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Mouse finder Beta
Mouse Finder matches the mice I’ve reviewed to your hand size, grip, and weight, plus my own ratings and my call on what each one is good for. It starts on an average adult hand (18.5 × 11.7 cm), so put in yours.
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.
Your matches
Rankings are a rough guide from specs plus my own ratings, not a promise your hand will love it.
Want two mice side by side? Compare any two mice.
Explainer
What this tool does
It ranks the mice I have actually used for your hand size, grip and games. Most of the match score is fit: how close each mouse’s length and width are to the targets for your hand (for fingertip, length and width only count against a mouse that is too long or too wide), and whether the brand lists your grip.
On top of that, my own rating counts. A mouse I rate above 8 out of 10 gets a boost, and one I rate below 8 takes a bigger hit. So this is not a neutral spec sorter. It is built to reflect my preferences to a degree.
FAQ
Why does it start at 18.5 × 11.7 cm?
That is roughly the average US adult hand. Length is from the US Army’s 2012 body survey (ANSUR II), between the women’s and men’s medians. Width with the thumb in is not in any survey, so 11.7 cm is my estimate from the same proportions as my own hand.
Does it remember my hand size?
Yes, in your browser on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere. Clear this site’s data in your browser to wipe it, or just change the values.
Why isn’t my mouse here?
I only list mice I have actually handled, so the list grows slowly as I get new ones.
Are these rules accurate?
They are my starting points, not science. Hands, grips and habits vary a lot. Use it to narrow things down, then watch the review and, if you can, hold the mouse.
Do you get paid if I buy through these links?
Some of them, yes: the G-WOLVES and WLMOUSE links are affiliate links from brands I work with. Finalmouse is not. It does not change the ranking, which is math on the specs plus my own rating of each mouse.