What this is
Pointless Button is a browser game about clicking a button. There is no finish line and no prize — the number goes up, and you climb leaderboards and seasonal divisions against everyone else doing the same thing. The name is honest about the point of it.
It also runs a free click speed test: click as fast as you can for a fixed number of seconds and see your clicks per second. That part needs no account, and an anonymous run is never written to the leaderboard.
The data it publishes
Most click-speed pages quote one global figure with no clock attached, no sample size and no date. This one measures its own players and publishes the result: average, median, percentiles and records, split by how long the run was, how it was clicked, and whether it was a touchscreen or a mouse.
Every figure states the number of runs behind it, and any measurement below its sample floor says so instead of showing a number. The statistics page also publishes the methodology and the limits of the data, because a dataset is only usable as a source if you know what it excludes.
These figures are free to cite with attribution.
How a run is measured
Your score is the clicks you landed divided by the seconds you had — no smoothing and no rounding in your favour. The timer starts on your first click rather than when the page loads, so reaction time is never counted against you.
The technique behind a run — jitter, butterfly or an ordinary press — is worked out from the rhythm of the clicks rather than asked for, which is why the per-technique records here mean something: nobody selects their own label. Ranked runs are validated server-side before they reach the board.
Not to be confused with
“Pointless button” is a popular idea, and several unrelated projects share the name — mobile apps, browser-game uploads, and an indie studio called Pointless Button Studios. This site is pointlessbutton.com and is not affiliated with any of them.
Press and contact
For questions, corrections or permission to use the data, use the support page. If you are writing about click-speed measurement and want a figure checked before you publish it, ask — a wrong number quoted with our name on it helps nobody.
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