Click Speed Test (CPS)

How It Works

Pick a duration (5, 10 or 60 seconds), then press the circle — the very first press starts the clock and counts as click one. The tool listens for pointerdown events, which fire the instant your finger or button goes down, and increments both a running total and a per-second bucket array. When the countdown reaches zero the circle locks and three numbers appear: total clicks, average CPS (clicks ÷ seconds) and best CPS — the single most productive one-second bucket of the run, which shows your peak rather than your fade. Reset returns to the armed state with a fresh timer.

Why we listen on pointerdown, not click

The DOM click event fires only after the button is released — it is literally pointerdown plus travel time plus pointerup. For a normal, deliberate press that is irrelevant, but in a max-rate clicking test the release half of every stroke would be counted against you, and drag strokes (which often never produce a clean pointerup on target) could be dropped entirely. Counting pointerdown measures the rate you can press, which is the stat this test is named after.

Drag clicking and the human ceiling

A plain index-finger click tops out around 6–8 CPS for a couple of seconds because the muscle has to relax between presses. Drag or jitter clicking exploits the mechanical switch re-making contact many times per stroke, reaching roughly 15–20 CPS in human benchmarks — and higher on mice tuned for it. Both register here because every pointerdown counts; interpret the result as hand + hardware together.

What CPS does and does not tell you

Average CPS over 60 seconds is a crude endurance number for a small muscle group; best-second CPS is the honest peak. Neither predicts real-world mouse skill, which is dominated by aiming and dragging precision, not press rate. Take the numbers as a party trick with a warm-up function, not a competency score.

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