Six ways an auto clicker gives itself away, using nothing but timestamps
I run a small click speed test, CPSBench . Once a site has a leaderboard, the first entries that look too good arrive almost before the real ones do. I can't see anyone's hand. The browser gives me a list of numbers: when each click landed, relative to the first one. Everything below is about squeezing a verdict out of that list. What the server actually receives { "tool" : "cps" , "mode" : "10"…
Six indicators can reveal if an auto clicker is being used, based solely on timestamps. First, a consistent metronome-like pattern emerges when a clicker fires at regular intervals, with a small variation around the mean gap. Second, if a single gap value accounts for more than 45% of the total clicks, or a combination of two values covers over 75%, it suggests a timed clicker, possibly alternating between two intervals to evade detection.
Third, the presence of flat-topped randomness is a red flag, as it displays a uniform distribution with a skew of around -1.2 and an excess kurtosis of approximately -1.2, while human-like clicks exhibit a right-skewed pattern with a skew value not falling below -0.5. Fourth, a human-like clicker experiences a dip in speed towards the end of a burst, while an auto clicker maintains a consistent pace.
Lastly, over a duration of 10 seconds or more and at a speed exceeding 11 clicks per second, comparing the first and last quarter of hits reveals a rejection if the difference is less than 3% and the coefficient of variation remains low.
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