Comment by helloplanets 2 days ago
Touch screens (especially tablets) are also great for bullet because you can just tap-tap move, with as many fingers as you like!
Small unrelated nit: It's Elo rating instead of ELO, as Elo just stands for the surname of the rating system's creator, Arpad Elo.
I think at this point "elo" has become genericized to refer to any skill rating system
It’s also a smaller area. I can tap the opposite corners of the board on my phone faster than I could click them on my computer.
Some chess snobs react with derision to using a mobile app to play… but I think they must be using the Chess.com app, which is awful - low response times, input lag, etc - and not the Lichess app which is snappy and reliable.
I must be very clumsy with my phone, because it takes me a painfully long time to make a move on my phone (i estimate it to be a bit under a second), while with a mouse I can click at the speed of thought.
It may also be age? I use mouse all my life, while touchscreens are relatively new.
Smaller nit: they were never Elo points to begin with because Lichess uses the Glicko-2 system.