JadenFez's Journey to Masters! (and hopefully above) | Current: Jade | Voltaic | Page 1

rapid crystal Apr 1, 2024, 1:38 AM

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I've decided to document my journey from Gold to however high I can reach. Hopefully this can keep me motivated and consistent along with having a way I can document any experiments or changes to my gameplay that could possibly help others.

My problems are:
Poor tension control
Poor focus
Dynamic clicking
Static clicking
Switching
Precision tracking

I play VDIM everyday in order and benchmark myself on Sundays. I might spam the same aiming category for a week depending if I feel that I need to massively focus on an issue that will help out other areas. I also like to review pro vods, so I might document what I think I need to change or what the vod I'm reviewing is doing that could help me. I'll document how I'm feeling, what problems I'm actively facing, what skill I am focusing on, and what improvement I make daily - starting 4/1/24.
platinumvoltaic - 4/8/24
diamondvoltaic - 5/5/24
jadevoltaic - 5/20/24

rapid crystal Apr 2, 2024, 3:14 AM

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VDIM STATIC 4-1-24

High scores:
VT MULTISHOT 120 INTERMEDIATE SPEED FOCUS: 935 -> 967
VT MICROSHOT SPEED WIDE: 920 -> 970
VT BERRYTS STATIC: 1010 -> 1051
VT TWOSHOT VERTICAL: 696 -> 706
VT MULTISHOT 120 MED CLUSTER FOCUS: 1128 -> 1169
VT PULSESHOT FOUR: 830 -> 964
VT FOURSHOT SMALL: 836 -> 845
VT ONESHOT REFLEX MED: 318 -> 342
VT TWOSHOT HORIZONTAL: 745 -> 790
VT MULTISHOT 120 INTERMEDIATE HARD: 925 -> 1030
VT 4T WIDE: 990 -> 991

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Starting todays VDIM at 7pm, after 3 hours of talking to a friend mid playlist and 1 melatonin pill to make sure I go to sleep, I finally finished the playlist. Last week, I watched a mattyow guide on static and tried to utilize his technique. I didn't realize that I completely misinterperated what he said and ended up ape flicking for an entire week that caused a lot of tension issues. Ended up going back to my old technique where I "flick" consistently to a target and relaxing/decelerating before I reach the target. Obviously I'm not moving fast enough to actually do a proper flick but I'm pretty confident that I can easily push the speed of this tech to the point where I can start to proper flicks but with way less tension. I've also noticed that I rush clusters a lot and end up missing very easy targets, mostly due to tension as well but can be easily fixed by farming clusters and conciously relaxing. It is kinda weird seeing speed improvement in my smooth static tech after ape flicking with 50% accuracy for 7 days straight but it is what it is. Overall a good day for scores!

rapid crystal Apr 2, 2024, 5:21 PM

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VDIM DYNAMIC CLICKING 4-2-24

High scores:
VT FLOATING DOTS DEPTH SMALL: 464 -> 474
VT ANGLETRACK INTERMEDIATE: 4300 -> 4397
VT ANGLETRACK INTERMEDIATE SPEED: 76 -> 79
VT ANGLESHOT MULTI INTERMEDIATE: 324 -> 339
VT ANGLESHOT INTERMEDIATE SPEED FOCUS: 766 -> 873
VT ANGLESHOT INTERMEDIATE HARD: 420 -> 474
VT STRAFESHOT MED: 35 -> 43
VT FLOWSHOT INTERMEDIATE: 363 -> 380
VT BLINKSHOT: 26 -> 33
VT ORB CLICK MED: 262 -> 272
VT WAVESWITCH INTERMEDIATE: 44 -> 50
VT WAVESHOT INTERMEDIATE SPEED FOCUS: 620 -> 645
VT WAVESHOT INTERMEDIATE HARD: 235 -> 347

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A huge accuracy improvement on dynamic clicking on all my scores and a lot of score improvements. I realized that my accuracy in static and dynamic lack a lot so I started focusing really on going slow and making sure that I'm 100% on the target before I click. This feels way more consistent and eases a lot of tension iv been having during clicking scens but I've realized that I have a habit of clicking off a target, which im assuming is a tension issue because everytime I click there is a micro flick going on and I dont believe my sens (45cm) is high enough for that to be anything but a tension issue. I also might consider buying a new mousepad for the reasons that my mousepad is 7 years old and my mouse movements are starting to feel slugglish in the bottom right of my mousepad no matter how many times I clean it, plus it's done it's time lol. Overall a really good day for dynamic clicking improvement!

rapid crystal Apr 3, 2024, 10:34 PM

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**VDIM PRECISE TRACKING 4-3-24

HIGH SCORES:

VT WRIST SMOOTHNESS MED: 2077 -> 2140
VT CENTERING II 180 MED: 1763 -> 1785
VT WIDE ANGLE TRACKING MED: 2093 -> 2256
VT SMOOTHSPHERE LG56: 1588 -> 1734
VT SUAVETRACK GLIDER: 841 -> 972
VT SUAVETRACK INTERMEDIATE CLOSE: 2443 -> 2598
VT ANGLETRACK INTERMEDIATE: 4397 -> 4461
VT REGENSPHERES CONTROL MED: 33 -> 34
VT CONTROLTRACK FAR MED: 1169 -> 1405
VT CONTROLTRACK BLINK INTERMEDIATE: 2031 -> 2370
VT PRECISIONSPHERE: 1524 -> 1748
VT STEADYTRACK INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1063 -> 1102**

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Today I found out what wrist tracking was after watching a mattyow video and it has completely changed the way I play tracking scens. It has also caused/made noticeable a lot of problems such as lots of wrist tension, my mouse slowly drifting off the mousepad everytime I use my wrist to track to the left, and awful diagonal tracking. I think I can iron out the wrist tension slowly but im not too sure how to tackle tracking diagonally with my wrist or how to prevent my mouse from coming towards me when I track to the left. I also learned from the matty video that having a consistent starting position is key and honestly I think just changing where I start a movement has drastically improved my tracking by having me resetting less. Today was a lot of score improvements too even while trying wrist tracking (which feels awkward af) so I think I'm somewhat on the right track in terms of technique. Also noticed a lot of focus issues today but it might just be because I've had a busy day today and my meds have worn off.

rapid crystal Apr 5, 2024, 1:48 AM

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**VDIM REACTIVE TRACKING 4-4-24

HIGH SCORES:

VT MIDRANGE LONG STRAFES MED: 1651 -> 1893
VT MIDRANGE SHORT STRAFES MED: 1450 -> 1538
VT CLOSERANGE LONG STRAFES MED: 1181 -> 1422
VT CLOSERANGE SHORT STRAFES MED: 1104 -> 1552
VT TRACKSTOP INTERMEDIATE: 1657 -> 2106
VT MSFI INTERMEDIATE: 1551 -> 2206
VT PILLTRACK INTERMEDIATE SMOOTH: 2238 -> 2261
VT PILLTRACK INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1543 -> 2058
VT PILLTRACK INTERMEDIATE: 2519 -> 2568
VT AIR LONG STRAFES FAR MED: 1430 -> 1702
VT AIR SHORT STRAFES FAR MED: 1127 -> 1507
VT AIR LONG STRAFES CLOSE MED: 1298 -> 1514
VT AIR SHORT STRAFES CLOSE MED: 1030 -> 1520
VT AIRXYZ: 1691 -> 1872
VT VERTICALTRACK: 1527 -> 2041
VT UFO: 1610 -> 1999
VT AXITRACK INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1354 -> 1456
VT AXITRACK INTERMEDIATE: 2441 -> 2575**

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I've never had a day of every vdim score being an improvement before, especially since reactive tracking is my best skill (I legit thought I hit my cap). The whole discovery of wrist tracking has given me a huge breakthrough with tracking in general but especially on reactive tracking as it kinda makes everything easier to react to since I dont have to use a lot of energy or do a huge motion with my arm in order to accurately react. Obviously nothing is perfect in my tech as am still noticing jittering and quite honestly my wrist is tired af after doing the playlist. I did realize a good place to reset my mouse position by just moving it back to the middle of my mouse pad that I'm not too sure why I didnt do it earlier, but it has helped me be able to reset less which is probably why im having such a huge improvement in score for most of the scens in this playlist. This is definitely the best improvement day iv had so far, I hope it doesn't slow down anytime soon.

peak groveBOT Apr 5, 2024, 1:54 AM

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Stop breaking things! :C

rapid crystal Apr 5, 2024, 1:57 AM

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I achieved double diamond in reactive aswell, huge achievement for me

rapid crystal Apr 6, 2024, 1:15 AM

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**VDIM SPEED SWITCHING 4-5-24

HIGH SCORES:

VT SPEEDSWITCH 180 MED: 2720 -> 2800
VT DOTTS STATIC MED: 2231 -> 2251
VT DOTTS MED: 2194 -> 2225
VT DOTTS 360 MED: 1825 -> 1950
VT SPHERESWITCH SPEED FOCUS MED: 1335 -> 1395
VT SPHERESWITCH INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1363 -> 1399
VT SKYSWITCH JUMBO MED: 3200 -> 3293
VT SKYSWITCH STATIC MED: 2375 -> 2431
VT SKYSWITCH EVO VISCOSE: 2300 -> 2503
VT SKYSWITCH SPEED FOCUS: 1755 -> 1785
VT SKYSWITCH SMOOTH MED: 59 -> 70
VT SKYSWITCH INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1700 -> 2030
VT SKYSWITCH INTERMEDIATE: 2350 -> 2355**

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I got a new mousepad after a couple of years of wearing out my old one. Went to a QCK+ heavy to a FX hien and honestly the difference is crazy. In terms of switching technique, I don't think a single thing has changed from last week minus the ape flicking. I will say that I've probably gotten naturally faster in speed switching just because of the new mousepad and it quite feels uncontrollable for now but hopefully will feel better in a couple days. Not too much to say about today, minor improvements in todays scores but improvement is improvement.

rapid crystal Apr 6, 2024, 2:47 PM

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**VDIM EVASIVE SWITCHING 4-6-24

HIGH SCORES:

VT EVASIVE MICRO SWITCH MED: 44 -> 45
VT REGENSPHERES MED: 38 -> 41
VT REGENSPHERES VARIED MED: 24 -> 27
VT DODGESWITCH SMOOTH MED: 24 -> 27
VT DODGESWITCH SPEED FOCUS MED: 1300 -> 1410
VT DODGESWITCH INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1645 -> 1666
VT DODGESWITCH INTERMEDIATE: 1971 -> 2065
VT DROPTS MED: 22 -> 23
VT ARCTRACK MED: 1398 -> 1530
VT ARCSWITCH INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1050 -> 1122
VT ARCSWITCH INTERMEDIATE: 1407 -> 1466**

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Pretty decent day of scores. This new mousepad is starting to feel nice but it really makes my tension issues obvious as im stuttering every switchtracking scene. I'm going to try to work on smooth weakness related scens on sunday instead of benchmarking since I think benchmarking is unnecessary when I play them in the VDIMs anyways. I also played todays playlist on 103 fov instead 110 like I usually do with switching, I dont think it made much of a difference but if I somehow pop off next week on evasive switching then I guess thats why lol.

rapid crystal Apr 8, 2024, 3:22 AM

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WEAKNESS/SMOOTH TRAINING 4-7-24

Nothing much going on today, spent 1h 30mins doing precision related weakness and smooth training to ease up my overall tension since I think that'll automatically boost all the scores of all the aiming categories. I think I'm going to just hard grind tracking next week every day to see if I'll like doing 1 skill a week or not.

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Heres week 1's benchmark scores

rapid crystal Apr 8, 2024, 10:22 PM

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**VDIM PRECISE TRACKING 4-8-24

HIGH SCORES:

VT WIDE ANGLE TRACKING MED: 2256 -> 2506
VT SUAVETRACK INTERMEDIATE CLOSE: 2598 -> 2610
VT SUAVETRACK INTERMEDIATE: 2336 -> 2791**

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NGL today I wanted to chill because of the eclipse so I just spammed SUAVETRACK for like 45mins 💀

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found out that iv been playing suave on way too high of a sens so I set it to 50cm and started pbing one after another

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its pretty much score cheesing but it got me to platinum so it was worth it

rapid crystal Apr 10, 2024, 1:06 AM

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**KVKS Static Weakness Routine + Static benchmarks 4-9-12

HIGH SCORES: VT FIVESHOT INTERMEDIATE: 979 -> 1042**

I returned my mousepad because its way too small to play any game other than 20cm overwatch on it lol, I have to stick with my old pad for another week before my new artisan comes in. While I wait for new pad, I decided I'm going to just grind a lot of weakness routines this week (Mostly static and precision tracking) since a lot of my non-plat/low plat scores are flicking related. Today's weakness is static, and I've decided to go back to the bardpill method since I have a little bit better understanding of tension control and what to do. So far, it feels pretty nice but I just gotta really make sure not to rush my micros and keep a relaxed grip the entire time. Also got plat on fiveshot after 1h 30mins of cooking my arm doing flicks POG

rapid crystal Apr 11, 2024, 3:01 AM

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**KVKS Static Weakness Routine + Speed Weakness Routine 4-10-12

High Scores: VT SKYSWITCH INTERMEDIATE: 2355 -> 2457**

Day 2 of static weakness this week, it's kinda crazy how much tension I've removed just by conciously relaxing my hand while flicking. It makes microcorrections 100x easier and I'm overall faster because I'm insta flicking instead of dragging. I do still need to watch out on rushing my microcorrections but my accuracy is still around 93%+ and I'm setting a lot better static scores than before. I will continue working on tension management and taking my time on micros for the rest of the week.

rapid crystal Apr 12, 2024, 1:49 AM

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**Aimlabs Static Weakness Routine + Benchmarks 4-11-12

High Scores:

VT FIVESHOT INTERMEDIATE: 1042 -> 1155
VT MULTISHOT 120 INTERMEDIATE: 1136 -> 1295**

Day 3 of static this week and I got diamond in both static benchmarks which is crazy to think since static was one of my worst categories. I saw a bot post of the bardoz method in Voltaic Discord and saw it saying "No more than 3 misses a run" and "No misses for the first 10 seconds", I used these rules to push my speed and I swear it has helped me tremendously. It gave me a window where I can push the speed uncomfortably fast until I miss 3 times then bring it back my normal pacing and this slowly pushed my speed baseline higher and higher. I think setting rules like this allows me to get out of my head but also keep good habits so I'm going to implement this more. I've averaged 97% acc for all my runs today on bench but I have noticed my tension levels increase the faster I try to play, I think at this point I'm just going to work on getting other skills to diamond to balance it out.

rapid crystal Apr 13, 2024, 2:21 AM

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**Dynamic VDIM + Weakness 4-12-24

High Scores:

AMARE MICROSHOT: 474 -> 581
VT HYPERSHOT INTERMEDIATE: 391 -> 467
VT FLOATING DOTS DEPTH SMALL: 474 -> 565
VT ANGLETRACK INTERMEDIATE: 4456 -> 4841
VT ANGLESWITCH INTERMEDIATE SPEED: 79 -> 80
VT ANGLESHOT MULTI INTERMEDIATE: 339 -> 384
VT ANGLESHOT INTERMEDIATE: 714 -> 736
VT STRAFESHOT MED: 43 -> 46
VT FLOWSHOT INTERMEDIATE: 439 -> 452
VT ORB CLICK MED: 272 -> 302
VT WAVESHOT INTERMEDIATE SPEED FOCUS: 645 -> 657
VT WAVESHOT INTERMEDIATE: 468 -> 516**

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good scores today, I fucking suck at dynamic but somehow got my first diamond score on angleshot so thats cool I guess. I'm really not sure how to improve on dynamic other than I guess just playing more. Im at a weird spot where I flick perfectly on a target and micro almost perfectly but im off by a smidge. If I slow down then Ill have to start tracking the target which 1. is a bad habit to have and 2. I end up missing anyways because Im lagging behind the target so whats the point. I'll grind dynamic for the rest of the week or until I get diamond in waveshot I guess

rapid crystal Apr 14, 2024, 12:51 AM

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**Kovaaks Dynamic VDIM + Benchmarks 4-13-24

High Scores:**

Another day of Dynamic, I didn't really improve today but I did kinda think of an idea that might help me with dynamic. I've been struggling bad with accuracy (avg 60% and below) and I had a realization that I can pretend that each scenerio is a tracking scene. I know tracking is a bad habit to have in dynamic but I think the more I can track a target comfortably, the faster I'll be able to reduce the amount of time I need to track in order to confirm a kill. This method has helped me bunch my avg acc to around 75-80% which is leagues better than before but it ofcourse slows me down a tiny bit. I'm going to keep working on this to see any improvements but it sure does look like I'll be working on dynamic for a while.

rapid crystal Apr 14, 2024, 3:35 PM

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**Aimlabs Dynamic VDIM + Benchmarks 4-14-24

High Scores:**

Once again another day of Dynamic, another day of 0 improvement noticed. Playing this category is kinda burning me out and I asked for advice and was told that you just get better by playing more of it while working on other aiming categories, so I'm just going to go back to tracking grind next week until I have the motivation to tackle this beast again.

rapid crystal Apr 14, 2024, 8:20 PM

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Heres week 2's benchmark scores

rapid crystal Apr 16, 2024, 3:53 AM

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**TSK Extra + VDIM Precise Tracking 4-15-24

High Scores:

VT WRIST SMOOTHNESS MED: 2140 -> 2442
VT CENTERING II 180 MED: 2062 -> 2403
VT WIDE ANGLE TRACKING MED: 2506 -> 2940
VT SMOOTHSPHERE LG56: 1734 -> 1778
VT SUAVETRACK GLIDER: 972 -> 1011
VT SUAVETRACK INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1822 -> 1914
VT AIR ANGELIC: 2169 -> 2276
VT REGENSPHERES CONTROL MED: 34 -> 37
VT KONTROLSPHERE: 2233 -> 2255
VT STEADYTRACK INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1102 -> 1163
VT STEADYTRACK INTERMEDIATE: 2056 -> 2209**

My new hien came in, it's crazy how much my smoothness has improved since I returned my last hien. I use to stutter constantly while tracking but now it feels nice and easy and im slowly improving scores in TSK benchmarks. In terms of today's VDIM, pretty decent scores and I got steadytrack to plat which is nice. Tracking definitely way more enjoyable than dynamic for me and hopefully with this new mousepad, I can break through some scores. I can't really think on anything to improve on other than smoothness rn for tracking so the rest of this week I'll play TSK and maybe precise/reactive VDIMs, then I'll probably switch back to a different VDIM a day like I use to.

peak groveBOT Apr 16, 2024, 3:53 AM

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Stop breaking things! :C

rapid crystal Apr 17, 2024, 1:00 AM

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**TSK Extra + Static benchmarks 4-16-24

High Scores: NONE**

I know I said I was going to play tracking all week but I realized I really need to implement smoothness into all my categories if I want to step up to the next level. The sooner I can make a baseline of almost 0 tension, the faster I'll improve at I would assume every category so I think getting the tension free aiming should be my biggest priority right now. I tried implementing the smoothness feeling in my wrist while flicking and its quite hard to control but its definitely working, this is actually how I got my static benchmarks to diamond in the first place. I have realized that I still use a lot of tension to stop my flicks so I'm going to focus on slowing my flicks down a tiny bit with this relaxed feeling and have my mousepad decelerate for me instead of my just brute force stopping my mouse. I will say that my smoothness on 25cm has improved drastically, if only I could replicate it on flicks. D:

rapid crystal Apr 18, 2024, 2:02 AM

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**TSK Extra + Static benchmarks 4-17-24

High Scores: NONE**

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Literally the same thing as yesterday

rapid crystal Apr 19, 2024, 2:52 AM

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Rest day 4-18-24 to 4-21-24

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High Scores: NONE

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This week has been pretty wonky feeling wise, I think im slowly getting burnt out and my wrist is starting to feel a lil iffy so I'm just going to take a break for the rest of the week and start back on monday with VDIMs as normal, if i dont post again after this point, someone hold me accountable and spam my dms until I repost

rapid crystal Apr 22, 2024, 9:59 PM

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**VDIM STATIC CLICKING 4-22-24

High scores:

VT PHASESHOT: 294 -> 306
VT ONESHOT REFLEX MED: 342 -> 380
VT TWOSHOT VERTICAL: 720 -> 815
VT PULSESHOT FOUR: 964 -> 1228
VT FIVESHOT INTERMEDIATE POKEBALL: 89 -> 95
VT FOURSHOT SMALL: 845 -> 860
VT 4T WIDE: 991 -> 1095**

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this is the first time iv taken a break from something and come back to it lmao. I told myself I was going to focus on reviewing high scores so I can adapt but i completely forgot until after the session lol ADHD go BRRRRRR

rapid crystal Apr 23, 2024, 7:07 PM

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**VDIM DYNAMIC CLICKING 4-23-24

High Scores:

VT ANGLESWITCH INTERMEDIATE SPEED: 80 -> 84
VT WAVESHOT INTERMEDIATE SPEED FOCUS: 657 -> 659**

I saw coach ben talk about how playing for acc for dynamic doesnt matter because it will improve the better your reading is so I've been mainly focusing on trying to track targets as little as possible, my scores have tanked heavily because of it but hopefully I will improve my reading this way. The break I took also improved my smoothness I believe, static and dynamic has been way less tense than before so its a nice feeling.

peak groveBOT Apr 23, 2024, 7:07 PM

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It didn't break, it's a feature :^)

rapid crystal Apr 25, 2024, 12:47 AM

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**VDIM PRECISE TRACKING 4-24-24

High Scores:

VT WIDE ANGLE TRACKING MED: 2940 -> 2942
VT REGENSPHERES MED: 41 -> 43
VT SMOOTHSPHERE LG56: 1778 -> 1826
VT SUAVETRACK INTERMEDIATE CLOSE: 2610 -> 2623
VT KONTROLSPHERE: 2255 -> 2265
VT CONTROLTRACK FAR MED: 1405 -> 1431**

I switched to 20cm from 25cm on tracking scens, this new artisan hien i bought has made my tracking incredibly smooth, even on 20cm so I'm very satisfied. I've had trouble focusing directly on the target today but I know that I would do so much better if I could. Also playing different VDIMS daily is really refreshing, I dont think I'll be able to grind a single skillset without burning out so I'm just going to repeat this routine til I hit master prob

rapid crystal Apr 26, 2024, 1:38 AM

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**VDIM REACTIVE TRACKING 4-25-24

High Scores:

VT CLOSERANGE LONG STRAFES MED: 1422 -> 1849
VT CLOSERANGE SHORT STRAFES MED: 1552 -> 1567
VT PILLTRACK INTERMEDIATE SMOOTH: 2261 -> 2321
VT PILLTRACK INTERMEDIATE HARD: 2058 -> 2255
VT PILLTRACK INTERMEDIATE: 2568 -> 2718
VT AIR LONG STRAFES CLOSE MED: 1514 -> 1531
VT AIRXYZ: 1872 -> 1976
VT AXITRACK INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1456 -> 1539**

Good practice today, I know I've this already but my smoothness and overall tension has improved drastically and Im not sure if its my new mousepad or the TSK benchmarks I spammed for like a week. My bot reading has definitely improved because I havent played reactive in 2 weeks but the bots feel way slower now. I also almost got my first jade score, 32 points away on pilltrack very exciting!

rapid crystal Apr 27, 2024, 2:49 AM

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**VDIM SPEED SWITCHING 4-26-24

High Scores: VT SPEEDSWITCH 90 MED: 3000 -> 3181
VT SPEEDSWITCH 180 MED: 2800 -> 2900**

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I played 10mins of scens before work and i got home really late so instead of finishing the rest of the playlist, im going to eat then go to bed.

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tomorrow is grinding day after work

rapid crystal Apr 30, 2024, 1:05 AM

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**VDIM STATIC CLICKING 4-29-24

High Scores: VT Micro 3 Sphere: 1656 -> 1666
VT ONESHOT REFLEX MED: 380 -> 466
VT TWOSHOT HORIZONTAL: 790 -> 832
VT TWOSHOT VERTICAL: 815 -> 852
VT PULSESHOT FOUR: 1228 -> 1290
VT FOURSHOT SMALL: 860 -> 903
VT TWOSHOT HORIZONTAL WIDE: 750 -> 758
VT MULTISHOT 120 MED CLUSTER FOCUS: 1169 -> 1188
VT MULTISHOT 120 INTERMEDIATE SPEED FOCUS: 967 -> 1000**

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Played the entire playlist on 100cm MY ARM IS COOKED. Also 60cm feels like 30cm now because of it ITS SO WEIRD

rapid crystal May 1, 2024, 1:35 AM

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VDIM DYNAMIC CLICKING 4-30-24

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No highscores today but I watched a bunch of vids on aiming and I saw an interview with matty on the implementation of "Score Thresholds". I decided to implement this into my routine to force myself to focus on getting higher scores instead just doing the same scens 3x and finishing the playlist feeling like I've done nothing. I've also noticed that constantly missing a score threshold frustrates me, because of this, I will either burn out hella fast or this will be the ultimate fuel for my improvement 💀

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either way I need to change something up because the lack of any noticable improvement and my own inability to focus is slowly burning me out, hopefully this will spice things up and do the trick

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tomorrow is precision tracking, im very excited to grind out scores because the only noticable improvement iv seen in the past month has been my smoothness

rapid crystal May 1, 2024, 9:26 PM

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**VDIM PRECISE TRACKING 5-1-24

High Scores: VT SUAVETRACK INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1914 -> 1921
VT STEADYTRACK INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1163 -> 1239
VT STEADYTRACK INTERMEDIATE: 2209 -> 2554
VT SUAVETRACK INTERMEDIATE: 2887 -> 2927**

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I did the score threshold thing and things went pretty good. It could be because Im using 20cm but a 1hour playlist turned into 4hours when trying to get close to my top scores every scene. It has felt like a productive day today so hopefully ill sleep on this and come back tomorrow a little bit better. Also got diamond on steadytrack and suavetrack very cool, tomorrow I get jade on pilltrack EZ.

rapid crystal May 3, 2024, 1:25 AM

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VDIM REACTIVE TRACKING 5-2-24

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HIGH SCORES: VT AIR SHORT STRAFES FAR MED: 1507 -> 1544

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probably the worst day I could of had to do reactive based stuff, I had to wake up unexpectedly early so I got little sleep, did hard physical labor for about 7 hours, and top it all off with me starting the playlist when iv been awake for 15 hours so im extra fatigued. It was extremely hard to focus and I just wasnt enjoying anything so I did about 60% of the playlist using score threshold then called it. I still got my aim workout in but today was not a good day for improvement tbh

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tomorrow is speed switching, which is one of the categories I need to improve in order to hit diamond rank so im excited

iron prism May 3, 2024, 10:50 AM

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rapid crystal **VDIM EVASIVE SWITCHING 4-6-24 HIGH SCORES: VT EVASIVE MICRO SWITCH MED: 44...

HI! Any tips for evasive micro switch med? 🙂

rapid crystal May 3, 2024, 12:46 PM

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iron prism HI! Any tips for evasive micro switch med? 🙂

I can't give the best advice as my evasive switching is literally my worst/least played category but it's essentially just a combination of static tech+tracking, and I think this goes for every evasive ts scens on the VDIM

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So just work on flick tech like tension management and micros aswell as fully relaxing your aim when you begin to track, for the small bots: you won't have to focus too hard on flicking as everything is pretty close together so putting a lot of your focus on little tension and smoothness will help a lot on these smaller scens

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I play on 45cm but I don't think it's necessarily bad to go on a faster sens to train smoothness on ts

iron prism May 3, 2024, 12:54 PM

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I hit 2059 on Dodgeswitch but only 17 on evasive micro... :/ That's terrible. And only 10 on Dodgeswitch Smooth.
EvasiveTS and PreciseTrack is my nemesis :/

rapid crystal May 3, 2024, 12:55 PM

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iron prism I hit 2059 on Dodgeswitch but only 17 on evasive micro... :/ That's terrible. An...

This pretty much sums up your issue, you need to work on smoothness more

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I play tracking on 20cm and just grinding tracks until I naturally just tense less when aiming

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As you get better at reading bot movements, that smoothness will carry over to evasive scens/dynamic

iron prism May 3, 2024, 12:58 PM

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Will try that. 20cm is pretty fast I'd say. But not today. I'm fed up with AL xD

Thank you 😉

rapid crystal May 3, 2024, 12:59 PM

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iron prism Will try that. 20cm is pretty fast I'd say. But not today. I'm fed up with AL xD...

Good, you wanna be frustrated it promotes growth XD

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20cm will definitely frustrate you too but that's the point

iron prism May 3, 2024, 1:03 PM

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Yeah xD just 41 points off Plat EvasiveTS and 12 points of my overall Plat rank xD wanted it sooo much today but I’ll have to wait ;D

rapid crystal May 3, 2024, 2:03 PM

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iron prism Will try that. 20cm is pretty fast I'd say. But not today. I'm fed up with AL xD...

actual now that I think about it, playing a faster sens is probably best when doing switching scens

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the smoothness aspect is really important

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maybe not 20cm but like 25-35 seems like a good practice range

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for target switching*

iron prism May 3, 2024, 6:01 PM

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But then you have to have steady aim to be smoooooth

rapid crystal May 3, 2024, 10:24 PM

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iron prism But then you have to have steady aim to be smoooooth

Playing on high sensitivity makes tension problems more noticeable, which allows your brain to focus better on fixing it

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Low tension=smoothness=steady aim

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You can't play on high sensitivity with lots of tension so playing high sensitivity and focusing on little tension will make whatever pretty much every aim category easier via lower tension overall

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Cuz aiming is literally just flicking+smoothness

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That being said I wouldn't play 20cm on static scens

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And I wouldn't play 100cm on tracking scens unless you got the world's largest mousepad

rapid crystal May 4, 2024, 2:35 AM

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**VDIM SPEED SWITCHING 5-3-24

HIGH SCORES: VT SPEEDSWITCH 180 MED: 2900 -> 3061
VT DOTTS STATIC MED: 2251 -> 2491
VT DOTTS MED: 2225 -> 2448
VT DOTTS 360 MED: 1950 -> 1956
VT SPHERESWITCH SPEEDFOCUS MED: 1399 -> 1496
VT SPHERESWITCH INTERMEDIATE HARD: 1399 -> 1496
VT SPHERESWITCH INTERMEDIATE: 1774 -> 1940
VT SKYSWITCH JUMBO MED: 3293 -> 3467
VT SKYSHOT POKEBALL: 92 -> 93
VT SKYSWITCH STATIC MED: 2431 -> 2600
VT SKYSWITCH EVO VISCOSE: 2503 -> 2582
VT SKYSWITCH SPEED FOCUS MED: 1785 -> 1860
VT SKYSWITCH SMOOTH MED: 70 -> 76
VT SKYSWITCH INTERMEDIATE HARD: 2030 -> 2106
VT SKYSWITCH INTERMEDIATE: 2457 -> 2600**

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Insane day for pbs, got both of my Speed TS benchmarks to diamond and im currently 3 energy points away from diamond POG. This score threshold thing iv implemented into my practice actually has gotten me out of a huge plateau, granted i havent done speed switching properly in almost a month but I definitely have noticed tech improvements overall. I think me getting burnt out was because I was just zooming through the VDIMs and feeling bad that I wasnt getting any improvement scores, but I didnt actually work enough for the scores to get them. I've also been playing for a solid 4 hours today and my arm feels like jello so I got a good workout in. Evasive switching tomorrow, I havent properly ran evasive TS in around a month aswell so hopefully I can get the both benchmarks to diamond, then I'll have one more benchmark until diamond complete.

rapid crystal May 5, 2024, 7:52 PM

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VDIM EVASIVE SWITCHING 5-5-24

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HIGH SCORES: VT ADJUSTSWITCH MED: 2537 -> 2580
VT DODGESWITCH SPEED FOCUS MED: 1410 -> 1448
VT DODGESWITCH INTERMEDIATE: 2065 -> 2120
VT ARCSWITCH INTERMEDIATE: 1466 -> 1630

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Decent day of improvement, finally hit diamond. Arcswitch is a bitch to play and im quite honestly struggling to find ways to push it while looking through a bunch of master vods and RIDDBTW's vids. Hopefully my tech is fine and it's just a reading thing I'll need to grind.

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this weeks benchmarks

rapid crystal May 6, 2024, 12:33 AM

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dodgeswitch a bitch but im slowly improving it

rapid crystal May 6, 2024, 4:01 AM

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JadenFez's Journey to Masters! (and hopefully above) | Current: Diamond

rapid crystal May 6, 2024, 5:47 PM

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VDIM STATIC CLICKING 5-6-24

HIGH SCORES: VT MICRO 3 SPHERE: 1666 -> 1818
VT PHASESHOT: 306 -> 345
VT ONESHOT REFLEX MED: 466 -> 481
VT TWOSHOT VERTICAL: 852 -> 892
VT FIVESHOT INTERMEDIATE POKEBALL: 95 -> 99
VT FOURSHOT SMALL: 903 -> 941
VT 4T WIDE: 1095 -> 1120
VT BERRYTS STATIC: 1051 -> 1071
VT MICROSHOT SPEED WIDE: 970 -> 971
VT MULTISHOT 120 MED CLUSTER FOCUS: 1188 -> 1205
VT MULTISHOT 120 INTERMEDIATE SPEED FOCUS: 1000 -> 1002

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Spent around 2 hours on the VDIM today, gonna take a break for a few hours then come back and spam static benchmarks. My stamina on 100cm has improved a lot since last week, I can actually last through a playlist without my arm falling off which is nice. My speed has improved a tiny bit aswell so I believe I can really push my static benchmarks today.

iron prism May 7, 2024, 6:10 PM

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How big is your mousepad?

rapid crystal May 7, 2024, 10:53 PM

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iron prism How big is your mousepad?

i have an artisan hien XL soft

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im not sure what the measurements are and im too lazy to look them up but i think its around 40+ish cm wide

rapid crystal May 8, 2024, 1:15 AM

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**VDIM DYNAMIC CLICKING 5-7-24

HIGH SCORES: VT FLOATING DOTS DEPTH SMALL: 565 -> 581
VT ANGLESHOT INTERMEDIATE HARD: 474 -> 476
VT ANGLESHOT INTERMEDIATE: 736 -> 807
VT STRAFESHOT MED: 46 -> 47
VT BLINKSHOT: 33 -> 37
VT WAVESWITCH INTERMEDIATE: 50 -> 52
VT WAVESHOT INTERMEDIATE SPEED FOCUS: 659 -> 721
VT WAVESHOT INTERMEDIATE HARD: 347 -> 352
VT WAVESHOT INTERMEDIATE: 516 -> 597**

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Huge day for dynamic scores, got jade on angleshot and diamond on wave shot. I never thought i would improve these so fast figuring it feels like my weakest category other than like evasive switching. One thing that did bump up my scores that Coach Ben brought was that he treats pasu like smooth tracking scens, and I'm not sure if I interpated what he meant correctly but it sure did help me drastically bump my dynamic scores and acc. The only reason I think this worked for me is because I've been grinding the speed aspect of pasu and trying to get in as many clicks and hits as possible instead of actual target confirmation, so I was able to have decently fast runs, but slowed down enough where I can actually make sure im on the bot.

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the green sure does look good

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I honestly think i can get waveshot to jade aswell today but i wanna chill out instead of overworking myself

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my wrist needs a break

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also weird to think im 2 benchmarks away from diamond complete and theyre both evasive switching ;w;

iron prism May 8, 2024, 4:07 PM

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rapid crystal i have an artisan hien XL soft

It turned out that my mouse changed DPI so I've been playing static on 160 or 200 cm/360 xDD

rapid crystal May 8, 2024, 4:07 PM

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iron prism It turned out that my mouse changed DPI so I've been playing static on 160 or 20...

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idk how you do 200cm

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1 swipe wouldnt even make it to a target XD

iron prism May 8, 2024, 4:08 PM

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0.114 in AL with 800 DPI xD And I made progress with that hahaha

rapid crystal May 8, 2024, 4:09 PM

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good job man

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100cm is hard

iron prism May 8, 2024, 4:16 PM

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It was only for a day or two but it drove me mad. In the morning, before work, I felt sluggish. Thought to myself - I'm still sleepy. I've ditched AL and played some Apex - the same (managed to hit 1k dmg in one ranked match nonetheless). Now I'm after work and started playing AL. Changed AL sens from 0.114 to 0.15 (100 to 76cm IF I were using 1600dpi), hit almost 100 points PB in micros but then it was Reflex scenario (VDIM) - I wasn't able to reach te targets within my mousepad. Then I've realised that I might changed it while cleaning my mouse xD Yeah. It was either on 800 or 1000 dpi so 200 or 160 cm. Now 1600x0.15 is FAST and that's 76cm 😄 Even 100cm is fast...

rapid crystal May 8, 2024, 4:22 PM

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iron prism It was only for a day or two but it drove me mad. In the morning, before work, I...

go pb a static score rq before 100cm becomes normal again Clueless

rapid crystal May 11, 2024, 1:29 AM

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VDIM SPEED SWITCHING 5-10-24

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iv been very busy and kinda too lazy to write out VDIM scores so im probably gonna just post benchmark pbs until Jade

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also Skyswitch to jade POG

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39 off sphereswitch jade

rapid crystal May 11, 2024, 1:49 AM

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32 off

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boom jade on sphereswitch

rapid crystal May 12, 2024, 2:43 AM

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VDIM EVASIVE SWITCHING 5-11-24

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slowly climbing to diamond arcswitch

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shits hard

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another pb IDK what i did differently

rapid crystal May 12, 2024, 3:17 AM

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dodgeswitch pb

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diamond on dodgeswitch

rustic pivot May 12, 2024, 5:16 AM

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rapid crystal another pb IDK what i did differently

Arc switch is ez

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focus on one bot at a time
chain bots at the top of their arc when feasible
get so good at tracking the bounce that you autopilot
treat it as a suavetrack TS exercise while autopilot the bounce

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Spend some serious effort getting really comfortable at following the bounce as you snap to the next bit

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You can train this by loading up arc switch and then just vertically tracking the bounce on a bot without clicking it or worrying about tracking it horizontally

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Popcorn types develop X and Y axis tracking independence

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In other words, can you autopilot Y axis bounces to allow you to isolate X axis tracking?

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Arcs do not exist in computers

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All we are doing is drawing two lines at the same time

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An arc is what happens when you draw the popcorn bounce with the y axis and the straight line with the x axis

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Treat your mouse like a 3d printer or a crane game

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Two parameters adjust at once and an arc pops out

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But it’s synthetic

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Best of luck

rapid crystal May 12, 2024, 5:49 AM

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rustic pivot Arc switch is ez

Facts I'll hit jade on it tomorrow

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 12:38 AM

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alright time to grind arcswitch

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 12:39 AM

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Yerr

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Warm up your tracking isolation by axis then get after it

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 1:39 AM

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i really dont know how i got that 1775 run

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 1:39 AM

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Lucky bot spawns

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Focus on good technique

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Post a VOD

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 1:49 AM

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https://youtu.be/P8E3atRLZLY

YouTube

JadenFez

arcswitch intermediate 5-12-24

▶ Play video

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 1:50 AM

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Your tracking on the bot is super unstable when you get to it. Turn your sens down

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15 minutes make another vod

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Whatever you cm is add 10

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Turn it down until your tracking is smooth on these bots

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The only thing you are doing is two things

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Smooth X axis speed switching

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Matching the correct part of the bounce arc to the next dot

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Your horizontal stability is a mess

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 1:51 AM

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rustic pivot Your tracking on the bot is super unstable when you get to it. Turn your sens do...

i legit predicted you were going to say this so i made another one full smooth mode

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i get the same score 20cm and 60cm

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which fucking sucks

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 1:52 AM

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That’s fine

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The same score doesn’t mean =/ = same technique

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Forget the score.

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Let’s make the technique look good first

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 1:54 AM

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rapid crystal i get the same score 20cm and 60cm

Also this is a fucking enormous jump in sens.

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I’m not saying 60cm is bad but like

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You should have a point of reference to the other sens you’re using lol

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20 is all wrist and 60 is a lot of arm

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For target switching and other tracking tasks I actually recommend just trying sens 1 cm at a time

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Start at 20 and go up 1 cm a run until 40cm

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 1:56 AM

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i only play 40cm

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 1:56 AM

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Learn your own sweet spots

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 1:56 AM

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unless its smooth ts task

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 1:56 AM

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Is there a reason for that?

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 1:56 AM

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on target switching

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 1:56 AM

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Besides arbitrary.

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 1:56 AM

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cuz i pretty much copy the avg of top 50 scores

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and it seems to be around 40 for both benchmarks

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 1:57 AM

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A wide average doesn’t mean to average the numbers.

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It means a lot of values could be right for you.

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Ermm

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When all the WRs are like 42, 45, 47 THEN you take the hint

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And maybe run 45

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But a lot of TS high scores vary from 20 to 60

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 1:57 AM

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rustic pivot A wide average doesn’t mean to average the numbers.

wait i dont understand this

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 1:57 AM

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That is HUGE HUGE VARIANCE

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it means that people picked the sens that they scored best on.

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 1:58 AM

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because the wide average for the scores i checked is between 40-50

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 1:58 AM

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Ok taking that example specifically

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If scores are between 40 and 50, you should explore 35-55 1 cm at a time

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Remember high scores also have crazy good technique

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They might be compensating for the tougher handling of a sensitivity with insane mouse control

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I am a big believer that TS is super super personal when it comes to sens

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Because when does your arm become your wrist become your fingers?

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That is your own physiology and biomechanics.

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 1:59 AM

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35cm

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i figured this out a long time ago

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i dont use it tho because i thought that straight up defeats the purpose of other sens

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 2:00 AM

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You should broadly speaking use the sens that you’re feeling the best on that day

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That sens can change between days and even mid match for pros.

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Some pros have one sens and that’s that

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A lot of pros go ‘hmm I’m doing C well but struggling to do D, I’ll adjust my sens to compensate’

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Even in our day to day tasks there can be variance

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Anyway…let me check out the slower VOD as well

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I’m interested in seeing that

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 2:04 AM

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o shit wrong clip

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https://youtu.be/lX11jf3JczQ

YouTube

JadenFez

arcswitch intermiate 2 5-12-24

▶ Play video

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 2:05 AM

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I was about to say

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Shit looks mad jittery still

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 2:05 AM

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also iv been meaning to ask you about that

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my smoothness is way better at higher sens than lower sens

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like 30cm im way smoother than lets say 60

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which physically doesnt make sense or atleast sounds like

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 2:06 AM

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Looks a lot better

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You’re still like

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Really unstable still

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But I can tell the smoothness looks better

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I think you would benefit a LOT

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from watching someone with a higher score play this scen.

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You just don’t seem to be prioritizing smooth arcs when you get to the next bot

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I think you don’t quite know how essential it is or you would do it more

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Look at the top scorers for this scen

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You’ll see this:

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 2:08 AM

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rustic pivot from watching someone with a higher score play this scen.

i watch the master vods on youtube and checked out a few top 50 scores

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 2:08 AM

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fast flicks
good target selection
super super clean stickiness and matching bot directions
good chaining when applicable
stickiness at all points in the bounce arc

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 2:08 AM

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im actively trying to copy them but the only thing i got from the vods are keeping the bots in middle of screen and chaining at peak

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 2:08 AM

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You’re missing a smoothness to your tracking that is costing you a lot of speed, if that makes sense

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 2:08 AM

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which isnt bad per say

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so it wouldnt be so bad just spamming arcswitch smooth on like 20cm?

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 2:09 AM

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I would actually do it on the sens you want to play for score

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You need more hours playing this scenario type using a smooth or hard variant

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Check out the intermediate hard version of this scenario and put some time into it

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You’ll find it in the matching vdim playlist

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For reference I use about 35cm for this scenario

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I try to turn down until I feel locked in on my bot arcs

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Then slowly turn it back up after my hand is warmed up to it

rapid crystal May 13, 2024, 2:35 AM

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alright my 2 hours are up

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ill come back to this in a few hours

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ill keep all of this in mind thanks ben

rustic pivot May 13, 2024, 2:36 AM

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This is a hard one

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I got better magically, overnight

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It’s very dependent on pattern mastery; keep putting the time in 🫡

rapid crystal May 14, 2024, 3:43 AM

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hard balancing acc and pace but im slowly getting jade

rapid crystal May 14, 2024, 4:02 AM

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i need to fit in 12 more hits some how

rapid crystal May 15, 2024, 2:14 AM

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bruh

rustic pivot May 15, 2024, 2:15 AM

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you got it!

rapid crystal May 15, 2024, 2:21 AM

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rustic pivot you got it!

do you use something like bardoz rules where you reset after 3 misses?

rustic pivot May 15, 2024, 2:22 AM

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for what

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angleshot?

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man that's a rabbit hole.

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https://discord.com/channels/153919886471593984/1124731342098272266/threads/1228822537551478946/1228822537551478946

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get reading

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we have been talking about pasu for weeks.

rapid crystal May 15, 2024, 2:22 AM

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dynamic in general i should of specified

rustic pivot May 15, 2024, 2:22 AM

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all of the masters just digging away at it.

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naw you'll go insane

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you can use bardoz to practice

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but going for score attempt is madness

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dynamic too fickle

rapid crystal May 15, 2024, 2:25 AM

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yea iv kinda been acc pacing until i miss 3 times then just sending it

rustic pivot May 15, 2024, 2:29 AM

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rapid crystal yea iv kinda been acc pacing until i miss 3 times then just sending it

I usually pace for 130 dots

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Then reset scum until I get a good first 15/10 seconds

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Then pace out

rapid crystal May 15, 2024, 2:29 AM

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bumped up sens to 60cm and insta pb

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feels like score cheesing

rustic pivot May 15, 2024, 2:33 AM

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naw thats the good thing

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we dont mind higher sens

rapid crystal May 15, 2024, 2:33 AM

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i kinda wanna push this to master instead of working on waveshot

rustic pivot May 15, 2024, 2:33 AM

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but we train on lower sens to get us used to how smooth it is

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now that your brain knows smooth good

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it will work harder to maintain da smooth

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at higher sens

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but if we aren't adjusted to da smooth you wont be smooth

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higher sens not inherently bad

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you have a strong foundation of smooth dynamic now and can try different things to speed up pace

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just wait until you play angleshot advanced and you really do need the low sens just to click dots

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lololololol

rapid crystal May 16, 2024, 12:20 AM

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man this is like the 3rd benchmark this week where I get super close

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im almost at 2hour mark but i wanna pb

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all i had to do was complain

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now i gotta get jade on it

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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I HAVE TO BE ON TARGET FOR A FEW MORE SECONDS

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rapid crystal May 16, 2024, 3:15 PM

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Jade pilltrack acquired

rapid crystal May 16, 2024, 9:12 PM

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this scenerio really is rng, but it feels like theres something im missing and im not sure if its tech or reading related

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it is weird that i can average really low scores and random get a pb

rustic pivot May 16, 2024, 9:20 PM

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Aim for 700 points on bot 1, then kill bot 2-4

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Save scum bot 1 until you get 700

rapid crystal May 16, 2024, 9:22 PM

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good idea

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8 points off jade

rapid crystal May 16, 2024, 10:19 PM

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2 points bruh

rustic pivot May 16, 2024, 10:19 PM

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Come on son let’s see this pb

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Where’s that jadevoltaic

rapid crystal May 16, 2024, 10:20 PM

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next pb gonna be 1 off

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IMAGINE

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i raised my sens to 70cm LUL jadevoltaic

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if I get my evasive ts up to jade then ill hit jade rank

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1 step closer to my goal

rustic pivot May 16, 2024, 10:40 PM

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No shot

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 12:47 AM

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Steadytrack jadevoltaic

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 1:16 AM

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suave pb

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3200 actually doesnt seem doable rn but i will still try

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 4:03 PM

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rustic pivot May 17, 2024, 4:07 PM

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👀 close

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 4:27 PM

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rustic pivot 👀 close

is it weird to say that arcswitch feels more rng than axitrack

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like i havent felt like iv improved on this scenerio in 3 weeks

rustic pivot May 17, 2024, 4:28 PM

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rapid crystal like i havent felt like iv improved on this scenerio in 3 weeks

Rng will affect your high score but not your average score

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 4:36 PM

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if there ever is a scenerio that will burn me out

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arcswitch gotta be it

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same score for the past 60 scores

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i have to do was complain

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6 points off diamond

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jade looks impossible

rustic pivot May 17, 2024, 4:44 PM

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rapid crystal i have to do was complain

Maybe post a VOD

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 4:47 PM

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off to work

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will post vod in 8 hours

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 11:02 PM

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the games teasing me

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3 points off diamond

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this round actually felt flawless too

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felt like 0 downtime on bots

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 11:20 PM

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@rustic pivot https://youtu.be/U_uoBDma8kY

YouTube

JadenFez

ARCSWITCH DIAMOND PB

▶ Play video

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i actually think my reading improved between the start of todays session to now

rustic pivot May 17, 2024, 11:20 PM

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it did

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 11:20 PM

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which i dont know if thats possible

rustic pivot May 17, 2024, 11:20 PM

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time for a few noticeable changes to your runs

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for one, crank the fov by 10 or even 15

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we have to talk about pathing now.

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your run is over if the balls split and you go chase the 1 ball instead of the 3 balls on the other side

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your run is over if you leave more than 4 partials

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your run is over if you don't get at least one good set of chaining bots at the top of their arc by 30 seconds

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master is still a long way away

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you need a lot more bots to get there

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 11:23 PM

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i think this is manageable

rustic pivot May 17, 2024, 11:23 PM

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your pathing, to be nice, doesn't really have any kind of direction right now.

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putting energy into thinking about that will dramatically improve your scores.

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your ability to stick to dots you go to has improved a lot

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i think it's a good point to start refining score chasing this scenario and not just focusing on the technique of TSing a bot

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 11:24 PM

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rustic pivot your pathing, to be nice, doesn't really have any kind of direction right now.

pathing in this scen is pretty confusing to me

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i have 2 options I see currently

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chaining closest bots and chaining closest arcs

rustic pivot May 17, 2024, 11:25 PM

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you want bots in the middle and you want bots to all take neat little turns hitting the apex of their bounce so you can chain them in a row

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simple as that.

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try this

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at the start, all 4 bots bounce at the same time.

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kill 1, then go hunt the bot that spawns after you kill it

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now you have 2 of your 4 bots on different timings and your other two bots you left alone are now staggered against them, and you can much more easily enter flow states where you're chaining bots that kind of waterfall into the apex height

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as you get better you can kill 2 bots off spawn and actually just stagger all your bots right away

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kill 2 off spawn, chase the first one that spawned

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boom, all 4 now have staggered timings

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proceed to fish for good chaining

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gg

rapid crystal May 17, 2024, 11:27 PM

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the problem im having is fishing for those chains

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cuz i can stagger the bots in the beginning but constantly staggering bots is a struggle

rustic pivot May 17, 2024, 11:27 PM

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thats part rng and part using your skill to fix situations that aren't ideal.

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that's why this scenario is still based on your skill despite seeming random.

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staggering the bots only gives you the opportunity to score high.

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you still need the skill to do it.

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hopefully that gives you some ideas to think about for next time.

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good pb

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all high scoring runs abuse chaining, but a chaining opportunity existing doesn't mean it's free; you still have to be able to execute

rapid crystal May 19, 2024, 6:10 PM

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small pb

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big pb 14 points off jade

rustic pivot May 19, 2024, 6:20 PM

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👀

rapid crystal May 19, 2024, 6:24 PM

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suavetrack jadevoltaic

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my energy bar didnt move a single bit WOOOO

rustic pivot May 19, 2024, 6:29 PM

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👍

rapid crystal May 19, 2024, 7:30 PM

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small pb

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waveshot leagues harder than angleshot but i will hit jade nonetheless

rustic pivot May 19, 2024, 7:32 PM

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It is hard

rapid crystal May 19, 2024, 7:40 PM

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rapid crystal May 20, 2024, 5:38 PM

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i forgot to post yesterday but got 653 in waveshot

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17 points off jade

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im going to pretend theres a screenshot under this message

rapid crystal May 20, 2024, 7:08 PM

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pushing score is cooking my arm but this is the easiest way for me to hit JADE'

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i dont know how im going to get 9 more dots in there

rustic pivot May 20, 2024, 7:09 PM

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Over time, we will have a strong arm and stronger fingers

rapid crystal May 20, 2024, 7:18 PM

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19 points off jade

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also pushing jade pace for multishot

rapid crystal May 20, 2024, 8:53 PM

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slowly

rustic pivot May 20, 2024, 9:09 PM

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rapid crystal slowly

post a vod

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score be damned lets see that technique

rapid crystal May 20, 2024, 9:10 PM

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bro always wants to see my technique

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its like im exposing myself to u

rustic pivot May 20, 2024, 9:10 PM

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you're getting better aren't you??

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sheesh

rapid crystal May 20, 2024, 9:10 PM

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ya just playin

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https://youtu.be/E_3VQQ-_PLg

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MULTISHOT 120 STATIC

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rustic pivot May 20, 2024, 9:25 PM

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Looking good! I’m seeing some shakiness on your landings. That isn’t necessarily an inherently bad thing, but shakiness on our landings should be most evident on super long flicks since we are driving them with power. Multi shot in particular is a scenario with a lot of dots that tend to spawn relatively close to each other, so we actually want to use a 20% slower, flick with a significantly more controlled landing and a very, very fast micro correction. This micro correction is enabled by the extra control we get from slowing down a little bit.

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In other words, you are kind of pushing speed and doing Bardoz style flicks for all of your flicks, when really the Bardoz style is most appropriate for our longer ones exclusively.

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As your flick accuracy improves, we want to try and have a high gear and a low gear with our flicks. High gear is for longer distances, and we go fast flick, slow, micro correction like you would expect.

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In the low gear, we want to prioritize agility, and we are going to get a faster pace by simply having super clean, micro corrections vs raw flick speed

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Once you have developed a strong technique for both of these ideas, you still have to put hours into the aim trainer in order to gain experience, blending them and learning which gear you should use based on context

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Put another way, if you flick too fast, it forces your micro correction to take a certain amount of time. There is a distance where your flicks becomes so accurate that this longer micro correction is not needed and you can run a faster pace.

rapid crystal May 20, 2024, 9:30 PM

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so basically

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put in less effort

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i do be playing in high gear 24/7

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ill work on it

rustic pivot May 20, 2024, 9:39 PM

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rapid crystal i do be playing in high gear 24/7

That makes sense, considering the static technique stuff we started on this week!

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You have been grinding flick technique, and clean micros

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Now we can kind of go back to your older technique and incorporate what you’ve learned to blend everything together

rapid crystal May 20, 2024, 9:52 PM

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i didnt even realize this but my multishot score going up by 40 points gave me a 8 point energy boost

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static really is all i need to hit jade

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then ill start grinding advanced vdims until i hit masters

rapid crystal May 21, 2024, 12:55 AM

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whole bunch of mini pbs today

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13 points off jade

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JADE POG

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95 more energy until first big goal accomplished

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im probably just gonna start doing advanced vdims now instead of trying to get jade complete

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im fairly certain im not jumping too far ahead

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rustic pivot May 21, 2024, 1:09 AM

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rapid crystal 13 points off jade

WTF LOL

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big pb

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You say that, but I strongly recommend at least getting to master before spending too much time on the advanced scenarios. They are ball crushingly hard.

rapid crystal May 21, 2024, 1:09 AM

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rustic pivot WTF LOL

ya i started treating dodgeswitch like a tracking scen and hard focused on each bot

rustic pivot May 21, 2024, 1:09 AM

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(That’s what evasive switching is)

rapid crystal May 21, 2024, 1:10 AM

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rustic pivot You say that, but I strongly recommend at least getting to master before spendin...

ball crushingly hard as in it will demotivate me or ball crushingly hard as in I won't learn anything

rustic pivot May 21, 2024, 1:10 AM

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you know? I don’t know.

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I just wanted to say that they were really hard.

rapid crystal May 21, 2024, 1:10 AM

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i like challenge

rustic pivot May 21, 2024, 1:10 AM

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I will say that after doing some of the advanced scenarios for a little bit coming back and maxing out, my intermediate was a cinch

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The only reason why I am not master complete is because I can’t be bothered; I could easily do it in an hour if I so chose

rapid crystal May 21, 2024, 8:31 PM

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advanced is the perfect amount of hard for my brain

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not too hard where i feel hopeless but not easy at all

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i am excited!

rapid crystal May 22, 2024, 12:03 AM

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def getting masters angleshot today

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im consistently on pace

rapid crystal May 22, 2024, 12:21 AM

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5points off master

rapid crystal May 22, 2024, 12:40 AM

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im so damn close but my focus keeps breaking!

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AHHHHHHHH

rapid crystal May 22, 2024, 1:02 AM

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Angleshot mastervoltaic

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my first master score too nice

leaden summit May 22, 2024, 1:13 AM

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rapid crystal my first master score too nice

insaneee man

rapid crystal May 22, 2024, 1:14 AM

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7points off jade

rapid crystal May 22, 2024, 1:14 AM

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leaden summit insaneee man

ty bb it was a battle

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Waveshot jadevoltaic

leaden summit May 22, 2024, 1:24 AM

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Would be nice to see some sheet updates👀

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Jade dodgeswitch now?

rapid crystal May 22, 2024, 1:26 AM

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leaden summit Would be nice to see some sheet updates👀

the purple does look nice

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i wont hit jade dodgeswitch til saturday

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i dont really wanna go out of order of VDIMs

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it will fk up my brain

rapid crystal May 26, 2024, 4:08 PM

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sundays are tsk benchmarks on 20cm

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after trying out the advanced vdims and getting use to the difficulty, next week is going to be tryhard improvement week

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probably wont work on intermediate benchmarks for a week or 2

rapid crystal May 26, 2024, 4:26 PM

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the always left and right scens make me want to commit treason

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ill have to buy sleeves if i want to get any kind of high score my arm is literally getting rugburn from my mousepad

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rustic pivot May 26, 2024, 5:07 PM

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rapid crystal ill have to buy sleeves if i want to get any kind of high score my arm is litera...

Yeeep

rapid crystal May 27, 2024, 2:19 PM

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rustic pivot May 27, 2024, 2:39 PM

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👀

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300 more

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Nice accuracy

rapid crystal May 27, 2024, 2:57 PM

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im starting to get gassed

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i might play again later

rustic pivot May 27, 2024, 4:05 PM

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Nice you’re getting a lot of those initial gains out of the way good session

rapid crystal May 28, 2024, 4:39 PM

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rustic pivot May 28, 2024, 4:42 PM

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Yeeeeep

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Have fun with that one

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Pace isn’t bad actually but need way better accuracy for the overall pb

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Close to 90% at this pace

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If you can get to 110, you only need 85% ish

rapid crystal May 28, 2024, 4:50 PM

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rapid crystal May 28, 2024, 8:01 PM

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iron prism May 29, 2024, 7:32 PM

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rapid crystal the purple does look nice

It looks amazing mate! Superb progress in couple weeks! 😄

rapid crystal May 29, 2024, 10:09 PM

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iron prism It looks amazing mate! Superb progress in couple weeks! 😄

ty!

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im still enjoying the process which is good

rapid crystal May 30, 2024, 12:14 AM

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todays tracking session boutta go crazy i can feel it

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also how tf do you get gm on this scen

leaden summit May 30, 2024, 12:23 AM

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rapid crystal also how tf do you get gm on this scen

U only need 4 times that score for celestial u got this

rapid crystal May 30, 2024, 12:24 AM

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leaden summit U only need 4 times that score for celestial u got this

i watched matty and succhis vods

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they literally aimlock onto the bot the entire minute

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0 shake 0 readjustment

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perfectly centered

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they are machines

rustic pivot May 30, 2024, 12:26 AM

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rapid crystal also how tf do you get gm on this scen

? Put your crosshair on the target bro lol

rapid crystal May 30, 2024, 12:28 AM

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rustic pivot ? Put your crosshair on the target bro lol

if I do that I might get WR

rustic pivot May 30, 2024, 12:28 AM

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It’s just suavetrack

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Just track the bot

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I’ll give you actual advice when you’re scoring closer to 1500

rapid crystal May 30, 2024, 12:37 AM

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rapid crystal May 30, 2024, 2:13 PM

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iron prism May 30, 2024, 2:18 PM

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Why did you switch to advanced? 🙂

rapid crystal May 30, 2024, 2:22 PM

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iron prism Why did you switch to advanced? 🙂

intermediate getting boring

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its not the most optimal for improvement i believe but i enjoy game way more

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iron prism May 30, 2024, 2:33 PM

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I get it 😄 For me it's challenging as of now. Maybe after you play the advanced for a while you will smash inter benches 😄

rapid crystal May 30, 2024, 2:33 PM

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iron prism I get it 😄 For me it's challenging as of now. Maybe after you play the advanced...

maybe

rapid crystal May 31, 2024, 3:11 PM

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rapid crystal Jun 1, 2024, 1:54 PM

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rapid crystal Jun 3, 2024, 1:40 PM

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1 more week of train arc then i grind benchmarks until masters

rustic pivot Jun 3, 2024, 1:40 PM

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That’s the best way for sure

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Spend a few days off the benches when you get a bit too stuck

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Just get good clean training sessions in

normal skiff Jun 3, 2024, 8:11 PM

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rapid crystal im probably just gonna start doing advanced vdims now instead of trying to get j...

I'm making this same move. The goal is to be the best so why not do the hardest task right?

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