How to keep up pace in blitz-bullets

Any hints as to tendencies, technique, or hardware needed to keep up pace. I find in a 2 minute bullet I'm like 1 minute behind.

Chess knowledge is important but I know there's more to it. When I went from a trackball mouse to a laser mouse I noticed significant improvements but still seem way behind?

There was a not so famous Russian International Master a few decades ago (Whose name I sadly forget, but who was the topic of an excellent article buried somewhere in the chesscafe archives). He never won any international tournaments, but he managed to win the Moscow Blitz Championship repeatedly against fields including Tal, Petrosian and other of similar stature. His rule of thumb for blitz, moves pieces closest to the clock and play in an unorthodox fashion...

That's it...

And this guys beaten Tal at blitz....

I bet that would make a difference but how about when playing online?

Use of premove in combination with high lag gives you a substantive advantage in games under two minutes. Of course, it is unethical to play at fast time controls when you know you are lagging.

would you guess these players are using mouse or keyboard for such fast moves? I would also guess there using a small board. Takes less time to move pieces from square to square.

I play 1 0, and I don't use a small board. I use a regular mouse. Premove, as implemented at this site, makes endgames pretty easy, as long as the other side has no "single move play". So you can keep an eye out for whatever pawn breaks they have, and respond only after they make them, again via premove.

Hope that makes sense.

allright, I have a fast connection, and I have a touchpad. Still my rating at 1 minute bullet games is 1600 or so. You have to enable premove.

1. Open up your pieces premoving. If you lose a piece in the opening because of premoves, that sucks, but doesn't happen a lot.

2. You wanna premove every thing that can be captured. 

3. exchange pieces in premove. Give checks in premove.

4. Drag and drop. If two of the rooks can be captured by for example a knight. Use premove to recapture on one side, if he captures the other rook, have the other rook in your mouse over the first rook and let go when he takes that rook instead of the premoved rook. (you understand?) 

Further, play a lot, it becomes much easier once learned. 

Also always use the same opening, I prefer passive openings, because there is less chance that pieces can get captured.

WHAT HE SAID, read points 3 and 4, if little time check at endgame, the best is with a pawn lol

I played a 120 move one minute game on ICC using my laptop and touchpad. I won on time and then saw a barrage of complaints from my opponent saying he was too slow because he had to use a touchpad. When I told him I was also, he called me a cheater.

i hate that, check out my post about 1 minute games, http://www.chess.com/forum/view/livechess/1-minute-games

Thanks kingforce I found some interesting comments on how to play in one minute. Finding myself 30 seconds behind in some of these shows I need some more premove practice.