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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 223715" data-attributes="member: 3745">It doesn't have anything to do with the software platform.  Playing TPA on a Windows Surface touchscreen tablet would have the same imprecision.  It's the way touchscreens work.  Sensing the electrical conductivity of a finger just doesn't happen with timing as precise as that of a single microswitch in a keyboard or gamepad.You can experiment with this firsthand.  Use this site: <a href="http://stopwatch.onlineclock.net/" target="_blank">http://stopwatch.onlineclock.net/</a>Try to start and stop it at exactly :03.000 (three seconds), which is roughly equivalent to timing a shot with a pinball coming down a ramp inlane.  (Click on the start/stop button and it will get focus so you can use the enter key.)  I can consistently get within 0.05 second on a keyboard but more like 0.15 seconds on my iPad touchscreen.The difference between 0.05 second and 0.15 second accuracy seriously matters for both real pinball and TPA.</blockquote>

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