Spacebar Clicker
Race the clock hitting the spacebar as fast as you can. Choose a duration, press SPACE to start, and see your speed in presses per second.
How to Use This Test
- Choose a duration.
- Press SPACE once to start the timer.
- Hammer the spacebar as fast as you can until time runs out.
Understanding Your Results
Your score is shown in SPS (spacebar presses per second), calculated the same precise way as our CPS test — total presses divided by the actual elapsed time, measured with the browser's high-resolution timer.
About the Spacebar Clicker
The spacebar clicker measures the same underlying skill as a mouse-based CPS test, but for your keyboard — useful for games or contexts where spacebar mashing matters, or simply as a different way to test your reflexes.
Tips to Improve
Use one finger and keep it hovering just above the spacebar rather than lifting your whole hand between presses.
A shorter duration tests burst speed; a longer duration tests endurance, just like our click tests.
Frequently Asked Questions
Held keys produce automatic key-repeat events which this test intentionally ignores, so only genuine individual presses count.
They're calculated the same way (presses divided by elapsed time), but a keyboard spacebar and a mouse button are different mechanically, so treat them as related but separate scores.