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Which Is Faster? Delay Perception Tests (Participation Appreciated)

Please participate in my two small, quick tests.

You get to enjoy clicking two things, waiting for two things to happen and saying which of the two was faster. It should take no more than one minute.

I'm researching the extent to which people can or can't notice the delay between an action and a response.

For example, you click a button on a website, wait a little, then something happens. I'm trying to determine how small that 'wait a little' is before it no longer becomes noticeable.

This is part of a performance comparison of popular data serialisation technologies I'm currently conducting.

Running through the tests may indirectly make the world a better place.