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Mouse compare Beta
Mouse Compare puts two gaming mice side by side, to scale, with a hand your size holding each one in your grip.
Side view
How each one sits in your hand
Your hand
Don’t know your hand size?
- Lay your hand flat on a desk (or a sheet of paper), palm down, fingers together. Keep your thumb flat against the side of your index finger, still lying on the desk, not folded under your palm.
- Length: from the wrist crease (the first line where your palm meets your wrist) straight up to the tip of your middle finger.
- Width: with your thumb still flat against the side of your index finger, measure straight across, from the outer edge of the thumb, level with its tip joint, to the crease where your pinky meets the side of your palm. Yes, the thumb counts. It does half the work of holding a mouse, so it gets to be measured.
- Type the two numbers into the boxes above. Rough is fine: a few millimetres won’t change which mouse wins.
Sanity check: measure twice, and if the numbers look off, redo them with the on-screen ruler below.
No ruler? Use the on-screen ruler (approximate)
Use any standard plastic bank card: credit, debit, ID or driver’s license (all 85.6 × 54 mm). Not a playing card (those vary), and not a gift or loyalty card, which can be a different size or a weird shape. A bank card turns out to be a surprisingly decent ruler.
Heads up: this is an approximation. Expect to be off by about 3 mm either way, which is fine for picking a mouse, but it is not a caliper.
Put your hand on a sheet of paper and make four pen marks: the wrist crease, the tip of your middle finger, the outer edge of your thumb, level with its tip joint (thumb flat against your index finger), and where your pinky meets the side of your palm. Lift your hand away. Screens don’t know their real size, so calibrate the ruler first:
- Hold your bank card flat against your screen, top-left corner inside the teal box, gently. Screens dislike being pushed, and so do cards.
- Drag the slider (or use the − / + buttons) until the box is exactly the size of the card.
- The ruler (beside the box on a computer, below it on a phone) is now real-size. Hold your marked paper up against it and read the distance between your marks (length: wrist crease to fingertip; width: thumb mark to pinky mark).
Phone screen too narrow for the whole bank card? Match the box’s height to the card’s short side instead; the ruler comes out the same.
The ruler runs top to bottom with 0 at the top: centimetres down the left edge, inches down the right. Lay your marked paper along its left edge with the first mark on 0 and read down. It is taller than most screens, so scroll inside the ruler box. Honest accuracy: about ±3 mm if you calibrated carefully, which is plenty for picking a mouse. If you zoom the page, recalibrate.
Same numbers as the mouse finder. Want the full match? Try it there.
Head to head
The numbers, side by side
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Top down
Footprint, to scale
Mice are boxes from length and width, not real outlines. The hand is drawn from your length and width.
Specs
Full spec table
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FAQ
How accurate is the drawing?
Length, width and height are the brand’s numbers, drawn to scale. The shapes are not. Mice are drawn as generic boxes and humps, so a hump in a different spot or a flared side won’t show up. Use it for size, and the reviews for shape.
Does hand width matter?
Yes, about as much as length. A mouse that fits your length can still feel cramped or too wide. Enter your width next to your length. The mouse finder uses the same numbers, and both remember them on this device.
Does it remember my hand?
Yes, in your browser on this device, shared with the mouse finder. Nothing is sent anywhere. The page link also holds both mice, length and grip, so you can send a comparison to someone.