Clicks in 60 seconds, true CPM

Every other span on the bench reports a projection: a count scaled up or down to a minute. Sixty seconds reports the count itself. Nothing is extrapolated, nothing is assumed about whether you could have held the rate, because you either held it or you did not.

That makes it the only reading worth comparing against a published average. The figure quoted most often — around 384 CPM, or 6.4 clicks per second — is a full-minute figure, and holding it against a five-second peak is how people convince themselves they are far above average.

A minute of clicking is a real physical load, and the second half of it is where technique gets decided. Burst methods that read 700 CPM over five seconds routinely land in the low 400s here. A plain single-finger click that reads 330 over ten seconds often finishes the minute at 310, having lost almost nothing.

That convergence is the honest story of click speed: the longer the interval, the smaller the gap between methods, and the more of the result belongs to conditioning rather than to a trick.