Click test.

What this click test measures

Clicks per second, or CPS, is simply how many times you click in a fixed window. The window matters: without one the number means nothing, because clicking slowly for two minutes would average out to whatever you liked. Ten seconds is the usual standard, so it is the default here, with 1, 5, 30 and 60 second options alongside.

People call this a mouse click test, a mouse clicker test, a click speed tester, a mouse click counter or a mouse clicking speed test; it is the same measurement. A mouse speed test usually means this too — if you meant how fast the cursor moves, that is DPI. It counts the left click by default. Switch to right click or middle click to run a right-click CPS test or to time the switch under the wheel — the switch check below works the same on all three, because any of them can wear out and start double-firing.

What counts as a good click speed

• Under 4 CPS — a relaxed pace, roughly ordinary clicking.
• 4 to 7 CPS — normal for most people.
• 7 to 10 CPS — fast, well above average.
• Above 10 CPS — very fast, generally reached with a practised technique rather than single finger presses.

So how fast can you click? An average click speed is 4 to 7 CPS, a fast one is 7 to 10, and the spam-click scores people post — 12, 14, 16 in ten seconds — are technique rather than finger speed. Treat leaderboard numbers with suspicion too: sites count differently, and a worn switch inflates a score without anyone meaning to cheat.

Sustained rates far beyond that usually involve jitter clicking, which uses arm tension to vibrate the finger, or butterfly clicking, which alternates two fingers on one button. Both accelerate switch wear considerably, which is worth knowing before chasing a number. This page works as a jitter click test as it stands: the timer does not care how you click.

The check no other click test does

A worn switch registers one press as two. That inflates a click-speed score, and it is the reason a failing mouse can appear to get faster — people often celebrate a sudden personal best that is actually a hardware fault.

This test measures the gap between every pair of clicks. Presses arriving under 40 milliseconds apart are counted as suspect, because a finger cannot move that fast and firmware already filters bounces of about 2 to 4 ms. When any are found, the corrected rate is shown beside the raw one, so you can see what your finger actually did.

That threshold is a practical one drawn from how switches behave rather than a defined standard, which is why the raw score is always shown too. If the corrected figure is much lower than the raw one, the mouse tester will confirm it — its double-click test shows the exact interval for a single pair.

Why your score varies between attempts

• Test length. Short tests flatter you. A 1-second burst is nearly always higher than a 60-second average, because fatigue has not set in.
• The switch itself. Stiffer switches limit how fast the button can physically reset between presses.
• Polling rate. A very low report rate can merge clicks that arrived close together. You can check your polling rate if the count looks lower than it felt.
• Not your DPI. Worth ruling out, because it gets blamed often: mouse DPI changes how far the cursor travels, not how many clicks register.
• Fatigue and technique. Click speed drops measurably within a few seconds, which is exactly what the longer tests are for.

A note on wearing out your mouse

Click switches are rated in millions of presses — commonly 10 to 20 million on current mice. Ordinary use takes many years to approach that. Repeated fast-clicking sessions do not: tens of thousands of presses in an hour is normal for this kind of test, and it is the fastest way to reach the point where a switch starts double-firing. If yours already has, that is a repairable fault rather than a dead mouse.