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by capnahab 2506 days ago
Are these milliseconds? The visual evoked response latency ( time taken from the eye to electrical activity in the occipital cortex ) is about 88 ms in Women and 92 ms in men. There will be additional time for the visual object ( eg cursor) to be processed and appreciated in higher centres.
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So we are unable to differentiate speed of anything appearing on screen of less than about 100ms, making this benchmarking of academic interest only.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4572953/