The MX518 and Diamondback top the charts. Infact I was unable to make either of these mice malfunction even at my benchmark top speed of 4.5 m/s. I have put them in at a value of 4.5 m/s for the sake of comparison. The old MX300 and MX500 mice come next, just edging out the Razer Krait for top speed. The G1 follows not far behind the Krait. The Creative Fatal1ty 1010 does rather well on this score, despite having terrible linear performance.

All of the laser mice do extremely badly when ranked by Malfunction Speed, none matching up to their optical rivals. The Fatal1ty 2020 is the best of the laser mice.


Ranked by DPI
As I discussed earlier the standard 400 DPI resolution tends to be enough for low sensitivity players, but with higher screen resolutions and some players opting for high gaming sensitivity sometimes more DPI can improve your gaming.



The chart speaks for itself and has information that has been widely available. The Creative Fatal1ty 2020 would have topped the chart anyway with it's marked resolution of 2400 DPI, but my results insist that Creative made a mistake with that number. I measured the Fatal1ty 2020 at around 2700 DPI (±50). I spent a long time checking and re-checking this result and it would seem Creative simply underestimated the resolution of the mouse!