60 Second Click Test

Sixty seconds produces roughly three hundred clicks. By the halfway point most people are well below their opening rate and have found whatever steady state their hand can maintain. The remaining thirty seconds are largely a test of whether that steady state holds.

Because the opening burst is diluted across so long a window, it contributes only a few percent to the final figure. That makes this duration far more stable between attempts than the short ones — your sustainable rate does not change much day to day, whereas your peak does.

It is also the duration most likely to produce discomfort. If your hand or forearm starts aching partway through, stop. There is no benchmark worth a repetitive strain injury.

None of the specialised techniques survive sixty seconds intact. Jitter clicking in particular depends on tension that simply cannot be maintained, and attempting it for a minute is the fastest route to a sore forearm on this site.

What works over a minute is relaxation: a loose grip, the arm supported, the movement coming from the finger rather than the whole hand. The people who post the highest numbers here are usually not the ones with the highest one-second scores.

Treat this as you would any sustained physical effort. Warm up briefly, start at a rate you believe you can hold, and stop if anything hurts.

A minute is also where the surface underneath the mouse starts to show up in the result. Any stutter at low speed forces small corrections that cost energy you no longer have to spare, and a mouse that skates slightly on a worn pad will quietly drag a minute-long score down in a way it never would over five seconds. A stable, consistent surface is worth more here than any change to how you click.