Started by Marco Bianchi (@keebs_and_coffee) ·
keyboards have a surprising amount of input latency
Dan Luu measured a bunch of keyboards and a lot of expensive 'gaming' boards were slower than cheap ones. Then his computer-latency post: an Apple IIe beat modern machines on keypress-to-screen.
4 sources · 28 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “keyboard input latency measured”
- Ended at
- Computer latency: 1977-2017
The Trail
- “keyboard input latency measured” (google.com)
- Keyboard latency (danluu.com)
- Lag (video games) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Computer latency: 1977-2017 (danluu.com)
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