Click Speed Test
The test above runs for five seconds. Click the pad as fast as you can and it reports your clicks per second when the window closes. Other window lengths are listed below.
The timer starts on your first click, not on page load, so nothing is lost while you get ready.
Every page in this section
- Reaction Time TestWait for the signal, click, and see the number against what is typical
- Click CounterA counter that goes up and stays where you left it
- Spacebar CounterThe same count, driven by the space bar
- Click Speed Test: 1 SecondsClicks counted over exactly 1 seconds, the rate as you go, and what a typical score at thi
- Click Speed Test: 10 SecondsClicks counted over exactly 10 seconds, the rate as you go, and what a typical score at th
- Click Speed Test: 5 SecondsClicks counted over exactly 5 seconds, the rate as you go, and what a typical score at thi
- Click Speed Test: 30 SecondsClicks counted over exactly 30 seconds, the rate as you go, and what a typical score at th
- Click Speed Test: 60 SecondsClicks counted over exactly 60 seconds, the rate as you go, and what a typical score at th
- Click Speed Test: 2 SecondsClicks counted over exactly 2 seconds, the rate as you go, and what a typical score at thi
- Click Speed Test: 15 SecondsClicks counted over exactly 15 seconds, the rate as you go, and what a typical score at th
- Click Speed Test: 100 SecondsClicks counted over exactly 100 seconds, the rate as you go, and what a typical score at t
What the score means
Clicks per second is just your total divided by the length of the window. In the five-second window, 30 clicks is 6 per second and 50 clicks is 10 per second. Most people who try this land somewhere around 5 to 8 clicks per second on a short window, and the very fast scores come from a technique – dragging a finger across the button, or vibrating the whole hand – rather than from pressing faster.
The number is not purely you. It includes your mouse or trackpad, the switch under it, your screen and the browser, all of which decide how many of your presses actually register. A cheap mouse that misses presses and a good one that catches every one will give the same hand different scores.
Pick your window
- 1 second and 2 seconds – too short to pace. Mostly a burst, and the result swings a lot between tries.
- 5 seconds – the standard, and what the test above runs.
- 10 seconds and 15 seconds – long enough that pacing starts to matter.
- 30 seconds, 60 seconds and 100 seconds – endurance rather than speed. A hundred seconds is one minute forty.
Short windows flatter you
Averages drop as the window grows, because the forearm tires long before the intent does. A burst you can hold for two seconds is not a rate you can hold for a minute, so a 1-second score and a 60-second score are not comparable numbers even though both are printed as clicks per second. Compare like with like, and compare your own runs on your own hardware.
Counting without a clock
Sometimes you want the tally and not the rate. The click counter just counts presses, for tallying stock, people through a door, or repetitions of anything. The spacebar counter does the same from the keyboard.
Reaction is a different thing
Speed of repeated clicking and speed of responding to a signal are unrelated skills. The reaction time test measures the gap between the screen changing and your click arriving, which includes your screen, mouse and browser, not just you. Typical human visual reaction is roughly 200 to 300 milliseconds, and a result outside that range says as much about the hardware as about the person. It diagnoses nothing. If you want to time something in the real world instead, use the stopwatch.