Keychron - Q1 HE QMK Wireless Custom Keyboard

If you're feeling adventurous... Keychron q12 southpaw has been a game changer. I don't have to take my hand off my mouse EVER. Jumped on the left feels off at first but once you get used to it it's amazing. Keyboards at work are weird now

For wireless keyboard I'd look for those that have qmk/via such as the Keychron

Their new HE series seems promising for gaming.

HE/TMR is a buzzy gamer feature that has resulted in a ton of boards that are meh coming to market and the amount of switch options you have is kinda limited, that's what you'd be getting with something like the thing you've linked. Mind you, it's gonna be a perfectly usable keyboard and you're probably gonna like it. Still way better than logitech . There are a bunch of EXTRA NICE ones like the Monsgeek M1 V5 or Womier SK75 or Lemokey P1 HE or Keychron Q HE series that have a metal chassis and had people spend time making them sound and feel and making sure they don't screw up the basics. I'd personally stretch the budget and get one of those but the MCHOSE is probably decent enough. The Womier isn't even that far off with current aliexpress discounts.

To make this easy - if you stay within Keychron, I really think there are only 2 options. 1) Q1 HE. This is a 75% tri-mode board that satisfies the gamer requirement and would look the nicest in the living room. It's not just for gaming though. You can have 3 active profiles at a time. Use one profile with 2mm actuation for every day typing and another 1-2 profiles with .5-1mm actuation and rapid trigger / SOCD turned on. Assuming you are not playing games that ban SOCD. SOCD is, for example, I can continue holding the A button while I click the D button and my char will move right, once I take my finger off the D button (while still holding the A button) the character will move left. I use it on PVE games like Destiny, First Descendant, etc. 2) Lemokey P1 Pro with the Keychron red switches. Lemokey is the Keychron "gaming" division. This is another 75% tri-mode board but is your standard mechanical hot swap keyboard. Significantly cheaper than the Keychron Q Max series and IMO, a better board. There are enough YouTube videos saying the same thing as well. This offers a better typing experience but (depending on your perspective) a slightly worse game experience since you cannot modify actuation points, there's no rapid trigger, etc. If you wanted to though, down the road you could swap in "gaming" switches like an Akko or Cherry silver that have 1.1mm of actuation which just means that the switch needs to travel 1.1 mm to register an input. Which in theory could make a character move faster but you would have a worse typing experience because it would be much more sensitive. That's really the trade off here. HE boards can provide both good gaming and typing experience because you can setup profiles for each. Also, I just realized Lemokey has a 75% HE board which I would pick in a second over the Keychron Q1 HE just given the price difference and my experience with Lemokey P1 Pro vs Keychron Q1 HE. Finally, if you go the HE route from Keychron, just know that the only switches you can use are those sold by Keychron and Glorious. No other magnetic switches will work (i.e. no Jades, Jade Pro, etc). Personally, I think the Gateron dual rail switches are sub par compared to other offerings but if you have no other frame of reference then you don't know what you are missing out on. Keychron / Lemokey is great for a first board because (other than the sheer amount of layouts) they make it fairly easy. There are a number of HE boards released within the past year by other manufacturers that might be better for you and or cheaper but Keychrons ecosystem is hard to beat when you are first starting out.

If you go with a Hall Effect board (and it's a solid choice) just make sure to research what magnetic switches the board you are interested in uses. Keychron/Lemokey, HE boards for example, can only use a specific Gateron dual rail switch along with Glorious switches. For me personally, the stock Gateron dual rails are not very pleasing. A spring swap though brings them to life. I enjoy doing that work but you may not. Wooting and any board that uses the same polarity will have the most switch options available. This includes popular switches like Geon Raw and Gateron Jades. I have owned ad Keychron Q1 HE, Wooting 80, Wooting 60, Keychron K2 HE, Maggard 68 Pro and Nuphy 75 Air. The Wooting is the most premium option. As others have said, the software blows all others out of the water. I was really impressed with the Nuphy. It's a low profile keyboard so different switches / keycaps than the others but it's a fun board. The software on all the boards I've used lets you set actuation per key, rapid trigger, SOCD, dynamic keystroke and macros (plus more). The Wooting is the most intuitive and best for RGB if you care about that. I could not get dynamic keystroke working on the Nuphy but didn't try after the first day as I replaced it with a macro for what I wanted. The Nuphy and Keychrons you are limited to 3 profiles. Maggard is 4 and the Wooting is unlimited, but only 4 active profiles (all your other profiles are archived within the online software). There's a database of other Wooting profiles that you can easily copy/paste a code for yourself to utilize that users profile. Finally, I'm pretty sure Keychron boards have gamepad support and I know Wooting definitely does. This would allow you to set keys as controller functions for things like racing games / GTA driving / etc.

Couple things to note here. When the GMMK 3 Pro HE was released I had a bunch of Best Buy credit so I bought the board and literally returned it within 2 hours. It was that bad for the price and the SW was hot garbage by any standard. I haven't followed it since so I don't know if anything changed. 1) The Glorious HE board will only take the Glorious HE switches and the Gateron Dual Rails that Keychron/Lemokey uses in their HE. Wooting and Luminkey use the Gateron Jades + alternatives. Really need to pay attention to what type of switch a certain HE board takes. 2). As others have mentioned, there are much better alternatives. I don't know what the price is now on the GMMK 3 Pro HE, but if it's still north of $300 USD, you could return that and buy literally any other HE board which will be cheaper and better. Wooting 80 for example. The Keychron K2 HE is not a bad board at all and has the compact 75% layout which is different. I have the Keychron Q1 HE and I have 2 Lemokey non-HE boards that I really like and would have no problems with a Lemokey HE (which is Keychrons gaming division). Luminkey Magger 68 Pro is another board I have that is fantastic. 3) One of the reasons, IMO that Keychron and Wooting are better than anyone else is the SW. The SW matters for HE. If Wooting is a 10/10 for Software, Keychron would be 9/10 and Luminkey an 8.5/10. Glorious honestly would be a 1/10 for SW. In the past year the HE scene exploded with a ton of options. IMO if you are willing to drop coin on whatever GMMK 3 costs now, just go get a Wooting/Keycrhon/Lemokey and be done with it.

Most HE variants offers all keys to be modified if desired since the very switches themselves have the HE features, so some would only changed the main WASD and others would utitlized tinkering the whole keys - but again, this is mostly catered towards fps players that have the intent on tinkering.

So you're looking for 75-100%. I can recommend something from the Keychron Q series. Plenty of really clean boards there, and they have keycaps with secondary legends for stuff like media control. A lot of them also have macro columns that can be assigned to various functions.

I'm in love with Keychron Q HE series. I'm using a Q1 HE while waiting for a Q3 HE from Taobao for 200 shipped. Q5 HE is the full sized option and was similarly priced.

Agreed. Their stabilisers need some work (although the K4 HE's stabs are the best Keychron stabs I've tried so far). But a Q series Keychron could easily be a "one-and-done" keyboard for me.

If you're casually playing games then Keychron is all fine. So far the only "real gamer" keyboard to date to be considered is the recent HE variants due to its rapid trigger feature but that is more specifically targetted towards fps players that are willing to tinker each and every key press on how they want it to respond.

The keychron Q series is in a league of its own. Basically entry to a fully custom keeb.

Maya X + Keychron Q1 HE + Artist Hayate Otsu

If your going for hall effect then the wooting HE is the best in raw performance along with Razers optical in the huntsman. For actually using the wooting would be better. Nuphy field 75 HE, Halo 65HE, Wooting 80& 65, keychron Q1 he, k4 he, or Lemokey P1 HE. I like the Lemokey since it's keychron with the same webapp, it's full metal, it costs ~$160 which makes it middle of the price pack but not as expensive as a metal wooting. The L5 is similar with slightly better polling rate. The Nuphy Field 75 is also good, but it's a bit gamery and plastic.

i own both keychrons and razers. Also logitech gpro x and g915 TKL. Matter of the fact: software in keychrons has no issues and build quality is objectively better, specially in Q series of keychrons. If you want to get a keyboard and want something reliable, ready to go, well built and easily programmable, just get a keychron. Wooting/Logitech/Steelseries/Corsair/GenericComercialOrGamerBrand is just like razer level, not best in class Razer gets closer altough not there yet to best in class features in the last blackwidow v4 75% (asus also does great with Azoth boards) but the board has really low reliabilty, so not best in class at all. check out r/MechanicalKeyboards for advice, they will guide you to get something real good and it can easily be cheaper or cost the same as razer boards.

If you have no budget, go for a keychron q1 he. I have it and its fantastic. Offers everything youll need

I ended up getting keychron q1he 75 for about $200! I'm happy with the purchase, it's a quieter calmer keyboard clicking and I like the features it has. For me I like the rapid trigger a lot and the knob is actually so nice for when I use my soundbar for single player games!

Will confirm the Q11 is great for FPS. Really, gaming in general.

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Well built keyboard with good prices. I like the Q series. Built like a tank for around 100

I just got the keychron q1he 75 for about $200. It's not perfectly quiet but it's a lighter "creamy" sounding in my opinion. Plus it has a lot of nice features and good build quality. I know it's a bit higher than budget tho, so if you don't want to spend the extra $50 you could try getting new switches instead and maybe dampening pads

Keychron q11 is what I use. I wanted f keys as well.

So my main gaming keyboard is the q1 he. Obviously I know it's a tkl vs 75% but performance and keyboard wise is upgrading really worth it? I haven't seen any videos on the new boards yet. Thanks!!

I have both the Keychron Q1 HE QMK Wireless (a little out of your budget but I got mine for over 50% off last year during the holidays so YMMV) and Wooting 60HE. You can get a stock Wooting for about $200 and should be good to go. Hall effect switches are great for gaming + both keyboards have RGB.

Same, have 2 Qs and love them.

Check out the Keychron K6. It's a good choice in the 75% size. It's wireless, has hot-swappable switches, and you might find it cheap if you look around. Another one to check out is the Royal kludge RK61; it's pretty good for the price and has similar stuff... People here usually mention keyboardyeti for comparing specs, so that's worth a look too.

Keychron Q1 HE has ISO, hall effect and is in white BUT it's not compatible with something like Gateron Jade Pros (which is bad. Compatibility is a good thing to have) If we throw hall effect aside, [Varmilo Minilo 75](https://varmilo.com/products/minilo75) has both ISO, white theming (no white case tho sorry) and arrow keys. If we throw ISO AND hall effect aside, Lucky65 v2 with whatever keycaps/switches. P.S. your requirements in a keyboard aren't pathetic lol it's a product you'll use so it's only right you have it the way you want

I personally use Keychron Q1 for my gaming needs. Did simple mods to make the sound slightly better. RGB off.

That's highly, highly subjective... I've been experimenting with keyboards and parts for quite some time, because I was looking for a keyboard that I can type/game on for multiple hours, without agitating the nerve damage in my fingertips too much... so it's very specifically personalized to myself. I eventually settled on my KBDfans Odin R4 with aluminium plate, Gateron Oil King switches, TXAP Rev 4 stabs and PBTfans keycaps. I've put silicone rings around the stems of the space bar to dampen it (I know, purists hate that) and filled the space bar with Blu Tack. I do have a secondary backup keyboard, which is a Keychron Q1 with lubed MX Browns and PBTfans keycaps, but it's not anywhere close... it does feel substantially better than the vast majority of keyboards though, so it's good enough as a backup.

Keychron Q1 HE or Nuphy Air 75HE

I just got this exact model, I really like it. Perfect size for me, the knob is new to me and controlling the volume is a nice qol change. It sounds really nice while typing and playing, not silent but the noise sounds pleasant. The 1 thing I don't like is that the software is just a website. So for changing the lights or activating rapid trigger you go to the website. NOTE: you can change it using certain commands/keys and there's a cheat sheet for it. I'm 99% sure you don't need to keep the browser open. I changed the lights, rapid trigger and the lights stay on so I'm assuming all changes stay after exiting. Some one correct me if I'm wrong

The Keychron K10 HE and the Q series are fantastic. Worth the money and will be with you a long time.

It's complicated, the Q1 HE is a premium keyboard for gaming, but the typing feel and sounds are not very good compared to normal mechanical keyboards for not even half the price... Besides, these are hardly hot swappable and are limited to a strict selection of linear switches that are sold by Keychron... I'd rather buy the Q1 Max IMO. it's cheaper, sounds better, feels better, has more customizability, and although it's not anything special for gaming, a Hall Effect keyboard won't make you any better than a mechanical one... It's just more of a "convenience" rather than a necessity.

I bought a Q3 Max with red switches and it was very silent. Be aware, Keychron HE keeb is compatible only with its own HE switches. For me it was a no-go.

Their new HE series seems promising for gaming.

I would look into the Keychron Q HE keyboards. The Q1 HE is 75% and the Q3 HE is TKL. They're gasket mounted keyboards, and their keycaps are a fair bit nicer than the K HE series. You might also consider the Wooting 80HE with Gateron Jade Pro or Geon RAW switches, at that price. Wooitng pretty much sets the standard when it comes to HE software, and you can do a lot with the 80HE. One thing to note is that the 80HE doesn't have macro support, which makes it unusable for me as a daily driver. That's why I recommend the NuPhy and Keychron boards if you're planning on daily driving it for anything other than gaming.

As you are saying, the reason why you need to replace your keyboard is because you are buying cheaper keyboards. It's probably worth spending 150£ on one that will last you 5 years and that you will change because you want to rather than because you need to! I'd check into keychron UK and look at their mechanical keyboards. They are great quality and if you get a hotswapable keyboard you will not only be able to change the keycaps but also the switches themselves.

For gaming, really anything with an HE on the end. Q HE are high-end, K HE are less fancy, but still very nice imo. There's almost no reason to buy a non-HE Keychron keyboard for gaming. Cost is about the same, HE features are super useful in games, and the switches sound pretty good now.

The Keychron HE series are fantastic all-rounder keyboards. They are having a sale that ends today.