[babypuncher]

This is just flat out wrong. Any seasoned gamer can feel the difference between a few tens of milliseconds.

300ms would render most video games unplayable.

I see this claim a lot and it's making me want to build a website that gives you some common interactions (moving a mouse cursor, pressing a button) with adjustable latency so people can see just how big of an impact seemingly small amounts of lag have on how responsive something feels.

[rollcat]

https://aresluna.org/keyboard-secrets/typing-delay/

[Izkata]

After using xterm for years, I don't like gnome-terminal anymore because its lag while typing has become noticeable. It's right around 30ms on this site, and xterm around 10-20ms.

[qu4z-2]

This is great, thanks. I'll have to remember it next time someone makes that bizarre claim.

[petercooper]

Just running my display at 60Hz vs 30Hz is enough. The pointer feels extremely laggy at 30Hz, despite that being a higher refresh rate than a movie.

[account42]

Movies always get brought up in framerate discussions but they are a completely different beast compared to interactive computer applications because

a) movies are not interactive so latency is not a concern, only fluidity is

b) movies come with pre-applied motion blurring to hide the low framerate (which is different from fake motion blur applied in some games)

c) 30 FPS is atrocious even for movies and I wish higher framerate movies had gotten more common

[chris37879]

30 vs 45 fps on my steam deck feels night and day different, it's amazing how much small jumps like that can help.

[andrewflnr]

Then have an estimation challenge mode, where it picks a random latency and you have to guess within 50ms what it is. Seriously though, that sounds both fun and useful.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

If you had 300ms latency, back when I played League of Legends "your ISP is having problems today and you cannot play". Anything above 70 is considered very bad

[Scramblejams]

Sounds excellent. I would send that link around to a lotta people.