Clicks Per Minute Click Chronometer Run the test

Single interval

Clicks in 100 seconds, endurance

The longest interval here, and the only one where pacing beats technique outright. Past the minute mark, the question stops being how fast you can click and becomes how long you can keep doing it.

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Clicks per second of the interval

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The bars fill as you click. A flat profile means you held your rate; a falling one means the interval outlasted your finger.

Clock source
performance.now()
Resolution
0.1 ms
Intervals
1–100 s

The interval

Clicks in 100 seconds

Past the minute

A hundred seconds is roughly the point where every burst method has already failed. Jitter is gone by forty seconds, butterfly by sixty for most people, and what remains is whatever your hand does when it is no longer trying to be clever.

Readings here are lower than anywhere else on the bench and steadier than anywhere else. A hundred-second result repeated a week later will normally land within twenty CPM of the first — which makes it the best interval for tracking whether practice is doing anything.

Pacing a hundred seconds

Pick a rate you believe you can hold to the close and open at it, not above it. The per-second chart is scored in two-second buckets at this length, so a fade shows up clearly, and almost every high result on this interval has a chart that looks like a straight line rather than a ramp.

Stop if the forearm burns rather than aches. Nothing on this page is worth a tendon.

Calibration

Where your reading sits on the CPM scale

Move the marker to read the scale, or run an interval and it snaps to your own result. Bands are set on a ten-second interval, the length most people can hold honestly.

Casual
Steady
Quick
Rapid
Elite
Limit
420 CPM
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420 CPM
Bands on a ten-second interval
BandClicks per minutePer secondWhat it takes
Casual 0–300 0.0–5.0 An unhurried finger — one press at a time, no method behind it.
Steady 300–450 5.0–7.5 A relaxed wrist and a light switch. Most people land here on a first honest try.
Quick 450–600 7.5–10.0 Deliberate practice: the finger stays loaded and never fully leaves the switch.
Rapid 600–780 10.0–13.0 Jitter or a trained two-finger butterfly, plus a switch with a short reset.
Elite 780–1000 13.0–16.7 Butterfly at pace, held clean. Rare beyond a five-second interval.
Instrument-limited 1000+ 16.7+ Past here you are usually reading the mouse, not the hand — drag clicking or switch chatter.

Other click tests

The other intervals

The same clock and the same arithmetic, over a different span. A rate that holds across two intervals is a rate you actually have.

Clicks Per Minute

The main chronometer, every interval on one pad, and the long-form method.

Full bench

Clicks in 1 second

Measure your peak click rate across a single second. One second is too short to pace, so it reads raw burst frequency and projects it to clicks per minute.

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Clicks in 5 seconds

A five-second click speed test: long enough to need a technique, short enough that fatigue never arrives. The window jitter clicking is normally measured in.

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Clicks in 10 seconds

The ten-second click speed test, the interval most tests settled on and the one Minecraft PvP adopted as Kohi. Reports clicks, CPS and clicks per minute.

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Clicks in 30 seconds

A thirty-second click test: the interval where a burst technique starts to cost more than it returns. Reports clicks, CPS, clicks per minute and the per-second profile.

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Clicks in 60 seconds

The sixty-second click test: the only interval where clicks per minute is a straight count rather than a projection. What the chronometer reads at the close is your CPM.

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100 clicks

A fixed-distance click test: the interval closes on your hundredth press and the elapsed time is the result. Reports seconds, CPS and clicks per minute.

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Kohi click test

The Kohi click test: the ten-second CPS test named after the Minecraft server that popularised it, run on a millisecond clock and reported in both CPS and CPM.

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Jitter click test

A five-second jitter click test. Measures the rate arm-tension clicking actually produces, with the per-click gap chart that shows whether the tremor stayed even.

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Butterfly click test

A ten-second butterfly click test. Two fingers alternating on one switch, measured on a millisecond clock, with the gap chart that reveals debounce losses.

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Questions

Asked of the chronometer

Why is my one-second score so much higher?

Because clicks per minute is a projection. Eight clicks in one second projects to 480 CPM, but almost nobody can hold eight per second for sixty. Short intervals measure your peak; long ones measure your endurance, and both are reported in the same unit.

Does my mouse actually change the result?

Yes, at the margins. Switch reset time decides how soon the button can register again, and the debounce window adds a floor to the interval between two accepted presses. Polling rate contributes about a millisecond. None of it matters at 300 CPM; all of it matters at 900.

What is drag clicking, and does the chronometer allow it?

Dragging a finger across the button makes the switch chatter, producing bursts of presses from one motion. The chronometer counts what the browser reports, so those presses do count here — but the reading is a property of the hardware, which is why the top band is labelled instrument-limited rather than by any human quality.

Most competitive servers ban it, and it wears switches out quickly.

Is a trackpad or a phone screen slower?

Usually, and for different reasons. Trackpads add gesture recognition before a click is confirmed, and touchscreens sample at the display's refresh rate rather than a mouse's polling rate. The chronometer accepts both — it listens for pointer events, not mouse events specifically.

Where is my data kept?

Your best score per interval is written to this browser's local storage and read back the next time you visit. It never leaves the device, no account exists, and the clear-records button removes it immediately.

What is clicks per minute?

Clicks per minute is the number of times you press a mouse button in sixty seconds. Most tests measure a shorter interval and scale the count up, which is why the interval always has to be quoted alongside the figure.

The clicks per minute meaning does not change between tools. What changes is the interval behind it: 480 CPM from a one-second burst and 480 CPM held for a full minute are very different results.

Is CPM clicks per minute?

Yes. On this site and on every click test, CPM abbreviates clicks per minute.

It is worth knowing that CPM means cost per mille — cost per thousand impressions — in advertising, and counts per minute in radiation measurement. Same three letters, unrelated fields.

How many clicks per minute is normal?

On a ten-second interval, 300 to 450 CPM is the normal range, and 384 CPM is the most quoted average. Below 300 is unhurried single clicking; above 600 is trained technique.

Normal falls as the interval lengthens. A rate that is unremarkable across five seconds is well above average held for a hundred.

Records

Click speed test world record

Clicks per second converted to clicks per minute
Clicks per secondClicks per minuteClicks in 10 secondsWhat produces it
5 CPS300 CPM50Single clicking, no method
7.5 CPS450 CPM75Top of the average click speed range
10 CPS600 CPM100Practised single or early jitter
12 CPS720 CPM120Jitter clicking at pace
14 CPS840 CPM140Butterfly clicking, held clean
16 CPS960 CPM160The practical human ceiling
20 CPS1,200 CPM200Drag clicking or switch chatter
50 CPS3,000 CPM500An auto-clicker, not a hand

A clicks per minute test measures the average click rate you hold, the peak click frequency inside the interval, and the per-minute click consistency between them. Run the 10-second interval three times, read the mouse click speed score against the calibration bands, and take the middle result as your click rate.