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Technique

Drag Click Test

Drag clicking works by making the switch chatter, so the reading describes your mouse as much as your hand. This measures the rate and tells you how much of it arrived in bursts too fast for a finger.

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Clicks across the interval

Drag a fingertip across the button rather than pressing it. The technique works by making the switch chatter, so whether it works at all depends on your mouse.

How to

How to run the drag click test

  1. Pick five or ten seconds. Ten is the conventional interval; five is easier on the switch.
  2. Drag a fingertip across the button rather than pressing it. Some grip and surface texture is what makes the switch chatter.
  3. Keep dragging until the interval closes. The pad counts every press the browser reports, bursts included.
  4. Read the burst share. That is the proportion of your presses that arrived closer together than a hand can click.

The measurement

Reading a drag click result

Why the number is about the mouse

Dragging a finger across a button makes the contact skip, and each skip is a separate switch closure. The browser receives them as ordinary clicks and this page counts them, which is how drag clicking produces 1,200 CPM and more when a trained hand on the same button reaches maybe 950.

Whether it works at all depends on the switch and the shell. Many mice never chatter no matter how you drag, and no technique will change that — so a run with no bursts is usually a fact about your hardware rather than your grip.

Bursts, and why they are counted separately

Any two presses closer than 25 milliseconds are treated as part of a burst, because that is below what a finger can do. The tool reports the longest burst, the shortest gap in the run, and what share of all presses were in bursts.

A run that is 60 per cent bursts is drag clicking. A run that is 2 per cent bursts is ordinary clicking with a couple of accidental doubles — and if you are seeing those without trying, the double click test is the page you want, because that is the same fault a dying switch produces.

Where it is and is not allowed

Most competitive Minecraft servers ban drag clicking, and many anti-cheat plugins flag sustained rates above roughly 1,200 CPM for exactly this reason. It also wears switches out quickly: the technique works by abusing the contact, and a switch treated that way starts double-firing on ordinary clicks.

The chronometer on this site counts drag-clicked presses like any other, because the browser cannot tell them apart and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. What it does instead is label the top of the calibration scale instrument-limited, so a figure produced this way is not mistaken for a human one.

The bench

Every tool on the bench

One instrument per input, all on the same clock. A rate is only comparable against the same tool and the same interval.

Background

Read the method

Longer entries on what this tool measures and where the number comes from.

Why drag clicking reads high

Drag clicking passes 1,200 CPM by making the switch chatter. The chronometer counts those presses, but the number describes the mouse, not the hand.

Read the entry

Questions

Asked of the chronometer

Why does drag clicking not work on my mouse?

Most mice never chatter, whatever you do to them. It depends on the switch and on the texture of the shell, and a run that shows no bursts is usually a fact about your hardware rather than about your grip.

Is a drag click result comparable to a normal one?

No, and the burst share is what tells you so. A run that is mostly bursts is a measurement of a switch skipping, not of a hand clicking. Compare drag-clicked runs only with other drag-clicked runs, and quote the burst percentage alongside the rate.

Does drag clicking wear the mouse out?

Yes. The technique works by abusing the contact, which is the same mechanism that eventually makes a switch double-fire on ordinary clicks. A mouse used for this regularly will start failing the double click test long before one that was not.