Measured in right clicks per second ยท higher is better
Right Click Test
Right click inside the field. The context menu is suppressed so you can keep going.
Before you start
The median on mouse is 5.40 CPS. Run the test and we will place you against it.
Compared against
On a trackpad this depends on your two-finger tap setting. Results are ranked against other trackpads only.
The other device classes
Trackpad
Touchscreen
Curve is a fitted baseline plus 0 first attempts recorded here. The baseline is a curve, not a sample: no part of it is a real person. Baseline is an estimate: centred below the index finger click rate, since most people right click with a weaker finger. No published dataset was found for it. Per-device offsets are extrapolated, not measured. The baseline is dropped once a device class holds 5,000 real first attempts. See the full distribution.
Understanding your score
| Band | CPS | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Very fast | 8.00 and above | Faster than most people manage with the index finger. |
| Fast | 6.50 to 7.99 | Above average. |
| Average | 4.50 to 6.49 | Typical for the middle finger on a right button. |
| Below average | 2.50 to 4.49 | Common and not a problem. |
| Slow | 2.49 and below | If clicks are being missed rather than slow, see below. |
Two things this page does
The first is diagnostic. If your right button is failing intermittently, the counter will lag behind what your finger is doing, and the event log below the field will show the gaps. A button that registers 9 out of every 10 presses has a worn or dirty switch, and no amount of driver reinstalling will fix it.
The second is a speed measurement. Right click rates run about 1 to 1.5 clicks per second below left click rates for most people, because the middle finger is generally less dextrous than the index finger and the right button often has slightly different switch feel.
If clicks are being dropped
Test a different mouse first. That single step separates a hardware fault from a software one, and it is faster than any other diagnostic.
Switch chatter, where one press registers as two, shows up here as a count higher than your press count. It is a mechanical failure of the switch and it gets worse over time.
On a trackpad, a right click is usually a two-finger tap or a click in a designated corner. If nothing registers at all, the gesture is likely disabled in system settings rather than broken.
Where a right click can get lost
A right click passes through more layers than a left click, and any one of them can swallow it. The switch closes, the mouse firmware reports button two, the operating system may remap it, mouse vendor software may bind it to something else, the browser fires both a mouseup and a contextmenu event, and the page decides what to do with them.
This test listens at the last layer, so a click that registers here has survived every layer above. That makes it a useful cut point: if the count increments correctly on this page but the button misbehaves in an application, the fault is in that application or its bindings, not in your mouse.
Left-handed users who have swapped their buttons in system settings will find that the physical left button now reports as button two. That is correct behaviour and not a fault.
What a healthy interval log looks like
Below the counter is a log of the gap in milliseconds between consecutive clicks. On a working mouse those gaps are all comfortably above 100 milliseconds when you click deliberately, and above 60 when you click fast.
A single gap under 40 milliseconds is worth noting. A pattern of them, especially at a consistent short interval, is switch chatter and it will get worse. The value of the log is that it distinguishes those two: an occasional outlier is noise, a repeating short interval is a failing contact.
Gaps that grow steadily longer through a run mean fatigue rather than hardware, which is normal over 30 seconds and not a fault.
Questions
- I swapped my mouse buttons. Which one should I press?
- Whichever one your system now reports as the secondary button, which is the physical left button after a swap. The browser sees the logical button, not the physical one.
- Why is the context menu not appearing?
- It is suppressed on purpose inside the test field so that you can click repeatedly without a menu opening every time. It works normally everywhere else on the page.
- My right click works here but not in other apps. What is wrong?
- If the button registers reliably on this page, the switch is fine and the problem is above the hardware: a remapped button in mouse software, an accessibility setting, or an application specific binding.
- Why is my right click slower than my left click?
- Normal. The middle finger is less dextrous than the index finger and most mice place the right button under it. A gap of 1 to 1.5 clicks per second is typical.