Swipe gestures: responsiveness vs. stability

My game features 4-directional swipe controls to control a character. In a quest to make the controls feel responsive I'm detecting swipe gestures with a really short minimum distance.

For the most part, this is great. It allows for fast, minimal swipes. However it also increases the amount of accidental swipes, because let's face it: we all have sausage fingers at times.

I can come up with the following solutions, but I'm wondering if there may be others that I haven't thought of.

1. Strike the right balance between responsive and stable

I.e. increase the minimal swipe distance until there's less errors without sacrificing responsiveness too much. I can't seem to find a good value, though. It's seemingly either responsive and error-prone or unresponsive. Also, this really depends on personal preference. Hence a second possible solution:

2. Allow players to change the responsiveness of the controls

I'm not a huge fan of this and I'd rather find a universally great-feeling control scheme. But I guess it's an option.

Finally, I accept that the answer to this question may end up being that this is an inherent feature/flaw of swipe gestures.

Thank you_!_ :')