I will be the first to admit my skeptical hat gets put on when companies established in another market try to get into the PC peripherals one, especially if it is as big an e-sports organization as Fnatic. They quelled most of those thoughts when they were upfront in person about having worked with other companies first to get Fnatic-branded gear out, but recognized they needed to do more, and have their own lineup now. Sure, most of the keyboards today are still made in the same few factories, but that is the same for just about everything. With the STREAK and miniSTREAK, Fnatic have actually managed to put out a keyboard series that is decidedly theirs with the branding and yet has features that combine to create a product different enough from the rest.

At $109, the miniSTREAK has a lot of competition from keyboards both priced the same and under it. But I can't think of a keyboard I have tested to date that comes in such a small and light built with feedback from competitive gamers that it actually also works for the average user. Take that included wrist rest, for example, with three levels of distance to cater to different hand sizes. Mice come shaped differently, so I can definitely see a use case for the wrist rest even though it is not as critical with a keyboard. A quick button to enable a series of secondary functions converting to primary ones also results in a configurable keyboard out of the box before we even get to the typical gaming keyboard features of Cherry MX mechanical switches, the RGB backlighting, or a software driver program to make more of the keyboard, as well as the mediocre stock keycaps, unfortunately. There is enough here to attract attention from many who may even not have heard of the brand before, let alone fans and die-hard Fnatic loyalists.