Magnetic switches
No metal contact. A magnet moves, a sensor reads how far, and the board decides what counts as a press.
Keychron
K10 HE
Full-size magnetic-switch keyboard, ISO layouts
A 100% aluminium board on magnetic switches: set the actuation point per key between 0.2 and 3.8 mm, with rapid trigger and 4000 mAh behind it.
- 100%
- ISO
- Magnetic switches
- Rapid trigger
- 2.4 GHz
- Bluetooth
- USB-C
- 4000 mAh
At a glance
0.2 to 3.8 mm
The actuation point is yours to set, per key, in steps of 0.1 mm.
Rapid trigger
A key resets the instant it starts to rise, instead of waiting to come all the way back up.
4000 mAh
Up to 120 hours, on 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth or the cable.
What a Hall-effect switch actually changes
An ordinary mechanical switch closes a contact: the key is either down or it is not. A magnetic switch carries a magnet, and a sensor underneath measures how far that magnet has moved. The board therefore knows the exact depth of every key at every moment — which is what makes everything below possible, and why there is no contact to wear out or bounce.
Set the actuation point where you want it
Anywhere from 0.2 mm to 3.8 mm of travel with Gateron Double-Rail switches, or 0.2 to 3.3 mm with the Keychron Ultra-Fast Lime, resolved to 0.1 mm. A shallow setting on the keys you game with, a deep one on the rest of the board so a resting finger does not fire a letter — and it is set per key, not per keyboard.
Rapid trigger, and the rest of the HE toolkit
With rapid trigger on, a key releases the moment it begins to travel back up rather than at a fixed point, so repeated presses come faster. Alongside it: one key holding up to four commands at different depths, last-keystroke prioritisation for opposing direction keys, and analogue gamepad output, where how far you press decides how far the character leans.
Aluminium, and a special edition in wood
The standard K10 HE is a full aluminium body at about 1320 g. The special edition adds a wooden frame around it, at about 1310 g and a few millimetres wider. Both sit on an aluminium plate, and neither is a keyboard that slides around the desk.
Four layers, so it does not ring
Inside: EVA foam under the PCB, an EPDM film between plate and board, a PET film across the bottom case, and a silicone acoustic pad below that. The point of all four is to stop an aluminium box behaving like one — the bottom-out lands flat instead of ringing.
Hot-swappable, within the family
Switches pull out and push in without a soldering iron — with one condition worth knowing before you buy: the Gateron Double-Rail version takes Gateron Double-Rail magnetic switches, and the Keychron Ultra-Fast Lime version takes Ultra-Fast Lime. Magnetic switches are not interchangeable across families the way MX-style mechanical ones are.
Double-shot PBT, two profiles
The standard version comes in Cherry profile with shine-through legends so the backlight reads through them; the special editions use the taller, spherical OSA profile, not shine-through. Both are double-shot PBT — the legend is a second piece of plastic rather than paint, and PBT resists the shine that ABS picks up under a fingertip.
Mac and Windows on one board
A toggle moves the board between macOS and Windows, the extra modifier keycaps for both are in the box, and a separate layout is stored on the keyboard for each system — so the switch is one flick, not a remapping session.
All of it set in a browser tab
Actuation points, rapid trigger, the four-command action keys, key mapping and the backlight are all configured in the Keychron Launcher web app — no installer, and the same page on Windows, macOS and Linux. The settings are written to the keyboard, so they travel with it.
North-facing RGB, per key or in two zones
Twenty-two or more backlight modes, including plain static white for people who want to see the legends and nothing else. Per-key RGB sets every key individually; Mix RGB splits the board into two zones with different effects.
ISO layout versions
The K10 HE is produced in ISO layouts as well as ANSI — German and UK are shown here, on the standard and the special edition. Ask us which are in stock.
In detail
Specification
Keyboard
- Layout
- 100% · ANSI / ISO
- Switches
- Gateron Double-Rail magnetic or Keychron Ultra-Fast Lime magnetic
- Switch support
- Hot-swappable within the same magnetic family only
- Keycaps
- Cherry profile double-shot PBT, shine-through (standard); OSA double-shot PBT (special edition)
- Plate
- Aluminium
- Stabilisers
- Plate-mounted
- Backlight
- North-facing RGB, 22+ modes, per-key and two-zone
- N-key rollover
- Yes, wired and wireless
- Damping
- EVA foam, EPDM film, bottom-case PET film, silicone acoustic pad
Hall-effect features
- Actuation point
- 0.2 – 3.8 mm (Gateron Double-Rail) or 0.2 – 3.3 mm (Ultra-Fast Lime)
- Resolution
- 0.1 mm
- Rapid trigger
- Yes
- Dynamic keystroke
- Four commands on one key, at four depths
- Last keystroke priority
- Yes
- Gamepad analogue
- Yes
Connectivity and power
- Connection
- 2.4 GHz / Bluetooth / USB-C
- Polling rate
- 1000 Hz on 2.4 GHz and wired, 125 Hz on Bluetooth
- Battery
- 4000 mAh lithium-polymer
- Battery life
- Up to 120 h
- Controller
- 256 KB
- Operating systems
- Windows, macOS, Linux
Physical
- Dimensions
- 440.2 × 129.2 mm, or 444.6 × 129.2 mm on the special edition
- Weight
- About 1320 g, or 1310 g on the special edition
- Height
- 33.4 mm at the front, 40.3 mm at the back, with keycaps
- Typing angles
- 3.5° / 7.7° / 11°
- Frame
- Aluminium, or aluminium and wood on the special edition
- Operating temperature
- −10 °C to 50 °C
Figures published by the manufacturer. Battery life is a laboratory result and varies with use.
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