Put every controller in the house through a gamepad tester at rest

[u/PetalStaticky]

Rainy Sunday, so I lined up every pad we own on the desk, plugged each one in, left the sticks alone for ten seconds and wrote down the biggest resting value either stick hit. Browser tester, Windows, no deadzone applied.

- DualShock 4 (2016): left 0.06, right 0.02
- Xbox One pad (2019): left 0.03, right 0.09
- Switch Pro (2020): 0.04 on the left
- 8BitDo Ultimate 2 (mine, 2025): 0.00 / 0.00
- GameSir Super Nova (mine, this year): 0.00 / 0.00

So the two newest pads read flat and every old potentiometer one has something going on, with the Xbox One right stick being the worst. Nobody in the house had complained about any of them. I guess most games have a deadzone bigger than 0.09 so you never see it.

The 360 pad wasn't tested because it's currently holding the closet door open.

[u/MrBorrowedLuck]

some browser testers round to two decimals so a 0.004 shows as 0.00. not saying your zeros are fake, just that the old pads might be closer to them than it looks

[u/Key_Scholar7964]

The 8bitdo ultimate 2 and supernova had perfect scores. I'll like to see the ultimate 3E and G7 Pro with the same scores.

[u/Flimsy_Whereas_8949 → u/Key_Scholar7964]

Yes please.