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0.194, about 0.01 slower than last year.

Male, age 60.

Of course, this on a slow laptop with LCD, so maybe I'm not really slower.




0.172 on my office PC, so I'm faster than last year!

Some of you youngsters are waay slow. Not enough clean living?
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One note though - the monitor refresh has a granularity of between 1/60th and 1/100th of a second depending on your refresh rate.



First thought - You're almost as much of a geek as I am.

Second thought - You totally ignored the latency in the keyboard and/or mouse interfaces. :) Looking
at http://www.networktechinc.com/ps2-prots.html and http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2protocol/,
the best-case timing for a PS/2 mouse or keyboard to send one 11-bit packet to the computer is about
635 microseconds, and the worst-case timing is about 1075 microseconds. In other words, the mouse
or keyboard is adding 0.00064 to 0.0011 seconds to your score. USB is probably a little faster.

I've got a keyboard that despite being branded |d|i|g|i|t|a|l|, is just your basic rubber-dome model. I
may locate a Model M (buckling-spring) for comparison. The monitor is set to 75 Hz. The mouse is
an old Logitech trackball.

I ran six tests, in the below order. I was always faster on the keyboard as compared to the mouse -
20% faster on the first two pairs and 10% faster on the last pair. I've also been awake for about...
uh... 20 hours at this point. Wow. I may try it again after I've slept.

32.5 years old, male

.459 .289 .279 .299 .389 av .343 (right thumb, button 1)
.288 .244 .292 .353 .219 av .2792 (right thumb, space bar)

.249 .319 .348 .369 .309 av .3188 (right thumb, button 1)
.278 .246 .249 .262 .245 av .256 (right thumb, space bar)

.258 .299 .269 .289 .339 av .2908 (right thumb, button 1)
.225 .264 .261 .300 .249 av .2598 (right thumb, space bar)

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