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The list in brief1. Best Overall2. Best Full-Size3. Best Budget4. Best Low-Profile5. Best Optical Switches6. Best TKL7. Best Productivity8. Best Portable9. Best Portable Gaming10. Shopping Tips11. Discounts

Your keyboard is the main way you interface with your computer, which means it's one of the most important parts of your PC. While wireless peripherals have gotten a bad rap in the past, they've since caught up (mostly, anyway) to wired peripherals in terms of connectivity and latency, especially for non-competitive gamers.

The best wireless keyboard for you depends on how and where you plan to use it, and what you plan to do with it. Wireless keyboards come in all sizes (from mini 60 percent layouts to full-size with extra macro keys), switch types, and aesthetics. Most are highly (if not fully) remappable, and they often feature dedicated media keys, macro keys, and built-in gaming presets.

Whether you're a couch-bound console gamer trying to chat on your PlayStation 5 or a productivity-focused coder trying to clean up your workspace, there's a perfect wireless keyboard out there for you — and these are the best wireless keyboards we've personally tested.

If you're looking for a great keyboard but not necessarily one that's wireless, check out our list of best gaming keyboards.

Best Overall

Best Wireless Gaming Keyboard

This impressively built, hot-swappable wireless keyboard has extra sound-dampening case foam and offers a whopping 1,500 hours of battery life over 2.4GHz wireless. It's a 96-percent keyboard, which means it has a 10-key numberpad but is more compact than than a full-size keyboard.

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Best Full-Size

Best Full-Size Wireless Gaming Keyboard

This full-size wireless keyboard comes with a magnetic leatherette wrist rest and features a multi-function dial, media keys, and bright per-key RGB lighting.

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Best Budget

Best Budget Wireless Gaming Keyboard

This ~$70 keyboard lacks a little polish, but it features dedicated macro keys, media keys, and a volume roller, and comes with a wrist rest. It's a TKL layout (no numberpad), but it has an extra line of macro keys on the left side.

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Best Low-Profile

Best Low-Profile Wireless Gaming Keyboard

This low-profile keyboard offers an impressive typing and gaming experience — and is just 11mm thick at its thinnest point. It's also full-size, with dedicated media keys along the top.

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Best Optical Switches

Best Optical Switch Wireless Gaming Keyboard

This full-size wireless keyboard with has low-profile, speedy optical switches and slim, lightweight build. It features tri-mode connectivity and dedicated media keys.

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Best TKL

Best TKL Wireless Gaming Keyboard

This wireless keyboard features a compact TKL layout, a sturdy, well-built chassis, and dual-actuation OmniPoint 2.0 Adjustable HyperMagnetic switches with Rapid Trigger.

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Best Productivity

Best Wireless Keyboard for Productivity

This hot-swappable keyboard sports a 96-percent layout and Akko’s ASA keycaps. It features a classic, retro terminal look and offers tri-mode wireless connectivity.

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Best Portable

Best Portable Wireless Keyboard

This compact 75-percent keyboard comes in a slim chassis with hot-swappable low-profile switches for ultimate portability.

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Best Portable Gaming

Best Portable Wireless Gaming Keyboard

This ultra-portable 65-percent keyboard has an innovative side touch panel, and comes with your choice of Asus’s linear, tactile, or clicky mechanical switches.

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Asus's ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless is just about everything you could want in a wireless gaming keyboard — it's speedy, responsive, and reliable while gaming, customizable, and it gets up to 1,500 hours of battery life over its low-latency 2.4GHz wireless connection. It has a 96-percent layout, which means it's relatively compact (it measures just 14.84 x 5.16 x 1.57 inches / 377 x 131 x 40mm) — saving desk space without sacrificing the 10-key numberpad.

The ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless is sturdily-built, with an aluminum alloy top plate and double-shot PBT keycaps. It does have a plastic chassis (necessary — according to Asus — for reliable wireless connectivity), but it's got multiple layers of sound-dampening foam inside to minimize case ping. It comes with Asus's second-gen ROG NX Snow linear mechanical switches, which have an actuation force of 45g and are stable, smooth, and quiet. It's also got a hot-swappable PCB, so you can swap the NX Snows out for the switches of your choice.

This keyboard is wireless (that's why it's on this page), with both low-latency 2.4GHz wireless and Bluetooth 5.1 connectivity. Asus says it will get up to 1,500 hours of battery life over 2.4GHz wireless with the lighting turned off, which is fantastic (though this number drops precipitously with the lighting turned on). The ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless isn't quite as fancy as its pricier sibling, the Asus ROG Azoth, but it's close — and it's $70 cheaper.

Read: Asus ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless Review

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The Razer BlackWidow V3 Pro is our favorite wireless keyboard for gaming because it offers you a full-size, full-height mechanical switch experience, plus all the features you’d expect in a premium gaming clacker. You also get a cozy, plush leatherette magnetic wrist rest and four onboard memory profiles. Unfortunately, you’ll need the software to use any RGB besides the 7 effects stored in the keyboard’s memory. And there are no macro keys, like the Logitech G915 Lightspeed offers.

The BlackWidow V3 Pro can connect with a wireless dongle, via its included charging cable or through Bluetooth, which lets it pair with up to 3 additional PCs. Battery life varies based on backlight brightness and effect but can range from 5-25 hours with lighting and reach 192 hours without. And at 3% battery life, the BlackWidow V3 Pro can get wonky, with delays in registering keypresses and issues with the software finding it.

But ultimately, the BlackWidow V3 Pro delivers everything you’d expect from an expensive, top-of-the-line gaming keyboard, except a mandatory cable. There's also a newer BlackWidow V3 Mini model, although it doesn't bring as much to the table for its price as its larger sibling.

For more gaming recommendations, with or without cables, see our Best Gaming Keyboards page.

Read: Razer BlackWidow V3 Pro review

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Redragon isn’t exactly a well-known gaming brand in the U.S., but it’s hard to argue with the $70 price of the K596 Vishnu. This 2.4 GHz wireless gaming keyboard packs RGB, dedicated macro and media keys, a metal volume rocker, linear switches and even a wrist rest (albeit a hard plastic one) all into a tenkeyless package. And that's at well less than half the price of the more well-known competition.

The K596 Vishnu also feels solid and was comfortable to use while gaming and typing; although, the plastic used for the shell does look a bit cheap. There’s also some funkiness going on with the design, like the fact that F1-F8 are labeled as secondary media controls, despite there also being a bank of dedicated media buttons directly to their right.

The second bank of programmable G keys are also oddly narrow and jammed up. And there are light bars on either side of the keyboard that, while look cool, are only going to drain your battery faster while you’re gaming without the USB-C cable plugged in. You can turn these off by hitting Fn and the Pause button repeatedly, but that’s a pain. The extra lights should default to only turning on when the keyboard is plugged in via a cable. The Vishnu is also heavier than competing wireless keyboards.

Still, despite its oddities and minor flaws, this is one heck of a keyboard for $70, when you consider Logitech’s G915 TKL costs more than three times as much and doesn’t include a wrist rest. If you’re after a compact, colorful wireless gaming keyboard on a budget, the K596 Vishnu easily earns a top spot in the pantheon.

Read: Redragon Vishnu K596 review

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Corsair has created something unique with the K100 Air Wireless RGB. While there are still some areas for improvement (like the shine on the keycaps), this is the thinnest mechanical gaming keyboard I’ve seen from a large gaming brand, and Corsair has nailed the execution.

At just 11mm thick at its thinnest point, it’s immediately reminiscent of the chiclet keys of yesteryear, but it manages to deliver an impressive mechanical keyboard typing and gaming experience. At $279, it’s unquestionably expensive but succeeds in being the most feature-rich and satisfying gaming keyboard in its class.Read: Corsair K100 Air Wireless RGB review

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Razer’s DeathStalker V2 Pro is a totally different animal from its predecessor, and that’s a good thing. It’s an attractive low-profile keyboard that has basically all the features you need — connectivity, customization and pretty lights, plus a surprisingly decent typing experience and an excellent gaming experience. It’s not exactly, as Razer claims, “built like a tank,” but it’s pretty durable for how small, slim and lightweight it is.Read: Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro review

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SteelSeries' Apex Pro TKL Wireless borrows the Apex Pro Mini’s sturdy, minimal, and more generic-looking chassis design, adding the company's updated, highly customizable dual-actuation OmniPoint 2.0 optical switches. The keyboard also packs plenty of premium features like an aluminum alloy top plate, double-shot PBT keycaps, bright per-key RGB, and a detachable magnetic wrist rest. The Apex Pro TKL/Apex Pro TKL Wireless’ roomier layout allows for dedicated media keys and a customizable OLED smart display. Also, unlike its predecessor, it comes in both wired and wireless versions.

The Apex Pro TKL Wireless is an excellent, highly customizable gaming keyboard in a TKL layout, which is much less restrictive than the Apex Pro Mini’s 60 percent layout — but we’re still holding out for an update to the full-size SteelSeries Apex Pro to rival Razer's excellent DeathStalker V2 Pro.

Read: SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL Wireless review

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A typist’s dream, the Akko 3098B combines the company’s comfy, ASA keycaps with a compact, 96-percent layout and the ability to hot-swap in your favorite switches if you don’t like the defaults. The curved surface of the keycaps made it easier to feel our way around while touch typing and the default CS Jelly White switches are the best linear switches we’ve ever used.

The keyboard also has a classic, retro terminal look that made us feel like we were hacking into the Pentagon mainframe from Matthew Broderick’s house. Once we upgraded to our favorite clicky switches, it felt more like we were finishing a story on deadline in the newsroom of the Daily Planet. If you want a touch of modern flair, you can turn on the vibrant RGB lighting that lies beneath the keys.

All nostalgia aside, the Akko 3098B comes loaded with features, including the ability to connect via 2.4-GHz, Bluetooth 5.0 / 3.0 or USB-C. Switching between entry methods takes a single keystroke and less than a second so you can easily use this keyboard with your desktop, a laptop, a Raspberry Pi, your tablet and your phone at the same time.

The Akko 3098B’s 96-percent layout makes it nearly the same width as a tenkeyless model, but with almost all the keys of a full-size keyboard, including the numpad and arrow keys. Two sets of flip-out feet let you adjust the height to your liking.

Akko also sells an identical looking keyboard for $20 more under the model name 3098N. The 3098N just uses a different controller card inside, different client software and has a different selection of switches, but is otherwise the same.

Read: Akko 3098B / N Wireless Keyboard review

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You’ll have to spend extra on Keychron’s $25 travel pouch (or find something else to protect the keys), but the Keychron K3 offers a lot to like for typists on the go. With its appealing looks, attractive backlighting, svelte frame, and hot-swappable low-profile switches, there's a lot to like about the Keychron K3. It's easily the best portable low-profile mechanical/optical keyboard we've used in terms of comfort, looks, and versatility. The fact that Keychron was able to keep things this thin while retaining the ability to swap switches is especially impressive.That said, battery life, as well as overall frame rigidity are compromises you'll have to make in favor of the slim package. If there’s room in your backpack for something taller, the Keychron K2 gets better battery life and feels like it’s built tougher — so it's worth considering exactly how much portability you need before buying.

Read: Keychron K3 review

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The Asus ROG Falchion NX packs just about every feature you could need from a gaming keyboard into as small a space as possible. Thanks to its arrow keys, navigation keys, innovative side touch panel and wireless macro recording capabilities, you don’t have to worry about losing functionality with this board, despite its 65% frame.

This board also boasts Asus's in-house NX switches, which we thought felt noticeably smoother than Cherry MX switches in our review. They also proved a touch louder during our testing, but they should still be a suitable alternative for anyone exhausted with Cherry’s (and its clones’) dominance over the switch market. Red (linear), brown (tactile) and blue (clicky) options are all available here.

This board does have per-key RGB lighting, although customizing it means navigating Asus's clunky Aura Creator software. Making up for that, though, are other premium features like double shot PBT keycaps and the ability to connect over both a USB-C to USB-A cable and 2.4 GHz wireless.

Add in the side touch panel’s ability to hold up to five gesture based actions, and that makes this an extremely viable board for all sorts of use cases, which isn’t something you can always say about 65% keyboards.

Read: Asus ROG Falchion NX review

Peripherals — especially wireless peripherals — are as much about comfort, convenience, and aesthetics as they are about performance. We begin by inspecting each wireless keyboard's build quality, taking note of any premium materials used, such as metal/aluminum chassis or double-shot PBT keycaps. We also look at any included accessories, including wrist rests, cables, replacement parts, and cases.

We spend a couple of weeks using each keyboard as our daily driver for writing, gaming, and everything else. We take a typing test at the beginning of our time with each keyboard and several throughout testing — typing tests don't objectively tell us much, but they give us a good handle on how well a keyboard is laid out and how well its elements fit together, as well as how easy it is to adapt to the keyboard if it's an unusual size or layout.

We test each keyboard's gaming performance by playing a variety of games, ranging from fast, precise first-person shooters to more endurance-based RPGs. We want to see how each keyboard performs in terms of speed, accuracy, and latency, as well as how comfortable and convenient it is for longer, more button-heavy games.

If the keyboard is hot-swappable, we swap in our favorite switches and assess how that changes the typing experience. We also test and review the included switches, because most people aren't going to immediately swap out switches in a brand-new keyboard.

For wireless keyboards, we test the strength, consistency, and latency of the wireless connection through gaming, as well as the battery life with lighting turned on and off. We also try to run each keyboard all the way down, battery-wise, so we can see how the wireless connection performs at lower battery levels.

Customization is especially important on keyboards, so we analyze each keyboard's customizability using any included companion software.

⌨ Mechanical or not? If you’re a gamer and/or will also be doing a lot of writing, a mechanical clacker will be the best wireless keyboard for you. Keyboards with mechanical switches are also usually more durable — although membrane models hold up better to spilled liquids.

⌨ Backlighting / RGB: The least-expensive wireless keyboards won’t likely have backlighting, which is OK if you always use your keyboard in a well-lit space. But if you work or game late into the night and don’t want to (or can’t) switch on overhead lights, a keyboard with backlit keys is what you should be looking for. A single light color will get the job done, but RGB backlighting lets you change things up.

⌨ Pick your switch: Not all of the best wireless keyboards will use mechanical switches. But for those that do, you’ll have plenty of switch options, depending on the model you choose. Many gamers prefer linear switches (often labeled as red or brown) because they make it easier to mash the same buttons repeatedly in quick succession. But, this kind of switch often results in more mistakes (often repeated letters) when typing.

Those who type for a living often prefer “clicky” switches with a tactile bump (often labeled as blue, white, or green) that you can feel when the switch actuates. But clicky switches are noisy, which can bother those around you.

There are dozens of other switch types, including optical-mechanical and membrane. The latter tend to have a mushier feel but are much better at surviving things like spilled drinks. The type of switch that’s best for you depends on personal preference and your use cases and needs. So whenever possible, get an inexpensive switch tester to try out different options, or try to find a keyboard you’re considering in a store to get a feel for it before buying.

⌨ Full-size, tenkeyless, or smaller? Tenkeyless keyboards ditch the number pad, while 65% models often eliminate navigation keys, and 60% boards also usually cut the arrow keys. While some will want every possible key, others prefer a smaller keyboard to save space on their desk, or something that's smaller for easier travel.

⌨ Bluetooth or 2.4GHz: If you want a wireless keyboard that you can use with smartphones and tablets, opt for a Bluetooth keyboard. Most laptops and many desktops these days support Bluetooth. So these are good if you want to use your best wireless keyboard with multiple devices.

That said, if you're only going to use your keyboard with a PC or Mac, and you plan on gaming, you'll want to go with a 2.4GHz connection. A 2.4GHz connection uses a USB dongle, so you'll need a spare USB port — but pairing is a lot simpler and the latency will be reduced drastically when compared to Bluetooth.

It's also handy to have a keyboard that works when plugged in via USB, even if you plan to be wireless most of the time. If you can plug the keyboard in and use it while you're charging, you won't have to worry about downtime.

Whether you're shopping for one of the best wireless keyboards or a model that didn't quite make the cut, you may find some savings by checking out our lists of the latest Newegg promo codes, Best Buy promo codes, Razer promo codes or Corsair coupon codes. You can also check out our Best Tech and PC Hardware Deals page for daily updates on discounted peripherals and other hardware.

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Sarah Jacobsson Purewal is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware covering peripherals, software, and custom builds. You can find more of her work in PCWorld, Macworld, TechHive, CNET, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, PC Gamer, Men's Health, Men's Fitness, SHAPE, Cosmopolitan, and just about everywhere else.

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