The 6 Best Wireless Mice for 2023

Sep 06, 2023

After a new round of testing, we have a new pick for small hands: the Logitech MX Anywhere 3S. Our other picks remain the same.

Wireless mice are convenient—they don’t clutter up desk space with wires, and they can make for faster and easier navigation than a trackpad. They’re also inexpensive and reliable enough to make more sense than a cheap wired mouse for most people. We’ve researched and tested mice for years with several different panels of testers, and we’ve found that the Logitech M720 Triathlon is more comfortable for a variety of hand sizes and grip styles than nearly every other wireless mouse we’ve considered.

Mice connect easily for faster navigation than on trackpads.

A good wireless mouse is comparable to a wired mouse in price and reliability.

The best mice can switch between devices and come with a long-lasting battery.

Multiple sizes and good ergonomics should make a wireless mouse easy on hard-working wrists.

The Triathlon is comfortable for a wide range of hand sizes, and it has six programmable buttons and long battery life.

Connection type: Bluetooth and wireless USB dongle

The Logitech M720 Triathlon can pair with, and quickly switch between, three devices via Bluetooth, or you can connect it via the included USB dongle. It also has six buttons that you can customize using Logitech’s Options software and a scroll wheel that toggles between ratcheted and smooth scrolling. And its single AA battery should last for two years, according to Logitech. But the Triathlon is contoured for right-handed mouse users—so it’s not ideal for lefties—and it doesn’t work on glass or mirrored surfaces.

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The Logitech M585 Multi-Device is another comfortable wireless mouse with customizable buttons and long battery life, but it’s smaller than the Triathlon and equipped with fewer buttons.

Connection type: Bluetooth and wireless USB dongle

The Logitech M590 is the same as the M585 but has silent left and right buttons that provide feedback without the loud physical click.

Connection type: Bluetooth and wireless USB dongle

If the Triathlon is unavailable, we recommend the Logitech M585 Multi-Device or the quieter—but otherwise identical—Logitech M590 Multi-Device Silent. The M585 and M590 are a little smaller than the Triathlon and have one fewer button, but most of our testers still found both mice comfortable. Like the Triathlon, the M585 and M590 connect via USB dongle or Bluetooth, but each Multi-Device mouse can pair with only up to two devices rather than the Triathlon’s three. Logitech claims two years of battery life for both models, and you can customize any of the five buttons through the Options software. Like the Triathlon, these mice are also designed for right-handed use and don’t track on glass or mirrors.

The MX Master 3S mouse has a bigger, ergonomic design that’s especially comfortable, as well as a second scroll wheel at the thumb, but it’s more expensive than our other picks.

Connection type: Bluetooth and wireless USB dongle

If you spend all day using a mouse, we recommend investing in the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse. It’s comfortable for all grips and hand sizes, especially for people with bigger hands. Most notably, the MX Master 3S has a second scroll wheel for your thumb, plus five other programmable buttons. It can connect to up to three devices via Bluetooth, and it comes with a wireless USB dongle. It has a rechargeable battery that can last about two months on a single charge. And unlike our other picks, it can track on glass and mirrored surfaces. But the MX Master 3S is typically more than twice as expensive as our other picks, the Logi Options+ software is required to customize the mouse’s buttons and sensitivity, and macOS users need to tweak some software settings to fix jittery scrolling issues.

The ambidextrous Mobile Mouse 3600 is comfortable for left- and right-handed use, but it’s smaller, it has fewer buttons, and it can connect to only a single device via Bluetooth.

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Connection type: Bluetooth only

If you mouse with your left hand or prefer something smaller, get the Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Mouse 3600. The symmetrical shape works for lefties and righties, and our panel testers liked its grip, shape, button selection, and scroll wheel. But it’s smaller than our other picks, it has fewer buttons, it can connect to only one device at a time via Bluetooth, and it’s compatible with fewer operating systems than our top picks are.

The Triathlon is comfortable for a wide range of hand sizes, and it has six programmable buttons and long battery life.

The Logitech M585 Multi-Device is another comfortable wireless mouse with customizable buttons and long battery life, but it’s smaller than the Triathlon and equipped with fewer buttons.

The Logitech M590 is the same as the M585 but has silent left and right buttons that provide feedback without the loud physical click.

The MX Master 3S mouse has a bigger, ergonomic design that’s especially comfortable, as well as a second scroll wheel at the thumb, but it’s more expensive than our other picks.

The ambidextrous Mobile Mouse 3600 is comfortable for left- and right-handed use, but it’s smaller, it has fewer buttons, and it can connect to only a single device via Bluetooth.

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Over the years, Wirecutter has spent hundreds of hours researching wireless mice and testing more than 50. Kimber Streams has been reviewing wireless mice at Wirecutter since 2014, combing through studies about hand sizes and computer ergonomics, soliciting the opinions of left- and right-handed panel testers of all hand sizes, and living with our picks for years.

The previous author of this guide, Justin Krajeski, also coordinated two in-person testing panels—one in Los Angeles and one in New York City—to learn what people look for in a wireless mouse.

These are the features you should look for in a wireless mouse, in rough order of importance:

We tested each mouse for about a day’s work on a Windows laptop and a Mac laptop to evaluate its comfort, button placement, and software. We also used them on a variety of common mousing surfaces, including a desk, a hard mouse pad, a soft mouse pad, a wood floor, a large piece of fabric, glass, and mirrors. We used all three grips—palm, fingertip, and claw—with every mouse we tested to evaluate comfort.

In 2015, 2017, and 2019, we asked left- and right-handed panel testers with different preferred grips to use our wireless mouse contenders and share which ones they liked and disliked after spending a few hours with each mouse. Though our panelists had a wide range of hand sizes, their average measurements aligned with the average hand measurements we had found in several studies: 4 inches (palm), 3.3 inches (finger), and 7.7 inches (spread). We weren’t able to panel-test again in recent years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we did apply our comfort findings from previous years’ test panels to our latest round of testing.

The Triathlon is comfortable for a wide range of hand sizes, and it has six programmable buttons and long battery life.

Connection type: Bluetooth and wireless USB dongle

More comfortable for a variety of hand sizes and grip styles than nearly every other wireless mouse we tested, the Logitech M720 Triathlon can pair with—and quickly switch between—three devices via Bluetooth, or it can connect through its USB dongle. It also has six programmable buttons you can customize using Logitech’s Options software and a scroll wheel that toggles between ratcheted and smooth scrolling. Logitech claims that the Triathlon’s battery can last for two years. The Triathlon is contoured for right-handed mouse users, though; if you mouse with your left hand, check out our ambidextrous pick instead.

The Triathlon has been our top pick since 2016, and we’ve been testing (and panel-testing) it for just as long. In all of these tests, it proved comfortable across most hand sizes and grips; people enjoyed its high back arch, which measures about 2 inches and slopes down toward the front of the mouse to fit easily into the palm. The Triathlon measures 4.5 inches long and 2.9 inches wide, which is a comfortable size for most hands. Plus, it’s coated in a grippy matte plastic that felt comfortable beneath our testers’ hands and didn’t make palms sweat.

Our pick has eight accessible buttons, including an application switcher button and the Bluetooth device toggle, and you can customize most of them using Logitech’s Options software. In our tests, the Triathlon had crisp-feeling left- and right-clicks and responsive, easy-to-reach side buttons, but the application-switcher button on the bottom of its thumb grip felt mushy.

The Triathlon comes with a 2.4 GHz wireless Unifying Receiver, and it can also pair with up to three devices via Bluetooth. Even better, you can toggle through those Bluetooth devices by pressing a button. By offering both dongle and Bluetooth support, the Triathlon works with pretty much every setup. You can also store its USB dongle in the bottom of the Triathlon when you’re not using it.

Logitech claims that the Triathlon’s single AA battery will last for two years, which is above average longevity even for other mice that run on AA batteries. Although we can’t precisely test that estimate, long-term testing by several Wirecutter staffers has indicated that the battery lasts a very long time.

The useful Options software tracks battery life and allows you to customize button behaviors, pointer speed, scrolling speed, scroll direction, and smooth scrolling. Some other mice we tested, such as the AmazonBasics and VicTsing mice, didn’t have additional software. The Triathlon still works without the software if you don’t need the extra customization, though.

The Triathlon also supports Logitech’s Flow software, which allows you to move your cursor between multiple computers (on the same network) and even copy and paste between the two—even between Windows and Mac computers. Most people don’t work across multiple computers, but Wirecutter senior staff writer Joel Santo Domingo found the feature useful on both Windows PCs and Macs, and said he has “saved countless minutes copying files and text from one laptop to the other and back.”

The Triathlon comes with a one-year limited hardware warranty, standard for a Logitech mouse, and most defects covered by the warranty should present themselves within the first year of use.

Our pick—like most mice—is contoured for people who mouse with their right hand. If you need a wireless mouse that’s more comfortable to use with your left hand, we recommend the ambidextrous Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Mouse 3600 instead.

The Triathlon’s sensor tracked accurately in our tests, but it doesn’t operate on glass; if you need a mouse that does, check out the Logitech MX Master 3S.

The Logitech M585 Multi-Device is another comfortable wireless mouse with customizable buttons and long battery life, but it’s smaller than the Triathlon and equipped with fewer buttons.

Connection type: Bluetooth and wireless USB dongle

The Logitech M590 is the same as the M585 but has silent left and right buttons that provide feedback without the loud physical click.

Connection type: Bluetooth and wireless USB dongle

If the Triathlon is unavailable, we recommend the Logitech M585 Multi-Device or the quieter—but otherwise identical—Logitech M590 Multi-Device Silent. The M585 and M590 are each a little smaller than the Triathlon and designed with one fewer button, but most of our testers found both mice comfortable. Like the Triathlon, the M585 and M590 connect through a USB dongle (that you can store in the bottom of the mouse) or Bluetooth, but each Multi-Device mouse can pair with only up to two devices rather than the Triathlon’s three. Logitech claims that both models have two years of battery life, and you can customize any of the five buttons within the Options software.

The M585 is smaller than the Triathlon, but it’s still comfortable to hold. It has a 1.6-inch arch in its back (compared with the Triathlon’s 2-inch bump), which still offered enough palm support for extended use in our tests. It measures 4.1 inches long and 2.5 inches wide; the Triathlon, for comparison, is about 0.4 inch bigger in each direction. Like the Triathlon, the M585 fit nicely into our hands, and our panelists preferred it to other popular models we tested. It also has a matte plastic covering on the left and right sides that’s comfortable to hold and easy to grip, and the hard plastic on top didn’t make any hands sweat or stick.

The M585 has five reprogrammable buttons that in our tests were responsive and comfortable to reach. The scroll wheel felt cheaper to us, and it lacks the Triathlon wheel’s useful toggle between smooth and ratcheted scrolling, but it’s adequate for browsing the web and scrolling large documents.

As with our top pick, Logitech claims the M585’s battery life will last for up to two years, and we’ve used it for about six months without needing to replace its single AA battery. Other wireless mice that run on AA batteries, even from Logitech, tend to have battery estimates ranging from six to 18 months. As with the Triathlon, you can use Logitech Options and Logitech Flow to reassign the M585’s button functions and to move easily and copy and paste between two computers on the same network, respectively.

We had no issues with the M585’s sensor; it tracked well over most surfaces in our tests, but like the Triathlon, it doesn’t work on glass or mirrored surfaces. The M585 comes with a one-year warranty.

The MX Master 3S mouse has a bigger, ergonomic design that’s especially comfortable, as well as a second scroll wheel at the thumb, but it’s more expensive than our other picks.

Connection type: Bluetooth and wireless USB dongle

If you use a mouse all day, we recommend spending more for the Logitech MX Master 3S. It’s comfortable for all grips and hand sizes, especially for people with bigger hands. Most notably, the MX Master 3S has a second scroll wheel for your thumb, plus five other programmable buttons. It can connect to up to three devices via Bluetooth, and it comes with a wireless USB dongle. This is the only mouse we recommend that has a rechargeable battery, and it can last for about two months on a single charge. The mouse can track on glass and mirrored surfaces, too. But it’s typically more than twice as expensive as our other picks, you need the Logi Options+ software to customize the mouse’s buttons and sensitivity, and macOS users need to tweak some software settings to fix jittery scrolling issues.

Aside from a few small differences, the MX Master 3S mouse is very similar to its predecessors, the MX Master 3 and the MX Master 3 for Mac, which doesn’t have a dongle. The new model has much quieter left- and right-clicks; they don’t feel quite as crisp and satisfying as the MX Master 3’s buttons, but they don’t feel mushy, either. The MX Master 3S also has a higher dots per inch (dpi) of 8,000, though you need to install the Logi Options+ software to take advantage of it, and the MX Master 3S comes with a newer Logitech Logi Bolt USB Receiver instead of a Logitech Unifying Receiver. If you prefer louder, crisper clicks, or you spot a good sale on the older models, they’re a fine option.

The side scroll wheel is set to horizontal scrolling, but we’ve also found that configuring it to scroll between browser tabs is life-changing.

The MX Master 3S mouse’s contoured shape and thumb rest make it just as comfortable to use for long periods as our other picks. Our panel testers have consistently liked the size, shape, and comfy soft-touch coating of previous MX Master models, and the latest version is similar. The MX Master 3S is particularly comfortable for people with bigger-than-average hands, but it isn’t too large for average hands; it measures 4.9 inches long, 3.3 inches wide, and 2 inches tall, in contrast to the Logitech M720 Triathlon, which is 4.5 inches long, 2.9 inches wide, and 2 inches tall.

In addition to the quiet left- and right-click buttons, the MX Master 3S mouse offers six programmable inputs, including a second programmable scroll wheel on the side and two buttons directly beneath that. By default this side scroll wheel is set to horizontal scrolling, which is great for graphic design, video editing, and large spreadsheets, but we’ve also found that configuring it to scroll between browser tabs is life-changing. On the MX Master 3S (and its predecessors), the thumb scroll wheel is placed higher to make the back and forward buttons more accessible. The wheel is a bit more awkward to reach in this position—we preferred the MX Master 2S’s thumb scroll location—but we adjusted to it after a week or so. As a result of this trade-off, the MX Master 3S’s back and forward buttons are differentiated and easy to reach. As on the Triathlon mouse, the MX Master 3S’s thumb-rest button still feels mushy and difficult to press.

The MX Master 3S mouse’s MagSpeed scroll wheel can automatically switch between ratcheted scrolling and smooth scrolling depending on how fast you scroll, a feature that’s useful for reading through a long document one ratchet at a time or quickly scrolling all the way to the bottom. (You can also manually toggle between ratcheted and smooth scrolling using the re-mappable button beneath the scroll wheel.) We’ve seen numerous complaints that the mouse’s scrolling is jittery on Mac, and we experienced the same issue. We were able to mitigate the problem by installing the Logi Options+ software, granting the proper permissions in macOS, and changing a few settings. Click Point and scroll > Scroll wheel > Smooth scrolling > Enable. In the Scroll wheel pane, I also found it helpful to disable SmartShift, switch to Free spin, then turn the scrolling speed down to around 25%. If you don’t notice a difference, try turning the mouse off and on again after changing your settings.

Like the Logitech M720 Triathlon, the MX Master 3S mouse can pair with up to three devices via Bluetooth, and you can quickly switch between them (in this case, by pressing a button on the bottom of the mouse). Our upgrade pick can also connect via an included 2.4 GHz wireless Logitech Logi Bolt USB Receiver—but be careful not to lose the dongle, as you have nowhere to store it inside the MX Master 3S mouse.

Our upgrade pick’s built-in rechargeable battery doesn’t last as long as the Triathlon mouse’s; Logitech claims the MX Master 3S will last up to 70 days between charges. The battery recharges via the included USB-C cable, and you can continue to use the mouse while it’s charging. But because the battery is built in and can’t be replaced, you’ll have to buy a new mouse someday when that battery degrades and no longer holds a charge.

The MX Master 3S mouse supports Logi Options+ to customize dpi, remap buttons, and set app-specific actions. The dpi is set to 1,000 by default, which felt too low for me both on a monitor and a 13-inch laptop screen. To take advantage of the MX Master 3S’s higher 8,000 dpi sensor, you need to install the Logi Options+ software, enable the option to Extend sensor range to 8K dpi, then set your preferred dpi. (My personal preference is around 1,400 dpi.) The MX Master 3S does not appear to have onboard memory, though. My settings did not stick when I moved the mouse between computers, and they disappeared when I uninstalled Logi Options+. Like our other picks, the MX Master 3S mouse supports Logitech Flow, which lets you move your cursor and copy-and-paste between multiple computers on the same network.

Unlike the vast majority of mice we tested—including the Logitech M720 Triathlon and the Logitech M585—the MX Master 3S worked well on every surface we tried, including glass and mirrors, thanks to its Logitech Darkfield (PDF) sensor. The MX Master 3S mouse has a one-year limited hardware warranty.

The ambidextrous Mobile Mouse 3600 is comfortable for left- and right-handed use, but it’s smaller, it has fewer buttons, and it can connect to only a single device via Bluetooth.

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Connection type: Bluetooth only

If you mouse with your left hand or prefer a smaller mouse, get the Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Mouse 3600. The symmetrical shape works for both lefties and righties, and our panel testers liked its grip, shape, button selection, and scroll wheel. But it’s smaller than our other picks, it has fewer buttons, it can connect to only one device at a time via Bluetooth, and it’s compatible with fewer devices than our top picks are.

The symmetrical Mobile Mouse 3600 works for both right- and left-handed use, unlike our other picks, which are contoured for right-handed use only. As a result, it’s a little less comfortable for righties, but it’s a great option for anyone who uses a mouse with their left hand. The Mobile Mouse 3600 is also the smallest of our picks at 3.8 inches long, 2.2 inches wide, and 1.6 inches tall. It might be too short for medium- and large-handed palm-grip users to hold comfortably, but the rest of our panel testers found it comfortable. The soft-touch plastic surface is comfortable to hold and easy to grip.

The Mobile Mouse 3600 has fewer buttons than our other picks, but it offers more than most mice in this category, which typically have only three buttons. The five buttons—left-click, right-click, and left, right, and down on the scroll wheel—felt crisp, and the soft-touch scroll wheel was one of the best we tested, with ratcheted scrolling and sturdy, easy-to-activate left and right tilts. Those left and right tilts on the scroll wheel work only for horizontal scrolling, though, and cannot be remapped.

Unlike our other picks, the Mobile Mouse 3600 can pair with just one device at a time via Bluetooth, and it doesn’t come with a USB wireless dongle. Microsoft claims the included AA battery will last up to one year, which is half the estimate for our top picks but plenty long enough.

Before you buy, confirm that the Mobile Mouse 3600 is compatible with the operating system you plan to use it with. Microsoft says it doesn’t work with Windows 7, macOS 10.9 or earlier, Android 4.4 or earlier, or iOS. In the Windows-only Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center software, you can map app-specific settings, swap the left- and right-click functions, remap the scroll-wheel click, and alter scrolling sensitivity. On a Mac, you can adjust tracking and scrolling speed, tweak double-click speed, and swap left- and right-click using the Mouse pane of System Preferences.

Like our top picks, the Mobile Mouse 3600 works on any surface except glass or mirror. It comes with a three-year limited warranty.

If your mouse dies earlier than you expect, it may be because the mechanical switches under the buttons have failed. The contact point inside these mechanical switches can degrade and cause the mouse to register a double-click when you click only once. This failure can happen for a variety of reasons, including humidity, how hard you click, and even regular use. (This is a more common occurrence for gaming mice, which get clicked faster, harder, and more frequently, but it can happen to ordinary mice, too.) One gaming mouse product designer told us that wireless mice were more susceptible to this problem because their lower voltage—which saves battery life—could accelerate corrosion in the switch.

After reading thousands of mouse reviews, we found that this issue affects mice from every brand but impacts a relatively small percentage of owners, so it didn’t affect our pick-making process. Companies also seem to cover this issue in their warranties and will swap out a mouse that develops this problem. If you encounter this issue with your mouse, we recommend exchanging it.

The Logitech Signature M650L Left is specifically contoured for lefties, with two customizable buttons on the right side of the mouse. (Most mice that attempt to accommodate left-handed people have ambidextrous designs that put buttons on both sides of the mouse, but our testers have found that these tend to get in the way.) Compared to our ambidextrous pick, the Mobile Mouse 3600, the M650L Left has silent clicks and a less satisfying scroll wheel, and our testers with average-size hands found the M650L to be a bit long for a comfortable palm grip. Even so, the M650L Left is the most comfortable left-handed mouse we’ve tested so far, and we recommend it over the Mobile Mouse 3600 for any lefties who need those side buttons.

We still love the Logitech Marathon Mouse M705, which was our favorite wireless mouse for more than three years. The Marathon connects only via USB dongle, though, and we think most people should get a mouse like the Triathlon that can connect via Bluetooth—especially considering that many laptops nowadays lack USB-A ports. But the Marathon is comfortable to use, its sensor tracks smoothly, and it has years of battery life. It also comes with a three-year warranty, longer coverage than on any of our current picks. If you’re confident that you don’t need Bluetooth, buy the Marathon.

The Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed is our favorite cheap wireless gaming mouse. It’s super comfortable, it has a sensor designed for gaming and a customizable scroll wheel, and it can connect via Bluetooth or USB dongle. It’s more expensive than our picks in this guide and overkill for what most people need in a wireless mouse, but if you also want to use your wireless mouse for gaming, the Basilisk X HyperSpeed is the one to get.

At CES 2023, Targus announced the Ergonomic Ambidextrous EcoSmart Mouse, a wireless mouse with a sculpted shape that can be converted to be used left- or right-handed. Most ambidextrous mice have a neutral shape that isn’t as comfortable to hold, or—rarely—manufacturers have made two versions of the same mouse, sculpted for righties and lefties. But this is the first mouse we’ve seen with a comfortable ergonomic sculpt that can be changed around depending on the hand you want to use it with. We’re looking forward to testing this model further when it’s available in March or April for $60.

Dell announced the Premier Rechargeable Mouse (MS900) at CES 2023. We’ll test it against our upgrade pick when it’s available on January 31 for $110.

HP also announced the 710 Rechargeable Silent Mouse at CES, and we plan to test it against our picks when it’s available later in January for $80.

The Logitech Signature M650L isn’t as comfortable as the Triathlon or M585, it lacks multi-device switching, and our testers didn’t love the lack of tactile feedback on its quiet click mechanisms. At $40, our top picks are better options for right-handed people. The Logitech Signature M650 has similar flaws, with the addition of being smaller and not quite tall enough. The M650’s side buttons are also atypically loud, a strange choice in a mouse with quiet left- and right-clicks.

The JLab JBuds Wireless Mouse has a comfortable shape and quiet left- and right-clicks, but our panel testers preferred the shapes of the Triathlon and M585. The Jbuds’s forward-most thumb button is also difficult to reach, and its scroll wheel lacks tilt click and feels cheap compared to our picks.

The Razer DeathAdder V2 X HyperSpeed isn’t as comfortable as the Basilisk X Hyperspeed and it costs nearly twice as much.

The Microsoft Surface Precision Mouse is expensive, and although it was very comfortable in our tests, we’ve seen owner reports warning of connection issues. Some of our panelists had the same problems.

The JLab GO Wireless Mouse is a fine mouse with a comfortable-enough shape, quiet clicks, and the ability to connect via dongle or Bluetooth, but the Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Mouse provides a more comfortable ambidextrous shape and the similarly-shaped Logitech M590 Multi-Device Silent has more buttons and a better scroll wheel. The JLab GO Recharge Wireless Mouse is identical to the GO but has a rechargeable battery instead of a replaceable one, and it costs more.

The HP 930 Creator Wireless Mouse’s shape isn’t as contoured or comfortable as the body of the Logitech MX Master 3S, and the Creator lacks the handy thumb scroll wheel. The Creator’s main scroll wheel also feels and sounds cheap, its thumb buttons are difficult to differentiate by feel, and the left- and right-click buttons require more force to activate compared with our upgrade pick’s buttons.

The similar Microsoft Bluetooth Ergonomic Mouse doesn’t come with batteries, and although it was comfortable, it felt hollow and cheaper than our picks.

Our 2017 panel described the unusually shaped Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Mouse as “surprisingly comfortable” and praised its great scroll wheel. Its unusual shape forces a very specific grip, however, and our testers didn’t like the glossy surface, the mushy side button, or the intrusive Windows button. Our smallest-handed tester said the Sculpt Ergo was too big, and our largest-handed tester said it was too small.

The JLab Epic Wireless Mouse is identical in shape to the MX Master 3S, but it’s too much mouse—in the bad way. It has an unnecessary OLED screen, and its left and right clicks are bifurcated into two buttons each. In our testing, it was too easy to press these extra buttons by accident and awkward to press them on purpose.

The Dell Premier Rechargeable Wireless Mouse (MS7421W) feels cheap, and it has the most annoyingly high-pitched click noise I’ve ever heard in my years of testing mice. And it’s comparatively expensive.

The HP Wireless Mouse 220 can’t connect via Bluetooth. If you need a dongle-only mouse, the Logitech Marathon Mouse M705 is much more comfortable to hold, and it has useful thumb buttons.

In 2022, we tested a handful of the most popular wireless mice available on Amazon, though many are from lesser-known brands and lack Bluetooth.

The seenda Wireless Mouse is available in a bajillion different colors and has a comfortable-enough shape, but it lacks an on/off switch, doesn’t come with a AA battery, and has only three buttons. Owner reviews report that the seenda mouse doesn’t reliably enter sleep mode, which can result in the mouse going to sleep during use or not going to sleep at all, draining the battery.

The Uiosmuph G12 (such a catchy name!) has fun RGB lighting, but it doesn’t glide smoothly on a desk, its flat shape is uncomfortable to hold, and its scroll wheel’s smooth texture makes it difficult to find enough purchase to scroll. It also has a rechargeable battery instead of a replaceable one, which means when the battery degrades you’ll need to replace the whole mouse. The OKIMO LED Wireless Mouse is a cheaper feeling RGB mouse with many of the same issues as the Uiosmuph.

The LeadsaiL Wireless Computer Mouse’s surface feels unnervingly slick, like an oiled bowling lane—it’s the smooth Yoda of mice. The Vssoplor mouse we tested feels cheap and hollow, and the harsh plastic ridges along its sides are uncomfortable to hold.

In several rounds of panel testing over the past five years, we’ve dismissed mice for not having Bluetooth, for having too few buttons, for having tracking issues, and for feeling cheap or just plain uncomfortable.

Our panel of testers have found issue with the following mice from Logitech:

The following mice from Microsoft:

And the following mice from other brands:

Alan Hedge, Ergonomic Workplace Design for Health, Wellness, and Productivity, August 5, 2016

Peter Budnick, PhD, CPE, Ergonomics Theory in Computer Mouse Design, ErgoBuyer, July 6, 2017

Kimber Streams

Kimber Streams is a senior staff writer and has been covering laptops, gaming gear, keyboards, storage, and more for Wirecutter since 2014. In that time they’ve tested hundreds of laptops and thousands of peripherals, and built way too many mechanical keyboards for their personal collection.

Justin Krajeski

Justin Krajeski is a former staff writer reporting on everyday carry at Wirecutter. He previously wrote about tech at Wirecutter. He carries things every day. He’s very well versed in carrying.

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