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Touch or mouse ? fast chess ??

what do you use and why when playing online chess a computer and mouse or a tablet or phone wit touch , what i mean is a touch or mouse ?? and is faster chess games more effective with a mouse or can you do same on touch ?
I personally prefer the mouse, as my hand doesn't get in the way of the board and it just feels faster to me.
I have a touchscreen laptop that I used to play on and I found that using my actual hand to play make it feel awkward, slow and clumsy and I couldn't concentrate as well. I definitely prefer a mouse.
I use my touchscreen for hyper and ultra, mouse for anything slower.
@Aquinas : How do you do that? It must be painful to play such time controls with a touchscreen.

I would prefer a mouse (and a good connection, by the way)
@MecanicaPopular I'm just much faster using my hand than with a mouse. The only issue is that in time scrambles, the bottom right corner of my screen (and often the clocks) is sometimes covered by my hand.

I'm around 2250 in hyper playing this way, but only 2100-2150 max using a mouse. So it's a significant difference.
@Aquinas For me, it is the opposite I tried playing with my tablet some blitz games and certainly, it was terrible on the endgame: LOST ON TIME.
I use touchscreen for bullet and ultra usually, but I rarely use the mouse. That's real! Bullet 1629 and Ultra 1666. I'm playing on the touchscreen Classical, Blitz and other variants too.
I'm playing on computer, rarely on the tablet (because of lagging, so I use a computer, but on the tablet I play Blitz and Classical).
But I'm using to play on the touchscreen.
Pre-move on my desktop can take over a second to complete a single move. On a tablet I can make several pre-moves within a second... No idea why my desktop is so slow. No idea why my tablet is so slow. I watch some of you guys play ultra, where your clock doesn't move on pre-moves and am jealous.

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