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How Much Input Lag Is Actually Normal, And Is My Controller Too Slow?
Your numbers are good. Wired 11ms and Bluetooth 19ms are both in the normal band. Worry above roughly 25ms wired or 40ms wireless, or if the figure…
Devon MillerVerified Gamepad Tester team member
Low Latency And Input Timing Engineer at Gamepad Tester
Makes sure a latency reading shows the controller's real delay and not the network's.
Devon is a low latency engineer. On a browser-based latency test the easiest mistake is measuring the wrong thing: network round trips, render queues and browser throttling can all add milliseconds that have nothing to do with the controller. His work is isolating the input path so that what the test reports is the hardware delay, and documenting the conditions under which the reading is trustworthy.
On Gamepad Tester he owns the latency test and the input lag topic, and checks any answer that quotes a millisecond figure.
- Experience
- 9+ years
- Hands-On
- Owns the input timing path behind this site's latency test and verifies the millisecond figures quoted in answers.
- Answers On Gamepad Tester
- 1
What Devon Works On
Input latency measurementdata path isolationwired versus wireless delaybrowser timing accuracy
Tests Devon Looks After
Latency TestMeasure input lag and button response time in millisecondsFree · Open tool Connection Stability TestWatch for dropouts and check wireless signal stabilityFree · Open tool
Questions Answered By Devon
The Team Behind These Answers
Calder WrightFront-End Web Architect And Gamepad API Lead
Elena RostovaHardware Diagnostics Engineer
Garrett LindsayHardware Reviewer And Input Performance Specialist
Venom’s Tech (Abhishek)Peripheral Reviewer And Tech Journalist
Chloe HendersonHall Effect And Thumbstick Analyst
Thiago AlvesHardware Repair Educator
Liam DaviesBluetooth And Wireless Test Engineer
Nadia BrooksEsports Performance ConsultantEach answer is written by the specialist who owns that part of the hardware, tested on a real controller, and checked by a second team member. How we verify answers