🏃 MouseFit

The world's first wellness platform for overworked cursors.

Your cursor runs about 2 km a day across your screen. No breaks, no lunch, no rights. MouseFit gives it stamina, hunger, feelings, a union and a diary.

It solves no real problem, and it makes your computer harder to use.

Built for Neura's Got Nothing, NeuraAI's "most useless project" build event at MAHE Bengaluru (October 2026).

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Features

• Stamina: moving the mouse drains it, and the real Windows pointer speed drops with it. Sweat drips off the card when it gets tired.
• It talks: it complains out loud using Windows text-to-speech ("My legs hurt.", "I have a family, you know.").
• Fainting: at 0 stamina it collapses and can only crawl.
• Begging, then rage: drag it while it's down and it begs for mercy. Keep going and a rage meter fills until it snaps and flings itself around the screen.
• Food: type a food anywhere (maggi, samosa, biryani, momos…) to feed it.
  • It refuses healthy food (salad, karela, broccoli…).
  • It gets bored if you feed it the same thing twice in a row.
  • Overfeed it and it's too full to move.
• Cursor union: work it too long without a break and it goes on strike. Bribery with food is not accepted.
• Diary: it writes cursor_diary.txt on your Desktop about everything you put it through.
• Workout report: a Strava-style summary showing real distance in metres, calories, pace, faints, strikes, meals refused, abuse incidents and your personal bests.

Setup (Windows only)

pip install pynput pillow
python tired_cursor.py

Command	What it does
python tired_cursor.py	Start a run
Ctrl + Alt + Q	Finish the run and show the workout report
python tired_cursor.py --reset	Emergency: restore the normal mouse speed if it's ever stuck slow
python tired_cursor.py --reset-runs	Delete all saved runs and the diary

All settings (drain rate, rage limit, foods, strike timer, voice and more) are at the top of tired_cursor.py, with a comment explaining each one.

How it works

• Pointer speed: set through the Windows API (SystemParametersInfo), scaled to the cursor's stamina.
• Fainting, crawling and strikes: the cursor is pinned in place with SetCursorPos, with only a fraction of your movement let through.
• Food detection: a global keyboard listener (pynput) watches for food words.
• Card and banners: transparent, click-through, always-on-top Tkinter windows. Colour emoji are rendered with Pillow.
• Voice: Windows' built-in speech engine, called through PowerShell.
• Real distance: pixels are converted to metres using your screen's physical size.
• Safety: your original mouse speed is backed up to a file and always restored on exit or with --reset.

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MouseFit doesn't make you more productive. It makes you way less productive, but with empathy.