This was written on MacOS, this may not work for Linux and WSL.

Most polling rate testers (other than MouseTester) don't accurately show Polling Rates past 4000Hz. MouseTester is great if you need a graph to show Polling Rate variability, but if all you want to do is check the minimum, average, and maximum polling rates of a mouse, a simple command-line tool will do the trick.

This script uses the pyusb python package to interact with libusb to get inputs directly from the Mouse USB device.

You'll need python3 for this script.

Then you'll need to install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

For MacOS or Windows you'll need to install libusb for pyusb to work. Follow the pyusb documentation to install libusb.

To find your Vendor ID and Product ID for your Mouse USB Device, pass the list option to the script.

Like so:

python main.py list

Then look for your device, and identify the idVendor and idProduct properties. Copy the entire hex code for each.

To run a polling rate test simply pass the test option, the mouse's name, the vendor id, and the product id of your mouse.

Like so:

sudo python main.py test MOUSE_NAME USB_VENDOR_ID USB_PRODUCT_ID

If your Vendor ID or Product ID is not already in mice.csv, it will be added. This is to help build a database of vendor and product ids people can copy and paste easily. If the script adds to the mice.csv file you'll be prompted to open a Pull-Request for this github repo. Contributions are greatly appreciated!