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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko

Browser: IE 11

Operating system: Windows 7

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
.first()	34501.8 Ops/sec
:first	25947.7 Ops/sec
.filter(:first)	27805.9 Ops/sec
.eq(0)	34616.1 Ops/sec
$(.get(0))	34194.2 Ops/sec
$([0])	34080.1 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]);