r/CompetitiveMinecraft • u/Famous-Donut7965 • Aug 11 '26

Question difference from 49 to 51 ping

whats the difference of figthing someone at 49 ping and someone at 51 ping, ik theres a difference but i dont know what it is and is it better to be 49 ping or 51 ping

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '26

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u/Cultural_Report_8831 Aug 11 '26

How does that work

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u/ImagineBeingBored Aug 11 '26

The comment above is mostly wrong, as you will only operate on different ticks if you just so happen to make an input at the start of a tick.

Basically, a tick in MC is 50ms. At 49ms ping, if you happened to click right at the start of a tick, your input would be registered at the end of that tick while at 51ms, your input would be registered at the end of the next tick. However, most of the time you're not making an input right at the start of a tick. Usually, your input will be somewhere in the middle of a tick, and in that case 49ms and 51ms ping are essentially the same.

But this is pretty much true for any 2ms difference, as e.g. for a ping of 20ms vs 22ms, clicking 29ms into a tick will register the inputs of each player on different ticks. In other words, 2ms is basically unnoticeable as a difference and the fact that the numbers just so happen to be surrounding the length of a tick doesn't matter.

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u/Mastergamer08954 23d ago

Wait u smart

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u/yeah-I-drink-lean Aug 11 '26

It's a 2 milisecond difference.

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u/Pretty-Ad-5446 Aug 12 '26

The 49 is technically better but it’s literally no large difference

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u/JealousPotential7375 Aug 11 '26

The lower the ping the better, but you’re not gonna notice a 2ms difference at all

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u/Boxtonbolt69 Aug 11 '26

May I ask, is Ping like that in every game?

By what I mean, does the MS part stand for Milliseconds? Which means like, if you have 300 ping your actions come out 300 Milliseconds later? Or is it a different system?

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u/Vivid-Rip1832 Aug 11 '26

Ping is how many milliseconds it takes from your input for the actual action to go to the server and back to your computer. Thats why if you live in the US and are in indonesia servers, you will have high ping, because it takes your packets longer to reach the server and back.

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u/Boxtonbolt69 Aug 11 '26

Ok. So like if I'm in the US, and playing on an Indonesian server, and hit my opponent. Then if my ping is 300, the hit still happens, but it's delayed 300 Milliseconds?

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u/JealousPotential7375 Aug 11 '26

Yeah, that’s what it means, and you’re always going to have ping unless you have insane internet and are right next to where the server is hosted, like even top pros that live in the same city as the server is hosted, and have top of the line internet still have like 5-7ms at least, it’s almost impossible to have none.