Who is the Royal Kludge - RK R98 Pro for?
Entry-tier keyboard. Below 58 on the Mars Score means several weighted specs trail the category leaders by a wide margin.
Only consider if there's a specific reason — price, brand loyalty, ecosystem fit. The best keyboards page will show what your money buys at a higher tier.
Mars Score is computed from 10 measured specs against the transparent formula for the keyboards category. No editorial picks, no paid placement.
Pros and cons at a glance
- ▲Hot-swappable — supported.
- ▼Polling rate: 1000 Hz (below category average).
Pros are specs scoring ≥75% of the category normalization range. Cons are ≤35%. Derived from the Mars Score formula — no hand-curated lists.
At a glance
- Switch type
- RK Cream Yellow
- Size
- 96%
- Wireless
- true
- Hot-swappable
- true
All specifications
Switches
- Switch type
- RK Cream Yellow
- Hot-swappable
- true
Layout & Build
- Size
- 96%
- RGB
- true
- Rotary knob
- true
- Case material
- Plastic
Connectivity
- Wireless
- true
- 2.4 GHz
- true
- Battery
- 150 h
- Polling rate
- 1000 Hz
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