What's a good mouse for speed chess?

What do you guys use or look for in a computer mouse when it comes to speed chess? Any specifics would be appreciated. Thanks!

I use a gaming mouse for FPS games. It's a zowie FK2. If you do get one, make sure to get the newer ones w/ red symbol to avoid scroll wheel issue that mine and others had (it skips a little after a year or two). I would buy another one and I love the lift distance; when you lift mouse up/down constantly it doesn't move your cursor a lot which is important for FPS players---or anyone.

Really any fairly normal mouse will work for blitz/bullet chess.

Previous mice I used were logitech mx518, steelseries xai.

Cursor speed (and getting used to a high cursor speed) is probably more important than the actual mouse. Also, a clean mouse pad with no obstructions near it to ensure full range of motion on the pad with the mouse.

Tip: Increase cursor speed 1 or 2 notches above where you normally have it (normally as in if you're just browsing websites or working on a document, etc.)

After you increase the cursor speed, go to 'Learn' here on Lichess Menu, and play 'Coordinates' over and over until the feel of the new cursor speed becomes second nature.

For bullet, I use the max cursor speed on windows and it works very well. Maybe for speed chess like blitz or rapid, you should do half of the speed setting bar.

I found out that is also important to have a good mouse pad because it could give you better speeds with your mouse, for instance there was a time that I use my mouse in top of my desk without a mouse pad and the mouse speed and accuracy arent the best and I was thinking that was a mouse problem, the lack of speed. Instead was a bad connection between my mouse sensor and my desk.

@Unthinkabl3 hey nice tip there man, makes sense to have a fast cursor indeed.

@GuerrillaChess

Thanks :)

I've seen videos of some players playing blitz/bullet chess on stream (or youtube videos) where they are making huge sweeping motions with the mouse to get a piece from one end of the board to the other end due to slow or normal (default setting) mouse cursor speed.

In speed chess, it is important your mouse doesn't move much to get a piece from one spot to another. For me, my mouse has to travel 1/2 inch of vertical movement to go from the bottom of the h1 square to the top of the h8 square.

@Unthinkabl3 I was thinking I was getting older and slow, lol.

Wow I found out why I always do mouse-slips ( don't use a mousepad )

All mice don't have the same DPI