[spuz]

A long time ago when I used to spend almost all my day in front of a computer, I wrote a program that would measure the physical distance my mouse cursor had moved thinking surely it must be several hundred meters a day. In fact it was only about 30 metres per day. I imagine to scroll a mile would take several months for the average web user.

[ccostes]

It seems like cursor acceleration (breaking the linearity between pixel and physical distance) would make this non-trivial; curious how you implemented it.

[spuz]

Well I wanted to specifically measure cursor distance rather than mouse distance so acceleration doesn't come into it. As long as you can sample the mouse position frequently enough, you can get an idea of how far it has travelled. All I had to do to convert pixels to physical distance was use a tape measure to get the width and height of the visible part of the screen.

[GhostVII]

It sounds like they measures the distance the cursor on-screen moved, not how far they physically moved their mouse. So accelleration wouldn't be a factor.

[andai]

You mean to translate from pixels moved into mousepad-meters?

[bitxbitxbitcoin]

I think my scroll distance varies greatly depending on how many Terms of Services I have to "read" in a given day.

[whynaut]

One of the best modern uses of the “End” key (or [Cmd/Shift][Up/Down])

Right up there with “who even wrote this article” and “wait when was this published”

[duke_core]

It also depends on the type of user you are, for someone like me who does almost everything with a keyboard it would be pretty minimal, but for say a fps gamer I'd say it would be pretty high

[dmfilipenko]

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cursor-traveler-mo... Here it is. Doing the same