About the CPS Test

How it started

The CPS Test went online on arealme.com on September 5, 2019. On the first day it had exactly one player, a friend of ours in Canada. The next day 27 more friends tried it. Within two months 200 to 300 people were taking it every day, many of them gamers who wanted a number for how fast they click.

We kept adding to it: the live chart in 2020, the animal result screen in 2021, personal records and the first CPS Challenge in 2022, the right click test in 2023, the fifteen-minute ultramarathon in 2024. The full list is in the changelog. More than 42 million tests later, tens of thousands of people still take it every day. Changelog →

Along the way several sites copied the design and the features. The Wayback Machine keeps a copy of the test from September 2019, if you are curious who came first.

The CPS Test on the Wayback Machine, September 2019

Who makes it

The CPS Test is made by arealme, the small team behind arealme.com, a site of online tests and quizzes. cpstest.app is the test's own home: the same test, with a page for every length and mode, live and weekly leaderboards, statistics, and the CPS Challenge.

World records

Every world record on the site comes with a video that we have watched. To apply, open the world records section of the test you played, sign in with Google and send the link to your video; the review shows up there. If you cannot sign in, email the link, the test length and the device you used to admin+cpstest@arealme.com.

Apps

The CPS Test is also an app for iPhone, iPad and Android, and an extension for Chrome.

Contact

Questions, bug reports, corrections and records: admin+cpstest@arealme.com. We read everything, even if it takes us a few days to answer.