How to test response time of mouse click?

[mazooni]

I am doing a project on mouse click response time. How fast the mouse can move around the screen (dpi) doesn't matter to me. Is there any software to test the response time of the mouse click to input on computer? I am not sure if I described what I need very clearly, sorry about that. If there is any confusion please comment.

Thanks

 

[manofchalk]

No software can do it I think, because no matter what its going to be subject to that delay. The computer doesnt know when the mouse was clicked, it just knows the time it received the mouse click signal.

I reckon the only way your going to be able to do it, is too record a mouse being clicked (its going to need to be a fast camera, I would think at least 60hz) in front of a monitor. When the mouse is clicked, something happens on screen. You then compare the time difference between the click and the result on screen. You would have to adjust the results for your monitors delay as well (or at least acknowledge its there in the final report).

 

[mazooni]

I found a software that can test it but it will not tell me the exact time of each mouse. You pretty much click the mouse then unplug it and plug in another mouse and click that and it will tell you which is faster.

 

[hang-the-9]

I don't know if any of that software can tell you about the speed of the mouse click, since it can only measure the signal from the time it hits the computer. That should be the same thing for any mouse. Unless it also measures the sound of the click, which is doable. There is nothing you can install on a computer that can measure how long it takes from the finger press for the signal to get to the end of the USB cable and into the computer since the computer is not aware of the button press till that happens, which is when it can start measuring things.

There is some software that tries to measure things with two mice, you push the buttons together and it sees which mouse signal gets there first. The issue there is that the mouse with the least button resistance will in theory win each time as it will get pushed first, assuming you can put the same exact force on both hands.