[gcarvalho]

I was never very good on FPS games, but during pandemics I would play often with friends.

One day I pop up a practice map in cs:go where one of the challenges is shooting a fixed target after it turns green. If you don’t do it within 250ms or something (nothing crazy in terms of human reaction time), then you don’t score.

I was flabbergasted to see myself miss every single time. My friend even told me “dude, are you pretending? How are you so slow?”

So the next day I got a new mouse and what do you know, I’m actually responding in time, and scored most of the time when the rectangle went green. Just the mouse was not registering it fast enough.

Of course, that didn’t translate into such a huge boost in actual gameplay, but it’s impressive how that made me consistently miss. Likely it had some crazy 50ms+ lag.