An apparatus, program product, and method dynamically adjust a click time threshold for recognizing subsequent click events on a graphical user interface in response to a user interacting with an application with a click event. More specifically, the actuations of a button of a user-manipulated pointing device are monitored. A click event is posted for the application when a predetermined number of button clicks occur within a click time threshold. In addition to this user interaction with the application, advantageously a duration of the predetermined number of button clicks is determined. Then, the click time threshold is adjusted responsive to the duration of the predetermined number of button clicks. Consequently, adjustment of click event recognition is dynamically made while the user interacts with an application that is not solely directed toward customizing the recognition of click events. In addition, the button monitoring may initialize its default click time threshold in response to stored historical usage by the user, a default for an application executed on the computer system (i.e., a child's game application may default to a longer click time threshold than a business software application), and/or user control selection on the graphical user interface.