Run results for: jQuery .first() vs :first vs .filter(:first) vs .eq(0) vs $(.get(0)) vs $([0]) [2]

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 144

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 8 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

$([0])

166K/s

.eq(0)

166K/s

$(.get(0))

165K/s

.first()

165K/s

.filter(:first)

112K/s

:first

108K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ $([0])	166,181 Ops/sec
.eq(0)	166,016 Ops/sec
$(.get(0))	165,488 Ops/sec
.first()	164,971 Ops/sec
.filter(:first)	112,273 Ops/sec
:first	107,883 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.slim.min.js"></script>
<div class="container">
  <div class="inner"></div>
  <div class="inner"></div>
  <div class="inner"></div>
  <div class="inner"></div>
  <div class="inner"></div>
</div>

Tests:

.first()
$('.container .inner').first();
:first
$('.container .inner:first');
.filter(:first)
$('.container .inner').filter(':first');
.eq(0)
$('.container .inner').eq(0);
$(.get(0))
$($('.container .inner').get(0));
$([0])
$($('.container .inner')[0]);