How low could I go in terms of sensitivity or eDPI with a 17.7 inch mousepad?

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Low DPI:

  • Easier to train muscle memory
  • More consistent
  • Faster movement (more coarse resolution)
  • Less noise / sensor noise
  • Less likely to pick up small corrections
  • Feels “faster”
  • Easier to fine tune in-game sensitivity with (“multiplier effect”)

High DPI:

  • More responsive
  • Smoother
  • Feels slower (more resolution / dots per inch)
  • Less consistent
  • Harder to train muscle memory with
  • Can feel “floaty”
  • Harder to fine tune in-game sensitivity with (“multiplier effect”)
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I narrowed down my sens at 400 DPI to the hundreths place to maintain ~60% average accuracy in lightning gun Normal in Aim Hero. But that took almost a thousand hours or so… Could just be practice though and placebo. :rofl:

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Hmmm… I’m not entirely convinced since all pro players easily can afford the best gear and sponsors give them gear on top, and many are serious enough to play with sensitivities from an early age as people who love games. The one argument I can agree with is you get used to certain settings, and thus the neural pathways are fine, and that is okay if it works for them. In the end that’s all that matters, it works for you and feels right really.

Also, I will try today to see how doubling the DPI (my mouse goes to 12000, G502) and try halving the sensitivity to see out of curiosity.

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I have been trying to change to arm aiming now, I used to be a wrist aimer.

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Also, I will try today to see how doubling the DPI (my mouse goes to 12000, G502) and try halving the sensitivity to see out of curiosity.

It should be pretty much identical, if slightly more precise. But because it’s going to be so similar I suspect any differences you do notice will be below the threshold at which cognitive biases overtake them.

And it doesn’t matter what their sponsors can afford if the tournaments sponsors (the ones stumping up the prize money) want their product front-and-centre; or if tournament organisers don’t want players using their own tech which could theoretically be used to cheat.

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I don’t believe there is really true arm aiming… Always a hybrid. Also, all the best hitscan players use wrist mostly. The trick is how can you go as low as possible and still use wrist? Need to train your wrist to be faster. Truth is, the arm will never be as accurate as the wrist when tensed.

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What about Carpe? His sensitivity is pretty low. Uses wrist but barely

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Pick a DPI that doesn’t skip pixels. (Mine is 1600)

Place your mouse just a touch in from a horizontal edge, lower/increase in game sens until 1 full distance of your mouse pad is just over 1 full rotation of your hero.

Edit: Switch DPI and ‘in game sens’, posted before i was awake.

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Pretty sure pixel skipping is a myth or very unnoticeable.

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Carpe is very consistent for that reason. When he plays, he mostly holds angles, especially on Widow. Look at his old Tracer, very smooth but easy to come off the target, especially at point blank. He probably still uses a lot of wrist though. I can wrist aim up to that sens, but it’s hard to keep up for larger corrections (closer range i.e. faster target). Probably why Dafran also increased his sensitivity some. That and fatigue.

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Pixel-skipping is a misnomer (you’re actualyl skipping degrees of turn), as stux points out, but it’s real.

But it is down to having high in-game sensitivity, or to setting your DPI higher than your mouse sensor’s native resolution (at which point increasing your DPI is identical to increasing in-game sensitivity).

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For humans, yes. Let me know when being off by a pixel has impacted your gameplay.

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I don’t believe anyone thinks arm aiming doesn’t involve fine wrist adjustments tbh.

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The problem comes when it’s more than one or two pixels, though. As per my example above, you could skip 90-degrees of turn if you could set your configuration to the extremes.

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Yeah, the limit is wrist movement I suppose.

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Unless you are running 200 DPI I don’t see that happening.

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Never has. Maybe four pixels off or three, but one, no.

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Lower sens doesn’t make you better. Well-trained muscle memory makes you better, and it’s easier to train it with larger muscles and multiple joints. That will require you to lower your sensitivity, but that’s an effect of playing with good technique, not the cause for good aim.

Just make the biggest arm movements you’re comfortable doing, then adjust the sensitivity so you can play like that.

I play at 1600cpi/1sens, on my Arozzi Arena table.

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Also, that tool online uses Shannon’s law which effectively means you have double the sampling rate. That means you are subpixel spacing if you meet the criterion. Pretty unnecessary. You can go 800DPI and 8 before you hit the 1:1 pixel/degree ratio. That means you are sampling at the same rate instead of double.

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You must have some fast hands!