GLORIOUS Custom Gaming Keyboard - GMMK 85% Percent TKL Barebone - USB C Wired Mechanical Keyboard Kit - RGB Hot Swappable Switches & Keycaps - Black Metal Top Plate

I own a lot of keyboards, I admit, I may have a problem, including the more expensive GMMK Pro, Durgod Hades, Eluktronics MKB, and a variety of Razer boards, but the GMMK1 TKL (the one I am reviewing here) I use the most in my current configuration for a variety of reasons. It is modded in the following ways: Even though I liked the stock Gateron Brown switches for a while, they seemed a bit too light, so I decided to totally over-kill it and get Kailh Box Ancient Greys -- linear switches with the actuation force of 95g or so. I am still getting used to them but the nice thing about them is that I rarely bottom the keys out now, which to me makes these switches feel like they are faster than the Browns. And certainly just out of this world strange and fun to use, giving my fingers a workout. I installed tall SA profile keycaps but didn't break the bank and got some decent but cheap PBT caps with the transparent legend. The brand name on the box is MIHIYIRY. The stock ABS keycaps are fine and worked well with the Brown switches, they are not super thin, feel good and the legends come through sharp and nice. Not a big fan of the Cherry profile but that's what is popular these days. Replaced stock stabilizers, out of boredom more so than for legit reasons, to the plate-mounted Durock V2s, and put ungodly amount of Glorious-branded grease into the joints of the stabs. The heaviness of the Greys with the action of the Durocks totally eliminate any rattle (that was nearly non-existent in the first place), and this combination feels very good together. The heavy springs certainly allow the extra amount of grease not to cause any slowing down. Though I am sure some Enthusiasts might frown upon the quantity of grease I used. I think it's fine, it hasn't short-circuited the board yet. I think the grease mostly stays where it's meant to be. :) GMMk1 has good medium weight to it, and I play sitting cross-legged with the keyboard resting on my legs and lap. It feels heavy enough not to slide away easily but not so heavy that it interrupts the blood-flow. Works well with a full-sized wristrest I have. The keeb has just good solid weight that doesn't make it feel cheap. Rubber feet serve their purpose on hard surfaces well. Due to the lower price, considering the features, I am not so afraid to bang it up by an accident. It does feel quite sturdy, good strong plastic and the metal plate sits very tight. There's no flex of any nature or any kind of squeaky plastic noises. Black PCB looks great as well. It's certainly not the cheapest PCB out there, too. The combination of the Greys, Durocks, Glorious grease and SA caps feels very good for gaming and typing. It was the experiment with a happy end! All the components working together, along with the right weight and good ergonomics for my use-case -- make it to be my main keyboard, that is also easy & light enough to carry around with a laptop. Of course I love my modded GMMK Pro more, like someone would adore their precious sports-car, but it's been sitting in the garage, figuratively speaking (its case, actually), while this guy here has been getting me through most of my days and nights! The RGB LEDs are very bright, by the way, in case this matters a lot to you, and there are plenty of effects accessible right from the keyboard without any need for software (take that, Razer Synapse!). The bottom line: this keyboard is easy and pleasant to mod, and thus has a lot of potential, the right price, great build quality, it looks sexy, and has good-to-very-good components in the per-built configuration. I like it a lot, don't regret the purchase. If it gets stolen, I would buy it and mod it again!

This is my first jump into custom mech keyboards and all my criticisms are nit picky garbage that doesn’t at all change the fact that I highly recommend this board. First note: the included keycap pry tool is a bit finicky to get out of the chassis and the experience of trying to pry it out makes me nervous I might scratch or damage the case. Second note: documentation doesn’t say anything about the win lock key’s existence and there aren’t labels for the two LED’s that sit above the arrow keys (caps lock and win lock respectively). Only other criticism: I sometimes wish the feet on the bottom of the board propped it up a bit higher. Now for the good stuff: the case feels well built, sounds nice, the stabs are a huge upgrade over the stock crap I was using before, the RGB looks great and is very flexible, the software is highly customizable and has great macro support, absolutely zero noticeable input delay or rollover issues, and even the included cable is pretty sweet. Honestly really enjoy using this board, I don’t see myself upgrading past it any time soon. Again, all my criticisms are basically non-issues in day to day use, and this is overall a 5 star product. These minor criticisms are really more there for the manufacturers’ benefit than users because all of these issues are pretty easy fixes if they were to make another edition of the board and this is just my two cents. To someone looking at getting into custom mech keyboards, this is one of the best options out there and I stress again that after messing with this board for a while I absolutely do not see myself needing to upgrade any time soon.

Good quality and great price. All metal frame and stable. A great barebone for a custom keyboard.

My day job is as a Linux admin, so I do a whole lot of typing and I like to try to keep my hands on the keyboard and off the mouse as much as possible. Therefore, it has also become important to me to enjoy the experience of using my keyboard. I tried a few clicky and tactile solutions as I prefer to have serious feedback when I am typing so that I can subconsciously keep track of my keystrokes when I am typing commands or emails or what have you. After several purchases (and stupid refund mistakes) I realized that I was going to end up spending at least $100 on a keyboard that I liked, so I searched for something that was hot-swappable because I still had not settled on my favorite switch yet. So I went forward with GMMK. Since I realized I was going to spend this much, I decided that RGB was also a must, and I feel like starting there. I like the built-in RGB pattern options that come with the keyboard. Most of them are pretty, and there are a lot of choices between essentially single-key touch lighting to constant rainbow puke, so there's something out there for every personality and mood. I just wish the touch modes were a little more sophisticated, but I probably would need to install some kind of RGB software to really get control, which I refuse to do on my work computer, so the jury is still out on that. Next, the general look of it. It looks sophisticated and clean. The floating keycaps make it easy to clean and it feels sturdy enough to take a beating (which it has been through, I am a pretty passionate Linux admin). Keycaps are nothing special except they happen to be backlit which is nice, but I will probably replace them with something that is also sidelit. Also, the fact that the cable is microUSB is pretty neat, I have considered making this my everything keyboard and maybe even taking it home at night to game on, but I would probably have to change the switches constantly which does feel like a burden and a risk. That brings me to my next point, the switches. These switches are extremely difficult to remove from the socket. It took a serious amount of pulling before it finally came out, and based on the sound I heard and stress relief I felt when I finally got it out I thought I had broken the damn thing. THEN, after I had removed it, I put it back in its place and tried to replace the keycap and when I pulled on the keycap the SWITCH CAME OUT TOO which means that there is more binding force between the switch and the keycap than there now is between the switch and the socket, which I think is a serious flaw for the design. I mean, practically since you PRESS on keys and you don't PULL it should be fine in daily use, but this is concerning because now I have to monkey with the switches every time I want to replace keycaps or clean the thing, which is not good. Overall its a pretty high-quality keyboard and I do enjoy typing on it. Someday I will probably replace all or some of the original Brown switches with Blues or Greens, but I am wary about this because I don't want all of the switches to become unstable, which is exactly opposite of the point of being hot-swappable. Glorious, I do expect some kind of response to this review because this is not a fair way for this relatively expensive piece of equipment to function. Hot-swappable should mean it has uniform performance no matter what switches are installed and not inherently favor the original switches due to the design. As a side note, I must say the branding for this company is pretty intense, and not all bad. It seems like the physical manifestation of the child of the r/pcmasterrace and r/mechanicalkeyboards subreddits.

this thing, man. I really love it. I've been using mechanical keyboards since the Cherry MX's became "mainstream" years and years ago. Back then cherry MX were considered the best, I tried some Kailh switches back then and they were so inconsistent I did not recommend them to anyone. Fast forward to the past year or so. I saw alot of people doing custom mechanical keyboards, and using gateron switches and i finally decided to give it a try. I also wanted a hot swappable board because well, its really cool and maybe i wanna try some different switches sometime. I do not regret this purchase. I'm not a fan of gateron browns (cherry mx red user for the past 7 years) but I found the switches okay. I eventually got some gateron black switches and found them too heavy so put 65g springs in them and lubed them, also did the Stabilizer mods including bandaid. Honestly anyone looking to do this and put other switches in them, its VERY easy to do. the included switch puller could use some work but it gets the job done, i had no issues getting the gateron browns out and the new blacks in - back out to do the lubing and 65g springs and back in, still pretty tight on the "sockets". ive tested some with TX films and it really eliminates alot of the movement on the stem and on the housing to the socket on the keyboard. anyone that wants to get into mechanical keyboards, this board is really good. i have 0 regrets buying it and investing into other switches and springs and lube. its really really nice. yeah other boards have the extra foam and better construction or better light but you pay so much for them that this one honestly for most people will work just fine and get them into the "custom" mechanical keyboard scene. Beware of gatekeepers of the custom mechanical keyboard scene, expect people to call your build on this "not custom" ignore them, this board is great. the RGB isnt TOO crazy, i have some pudding caps with "clear" caps on my gat blacks and the lighting isnt as good as the cherry mx rgb switches due to where the LED is which is at the top of the switch housing, but it still looks good and if you just want some lighting it works great, software is a bit...on the early stages side but it works okay enough. PSA: if your buying switches for this make sure they are the 3 prong connection switches, this board does NOT support the 5 prongs (basically has 2 extra plastic legs that help support it from wobble). you can buy the 5 prong switches you would just have to clip off the 2 extra plastic legs and they will work fine on this but its a very long process to go about that for 87 keys for something like my tenkeyless.

First, let me start off with the fact that I got this on the Black Friday deal for $19.99. So that in itself is just a great deal for a DIY keyboard. I was very surprised that this kit actually came with a thin (and I mean thin) layer of foam in the bottom of the board. It also had another thicker type insert that I personally have never experienced in a kit. It is a heavier/rubbery type of padding with all of the holes for the mounting stems cut out. There are 2 metal plates added for weight that can be removed at your discretion. This board is quite customizable for what it is. It's a very slim body in a floating keycap style. I will say that putting in the switches on this board was the most difficult that I have ever come across so far. It did come with a nice, braided cable that is USB C also. All in all, I would highly recommend this board kit to anyone who is looking to get into building their first keyboard, even at the current price.

I have this TKL (ten keyless) Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard (GMMK) and a compact version of the GMMK and they are both AWESOME! They are very affordable for a mechanical keyboard and the ability to hot swap switches is unheard of. I have Gateron black switches for keys I want to be harder to press (space bar, enter, caps lock, etc.) and Gateron clear switches for keys I want to be easier to press (Ctrl, Function, Alt, Shift x 2, etc.) and although the keyboard is awesome with all Gateron Brown switches, the ability to play around with different switches all for under $120 is incredible. The GMMK with the semi-aluminum build is nice as it is heavy and feels very sturdy. The rubber feet keep the keyboard in place and the adjustable feet is a nice addition. There is even a key cap puller permanently mounted on the bottom out of the way. Would say out of the compact and TKL I definitely prefer the TKL as it is nice being able to hit the arrow keys, home, end, delete and print screen without having to use the function key first, but again the compact is awesome as well. If you have never used a keyboard smaller than a full size one, would probably suggest the TKL as it is a nice trade off of reducing space, but not giving up some dedicated keys. You could always buy a dedicated numerical keypad to go with the compact one though. The only downside I can think of to the GMMK is the USB micro connector. Wish it was USB C, but since both the TKL and compact ones use the same connector, it is easy for me to swap out keyboards as needed. Again, for the price and the ability to hot swap switches, you won't find anything better than the GMMK and Gateron brown switches are a great all-around switch for everyone. They have tactile feedback without the extra loud clickyness of the blue switches. I will probably end up buying another GMMK TKL before to long.

Got the keyboard several weeks ago and it's a big improvement over the membrane keyboard I had been using! Well-constructed and the price is right. A couple of things you should know going into it. 1. You will want a deskpad with a mechanical keyboard. There are lots of good ones on Amazon. 2. You will want a wrist rest. I didn't think I would, but now I am ordering one. There is a bundle where you can get this keyboard with a wrist rest for $125. The wrist rest is $30 separately. 3. The keycaps aren't great and you will want to replace them. Don't be cheap. You can get a decent set for $40-50. Personally I don't recommend the backlit ones, it looks a lot better once I used regular caps. 4. Some of the switches were REALLY hard to get out. I looked over the switches and I'm not sure if it's a tolerancing problem with the switches or with the case itself. FYI I replaced with with Kailh Box Burnt Orange which so far I think is a real improvement over the Browns I started with. 5. The software WILL NOT WORK if you connect your keyboard to the PC through a USB hub, KVM switch, or some other device. Connect it directly to the PC and it's fine. You do need to run the software in administrator mode for it to work. 6. Speaking of the software, if your serial number isn't listed on the software page you want the "or later" version. 7. That may not matter to you anyway, because it's pretty easy to program the keyboard just using the keys. You can only select eight different colors that way, though. The keyboard is low-profile, meaning the keys sit above the base. That makes the light spill out from under the keys. I have mine set to a dark red with black and red keycaps on a black and red mat so it looks pretty sweet. All in all, very happy with my purchase, although be warned it's going to be your first step down the rabbit hole of mechanical keyboards.

Great barebone keyboard (Combined with kailh box pink) Feel solid the only down side i found (Can easily be fixed at home) is the stabilizers they rattle a bit but it can be easily fixed with a little bit of masking tape on the clipping side other than that really great keyboard.

Given the price and availability it's one of the best barebone you can buy. The keyboard is light, but well built and no flex whatsoever. Highly recommended for people who like me wanted to try exotic switches without the hassle of buying expensive kits and messing with soldering. The backlight control is basic but functional, and it does not require any additional software. The keyboard supports only 3 pin switches, so if you plan to use 5 pins switches you need to remove the 2 extra plastic prongs (very easy operation) before placing them.

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I bought this keyboard because I wanted to try some different mechanical switches after using Cherry MX Blues for 6 years. The process of swapping key switches and keycaps is really easy and they even include a keycap puller and tools for removing the switches. The prebuilt configuration isn't very impressive; the keycaps use ABS plastic which is less durable and is more prone to "shining" (where the keycap loses its texture over time and becomes sort of glossy) than PBT plastic. I don't really like the font on the keycaps either, but the light from the RGB LEDs comes through quite well. I don't like the tactile Gateron Brown switches either (which I'm told are very similar to the highly popular Cherry MX Browns) as someone coming from the clicky Cherry MX Blue switches. They barely offer any feedback when you press the key to its actuation point so I end up bottoming-out the switch every time which I've found to reduce my typing speed by about 20% by words per minute. Obviously, these complaints are easily fixed by installing preferable switches and caps or by ordering via the GMMK website which offers a wide range of switches and a set of PBT pudding caps. I elected not to order from their website because of the taxes & brokerage fees that I'd likely have to pay since they ship from the US, not to mention the Canada Post strike. Aside from those things, the keyboard is pretty decent. The rubber feet on the bottom are really grippy, the construction feels durable, the cable is braided and detachable, and the optional lighting software is decent enough. If you know you like the tactile Gateron Brown/Cherry MX Brown switches already, then this is a good buy. I'll be buying a set of different switches and caps in the near future though because I'm not satisfied with the prebuilt configuration.

no complains