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Your display is part of the loop

A higher refresh rate changes how often a new frame can appear, which can change the feel of fast visual control.

Human Precision editorial note ยท Updated August 2026

Human Precision updates inside the browser and depends on your display to show each new frame. A monitor that refreshes more frequently can present visual changes at shorter intervals than a lower-refresh display.

Refresh rate is not the whole latency chain

Panel response, rendering time, browser scheduling, input polling, operating-system processing, and game frame rate also matter. A high refresh-rate label does not guarantee identical end-to-end latency between systems.

Compare like with like

If you change monitors, treat the new setup as a new baseline. The leaderboard does not attempt to mathematically normalize every possible display.

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