Skill & Precision Games · 88

A forgiving input window can make a game feel crisp rather than easy, because the player's intention survives tiny differences in hardware and reaction time. That connects nicely with a historical detail. Fitts's law, published in the 1950s, describes a basic pointing truth: small distant targets take longer to acquire than large nearby ones. Skill games turn muscle memory into a tiny employee who eventually starts working without supervision.