I was able to fix this for pen taps. The same technique did not work for touch taps. My results are from Windows 10 Pro (I have not tried on the newer Windows 10 Creator's Edition), on a Surface Pro with completely default touch drivers.
You need to disable "press and hold for right-click".
Images and instructions copied from ISunShare.com and Dell.com -- mirroring here for posterity.
Open Control Panel. I had to go to the "hardware and sound" section. From there: open the "Pen and Touch" control panel.
Open the "Pen Options" tab, and configure "Press and hold". Here's the closest screenshot I could find:
Disable press and hold for right-clicking.
Hit OK. The "Press and Hold settings" dialog will close; you'll return to the "Pen and Touch" dialog. Hit Apply.
Now the pen driver will interpret clicks as single-clicks in all situations (instead of waiting to see whether it's a click-and-hold).
I see the same behavior than OP on my SO's ASUS Transformer. I would be interested in answers to that question. – Axel – 2014-12-28T19:12:52.813
Have you tried changing the double-click speed/delay in the Mouse properties Control Panel applet? – Karan – 2013-06-11T04:27:36.393
How is that relevant? – Lunyx – 2013-06-12T16:56:28.900
If it's specific to a program then that's probably how it was coded to accept input, but if it's system-wide then modifying those options might help. – Karan – 2013-06-12T16:59:02.473