The ergonomic keyboard I use every day for work and gaming now has $50 hacked off its price tag thanks to Prime Day

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I reviewed this exact keyboard last November (as well as its predecessor in 2024), and came away mightily impressed. Not simply content with giving it a score of 92%, I've been using the Kinesis Gaming FreeStyle Edge RGB Plus every day since then, and I still think it's the best ergonomic keyboard for gaming.

And now that you can get it for just a quarter over $149 at Amazon, it's the perfect time to step into the world of ergo keebs and give your shoulders, wrists, and overall posture relief from cramped, awkward gamer button bashers.

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The Edge Plus is quite old-school in some ways, with a slightly dated design and feature set. But while you're not getting rapid trigger or snap tap keys, or even a simple media wheel, what you are getting is a highly adjustable and exceptionally comfortable ergonomic keyboard.

The permanently split structure means you can spread out the two halves such that your shoulders never have to rotate in slightly to accommodate a compact layout. The included lift kit offers three levels of tenting (raising the inside edge of each half) to prevent wrist strain from dealing with a flat keyboard.

Add in the fact that the tactile switches are lovely to use, the RGB lighting is subtle rather than overwhelming, and the extra keys on the left are easy to program for macros, and you've got a solid platform with which to work all day on, and then game for hours afterwards.

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A photograph of the Kinesis Gaming Freestyle Edge RGB Plus ergonomic keyboard — (Image credit: Future)

There are some aspects I'm not keen on, though. The wrist pad material is a sweat magnet, the delete key is a heck of a reach, the lift kit flaps about when you move the keyboard, and I'd prefer it if the cables were removable. But these are minor quibbles when you consider the whole package.

If you prefer linear to tactile switches, you can buy that version of the FreeStyle Edge RGB Plus for a fraction over $159 at Amazon, but since all the switches are hot-swappable, you can fit anything you like as long as they match Gateron's pin layout (which is pretty standard).

If you're a heavy PC user like me, you owe it to yourself to go ergo, and Kinesis' keyboard is a great way to do just that.

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Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in the early 1980s. After leaving university, he became a physics and IT teacher and started writing about tech in the late 1990s. That resulted in him working with MadOnion to write the help files for 3DMark and PCMark. After a short stint working at Beyond3D.com, Nick joined Futuremark (MadOnion rebranded) full-time, as editor-in-chief for its PC gaming section, YouGamers. After the site shutdown, he became an engineering and computing lecturer for many years, but missed the writing bug. Cue four years at TechSpot.com covering everything and anything to do with tech and PCs. He freely admits to being far too obsessed with GPUs and open-world grindy RPGs, but who isn't these days?