We recently showed that saccade velocity is consistently higher in eye movement recordings obtained by electro-oculography (EOG) when compared with scleral search coil (SSC) or video-oculography (VOG). Jäntti et al. in this issue (Jäntti et al., 2011) commented that spike artefacts of extraocular eye muscles might be the source of increased peak velocity (Shan et al., 1995). The authors suggested that peak saccade velocity will decrease once spike artefacts are removed. Furthermore, they argued that lid movements may affect the EOG signal and hence saccade velocity. We thank Jäntti et al. for their comments. However, we will provide some lines of evidence why we do not think that spike artefacts of extraocular eye muscles account for the increased saccadic peak velocity in our EOG recordings.