Clicking My Right Stick Also Nudges The Camera Slightly

Every analog stick does this, and you have simply noticed something real that most people never measure. Whether yours is excessive is a fair question and the number helps.

The mechanism is unavoidable. Clicking a stick means pushing it down the axis of its shaft, but your thumb is never perfectly on that axis, and the gimbal that lets the stick tilt has to have a small amount of play in order to move at all. So a downward push always produces a little lateral deflection, the potentiometers report it honestly, and you get a brief jump before the stick settles. This is designed-in physics, not a defect, and it is why games that map melee or sprint to a stick click often apply a short input filter around the click event.

On magnitude: across controllers we have measured, a click-induced jump of 0.02 to 0.04 is typical and 0.05 to 0.06 is on the high side but still within normal tolerance, particularly on a controller with some use on it. Above about 0.10 the gimbal has developed real slack and that is worth treating as early wear. So yours is noticeable but not faulty, and the asymmetry between your two sticks is also normal.

What to actually do about it. The practical fix is your in-game deadzone, and this is the one case where raising it slightly is the right call rather than a workaround, because you are filtering a genuinely spurious input rather than masking drift. Nudging your in-game deadzone just above your measured click jump removes the twitch entirely at almost no cost to fine aim. Alternatively, remap melee off the stick click, which many competitive players do for exactly this reason.

Worth tracking too: if that jump grows over months, the gimbal is wearing, and it is a decent early indicator alongside resting value.