maybe i'm old but RGB gamer stuff has never looked cool to me in the same way underglow on a civic or f-350 doesn't look cool to me, backlight is off on mine and it's got PBT keys anyway so it just lights up the hair and cat fur I haven't cleaned out recently
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All keys, lowest brightness. I really don't need them lighting up after I've pressed them or having them fade in and out if I'm searching for a key, I just need to see them a bit better in the evening.
None lighting. Its a keyboard.
Off. What use is it?
My room is naturally pretty dark so the illumination helps, plus I like the effect.
Mine is still on the default shifting rainbow pattern it's cool.
Gaming keyboard? Mine is plain white backlights.
Yeah it came with that sweet $1000 gaming PC deal I got last year
Came with a matching mouse too. It was a nice surprise because my old keyboard was on its way out as well as my mouse and when I asked the guy at best buy he told me it only came with the tower and cables. Its a pretty damn solid keyboard too. Its from some company called cyberpowerpc and at the risk of sounding like a shill I was very happy with the whole package. Plus it came with an RTX4060 which was a hell of an upgrade from the 980 in my previous build. First time I haven't built my own in like 20 years.
Red light at lowest setting is best because it doesn't mess up your night vision. This is why red lights are used for emergency lightning and such, red being the lowest energy color of visible light (long wavelength).
I leave it on full unicorn vomit all the time because I'm a maniac
<5% brightness, 
no effects
I keep my at low brightness with a sort of terminal green. I'm not an RGB sort of guy but I do find having a lit keyboard does help with my programming at night. I often forget what key plus SHIFT gives me '&' or '*' and stuff like that.
I thought I would really like having backlight and paid extra for it. I find I almost never use it. I'd probably be just as happy having a booklight to attach to my keyboard for the offtime I need to see the keys in the total dark.
When I do use it, I use plain white (or the closest approximation) solid on for all keys all the time. No effects no movement.
Why would you want breathing or other animations? Is it an aesthetic thing or is there some utility? I have a low low end kb that defaults to something like this everytime it gets powered off/on and I can only use it in extreme emergencies because it's very annoying to me. But given the popularity there must be some benefit.
Is there anything unique to mkbs with regards to lighting? Can't all kinds of kbs have backlight?
Heatmap for the standard. It gets more red the faster I type.
However since I use split ergo, when I'm on a layer those are color coded (i.e. numpad lights up, F keys etc).
One has no backlights. The other I keep on steady, low, purplish.
I have no LEDs 
Rainbow wave its always rainbow wave
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I just have them as a constant purple. My keyboards wave setting was a bit too fast for me, and I really prefer having the lights on all the time.
Mine only lights up the key I just pressed, it fades out medium-slow, and it cycles through the colors.
Just solid red at the low settings around evenings. Not a big fan of the crazy settings on peripherals these days.
Barely visible in the day, whatever color I’m feeling (red lately)