Technologies are generally described for a pointing error avoidance scheme. In some examples, a method performed under control of a computing system with a display, may include detecting an input event applied to the computing system at a pointing location in a first area of the display, determining a first time duration for which the pointing location has been maintained in the first area, determining a second time duration for which the pointing location had been previously maintained in a previous area of the display before the pointing location moved into the first area, and determining an intended pointing location of the input event based at least in part on at least one of the first time duration and the second time duration.