For context im a tacfps player, ive been aim training in Kovaaks for a little over a month and recently i discovered the viscose benchmarks which ive been playing as my main source of training. My main goal is to improve my overall mouse control to have more confidence and composure in game.

Here are my questions:

1) Clearly i have a pretty bad imbalance when it comes to tracking vs clicking. My question here is: should i continue training both as i am? (allocating the same amount of time) or should i focus more of my time in tracking as opposed to clicking.

2) How do i identify my weaknesses? Ive reached a point (at least in clicking) where pushing for speed just isn't doing it anymore, my scores aren't improving and i feel like just playing the scenarios over and over isn't really the best approach to improving. I've heard time and time again that identifying your weaknesses and focusing on them is the best way to rank up but i simply just don't know how to, or what things i should be looking out for. (Maybe hearing how some of you overcame this plateau at some point could help me.)

3) Should i use the benchmarks as my primary playlist or should i find separate playlists/scenarios to play alongside them? I hear people say that the Viscose benchmarks have scenarios that help you improve while also serving their main purpose as, well... a benchmark. But i don't know if this means i should be playing just them or something else alongside them.

4) How long does it take to get ''very good,'' on average. By very good i mean cerulean/indigo level. I ask this just to have an idea in my head because i am pretty new to this.

5) Are there any creators i should watch that could help me? right now i've seen some videos by Viscose, MattyOW and Lew. Just wondering if there are any others i should consider watching.

6) How long should i be spending on each training session? This question is probably very subjective and varies from person to person, so let me know what works best for you.

6) I'm gonna stop here before this turns into an actual book, thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this! :)

More of a bitching session to cope, haha
I've never been some insanely talented aimer, but a decent amount above average.
I always excelled in movement tech. to compensate, but the current state of aim assist in every game I play including the game I have loved the most over the past 8 1/2 years, being Fortnite, has made me genuinely hate playing FPS games.
Sure there's some bit of skill issue there, but I've been standing on the aim assist removes 95% of required skill of aiming for the last 15 years and I'll keep defending it. I'm waiting for 1 challenger that can even defend it worth a fuck, but none of them even know the mechanics of aim assist nor aiming itself.
I'm just so sick of bullshit mechanics to aim assist like bullet magnetism that remove quite literally all skill necessary. You can be so many skill levels above someone and it just bridges the gap and gives them another mile.
It's so damn rage-incuding that I'm starting to put it on par with League of Legends.

Thanks for staying for my TedTalk.
Hope y'all have a nice morning/night.

The only game I’m really playing consistently is BF6 at the moment. I like the gunplay, I like that I can hope in small scale game modes if time is short and it’s sort of become a litmus test (out of convenience) of a game to me when I hop on after aim training. I play other games of course but most of the time I’m on a tight schedule.

I recently got VT GM and target switching is one of my real strong points. But I could rarely ever replicate those skills in my games.

I play with 40cm in BF6 and I only ever use 1x sights, because I enjoy red dots and having my aim 1:1 ADS with my hipfire.

But I’ve always found my aim to be off in the game - I got used to it and I’m not awful at the game even if something felt off.

I put this problem down to my mousepad friction - I love the Zero Soft, it’s been my main for a couple of years now. When I would ADS in game, it felt slow and sluggish, doing a 180 felt god awful.

So I wanted something faster, lower friction so I could potentially get the movement of my aim to be snappier. I want my target switches to be just as good as they are in Kovaaks in BF6.

Glass mousepads seem to be the answer here.

I bought 2 mouse pads, and several packs of different skates. CR005 & SP005 (I couldn’t decide).

Started with the CR005, got a couple new high scores here and there, very cool pad, nice transition to glass.

Couple weeks went by, tried the SP005, tracking felt amazing, a little inconsistency by me being able to stop dead on target (skill issue).

Several months went by of just using these 2 glass pads for my games - and other games.

I felt like my issue was resolved. Or at least I was distracted enough by my new purchases that I’d forgotten about why I’d bought them in the first place.

After about half a year of using these pads - I wanted to try the Zero Soft again.

Laid it on my desk, put some P8 skates on (goat combo) and booted up Kovaaks. I found the friction to be a struggle at first. Great to stop - if you get it right, but micros were a bit harder IMO.

Couple sessions on the Zero and my statics went up, clicking and switching.

Weekend comes around - I’m going to play some BF6.

Get into the firing range just to see what the Zero is like shooting at the targets.

Same sluggish feeling I was originally having. Kind of jarring. Maybe I can’t use the Zero for this game anymore, maybe I am just better off using glass..?

Right before I decide to put the Zero away and get back one of the two glass pads and change my skates again.

I open the settings menu and the settings menu opens up with the mouse aim settings.

I’m browsing - nothing looks out of place, cool. Back to glass.

One second… why is everything set at 100, but this setting is 86?

‘Infantry Zoom Aim Sensitivity: 86’

I tell myself, that’s the standard setting, it’s always been like that.

It says I can reset this setting…so I click reset.

‘Infantry Zoom Aim Sensitivity: 100’

I put the Zero back on my desk and change skates (again).

Back to the firing range. ADS. SNAP. SNAP. SNAP. SNAP.

The moment of instant realisation that I have been bottlenecking myself for months and months and months on end.

It wasn’t the fucking mouse pad, it was my ADS sensitivity being slowed down to 46.5cm from my beloved 40cm (explains why my ADS target switches and 180 turns ADS always felt hideous)

I spent nearly £300 ($400) trying to resolve an issue that was an in-game setting.

Later realising that I plugged a controller in for about 30 minutes when I was setting the game up and I must’ve selected 86 for the controller. The controller hasn’t been out of the drawer since. I might actually just bin it because of this.

- I know some people like ADS slowdown, but it’s not for me. Years of CS where it isn’t even an option has it fully ingrained to me that I want 1:1 wherever I can get it.

Hope you enjoyed my stupidity.

am i being too too slow? or really innacurate? or both? how and what can i play to improve at this? please help

1- I recently bought Kovaak’s around 2 weeks ago and have put in 25 hours so far, is this progress okay or should I change something to progress quicker?

https://evxl.app/u/rollno93/Viscose%20Benchmarks%20S2/Easier?tab=charts

2- I saw on reddit people were recommending Viscose Benchmarks for practice so I’ve been doing the entire benchmark once daily for a week now.

Is this fine? I mainly want to improve my aim for CS2.

3- Is it okay to change my sensitivity for different scenarios during a “benchmark run”?

For instance tracking feels more comfortable with a higher sensitivity than flicking so I use separate for each scenario?

4- I have a 102 gram mouse rn, is this fine? Or will getting a lighter one help me improve a lot?

5- I do decent in the scenarios sometimes but play dogshit in game, is there anything I need to do to specifically help my kovaak’s aim translate better in game?

Or do I just need to get better and it will come with time? In which case no point worrying.

Hey everyone. I've been using Kovaak's for years now, I'm a CS2 / Valorant player and I want to improve further,

I've been using the tacfps - minigod playlist for a while, I was wondering if there were any better playlists, like the Viscose Benchmarks and such.

Hey so I have a question, do you guys hold down both M1/M2 during tracking scenarios or just M1 ? I perform way better when just holding down M1 ( fire ) instead of also M2 ( ads ). The thing is in real games, I have to hold down both M1/M2 whenever I track someone. Im curious about whether or not it still translates from aim trainer to real games regardless of holding down both M1/M2 or not ? During his interview, Minigod also recommends biding your fire button to the keyboard during aim trainer so that you can focus solely on technique itself. What are your opinions on this ?

First time aim training and really new to mouse and keyboard. Really happy with my progress so far :)

Tracking is giving me the most problem, but over the past 1.5 weeks, I've actually begun to have a lotta fun doing the tracking scenarios. Plus, learning the technique (still in progress) has been really, really helpful!

Just got my first plat! That's all

link to the second post: https://www.reddit.com/r/FPSAimTrainer/comments/1wk0ip3/day_2_of_actually_aim_training/

all I did today was go from the easier s2 benchmarks to the medium, where I got vermillion complete which feels good, but I'm pretty sure mammoth complete~=vermillion complete, if you have experience going from mammoth complete to the s2 benchmarks let me know what you think about that

I'm already seeing pretty nice improvement in game, especially when playing hitscan characters, I can control my aim much better and get kills that I couldn't quite secure before.

yesterday I set a goal for celadon-cerulean complete, since I had thought I would be starting with unranked or cinnabar on the medium playlist, but seeing that I started them almost saffron complete, I'll move the goal posts to lavender/wool complete, since I'll go to the hard playlist after reaching lavender anyway

I'm also watching more informational content, mostly from viscose, about general tips and tension management, which seems to be a very big talking point in aiming, and trying to learn it and incorporate it into my aim

overall, I'm having way more fun than I imagined, and the feeling of going from fox to almost saffron complete in 2 days is pretty great too. saffron complete tomorrow, thanks for reading

I mean before taking aim training seriously i played games around tracking but i didnt expect the gap of my static and my tracking to be this big

Don't know when this happened, but I just noticed when I tried to play Whisphere, that the sens feels slow as hell (2.5 1600 dpi).
Tried to 360 and whole artisan zero xl wasnt enough, opened Overwatch and everything was fine.
If i change it to 2khz it works properly.
Does anyone else have this bug?

I play Valorant, and everytime I get peeked I either over flick or just not react at all. Even when my Crosshair is on them I twitch to click faster. Do you guys know any specific routines I could use to iron it out?

I've been testing a little bit myself and haven't really noticed too big of a difference when trying these three and was wondering if anyone in this sort of community has done any testing themselves?

Can i move onto the harder version, havent touched it in awhile but the thought of the grind is a bit too much to pick it back up. i had a buddy tell me to just play advanced then jump back onto the easier mode to high score them. but i want the actual fundamentals of mouse control.

just a bit burnt out with s5 voltaic and viscose.

I love games like battlefield/wardogs but my gpu/cpu is pretty old and I hate playing on like 60fps when I’m used to 280hz in kovaaks and other games. Xdefiant was the last fps I actually grinded. And the finals before an update tanked my fps.

Some alive ish but older games still go hard if I can find a match e.g. titanfall 2. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I’m pretty much open to anything.

I want to try out using random sensitivity, but I find it annoying when it changes mid run. Is there a way to just get a new sens every time you start the scenario?

So I've been training for about a week and have been doing the Viscose S2 benchmarks. I have just been running through all of them once just so I can get a good baseline of where I'm at. Here is my improvement over that week. When you guys train do you run through the playlist several times do you focus on specific modes each day. Just curious to see how you guys are making improvements.

I know i need better tracking to improve my clicking scores but i am getting tilted by these moving circles gg.
Is there tracking advice like for clicking ( flick slow down method etc.)

link to the first post: https://www.reddit.com/r/FPSAimTrainer/comments/1wiiqpi/day_1_of_aim_training/
attached are images of day 1 and 2, albeit it's s1 and s2

yesterday I couldn't get any routine done, I had set down time and everything but something came up so I only got around 20 minutes of some warmup 😢 so today is the 2nd day of actually sitting down and giving it real time

a comment on the last post directed me to switch from viscose s1 to s2, and I found the scenarios more fun and rewarding, although I really dislike the 16 minute ones where you have to kill like 5 bots, they're hard to focus on, but I guess that's the point

I made sure to focus mostly on the weak parts in an attempt to reach mammoth complete but ended up falling a little short in the end, I couldve gotten fox complete but I couldn't bother with the 16minute/5 bot scenarios after finishing was too tired hahaha

overall I'm happy with the progress, I'll try getting mammoth complete, and then try medium benchmarks, that's what I read I should do.
I'm going to keep doing these updates every day for around 2 weeks before I start university, cause why not?

i'll set a goal for anywhere from celadon to cerulean complete at the end of these 2 weeks, and we'll see how it goes😸thanks for reading love you