Use a responsive editor (makes the most difference).
* Use a low-latency keyboard, if possible.
* Choose programs that add global keyboard hooks wisely.
* Turn off unnecessary “image enhancers” in you monitor.
* Enable stacking window manager in your OS (e.g. in Windows 7, 8).
TESTED EDITORS RESULTS, Average latency, ms
IDEA-zl 11.9 GVim 19.0 Gedit 23.9 Emacs 44.7 Sublime 52.1 Atom 90.0 Netbeans 119.1 Eclipse 133.6
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/08/experimental-zero-la...
> So today, after almost 6 months of extensive testing, we are enabling zero latency typing as the default setting in all IntelliJ-based IDEs, including CLion.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2017/01/clion-starts-2017-1...
IDEA without the zero-latency mod is 198.8.
Use a responsive editor (makes the most difference).
* Use a low-latency keyboard, if possible.
* Choose programs that add global keyboard hooks wisely.
* Turn off unnecessary “image enhancers” in you monitor.
* Enable stacking window manager in your OS (e.g. in Windows 7, 8).
TESTED EDITORS RESULTS, Average latency, ms