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Re:Keyboard Latency (2017) by helsinkiandrew on Friday September 03, 2021 @02:23AM (#28401022)
Awhile ago there was a submission and discussion on HN looking at the latency between a keystroke and something appearing on screen through the layers of OS and application, but I can't find it, anyone?

And I thought human reaction time was 100-200ms+ anyway Or would training on a particular game/movement sequence improve that.

Re:Keyboard Latency (2017) by praptak on Friday September 03, 2021 @03:54AM (#28401534)
Noticing latency is very context sensitive. A fun example is drawing lines on a touchscreen. Even ~20 milliseconds manifests as a visible gap between the tip of the pen and the line that "chases" it.

Temporal resolution of human hearing obviously varies with what exactly you measure but I believe it is in a single digit millisecond range for discerning between two clicks in quick succession and a single click.

Re:Keyboard Latency (2017) by kragen on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:43AM (#28401815)
Even 1ms.
Re:Keyboard Latency (2017) by 0-_-0 on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:54AM (#28401875)
While participants performed dragging and scribbling tasks, very low levels of latency could be discriminated, i.e., ~1 versus 2 milliseconds [...] [0]

[0]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/In-the-blink-of-an-eye...

Re:Keyboard Latency (2017) by lukastr0 on Friday September 03, 2021 @02:28AM (#28401047)
Reaction time is something entirely different from being able to notice latency. Read the article, it's addressed there.
Re:Keyboard Latency (2017) by kalleboo on Friday September 03, 2021 @09:10AM (#28403673)
You may be thinking of the same guy, he has his earlier article[0] linked from this one

[0] https://danluu.com/input-lag/