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what's up guys I am back with my first actual product video in quite a while if you're wondering why check out my recent videos and there's a bit of explanation about what's been going on in my life but today I'm going to be doing a short video on this very small keyboard this is the Coolermaster SK 6 to 160 percent size Bluetooth mechanical key switch gaming keyboard I'm gonna start off with the price for this thing which is not cheap it's 120 dollars MSRP from coolermaster just minutes made available on may 7th so that might be expensive for you if you don't regularly buy mechanical keyboards mechanical keyboards can often be $150 Plus this one is just so tiny and cute though maybe that makes up for the price being 120 bucks also slim low profile Cherry MX true mechanical key switches so we're gonna give those a test as well and see how they actually feel and everything on the box we can see some basic info about the product the Cherry MX key switches of course Bluetooth compatibility so you can use this to connect up to your phone or another Bluetooth capable device RGB backlighting / key so you can do all the fun customization with lighting that you might come to expect from Coolermaster RGB mechanical keyboards and again that 60% size just just makes it so small and I want to get it out of the box so I can look at it and be like oh it's so tiny that does come in the premium velour it's not really velour but I like to save a lure carrying case so you know if you want to take this on the go what you should do if you're getting a keyboard this small I feel like unless you're trying to do one of Kyle's tiniest setups possible this is really I feel like made for portability thanks to the Bluetooth connectivity but you also have a USB type-c port on the back as well so you can use presumably the included cable yes indeed and included a USB type-c to standard type a braided cable with a velcro strap included so plug that in I'm just gonna connect it up here real quick and that means yes you can plug this in and use it like a normal keyboard because if you were gonna use this for gaming you probably don't want to use it via bluetooth for gaming Bluetooth introduces a decent amount of latency so input lag while gaming never a good thing so plug it in if you're going to be gaming with it I do want to do a bit of game testing on this at some point just to see if it's a significantly different experience from using a full-size keyboard also included in the box though we have a key cap puller here as well as some documentation this one is specifically about Bluetooth setup and this is just the product manual this does come with a warranty from Coolermaster it is two years French Chinese Japanese Russian should have English here at some point aha so just going through to see how the bluetooth pairing works there's a bunch of function buttons very similar to a lot of cooler master keyboards that you can use to adjust certain lighting functions on the fly like red green and blue as well as macro modes they're all sort of subsets on the buttons here since this is a smaller keyboard there's not a lot of extra function buttons on the top and bottom but coolermaster button right here acts as the function switch you can press that and then the Bluetooth buttons right here which are under Z X and C and there's actually a one two and three so you can pair up to three devices to this and have it remember them and then if you switch to wireless mode which is done via the small switch here on the side then it will go and attempt to connect to that Bluetooth device one if it can't connect to that device it'll switch to device two and then device three so that can be convenient if you have this set up to work with multiple devices and you can sort of set them up for your preference also the caps lock switch right here does have a little light that lights up as well that light will turn red and flash one time every 20 seconds when it's at thirty percent battery and then it switches to every ten seconds with it's at twenty percent and then it flashes much more often at five percent and it will automatically go into deep sleep modes and that's how you would know that you need to plug in via USB so you can charge the battery so now I have gotten the keyboard out taking the protective film off of the edges and we can get a better look at it physically so you'll notice very flat key caps at least upon first notice but the he caps actually do have a little bit of a concave to them it's ever so slight but it does allow your finger to kind of rest more towards the center of the key cap if you're finding your home keys without looking at the keyboard itself you'll also notice that there are pretty much secondary functions or sometimes even three functions per key just about across the entire keyboard and that is just because there's so few keys to work with and so many functions that it can possibly do so we have profiles that are built-in down here we have a block of like home page up page down and end keys that are over here you have up down left and right arrows over here and then you have a bunch of extra macro and function buttons up in the upper left hand area so s-- will allow you to use cooler masters built-in keyboard functions to adjust the lighting and macros which actually can be pretty intuitive once you learn it and figure out how it works I've been using cooler master keyboards for quite some time now so I sort of have a pretty good idea of it if you do it a lot it gets pretty simple but it does have a bit of a learning curve since you got to kind of figure out what's what but the manual does have a pretty good rundown of how to access all those functions so you can do that in particular once you're adjusting lighting for example you have red green and blue switches here and you can tap those up to ten times for ten levels of intensity for that color and then you can combine red green and blue so if you do all of them at ten it makes white for example or different shades in between you also have keys to adjust brightness levels repeating or infinity loops for the different lighting functions and then you even have some media control buttons here on the upper right for turning volume up and down play pause forward and back and yes even though they didn't put gamer in the title of this product it does also have a Windows lock button up here on the top right so that will allow you to lock out the Windows key so you don't actually press it and take yourself out of a game when you don't want to take yourself out of a game the key switches themselves being mechanical feel very nice they have a good amount of resistance and I will say they definitely feel significantly better than your typical rubber dome keyboard does and comparing it to other Cherry MX Reds which I have over here on the coolermaster MK 850 which is their flagship it's not all that different it's slightly different but both of them feel very nice I think the keyboard itself has a nice brushed metal top and a bit of a beveled edge around the outside the underside of it is plastic does have a bit of texture to it so that helps prevent picking up fingerprints and that kind of thing some rubber pads on the bottom it does not have a little vertical mats that help you tilt it up a little bit so keep that in mind but again probably just keeping the body itself very slim looking at from the side here you can see sort of how slim that is unofficially I'm gonna say it's less than one and a quarter inches tall at least that way I did get a more accurate measurement of the width of it again at being a 60% keyboard it is very tiny but about 11 and 5/8 inches wide for this entire keyboard and the metric system that is 224 millimeters so that's that's very small one last thing to mention before we get into some testing is the battery life and that is 14 hours with the LEDs on or four months with the LEDs off so the LEDs do use up some power and I guess that's a trade-off that you'll have to live with I am going to not use the USB cable for now I'm going to bluetooth connect this to my phone original pixel XL by the way still using it three years later I'm gonna pair this up real quick pressing the function and Bluetooth key for three seconds which should hopefully put it into pairing mode new device Bluetooth keyboard eight one eight so now we're connected coolermaster bluetooth keyboard one now we can tap configure' physical keyboard default layout sounds good to me okay okay so keyboards paired so now I should be able to type a wonderful note here for myself note to self when practicing taping mom lock-on auto focus remember that auto focus usually well there's a quick typing test just right here and it works as a keyboard the keys that you push I represented on the device you're connected to so that wasn't too tough at all I would think that if you like to do work on the go but you know typing on the keyboard is a lot faster than trying to tap something out on your phones on-screen keyboard this is gonna be really helpful for you I mean just pair it up set it down wherever type away and kind of gives a much more like desktop like experience with a keyboard even if you're just using your phone but I want to give it one more test and also give myself an excuse to play some video games so let's play some video games so now having played some video games with this keyboard my opinion of it has completely changed no I'm just kidding it's still a very good and functional keyboard and all the stuff I said earlier still applies and pressing the buttons caused it to respond and do things in the game so that's always a plus for keyboards ultimately I would say this is this is a nice little keyboard feels very premium it does have that premium price $120 so that's something that if you can get past it if you're looking for something that's as small I think coolermaster has done a great job integrating a lot of the functionality here as well as the Bluetooth can action I think that's just very useful for versatility whether you want to plug it into a desktop for some gaming there or connected to a Bluetooth device so this is the SK 61 from cooler master I'll put a link to it down the video's description thank you guys so much for watching this video and for bearing with me through this sort of tumultuous time in my life but it's been great again check my recent videos and feel a little bit more update on what's going on there but thanks again for watching hit the thumbs up button on your way out and we'll see you guys next time