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 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:148.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/148.0

Browser: Firefox 148

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

.first()

908K/s

$(.get(0))

907K/s

$([0])

876K/s

.eq(0)

831K/s

.filter(:first)

574K/s

:first

473K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ .first()	908,435 Ops/sec
$(.get(0))	907,098 Ops/sec
$([0])	875,742 Ops/sec
.eq(0)	830,688 Ops/sec
.filter(:first)	573,988 Ops/sec
:first	472,870 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]);