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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 65

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 2025 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
.first()	61157.2 Ops/sec
:first	41783.9 Ops/sec
.filter(:first)	35651.9 Ops/sec
.eq(0)	57153.0 Ops/sec
$(.get(0))	49856.6 Ops/sec
$([0])	55035.3 Ops/sec
:eq(0)	43791.0 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<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]);
:eq(0)
$('.container .inner:eq(0)');