fingers or thumbs?

[Kid Ice]

I was playing RE4 on the PS2 the other day, and I reached one of those annoying sequences where you have to press the X-button really fast to do something. I find that when this happens in a game I have a tendency to grip the controller tightly with my left hand and tap away at the key with my right pointer finger. I can tap with my thumb pretty fast, but for some reason I feel I can achieve faster tapping using my finger. Also when I play an arcade game that requires a lot of fast button pressing, I prefer to use a real arcade stick rather than a gamepad because I feel like I can press the button faster.

What's your preference? I’m sure I’m not alone on this one…

[Vectorman0]

For fast tapping sequences with only a button or two, there is no doubt I can tap at least twice as fast with my index finger. I can't really explain what I do, but I sort of tense up my forearm and fire away.

[FantasiaWHT]

For fast tapping sequences with only a button or two, there is no doubt I can tap at least twice as fast with my index finger. I can't really explain what I do, but I sort of tense up my forearm and fire away.

I do the exact same thing. Basically, if you clench your arm muscles, your arm will shake at a very rapid pace. Using that technique, I slaughter everyone I meet in the button-mashing mini-games (like in Mario Party)

[Pantechnicon]

While using a pad I generally rely on old thumbkin, but there have been a couple instances where I've switched to an index finger to really speed things up. Big the Cat's fishing levels on Sonic Adventure come to mind as an example of index over thumb power.

[Andred]

I use the same arm muscle-tension thing as you index finger people but I hit the button with my thumb.

[Habeeb Hamusta]

I use the same arm muscle-tension thing as you index finger people but I hit the button with my thumb.

Exactly. I lock and twitch my entire lower arm...no matter how much it hurts.

[Poofta!]

For fast tapping sequences with only a button or two, there is no doubt I can tap at least twice as fast with my index finger. I can't really explain what I do, but I sort of tense up my forearm and fire away.

ditto.

[FaSCoRP]

fingers and thumbs. in the "comrade fight" is a must really quick response

[FantasiaWHT]

Wow never met anybody else who used the twitch method like me. I wonder if we could all have some sort of contest to see who twitches the fastest. Maybe take pictures of scores in some MP mini game...

And then there's endurance, too!

[calthaer]

I use the index finger as well. Don't usually play too many of those games...last time I remember using the technique was doing berry crushing in the Pokemon games. That was like a year ago.