Question 1

What is a good CPS (clicks per second)?

Accepted Answer

Honestly: nobody knows, because nobody has measured it properly. The "6–7 CPS average" quoted across the web has no study behind it. The closest real evidence is biomechanics work on maximal finger tapping, which finds a sustainable ceiling around 5–6.5 taps per second for a single finger. If you are clicking normally and land in that region, you are doing what a hand does.

Question 2

What is the world record for CPS?

Accepted Answer

The only independently adjudicated record we can point to is the Guinness World Record for most mouse clicks in one minute: 760 clicks, which works out to about 12.7 per second sustained across a full minute. Larger numbers circulate in clicking communities from short bursts of jitter, butterfly or drag clicking, but those are self-reported and unverified.

Question 3

Why did my CPS suddenly get higher?

Accepted Answer

Check your mouse before you congratulate yourself. Mechanical switches wear out and begin to chatter, registering one physical press as two, and since we count every press your browser reports, a failing switch inflates your score. A sudden unexplained jump on an older mouse is usually a hardware fault rather than a breakthrough.

Question 4

Does the first click count?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The click that starts the test is click number one, and the ten seconds start with it. There is no free warm-up click.

Question 5

Are jitter and butterfly clicking allowed?

Accepted Answer

Here, yes — we count whatever your mouse reports and we do not police how you produced it. On game servers the line is usually drawn at automation rather than technique: Hypixel's rules ban autoclickers and macros, which generate clicks you did not make, and say nothing against clicking oddly with your own hand. Check the rules where you actually play.

Question 6

Does a faster CPS help in Minecraft PvP?

Accepted Answer

It historically did, which is where this whole test came from — the ten-second format is inherited from the Kohi PvP server. Modern combat mechanics have changed how much raw click rate matters, so treat "more clicks equals more damage" as a claim about a specific server's rules rather than a universal truth.

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