Mouse clicking speed

[love]

Hey!

Old timer here. Just started gaming again.
I was wondering if there are any benchmarks to how fast mouses actually click. What mouse registers a click the fastest? I know there is a lot of talk about sensitivity and this and that but I am talking about the actual time it takes for my finger clicking the mouse to my mouse registering that and for the computer to register that so finally the game registers it and shoots.
I feel it takes way to long time with my old Logitech MX518. Are there any benchmarks on mouse clicking speed? Is it maybe because I am on a mac now a days??

Sorry if this question has been asked before. Dint find it anywhere.

[rotNdude]

Do you mean time between clicks or the actual time between when you click and the computer/app recognizes it? If it's the latter, I don't think it is possible unless you have an extremely sophisticated mouse that can record the click action versus the PC acknowledgement response.

[love]

I do mean the latter. Been googling this and there is surprisingly little info about it. I dont necessarily need to test it on my own I just want to know if this type of performance is tested or not.
If I play CS and my mouse is a 100th of a seconds faster to recognise that i clicked i will always shoot a 100th of a second faster than my opponent. That is a lot in a game like CS.

So does any one know? Maybe by experience?
There must have been some kind of test of different brands.

[Azza ☠]

There's actually a number of factors...

1) The mouse itself - button design.

Dust, dirt, and general muck build up over years and years of use, under the actual button itself, can slow this action down a lot. So consider giving it a good clean. If possible, check under the button itself too (so long you won't break it or have it fall apart on you - depending on the mouses available access underneath).

2) The USB port

USB ports you plug the mouse into have a set bandwidth. Normally this is more than enough, however check if you are using a USB 2.0 or below and a USB HUB (front USB ports, etc), as that can actually slow it's reaction speed.

It is best to use back ports, with USB 2.0 or 3.0.

- MX518 uses a low-speed USB chip so won't make use of the faster USB bandwidths anyways.

Which leads to the mouses polling rate. Windows mouse drivers will set a polling rate normally at 1000Hz, which is more than enough performance wise. However, if you have a very old and slow USB, CPU and/or Motherboard, this polling rate might be halved to 500Hz, 250Hz, or even 125Hz.

The polling rate is how regularly the PC will check the mouses input. Therefore 1000Hz would be 1000 times per second.

- MX518 mouse has a fixed polling rate of only 125Hz (remember it's 12 years old or so).
- G500 mouse (it's replacement model) and many other gaming mouses today would have 1000Hz default polling rate (which can be turned down, but shouldn't be unless there's an issue on old systems).

3) Windows Control Panel

Under Control Panel > Mouse, check it's propeties. It will give you an option for the double-click and pointer speed.

Side note: When gaming you might wish to display mouse acceleration and enhanced pointer precision too. You want to use RAW mouse input.

4) The app or game itself

It might actually be another factor, for example, the network response time or just the game itself taking a while to process the action. This is why it's best to use raw mouse input. Games like Counter Strike really rely on raw input and it's what all the professionals will set it to (check on google for some best setups). Ensure you have a wired connection (not wireless), with a good ping and stable connection (check on speedtest.net and what the game server pings are).

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Don't get me wrong - the Logitech MX518 was a gaming beast back in it's time. One of the most loved for gaming upon! However, it's quite dated now.

If you liked the old school Logitech MX518, I highly recommend the Logitech G500 mouse as it's replacement. It's based off the same design and has the same high build quality and prolonged life span the MX518 did, but uses a gaming grade lazer rather than optical pointer, plus faster click response. It's lasted me at least 8 years of solid gaming so far and still going strong!

[shanqs]

Your reflexes are surely slower than any input latency difference between quality gaming mice

[rotNdude]

I'm still running a MX518 myself. My point is that the mouse would have to record the click event and then the PC would have to send an acknowledge response. The mouse would than have to calculate the response time difference.

[Alexalmighty502]

I have the Redragon Mammoth and i must say that for a 30$ gaming mouse it beats any logitech mouse that ive used (although it might be due to the fact i was using wireless mice which you shouldnt use for gaming anyway)