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:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0

Browser: Firefox 94

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
.first()	236452.9 Ops/sec
:first	96454.3 Ops/sec
.filter(:first)	136546.4 Ops/sec
.eq(0)	234128.2 Ops/sec
$(.get(0))	228083.7 Ops/sec
$([0])	237284.1 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]);