Measuring How Far Your Mouse Moves

Have you ever wondered how far you actually move your mouse in a day? There is a small program that can measure the distance that your mouse travels and it's called Mousotron and can be downloaded from here: http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/mousotron.html.

Once you have it installed and running it should look like something similar to the image below.

Mousotron main window
(you can click on the image to see a larger view)

As with many other programs you can tweak some settings. To do this you can click on the Setup button to bring up the setup window.

Setup button

Once you are in the setup window the General tab should be selected. You can change any of these settings to what you wish to use. The only setting that I have changed was the digits from 7 to 6 so that i could see the whole window on my screen.

Setup with general tab selected

Now if you move on over to the Displayed Items tab you will be able to see all of the options that you can change. What this tab does is makes it so you can customize what items are shown on the main Mousotron window. I have left all of the items checked but you can take off the items that you don't want to view.

Displayed items tab

The two other tabs don't really change any settings they just can log your mouse distance and all of the other options you have chosen to use. You can also send out a report of your results to their website. Another cool thing about this program is that when it is minimized it will the go into the system tray it can still log things and stay out of your working space when it's not needed.

Mousotron in the system tray

Well those are the main uses of this program. There really isn't a huge need to know how far you move your mouse in a day but it can be a fun task to just see how far you actually do move your mouse on a daily basis. So now go out and have fun logging your mouse distance with Mousotron.

You can also join in on the fun over at http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/measuring-mouse-distance-traveled?replies=33.