Gamepad Tester
See every axis and button of a connected controller, with the pressed buttons lit up.
Gamepad tester
Press a button on the controller to wake it up. Browsers only reveal a pad to the page after you touch it, so the list stays empty until then.
Connected—
Last input—
Reading the numbers
- Axes run from -1 to 1. A stick at rest should sit near 0; a value that drifts while you are not touching it is stick drift.
- Buttons report a pressure rather than only on or off, so a trigger shows a fraction while a face button jumps to 1.
- Dead zone is the small travel around the centre that the browser ignores. If a stick only registers at 0.2, that is where the dead zone ends, not a fault.
- Names like Cross or A are a convention of the standard mapping. A pad that does not follow it shows the raw button numbers instead.
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About this tool
Inspect a connected controller: every axis with its travel, every button with its pressure, and a running note of the last input seen. It is the quick answer to whether a pad works, which stick drifts and which button has stopped registering.Questions
- Why is the controller missing until I press a button?
- Browsers hide gamepads until an input event proves one is being used, which is a privacy measure. Press any button on the pad and it will appear, then stay listed until it is disconnected.
- A stick reports a small value while untouched. Is it broken?
- This page reports values rounded to two decimals; it does not apply a configurable dead zone or diagnose hardware. Compare repeated readings at rest and while moving the stick, then check your game or OS calibration before deciding something is faulty.
- Can it test vibration or the light bar?
- Not here. Those need the haptics actuators a browser exposes separately, and support varies by pad and by browser, so this page sticks to the axes and buttons that every controller reports.