planning to do it for gaming and such and I found there's a decent connection wirelessly
obviously preferable to plug in with the cable for the most part however though I haven't had an
issue when using it in wireless mode you can see the sort of levels of adjustment in the feet not
particularly different and there is a slight slope to it anyway and I did think when I first got
out of the box that the chunky wrist rest was going to be uncomfortable but actually this one
sits very comfortably it's very nice to type on and that wrist rest is surprisingly comfortable
on the rear you'll also see that you have two USB poster reports so when it's plugged in with the
USB-C cable obviously that's for charging purposes but you can also connect in other devices to it
so you can plug in a headset or mouse directly to this this keyboard has a lot of features that
you'd see on a lot more expensive keyboards and I think it actually beats a lot of the expensive
keyboards especially from the big brands that you might be used to the big gaming brands
I think it actually beats them in a number of ways not least of which is the sound and feel of the
switches and the typing experience and you'll hear some of that in a minute but the lubed stabilizers
and also the switch design and more importantly the fact that they have set it up with that
silencing foam on the inside so there's two layers of foam buried in there that's designed to make
it sound nicer here you can see a shot of the upgraded version of this keyboard with the lava
keycaps and I'm going to do a video separately to show you the upgrade process for that
but I want to also give you a sound test to show you what the quality of the typing
experience is like so I'm going to be quiet for a minute so you can hear and enjoy that
what you will have noticed is there's very little noise from the keyboard from a number
of different places where you usually hear a lot of pings or rattles or uncomfortable
scratchy sounds from lesser keyboards and that is because the stabilizers are really
well done so for example the shift and end to keys and the space bar already well stabilized
and it's nicely lubed in a way that gives a really satisfying typing experience it's
probably the one of the best keyboards I've tried that sort of factory out of the box set up without
any extra sort of modification afterwards this is straight out of the box how it came I haven't made
any changes to it at this point and it is very nice to have an experience and considering the
price that you're paying this is absolutely fantastic here we are within Royal clutches
software and you'll see that it's fairly no frills and not terribly user friendly if honest
there are three different profiles set up a standard that you can rename and you can then go
into the various keys and change what they do you see there's the modifier keys and
function keys and other things here so you can basically reassign keys to be something else
so we can assign zero to now be a if you wanted to do that you can remap the keys as you want them
and I suppose that's pretty good because you could get rid of caps lock for example or just customize
other things in here you can also record macros so you can set up a macro and you can start recording
you can set stop recording save you could set a macro so you can assign a macro but I've no
idea how you actually use it it's not obvious how you assign it so it's not very intuitive software
in the lighting section you can go through 20 different lighting effects
unfortunately I can't easily show you these on camera but you can see just how many that
you can choose from so you have a variety of options there and then you can also go
into here and you can access things like software updates and restore factory settings
restore keyboard data firmware update if necessary and you can also check it to auto run so the
software is not that amazing and I think doesn't do the keyboard justice because the keyboard's
a lot nicer to use so the hardware is where this keyboard shines is what I'm trying to say
a very nice typing experience loads of battery life comfortable to use
and a remarkable number of features and a very good specification considering the price I'll
leave all the specs in the description and I'll also do a separate video on how I upgraded it to
show you what you can do with it and the final result of that so be sure to check that out
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