Aim Practice Improvements?

General Discussion
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I’m relatively new to PC and of course I know that practice will lead inevitably to improvement but I’m curious of folk’s experiences.

My fear is that I’m 24 and so my neuro-plasticity is lower than a portion of the much younger competition so skill acquisition may be slower and limited.

I use Aim Hero, Kovaak’s FPS Aim trainer, and frequent custom FFAs/Widow Lobbies for practice.

I’d love to know if anyone sharing a similar starting point has drastically improved and has stats to support their belief.

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I know this sounds crazy, but open up MS paint.

Put a red dot on the screen.

Move your mouse across the screen in a straight line trying to keep the speed as consistent as possible.

Click on the red dot while maintaining speed. (Following through)

Slowly make the dot smaller and your speed faster.

Is it some fancy aim training game? No.
Is it the best method ever? Not reallly.
Can you do it at work and for free? Yes.

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Workshop code: BQSSS

you’re welcome

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I think this is one of the best ways!

I do often search for a website to test your mouse click respons,
also because you can see the statics too.

Pick your flavor, but :

First, you find and set your main mouse speed
Second, you find and set your in game mouse speed.
This is just an just an multiplier of you main mouse speed.

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I started in Season 1 (2016) as gold with 30% accuracy in game and after much practice now I am mid-low GM with 50% avg accuracy. I am a few years older than you, but have been playing fps uncompetitively since I was around 8yo or so but mostly on console until around 14yo.

I started Kovaak’s and Aim Hero with around 30-35% avg accuracy. I train tracking dominantly. I liked Kovaak’s better since it has more scenarios and movement. After around 1k+ hours in Kovaak’s I have a sensitivity I think is optimal for me and average between 50-80% avg accuracy depending on the scenario.

I have learned that practice, good equipment, good reaction time, and muscle dexterity are most important. Only reaction time is something you can’t change much. I have around 170-180ms reaction time which helps but you can probably be top tier up to 200ms.

Things like equipment, muscle dexterity, and focused practice (practicing and thinking about overcoming weakness in aim) are all things you can improve without worry about age.

Some people may have underdeveloped arm or wrist muscles so that may hinder you but will improve with time. But you may choose one aim style over the other. Only with tracking can I say that wrist dominant aim is better.

So in short, if you practice focusedly and not brain dead repeating mistakes for about a year with a good reaction time you can achieve top tier aim.

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2d environments like paint or OSU only warm up your muscles. They do not improve your aim in 3d environments.

But you said it’s suboptimal so, fair enough.

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As a full time office worker, this sounds great to me. I’ll definitely try it out.

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If you want to really improve watch and practice like some of the aim beasts (Huddled->click timing or Ryan->tracking).

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You are still a young pup. 24 is actually the peak performance. There is a study that finds that a human’s reaction time only decays 15% every 15 years from thereafter.

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This is great to hear. I played my fair share of Halo and non FPS games like Age of Empires on PC in my younger days but with lots of off time here and there and was never too concerned with aim.

I don’t think general muscle development, reaction time, or equipment is much of an issue for me so this gives me hope. I appreciate your input man. I’ll stick to it. :slight_smile:

I’ve definitely seen improvement so far, I’m just hoping my learning curve doesn’t plateau too quickly.

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i use kovaak’s my aim has definitely improved.
i’ve been playing zen this season even though there are projectile scenarios on kovaak’s i dont use them my damage/10 mins is up by 800 from last season and i have the same hours on zen then i did last season.

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II haven’t plateaued yet and am still getting better every day. My tip would be to not be afraid to experiment. Don’t be afraid to change your sensitivity to find the best one, don’t be afraid to practice different grips, try different crosshairs, try different mousepad frictions or mouse shapes. Look at rocketjumpninja’s new mouse guide to make sure your mouse is good for your hand.

Practice lots of scenarios and think about why you aren’t where you want to be. Is your crosshair making target reading hard, is your vertical aim bad due to low sensitivity, is your mousepad too fast to make consistent flicks, etc…

Good luck! You have what it takes. :slight_smile:

PS: Surefour is your age and is a god so… enough said.

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I think his concern was the difficulty of learning the muscle memory required for aim, not with reaction time.

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That’s a huge improvement, and great to hear. Zen is a favorite of mine. I appreciate your response, man.

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Nothing of the sort is mentioned. His concern is

To which I have addressed.

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I think you misunderstood his comment, then. Neuro-plasticity refers to the brain’s ability to learn new things, and he says skill acquisition will be slower and limited, not his responsiveness. His comment has nothing to do with reaction times.

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So NighthAwk is actually right. More specifically, something called sharpening (creation of new neural pathways) happens at a slower rate as plasticity decreases. Prime plasticity exists in and around the big development years so definitely tends to slow down in your 20’s. I’m not sure at what rate, because it has alot to do with general health as well. Also I’m sure a bell curve for plasticity by age might overlap a bit for teens and >20y/olds but the point is, it’s definitely on average an unfortunately real weight for older gamers.

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They point remains the same. You are young and in your prime. You have nothing to worry about.