What is the world record CPS in 1 second?

The first two rows were checked: one by a record keeper, one by scientists who published how they measured. The click-test ranges were not; the site that gives them publishes neither its method nor its data, so we show them as community ranges.

Guinness World Records opened a new category, most mouse clicks in one minute, with a minimum of 750 clicks to beat. On 10 February 2026 in Istanbul, an 18-year-old professional esports player, Yiğit Arslan, made 760 clicks in the minute with a gaming mouse^[1]. Spread evenly, that is a little over twelve clicks in every second, held for sixty seconds.

Records change, and Guinness lists only what it has checked. We read the record on 6 October 2026. Claims of higher counts appear on video sites and in school news, but we found none that Guinness had confirmed, so we do not give them.

Scientists study tapping speed because it is a clean measure of how fast the hand can repeat a movement. In a study published in 2004, nine right-handed adults with an average age of 27.4 tapped a button with the index finger. At full effort they reached 6.46 taps per second on average; at half effort, 3.23^[2]. The study was small, but its figure matches what a normal click test shows for ordinary clicking.

Which finger you use matters. In a study of 148 adults who tapped keys of an ordinary keyboard as fast as they could for 1 minute with each of eight fingers, the index and middle fingers were the fastest on both hands and the little fingers the slowest. Tapping rate fell with age, and it changed over the course of the minute^[4]: a burst is faster than a pace you can keep.

If one finger tops out around six or seven taps a second, how do players report twice that or more? By changing how the button is pressed, not by moving one finger faster.

• Jitter clicking tenses the arm and hand so that the finger shakes on the button. The click-test site we checked puts it at 10 to 14 (community range, not a norm)^[3] clicks per second.
• Butterfly clicking uses two fingers on one button, one after the other, so each finger only has to keep half the pace: 15 to 25 (community range, not a norm)^[3] on the same site.
• Drag clicking drags a fingertip across the button so that friction makes it bounce many times. The same site gives 25 to 100 (community range, not a norm)^[3], a range so wide that it mostly shows how much the mouse itself counts.

This is also why the Guinness figure is believable: twelve clicks a second for a minute is far beyond one relaxed finger, but within reach of a trained technique on a mouse built for it.

One second is short enough that the way it is counted decides the result. When does the second start: at the first click, or at a signal? Is a click that lands exactly at the end counted? A mouse can also report a single press as two clicks when its switch bounces, and software can send clicks no finger made. Without an independent check, a one-second score is a claim.

Our CPS test starts the clock at your first click and counts only real presses. It marks a run as faster than one finger can tap above 30 clicks per second (120 for drag clicking), and a run of perfectly even clicks as likely not made by a hand. Such runs are kept, but not compared.

Under each mouse button sits a small switch. When it closes, its metal contacts touch and spring apart a few times before they settle, which electrically looks like several presses. The mouse waits for the contacts to settle before it reports one click; this wait is called debouncing. A mouse that waits too briefly reports one press as two clicks, which is the fault a double-click test looks for. A mouse that waits long cannot count very fast clicks at all.

That is why the same hand gets different scores on different mice, and why drag clicking depends so much on the mouse. It is also why our test looks at more than the total: it shows your clicks second by second, how even they were, and whether you slowed down towards the end. How long you tap changes the rate, as the keyboard study found over its minute of tapping.

• With ordinary clicking, a score of about six or seven clicks a second is what a fast finger does in a laboratory.
• A longer test is a fairer measure than a one-second burst; our default test lasts 5 sec.
• Compare techniques with themselves: a butterfly score and a regular score are different skills.
• Hard clicking for long can strain the hand and wrist. Rest between runs, and stop if it hurts.

The guide to clicking faster explains each technique step by step, and the page on the average clicks per second says why no study gives a true average.

For speed of a different kind, see what a really good reaction time is.