I submit that we are talking about a physiological issue, not a preference.
Attempting to hit a target in the middle of the screen is more difficult for humans than hitting a target at the very top of the screen.
When you overshoot the target in the middle of the screen, you have to come back around to click on it.
When you overshoot the target at the top of the screen, the pointer is stopped by the border of the display. Stopped right on the target, and you can just click.
It may not feel faster to you-- that's perception.
My point is that it is faster. And I haven't seen an argument for why the two things would be reversed for any specific person.
It's the nature of the latency between our eyes, mind and muscles.
