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Touch screens (especially tablets) are also great for bullet because you can just tap-tap move, with as many fingers as you like!

Small unrelated nit: It's Elo rating instead of ELO, as Elo just stands for the surname of the rating system's creator, Arpad Elo.

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Smaller nit: they were never Elo points to begin with because Lichess uses the Glicko-2 system.

I think at this point "elo" has become genericized to refer to any skill rating system

It’s also a smaller area. I can tap the opposite corners of the board on my phone faster than I could click them on my computer.

Some chess snobs react with derision to using a mobile app to play… but I think they must be using the Chess.com app, which is awful - low response times, input lag, etc - and not the Lichess app which is snappy and reliable.

I must be very clumsy with my phone, because it takes me a painfully long time to make a move on my phone (i estimate it to be a bit under a second), while with a mouse I can click at the speed of thought.

It may also be age? I use mouse all my life, while touchscreens are relatively new.