Slim and Tactical – The K585 keyboard gets rid of those extra keys and keeps the most useful ones in a slim & portable package. All of your keyboard action keys are in one convenient place. No need to worry about misclicked keys.
Upgraded Hot-Swap – The upgraded socket is now available on Redragon one-handed keyboard, with more ways to mod, and more fun. The iconic Redragon Blue Switches deliver audible clicky with clear tactile feedback, original mechanical feel.
Play to Win – With 7 programmable macro keys, binding multiple commands and activating them instantly is simple and quick. Assign single or multiple keystrokes to any macro key to save precious time in the middle of battle.
Light it Up in Your Way – 5 RGB backlit modes are selectable with 16.8 Million Colors. Glorious & amazing lighting effects let the light of victory wreak havoc in the dark.
USB Pass-Through Port – Positioned for uninterrupted game play and ready for your mouse, headset adapter, or other USB device.
Form & Function – Ergonomically designed with a detachable wrist-rest section connected by magnets, the wrist-rest offers great support to make use more comfortable.
I ordered this to put into a custom gaming simpit / desk and since WASD is starting to wear down on my primary keyboard, this seemed like a good idea. I had looked at several options, and having had good experiences with Redragon before, opted for the K585. The packaging is simple and includes the keyboard, the magnetic rest, a braided and reasonably long USB cable, and simple instructions. It was pretty much plug and play. I downloaded the K585 software from Redragon’s site, and while it works, it does not size properly and the text in the app is cut off on my monitor. The keyboard has built in presets for lighting options, which I actually prefer and they work perfectly.
As has been stated in other reviews, the OUTEMU blue switches are clicky but feel good. The spacing and look of the keys is great. They are responsive when pressed. I’ve heard mixed reviews on the space bar. I love it. My thumb naturally lands on it and it feels perfectly placed to me, with no wobble on mine. While minimal, I also like the wrist rest. As others have said, it is plastic with a texture but no padding. The height is perfect, the magnets are solid, and despite being not padded, it is comfortable. I hooked the keyboard up and tested in a couple of games (Helldivers and Star Citizen) and there was no adjustment period for me, I was able to just start using it effectively. If you are on the fence about one-handed keyboards or are wearing out WASD, give this a try, especially for the low cost. I am happy that I did.
Rated 5 out of 5
Hector Eche –
Me encanto este producto porqué ademas de porderle personalizar las luz atravez de su controlador de pc se siente de buena calidad y es muy comodo de usar
Rated 5 out of 5
RODRIGO MAGAÑA –
El teclado cumple por completo las funciones requeridas y el diseño presente es totalmente profesional
Rated 5 out of 5
Darcie –
Excelente pra quem procura, mas já alerto que os layout do teclado e estranho e tem que se acostumar. Mas fora isso sem reclamações.
Rated 5 out of 5
RODRIGO MAGAÑA –
Nice little gaming keyboard. Been looking for one for a while as I had a ZBoard Fang and loved it because I’m not exactly gentle while gaming and it took a beating not the keyboard I want to use to type with. Keys are well arranged. Like the big space button and its placement as its an easy reach. Would have been nice to have a raised dot or something on the W key so you don’t need to look at the keyboard to index where your fingers are. Works well for what it is. Replaceable switches, comes with tools and spare switches. Only slightly disappointed its USB A not C connected but that’s OK. It’s also heavy enough and has rubber feet so it doesn’t move around while you are playing which is great, also its a bit thin on documentation but hey – its a keyboard, and you don’t need to be a rocket surgeon to figure it out. The only thing I haven’t figured out is the why of the magnetic wrist rest. It works fine but its a natural place to grab the keyboard by and it hangs on just long enough to let the keyboard fall off and hit the floor.
Still all in all a nice product that does exactly what it says it does and does it well.
Rated 5 out of 5
S. A. Wilson –
Love the keys. Love the brown switches. Love the keycaps even. They feel nice. Yes, it’s edgy space font but it’s not TOO bad. About a 2/10 on the HR Giger scale. Only one problem:
WASD is dumb. Very very dumb. Why? I don’t care that it’s what the entire world uses. If you learn how to touch type, your left hand will naturally fall on the home key, F. That’s why it has a little nub on it. So you can develop feel memory and just know your fingers are on the home keys. So why wouldn’t you use ESDF instead? Then you get a pinky key too. A. WASD is stupid. Sorry.
Anyhow, they put the first completely smooth F key on anything I’ve ever seen in my life. I had to throw it away. I had a few spares. It looks awesome with a proper F key that’s a different color. I use F a lot. : ) So it’s important that it’s correct. Now I can find my movement keys by feel again. I don’t have to waste time looking.
Superglue, that’s up to you. This is a personal preference. I put a little dab on the wrist rest to make it permanent. I loved it so much. I just put it on the magnets and let them be together forever. It’s better that way.
Otherwise, wow what a nice addition to a Star Citizen setup. This sits nicely off to the left of a VKB Omni-Throttle for quick accessible on-foot controls, or anything else. Opening up the mobiglass quick because you have a real F1 key. Etc. tapping escape to fix a keybind quick. Setting up a macro for Flight > ATC > VTOL. Makes the game that much better. Worth every penny.
It gets a five for value. They are using good quality parts. They did put thought into the design. Like you can tell it was designed for your fingers to fall on F key home position based on where the space is placed. You literally have to stretch to hit it if you use wasd. ESDF? your hand just falls naturally on everything. So nice. The switches feel great. Love that soft bump in the press. You subconsciously start remembering where that bump happens and it improves your timing because it coincides with actuation. That’s the benefit of browns for gaming. You aren’t just mashing the key into the board for timing. You don’t have to. So your keyboard takes less abuse. And you maintain a lower level of chill, so game better.
Very comfortable. Perfect wrist rest. Perfect key position. Great key caps. Great lighting, Oh great lighting options. They offer five. For me it was like, hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, OH!. The fifth one I liked a lot. It’s a blue and green burst gradient. Very awesome looking. Matches my stuff.
The only other thing to maybe complain about is it slides around a little. Like the bottom isn’t grippy enough. Easily fixed with two pieces of VHB tape on the bottom but worth mentioning.
I am one very happy customer.
Rated 4 out of 5
R. Van Dyke –
The Redragon K585 DITI is an entry level mechanical keyboard that punches above its weight. That doesn’t make it perfect for everyone, however.
Look, it’s pretty clear just by looking at this keyboard that it isn’t a full keyboard. That intrinsically limits its target audience. For someone with ample desk space, this might not make the most sense as a purchase. But, on the flip side of that, for those with LESS space than usual, this can accomplish a very crucial goal of getting you back some of that valuable desk real-estate for your mouse, or other peripherals.
For instance, in my case, I needed more room for gaming. One of the problems I kept running into with my existing setup was that during an intense firefight, I would sometimes slap my mouse on the side of my keyboard, resulting in, almost always, poor results. And after trying for many months to get used to playing with my full-sized keyboard tilted at a 45 degree angle, it just became worth the $35 dollars or so to get rid of the hand-pain that induced and solve the mouse conundrum in a combo meal.
On the other hand, I could also see this being fairly useful for something like Asesprite, GIMP, or other design-oriented programs and tools. While I’m sure that there are people that could easily use the full spread of a full-sized keyboard with macros and still need more room, I’m not one of them, and I think it’s fair to say that someone reading a review about this keyboard for that reason probably isn’t either.
So, what sets this keyboard apart from the competition? The biggest thing for me has been the remappable buttons. With 5 dedicated macro-keys and two other keys that you have the *option* to remap (tilde and T), you’ve got 7 total keys to customize. There are severe limitations to this that can ultimately hamper that usability, but we’ll come back to that later.
If you’re someone that’s into RGB, the keyboard lets you choose from 5 arrangements of color patterns that can range from what you’d expect from a typical RGB rainbow-vomit experience, to more subdued patterns that only appear when a key is pressed. To Redragons credit, the depth and color coverage is absolutely outstanding. It absolutely cannot be understated, in comparison to my Corsair RGB keyboard, the colors are just better on the K585.
There’s even some hidden gems as far as features go, too. While you can change the color mode using the four dedicated mode-buttons atop the keyboard, this *also* serves as a convenient and quick way to swap between different macro bindings on those 7 macro keys. But, if someone were to decide that they wanted to change the color mode but not lose their bindings, they could just as easily use the function key and space key to cycle between the modes of their own volition.
Additionally, the keyboard has a detachable Type-C cable, so in the off chance that your cable got ruined, you would no longer be in the market for a whole keyboard, but just a cable. It also features an extra USB slot on the back that you could use for presumably anything a normal USB Type 2 slot could be used for, like a full keyboard if you needed that extra range, a wireless headset adapter, or just a convenient place to charge your phone.
So now we’ve covered the good, but what about the bad? Are there any “gotchas” to this product? That’s a question with some complicated answers that mostly come down to your use case. For me, one of the biggest issues with the device was the limitations behind the macro recording. As you can only record buttons that are available on the device itself, it makes rebinding almost mandatory for some games. In Destiny 2, as an example, I have my social tab bound to my O key normally, but as the K585 doesn’t have an O key, it makes opening that menu kind of a chore. My options at that point were to either change which keyboard I was pressing keys on for only specific keys, or just rebind these actions. Luckily, Destiny 2 has two binding settings for each action, so I was able to set most of these crucial actions to be the F1 through F4 keys as their fallback binding, in the off chance that I wanted to use a full-sized keyboard for any reason.
*But*, even this has consequences. If you’re playing a game that doesn’t have multiple binding options, or rebinding at all, you’re just going to be out of luck. On top of that, if you’re someone that uses the alt-key for whatever reason, you could potentially run into issues with either accidentally or unintentionally using ALT+F4 to close your game or program of choice. Ideally, passing a keyboard through the K585 would allow it to register these macros as any press, like how a lot of keyboard or mouse macro software works already. Of course, the K585 doesn’t have any software to speak of, so it may just be a limitation of the hardware they use to power these macro keys.
Another binding issue that I’ve run into is the problem of *un*-binding keys. While you *can* unbind them, it appears to only have a group unbind option. For my use case, I’ve somehow managed to lose the T binding entirely. If I change modes it’s fine, or if I were to reset *the entire binding setup* I could fix it, but I can’t just rebind my T key to T, as it.. Isn’t T anymore. I also can’t just reset *that particular* binding, but this is again, probably a limitation of whatever they use to power the macros.
Thankfully, that covers the largest of my gripes with the keyboard. I’m no mechanical keyboard expert by any means, but it uses blue switches that feel very good to me. If you’re not sure what kind of switches you like, the mechanical keyboards subreddit seems to always recommend buying a switch tester. They run around 17 dollars on Amazon, however, so if you’re looking for a budget option in something like this keyboard, you’ll potentially just be paying for peace of mind. With that said, the switches are audible, but they don’t drive me up the walls by any means.
My only other real complaint with this is probably that the F key doesn’t have the nice tactile bump that I’m accustomed to on my full-sized keyboard. That lead to quite a few times where my senses and muscle memory clashed with each other and ultimately caused me to fumble around aimlessly, but that had an easy enough fix. For me, I just put a dab of super glue on the key to give it a little bump, and that’s been more than enough to ease the aforementioned clashing.
I will say that when I was browsing Amazon to figure out what exactly I was going to buy, it took me a while to get over the absolutely dreadful looking font that is printed on the keys. To me, it came off as a very edgy and try-hard font, but in person it didn’t really bother me all that much. And, thankfully, most of the time I spend with this keyboard, I’m looking at the screen and not the keyboard, so truthfully it doesn’t bother me anymore.
So, is the K585 worth it? In my opinion, absolutely! If you’re looking for a keyboard of this style, there are a ton of positive things to say here. If you like RGB, it’s got it, if you don’t, you can turn it off. If you’re worried about price, it’s inexpensive (especially in comparison to the competition), and if you’re working with limited desk space, this is a natural pick.
Rated 5 out of 5
Raphael Silva de Oliveira –
gebruik het om aan mijn steam deck aan te sluiten. USB hub is heel handig
Sean H. –
I ordered this to put into a custom gaming simpit / desk and since WASD is starting to wear down on my primary keyboard, this seemed like a good idea. I had looked at several options, and having had good experiences with Redragon before, opted for the K585. The packaging is simple and includes the keyboard, the magnetic rest, a braided and reasonably long USB cable, and simple instructions. It was pretty much plug and play. I downloaded the K585 software from Redragon’s site, and while it works, it does not size properly and the text in the app is cut off on my monitor. The keyboard has built in presets for lighting options, which I actually prefer and they work perfectly.
As has been stated in other reviews, the OUTEMU blue switches are clicky but feel good. The spacing and look of the keys is great. They are responsive when pressed. I’ve heard mixed reviews on the space bar. I love it. My thumb naturally lands on it and it feels perfectly placed to me, with no wobble on mine. While minimal, I also like the wrist rest. As others have said, it is plastic with a texture but no padding. The height is perfect, the magnets are solid, and despite being not padded, it is comfortable. I hooked the keyboard up and tested in a couple of games (Helldivers and Star Citizen) and there was no adjustment period for me, I was able to just start using it effectively. If you are on the fence about one-handed keyboards or are wearing out WASD, give this a try, especially for the low cost. I am happy that I did.
Hector Eche –
Me encanto este producto porqué ademas de porderle personalizar las luz atravez de su controlador de pc se siente de buena calidad y es muy comodo de usar
RODRIGO MAGAÑA –
El teclado cumple por completo las funciones requeridas y el diseño presente es totalmente profesional
Darcie –
Excelente pra quem procura, mas já alerto que os layout do teclado e estranho e tem que se acostumar. Mas fora isso sem reclamações.
RODRIGO MAGAÑA –
Nice little gaming keyboard. Been looking for one for a while as I had a ZBoard Fang and loved it because I’m not exactly gentle while gaming and it took a beating not the keyboard I want to use to type with.
Keys are well arranged. Like the big space button and its placement as its an easy reach. Would have been nice to have a raised dot or something on the W key so you don’t need to look at the keyboard to index where your fingers are.
Works well for what it is. Replaceable switches, comes with tools and spare switches. Only slightly disappointed its USB A not C connected but that’s OK.
It’s also heavy enough and has rubber feet so it doesn’t move around while you are playing which is great,
also its a bit thin on documentation but hey – its a keyboard, and you don’t need to be a rocket surgeon to figure it out.
The only thing I haven’t figured out is the why of the magnetic wrist rest. It works fine but its a natural place to grab the keyboard by and it hangs on just long enough to let the keyboard fall off and hit the floor.
Still all in all a nice product that does exactly what it says it does and does it well.
S. A. Wilson –
Love the keys. Love the brown switches. Love the keycaps even. They feel nice. Yes, it’s edgy space font but it’s not TOO bad. About a 2/10 on the HR Giger scale. Only one problem:
WASD is dumb. Very very dumb. Why? I don’t care that it’s what the entire world uses. If you learn how to touch type, your left hand will naturally fall on the home key, F. That’s why it has a little nub on it. So you can develop feel memory and just know your fingers are on the home keys. So why wouldn’t you use ESDF instead? Then you get a pinky key too. A. WASD is stupid. Sorry.
Anyhow, they put the first completely smooth F key on anything I’ve ever seen in my life. I had to throw it away. I had a few spares. It looks awesome with a proper F key that’s a different color. I use F a lot. : ) So it’s important that it’s correct. Now I can find my movement keys by feel again. I don’t have to waste time looking.
Superglue, that’s up to you. This is a personal preference. I put a little dab on the wrist rest to make it permanent. I loved it so much. I just put it on the magnets and let them be together forever. It’s better that way.
Otherwise, wow what a nice addition to a Star Citizen setup. This sits nicely off to the left of a VKB Omni-Throttle for quick accessible on-foot controls, or anything else. Opening up the mobiglass quick because you have a real F1 key. Etc. tapping escape to fix a keybind quick. Setting up a macro for Flight > ATC > VTOL. Makes the game that much better. Worth every penny.
It gets a five for value. They are using good quality parts. They did put thought into the design. Like you can tell it was designed for your fingers to fall on F key home position based on where the space is placed. You literally have to stretch to hit it if you use wasd. ESDF? your hand just falls naturally on everything. So nice. The switches feel great. Love that soft bump in the press. You subconsciously start remembering where that bump happens and it improves your timing because it coincides with actuation. That’s the benefit of browns for gaming. You aren’t just mashing the key into the board for timing. You don’t have to. So your keyboard takes less abuse. And you maintain a lower level of chill, so game better.
Very comfortable. Perfect wrist rest. Perfect key position. Great key caps. Great lighting, Oh great lighting options. They offer five. For me it was like, hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, OH!. The fifth one I liked a lot. It’s a blue and green burst gradient. Very awesome looking. Matches my stuff.
The only other thing to maybe complain about is it slides around a little. Like the bottom isn’t grippy enough. Easily fixed with two pieces of VHB tape on the bottom but worth mentioning.
I am one very happy customer.
R. Van Dyke –
The Redragon K585 DITI is an entry level mechanical keyboard that punches above its weight. That doesn’t make it perfect for everyone, however.
Look, it’s pretty clear just by looking at this keyboard that it isn’t a full keyboard. That intrinsically limits its target audience. For someone with ample desk space, this might not make the most sense as a purchase. But, on the flip side of that, for those with LESS space than usual, this can accomplish a very crucial goal of getting you back some of that valuable desk real-estate for your mouse, or other peripherals.
For instance, in my case, I needed more room for gaming. One of the problems I kept running into with my existing setup was that during an intense firefight, I would sometimes slap my mouse on the side of my keyboard, resulting in, almost always, poor results. And after trying for many months to get used to playing with my full-sized keyboard tilted at a 45 degree angle, it just became worth the $35 dollars or so to get rid of the hand-pain that induced and solve the mouse conundrum in a combo meal.
On the other hand, I could also see this being fairly useful for something like Asesprite, GIMP, or other design-oriented programs and tools. While I’m sure that there are people that could easily use the full spread of a full-sized keyboard with macros and still need more room, I’m not one of them, and I think it’s fair to say that someone reading a review about this keyboard for that reason probably isn’t either.
So, what sets this keyboard apart from the competition? The biggest thing for me has been the remappable buttons. With 5 dedicated macro-keys and two other keys that you have the *option* to remap (tilde and T), you’ve got 7 total keys to customize. There are severe limitations to this that can ultimately hamper that usability, but we’ll come back to that later.
If you’re someone that’s into RGB, the keyboard lets you choose from 5 arrangements of color patterns that can range from what you’d expect from a typical RGB rainbow-vomit experience, to more subdued patterns that only appear when a key is pressed. To Redragons credit, the depth and color coverage is absolutely outstanding. It absolutely cannot be understated, in comparison to my Corsair RGB keyboard, the colors are just better on the K585.
There’s even some hidden gems as far as features go, too. While you can change the color mode using the four dedicated mode-buttons atop the keyboard, this *also* serves as a convenient and quick way to swap between different macro bindings on those 7 macro keys. But, if someone were to decide that they wanted to change the color mode but not lose their bindings, they could just as easily use the function key and space key to cycle between the modes of their own volition.
Additionally, the keyboard has a detachable Type-C cable, so in the off chance that your cable got ruined, you would no longer be in the market for a whole keyboard, but just a cable. It also features an extra USB slot on the back that you could use for presumably anything a normal USB Type 2 slot could be used for, like a full keyboard if you needed that extra range, a wireless headset adapter, or just a convenient place to charge your phone.
So now we’ve covered the good, but what about the bad? Are there any “gotchas” to this product? That’s a question with some complicated answers that mostly come down to your use case. For me, one of the biggest issues with the device was the limitations behind the macro recording. As you can only record buttons that are available on the device itself, it makes rebinding almost mandatory for some games. In Destiny 2, as an example, I have my social tab bound to my O key normally, but as the K585 doesn’t have an O key, it makes opening that menu kind of a chore. My options at that point were to either change which keyboard I was pressing keys on for only specific keys, or just rebind these actions. Luckily, Destiny 2 has two binding settings for each action, so I was able to set most of these crucial actions to be the F1 through F4 keys as their fallback binding, in the off chance that I wanted to use a full-sized keyboard for any reason.
*But*, even this has consequences. If you’re playing a game that doesn’t have multiple binding options, or rebinding at all, you’re just going to be out of luck. On top of that, if you’re someone that uses the alt-key for whatever reason, you could potentially run into issues with either accidentally or unintentionally using ALT+F4 to close your game or program of choice. Ideally, passing a keyboard through the K585 would allow it to register these macros as any press, like how a lot of keyboard or mouse macro software works already. Of course, the K585 doesn’t have any software to speak of, so it may just be a limitation of the hardware they use to power these macro keys.
Another binding issue that I’ve run into is the problem of *un*-binding keys. While you *can* unbind them, it appears to only have a group unbind option. For my use case, I’ve somehow managed to lose the T binding entirely. If I change modes it’s fine, or if I were to reset *the entire binding setup* I could fix it, but I can’t just rebind my T key to T, as it.. Isn’t T anymore. I also can’t just reset *that particular* binding, but this is again, probably a limitation of whatever they use to power the macros.
Thankfully, that covers the largest of my gripes with the keyboard. I’m no mechanical keyboard expert by any means, but it uses blue switches that feel very good to me. If you’re not sure what kind of switches you like, the mechanical keyboards subreddit seems to always recommend buying a switch tester. They run around 17 dollars on Amazon, however, so if you’re looking for a budget option in something like this keyboard, you’ll potentially just be paying for peace of mind. With that said, the switches are audible, but they don’t drive me up the walls by any means.
My only other real complaint with this is probably that the F key doesn’t have the nice tactile bump that I’m accustomed to on my full-sized keyboard. That lead to quite a few times where my senses and muscle memory clashed with each other and ultimately caused me to fumble around aimlessly, but that had an easy enough fix. For me, I just put a dab of super glue on the key to give it a little bump, and that’s been more than enough to ease the aforementioned clashing.
I will say that when I was browsing Amazon to figure out what exactly I was going to buy, it took me a while to get over the absolutely dreadful looking font that is printed on the keys. To me, it came off as a very edgy and try-hard font, but in person it didn’t really bother me all that much. And, thankfully, most of the time I spend with this keyboard, I’m looking at the screen and not the keyboard, so truthfully it doesn’t bother me anymore.
So, is the K585 worth it? In my opinion, absolutely! If you’re looking for a keyboard of this style, there are a ton of positive things to say here. If you like RGB, it’s got it, if you don’t, you can turn it off. If you’re worried about price, it’s inexpensive (especially in comparison to the competition), and if you’re working with limited desk space, this is a natural pick.
Raphael Silva de Oliveira –
gebruik het om aan mijn steam deck aan te sluiten. USB hub is heel handig