Increasing your mouse traversal speed might help with less hand movement, might even increase productivity and will make you go faster on the screen.

Some mice, like Logitech G402, have variable and programmable settings, so you might want to look into such options as a first alternative, as they might be a better or at least easier option if you already have the companion software installed.

There are third party apps that can help you out, but since there is little need for one just for the sake of updating a value that is not a good option here.

Max value from the Systems Preferences seems to be 3.0, so that is why the Command Line Interface (CLI) approach is needed.

Press Command (CMD) + space to open the Spotlight Search and type terminal.

Alternative terminal applications could be iterm2 or alacritty.

Check current value:

defaults read -g com.apple.mouse.scaling

Change it:

defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling 10.0

Restart required possibly maybe perhaps yes? :(

References

• Alacritty
  • brew install alacritty
• iTerm2
  • brew install iterm2

Make sure to always keep your Operating System(s) and all of the software that you are using up to date.

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