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by mdwrigh2 3612 days ago
> I was thinking of a test program that inverts/cycles the screen colour on registering a keypress. Put a photodiode in front of the monitor and use an electrical switch across the controller button contacts. Cheap parts and an oscilloscope will give microsecond resolution for the end-to-end net case.

This, essentially, is one of the ways we measure end-to-end touch latency on modern phones.