Commercial Controllers

Latency of various commercial controllers.

Measured by connecting the controller to a target device over USB, having that target device toggle a digital input on the controller, and timing how long it takes to receive that input over USB.

controller	Xplorer Guitar	Les Paul Guitar	Rock Band 1 Guitar	Rock Band 1 Drum Kit	Generic "zero-delay" joystick board
connectivity	usb	wireless (adapter)	wireless (adapter)	usb	usb
console	Xbox 360	PS3	PS3	PS3	Generic
poll rate	1 ms	10 ms	10 ms	10 ms	1 ms
min	3.22 ms	9.03 ms	15.21 ms	0.9 ms	0.52 ms
max	12.04 ms	36.74 ms	44.46 ms	29.6 ms	31.93 ms
avg	7.53 ms	18.87 ms	29.61 ms	10.45 ms	15.97 ms
stddev	1.8 ms	4.43 ms	6.3 ms	4.09 ms	7.01 ms
%on time	55%	5%	0%	38%	20%
%1f skip	45%	77%	28%	62%	67%
%2f skip	0%	18%	60%	1%	13%
%3f skip	0%	4%	12%	0%	0%

Note that in the below graph, you can click on legends to show and hide different controllers when comparing.