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Monitor Ghosting Test

Check your monitor for visible ghosting, motion blur, dark smearing and inverse ghosting with an interactive browser motion test.

Best on Desktop
Desktop Recommended: Best experienced on a laptop or desktop computer.
Runs in your browser 100% Private (No data leaves your device) Visual inspection test
Precision Motion Engine
Ready
-- FPS

Follow the moving target with your eyes.

Look for trailing shadows behind the target or bright/dark overshoot halos along its edges.

Shortcuts: Space Pause/Resume • F Fullscreen • H Hide Controls

Motion Speed

480 px/s
Custom Speed: 60 px/s 1920 px/s

Faster motion speeds can make liquid crystal pixel response trailing and overdrive overshoot halos easier to see with the naked eye.

Test Modes

Background Modes

Mid-gray transitions make most standard trailing visible. Dark backgrounds expose black smearing, while light backgrounds expose inverse ghosting overshoot.

Motion Safety Notice:

Some high-contrast or rapidly moving patterns may cause eye fatigue or discomfort. If you are sensitive to motion or high-contrast patterns, use the standard moving block test or pause the motion at any time.

Browser Display Information

Viewport
-- × --
Device Pixel Ratio
1.0x
Observed Frame Rate
-- FPS
Fullscreen
No

Browser frame timing provides an estimate of frame delivery cadence, but it does not directly read your monitor\'s physical hardware refresh-rate setting or millisecond response time.

Quick Ghosting Check

  1. 1 Set your operating system to your monitor\'s native refresh rate (e.g. 144Hz, 240Hz).
  2. 2 Start motion at 240 px/s and enter Fullscreen.
  3. 3 Track the moving target with your eyes as it travels.
  4. 4 Increase speed to 480 px/s, then 960 px/s.
  5. 5 Adjust monitor OSD Overdrive (e.g. Normal vs Fast) and compare.

Overdrive A/B Comparison

Hardware OSD

Change the Overdrive / Response Time setting in your monitor\'s physical menu, then switch profiles here to compare the same motion pattern.

What Do You See?

User Observation
Select an observation above:

Click the visual state that matches what you see on screen to receive tailored calibration tips.

Observations are stored strictly in your local browser storage alongside current motion velocity and frame delivery metrics.

Display Motion

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Display Pixel Dynamics & Motion Artifact Diagnostics

01

Liquid Crystal Pixel Transitions

LCD pixels physically rotate to filter backlight illumination. Transition speed between luminance states determines visual trailing.

02

Overdrive Overshoot Halos

Excessive voltage overdrive forces pixels past their intended color values, producing bright or dark inverse halos around moving edges.

03

Sample-and-Hold Motion Blur

Human eyes smoothly track continuous movement across static frame holds, generating retinal motion blur that is reduced by higher refresh rates or backlight strobing.

04

Pursuit Camera Photography Calibration

Pursuit camera technique matches camera pan speed with display motion velocity to capture accurate, blur-free sub-frame pixel response behavior.

Good to know

Questions, answered

Quick answers about how this tool works.

Monitor ghosting is a visual motion artifact where a faint trailing path or blurry duplicate follows moving objects across an LCD screen due to slow pixel color response transitions.

Launch our interactive browser motion test in fullscreen, track the moving target with your eyes at 240 px/s to 960 px/s, and visually inspect moving edges across light and dark backgrounds for trailing or halos.

Ghosting appears as a faint shadow, duplicate trail, or smeared edge extending directly behind moving objects, game crosshairs, or scrolling text.

Ghosting is caused by physical pixel response lag leaving visible trails, whereas motion blur is primarily retinal blur caused by sample-and-hold display mechanics during eye tracking.

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