1% better every day

[silk spear]

Going to do my best to track progress here as I've been training consistently for some time but it's been difficult to spot my improvement sometimes as I spread myself quite thin across different scenarios/benchmarks.

About me:
-> 27 y/o

-> Main games: Valorant / xDefiant but interested in FPS and MMOs generally.

-> Started aim training consistently because I work full time (mostly from home) so grinding competitive ladders is a lot harder to find time for than 15-30 mins here and there of aim training.

Preferred Sens (1600 DPI):
Val: 0.14 > 0.12 > 0.175
xDef: 11 > 10
Aimtrainers:

• Static: 58cm > 68cm > 80cm
• Dynamic: 58cm > 40cm > 32cm
• Tracking: 58cm > 40cm > 32cm > 20cm (only smoothness practice)
• Switching: 58cm - 30cm (varies a lot by scenario but generally within this range. FoV range 103 - 115)

Peripherals:
Mouse: Pulsar x2v2 mini > Lamzu Thorn
Mousepad (in order of frequency): Artisan Hayate Otsu XXL soft > Infinitymice speed v2 mid > Skypad 3.0 > Fnatic Dash2 Max
Monitor: LG 27GP850-B / 165hz / 27" / 1440p / IPS
IEMs: Simgot EA500 LM (if you care for some reason)

Current ranks:
Valorant: Plat 2
Voltaic Aimlab S2: Diamond 615/700
Voltaic Aimlab S3: Diamond 633/700
Voltaic Valorant: Immo 805/800 int; 797/900 adv
Voltaic Kovaaks S4: Diamond 674/700
Shimmy static: Solar Complete: 581/600

Strengths:
Dynamic clicking generally (exceptions below)
Linear clicking
Static precision

Weaknesses:
Static speed
All forms of tracking - particularly vertical tracking is undertrained but already seeing improvement with S3 benches.
Dynamic clicking - Arc/popcorn/b180/popshot style scenarios

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Long-term Goals:
Master VT AL S3
Galaxy Shimmy Static Benchmarks
Immo Complete and Radiant Val AL Benchmarks
Master Kovaaks Benchmarks (probably won't grind until S5)

Short-term training focus:
Jade static scores - focus on speed
Diamond then Jade tracking - lots of thin gauntlet and also some vertical focus scenarios

Schedule:

I play most days, most commonly in about 30 minute sessions. Could be half a VDIM playlist or simply grinding a task that I feel targets a certain weakness. Depending on the day I could do this 3-6 times throughout the day, really varies but currently playing minimum of 1h a day.

Lately I've been playing a lot of the new benchmarks but I plan to ease off on this and start focusing on my weaknesses again rather than grinding scores.

1st Master score ever achieved yesterday after 98 attempts of Frogshot intermediate S3

I got baited by a >700 score after only 2-3 attempts for the day but knew I could get 750 so grinded it out

Probably going to give my arm/wrist a break today and do some smooth tracking, hopefully play some actual games since it's the weekend

[small schooner]

I know, Stevy sucks at coding.

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we finally got a rank in verttrack intermediate

Feels way better after grinding it for a while. Think the movement was just super unnatural at first. I was struggling at like 2100 to begin with

Feel like I could grind out diamond without much stress but no rush

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Been trying to build static speed today. Played some widewall scenarios and pokeball variants before grinding out diamond wideshot

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Hit ~1272 in miniphase last night so decided to do some more static this morning - did half of VDIM and then smashed out a radiant score in microcluster - radiant miniphase definitely doable too

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diamond verttrack just like that

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whoops pressed replay accidentally so missed the screenshot but diamond controltrack

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dia popshot

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Got jade pop shot right after - feel like the ranks past ~dia may be adjusted in future to be 100 apart not 50 but we shall see

Still a big weakness of mine along with arcswitch, leapswitch etc

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Only a few ugly scores left to remove

I was saying I’d stop grinding benchmarks for a bit but I keep playing at the end of a session and getting close to a new rank so

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Jade dartswitch

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Plat quaketrack

this shit is so difficult for me

maybe easier if i swap to a faster pad but took me a long time to get this

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small win this morning but hit diamond quadshot on my val sens

felt like I was cheesing it a little bit by dropping to 80cm previously even though that's quite normal and I always change my sens per scenario

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Nothing major to see here today - just been grinding a lot of tracking, both reactive and smooth

Made some nice improvements and did get a new PB on quaketrack but I choked the run that would've got me diamond

We go agane tomorrow

I feel like I use the least tension when tracking but it fatigues me the most

Maybe I’m tensing my shoulder to keep the rest of my arm loose?

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oh let's go the hard work paid off I just had a eureka moment I think

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Mostly just rested today but hit a quick new high score in quadshot earlier

Getting closer to jade

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played some other games again today as it's the weekend again already but been focusing on weak areas. Quadshot jade score is within reach but not going to force it as there are other static tasks I enjoy doing a lot more than quadshot

Jade in smoothswitch easily achievable too if I play it a bit more

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don't mind if I do

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had to go into office today so very litle training was done

little bit of quadshot to keep the momentum going there and a chill 20-30 min of tracking practice

controlsphere highscore was hit and i'm pretty confident i can get jade with some more time invested

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ew the old screenshot was way more out of date than I thought

6 energy off jade. Getting that today maybe?

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didn't think I'd get here

it's a big day

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30 points off jade quadshot

just been doing maybe 10 plays a day the last few days and seeing a steady increase

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idk hm I care about valo benches at the moment but immo vt dotts

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forgot to screenshot but jade shifttrack

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jade quadshot

this was such a mental challenge for me idk

static hits different

Saving the recording just for my own benefit later

Spent a lot of time recently focusing all sorts of aspects of aim rather than purely static and I think that made it difficult to know where to focus my attention on quadshot as it's somewhere between a micro task, 1wXt task and has Vbr. In the end after working on speed and smoothness a lot, focusing my attention on accuracy a bit more and confirming my target was the key for me getting the score

1349 from the other day for reference. Slight difference in technique for sure but that's largely because I had to swap from my otsu to infinitymice speed v2 bc it got damp.
Shakiness on landing is mostly gone in the jade vod which is good considering the faster pad, however snappiness is gone between targets slightly as I rely quite a bit on the stopping power from the otsu for that.
Next step is probably to combine the perks of both of these styles so that I can be faster with my flicks without shaking at the end, and adjust my speed depending on which aspect is limiting me.
Not really expecting masters in static for a while but I think I'll do what I did with quadshot and take a slow and steady approach to improvement rather than sitting and grinding out 2h of static for 7 days

I've been trying to eliminate the habit of going back to a target I missed rather than continuing along my chain/path. I do see myself still doing it 2-3 times i nthe jade vod but it's a lot less of a habit for me now than it was a week or two ago

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been away this weekend so quite happy to come back and hit this

jade complete getting pretty close

[lapis chasm]

!!!!!

dayum

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[lapis chasm]

r u really diamond?

like s2

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Granted I haven’t grinded these in a while now but yeah

Wasn’t as consistent back then

[lapis chasm]

u could def jade them

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The five shot score is more recent everything else was maybe a month or two back

Yeah now I could for sure I think

I improved a lot in the last couple months tho

[lapis chasm]

nice

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Masters will be a big challenge haha

But I was struggling with diamond scores not that long ago so who knows

[lapis chasm]

idk it kinda is for me tho

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You got dis

[lapis chasm]

been stuck in jade for like

idek i gotta check

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Time for a new gaming chair

[lapis chasm]

this was may 28

i think

been in jade for 2 months

😭

[lapis chasm]

yeah i think so too

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What’s the goal then

[lapis chasm]

Masters

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I believe in u

[lapis chasm]

Well it was first jade complete but i got it

[lapis chasm]

Thank

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dia steadytrack + halfway to jade not shabby

only leapswitch left for dia complete

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whew

S3 Dia complete 29/07/24

[lapis chasm]

Woah

Crazy

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Master angleshot

leaderboard / voltaic app seems to be a bit fked so hopefully it registers haha

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jade verttrack 40cm

think master will be pretty doable when i have the willpower now that i've got my head around this scenario

jade jettrack 40cm

smashing these out rn

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started on steadytrack but I don't think I have it in me rn

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jade boltswitch

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jade temposwitch 52cm

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Steadytrack and leapswitch left for jade complete

improved my leapswitch score to 1984 but a bit much to grind it out today

[lapis chasm]

You definitely have way better aim than me

That steadytrack score is hella impressive

[silk spear]

you think? haha I thought steadytrack feels infinitely harder than the other tracking tasks score-wise

[lapis chasm]

You getting close to jade complete by itself is hella impressive because i know a season 2 grandmaster and even tho he is currently master in s3 bench he isnt as close to jade conplete as you are

[silk spear]

I definitely choked the jade run earlier

oh dang well that's encouraging

[lapis chasm]

Thats because it is just hard this season

[silk spear]

appreciate the encouragement haha

do you have a progress thread somewhere too or

[lapis chasm]

Not really

I mean by not really because the one i do have was just for a joke

Im like trying to nerf myself in the kvks s4 bench

And track my nerfed progress

[silk spear]

ah ok haha

I'm looking forward to S3 coming out of beta so I can see how I actually stack up against others since I didn't really go hard on the s2 benches

the friend I used to compete with a little bit stopped playing aim trainers to focus on val

[lapis chasm]

Yeah i know someone like that too

I was tryna @ him

This is how i found out he even left the voltaic server

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RIP

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so close to jade steadytrack

smashed it

[lapis chasm]

This is

Oh my

✨perfection

Like the cherry on too

🍒

✨🍒

This might just mean that you are 100% capable to reach masters in season 2

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I’ll just keep focusing on s3 tho

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master popshot

can see that one getting buffed

i'm ass at these popcorn-style scenarios

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master floatshot

dynamic and linear clicking done

would like to say that static will come next but idfk how I feel about that

not sure if the dynamic/linear reqs are too low or if I'm just better at those relatively but I don't feel like I was clean at all on most of these highscores

[lapis chasm]

I think when it comes out of beta most of it would be buffed

[silk spear]

Yeah some of them do feel like they need it but I also haven't played s2 much so can't really compare

[lapis chasm]

Thats not the case

They arent tryibg to make it similar to s2

Theyre trying to make the hardest ever bench

So then the ranks would be more special

And harder to get

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Sure I get that I just meant that I can't even be like 'ok this master score was a bit harder than S2 so it's probably in the right place'

[lapis chasm]

This is already by far the hardest bench

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because I didn't play them a lot

[lapis chasm]

Ohhh

Understood

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like the floatshot run I got felt so shaky and bad like I could do way better but it was still like top 350 currently

obvs a lot of people won't grind them until they are out of beta but still

I'm interested to see how they'll change the thresholds

Should be out of beta very soon no? thought it was 1 month after release

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master pokeswitch

[lapis chasm]

teach me

your ways

what is your holy routine

cuz what

the fuc

how

thats insane

i can fathom

this

[silk spear]

Honestly just a wide range of good quality scenarios, usually focusing on one or two categories a day. Did VDIM for a while but now I just do tasks that I like for specific weaknesses

Usually a mix of isolating a weakness for a period of time and then finishing by playing more score focused, trying to consciously focus on different things to see what cues work for me. If I feel particularly good I’ll go for a high score if I’m playing a benchmark otherwise move on

I usually play for like 30 min, a couple of times a day, but lately it’s been a lot more than that because work was quiet.

and I have pretty good endurance in my wrist so as long as I take breaks and only play when I’m focused I can train quite efficiently

I don’t really try to train optimally per se but in a way that keeps me interested and therefore playing every day

[lapis chasm]

damn

W routine icl

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master boltswitch

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master smoothswitch

master jettrack

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master steadytrack

Master S3 Beta 03/08/2024

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master verttrack

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master shifttrack

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pretty crazy day @lapis chasm

I fixed some stuttering issue i was having in aimlab and it was like taking the training wheels off

[loud epoch]

where overall master?

[silk spear]

you mean complete? x.x working on it

haha

[lapis chasm]

You have more energy than a season 2 grandmaster

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how so isn't the energy the same?

[lapis chasm]

No like

Remember how i know a s2 grandmaster

His season 3 bench has lower energy than yours

[silk spear]

oh okay sure

but if you're gm I doubt you're grinding the intermediate benchmarks too hard just yet right

[lapis chasm]

He did

Grind it

[loud epoch]

oh, i didnt see , sorry

[lapis chasm]

Hes low gm tho like 900 energy

But its still gm

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haha GM is GM but yeah

[lapis chasm]

Time for you to aim for grandmaster!!!

[loud epoch]

go advanced bro

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the scenarios are so different this season I think you just need the reps in

to get used to them

[lapis chasm]

Bro he did grind it but he hasnt played the bench in almost a month tho

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I'll probably go for master complete and then watch myself go back to jade when they come out of beta and the scores are buffed

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fairs

I put Master as my long term goal on the top of this progress thread haha

guess I need to rethink that

[loud epoch]

Fuck it, you'll have time to upgrade your gm.

master complete and go advanced

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that's the plan but I don't know if I'll be able to get past static

we'll see

[loud epoch]

Well, you'll upgrade the master in Kovaaks too, just to make sure.

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static so hard

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Not sure if i can be bothered going back to kovaaks s4 benches with s5 coming out in a few months

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yeah it's satisfying when you get a good run but just takes so much time for me to make improvements

[loud epoch]

Fuck, Kovaaks doesn't have season 5 until the fall.

[loud epoch]

the further you go, the slower you go

[silk spear]

yeah I'm okay with that tbh part of the reason i'm playing so much is because I'm improving faster than I was before, then I improve more because i'm playing more

vicious cycle

feel like every gm score will feel like a milestone in itself once I get there

[loud epoch]

that's the way it's gonna be

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master controltrack

been hella busy with work and also played some val at the weekend so not as much training going on but still

getting closer to master complete

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crazy busy week but did some general routines nothing to write home about

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no comment

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could do way better on this

[loud epoch]

static

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I’ve been avoiding it because I know I’ll need to sit and put in some serious reps but I think I’m ready to do that

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I have had no internet since Monday night - still played some kovaaks offline but you know what they say - no point planning rest periods because life will force you to take them when it pleases

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Finally weekend - been playing a bit of static trying to work on technique and slowly getting there

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finally overcame the aimlab shit performance debuff

master quaketrack

3 tasks to go for master complete

(hurry up and buff all the score reqs so i go back to diamond lmao)

[rough lava]

big jump! congrats!

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Thank you

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random but

elysian adjusttrack

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immo controlstrafes

[lapis chasm]

ah wait woah

do u play val?

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Yeah a lil bit

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Don’t really have the time or the willpower to grind solo so I just hover around plat and mostly just play with my gf when she wants to

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radiant floatshot val

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Gf visiting this week so on a break mostly

[hexed quail]

twerk on me

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[loud epoch]

wow sheeshhhhhhhhhh

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master dartswitch reclaimed post buff

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Was playing around with some harder tracking scens and hit rank 101 steadytrack adv s3

Still a few 100s of score left for GM but not a bad start

Hopefully start getting closer to some GM scores and master static after Wednesday this week when I have time to play more again

[rough lava]

nice

[hexed quail]

ru master in s2?

master complete

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Nah I didn’t really play much of season 2

[hexed quail]

oh

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[hexed quail]

was just wondering cuz ppl say master s3 is alot harder then s2

[silk spear]

Yeah I heard that too but I didn’t play s2 enough to know really. I was around diamond in s2 and struggled to get quite a few at plat to begin with in s3

Have you tried s3 at all?

[hexed quail]

yea like 2-3 runs each scenario

i’m like plat in most diamond in some and jade in like 1

some i’m not even plat lmao

gotten a few gm scores in s2 tho

[silk spear]

Yeah at first I thought they were a lot harder but think you just need to put the reps in for some of them.

Any kind of vertical tracking I was really useless on to begin with and that carried over to switching too

But after learning the bots a bit I like the s3 tasks a lot

Said I wouldn’t really grind benchmarks because that wasn’t my style before but I’ve just been enjoying them quite a lot so I’ve invested most of my time into the benchmarks themselves unless I notice a certain weakness to work on

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5 point improvement

Still 300~ more for GM

Somehow don’t think this will be my first

[hexed quail]

yea vertical tracking really likes to pound me

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i believe

[hexed quail]

gm suavetrack but when the bot goes up is what makes me a below plat

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Understandable haha

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10 score at a time I will get there

for some reason I like this task a lot

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progresh

could say i'm seeing

'steady' improvement

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been doing some static and micro tasks this week and a bit of steadytrack but hit a bit of a wall with the last score so started working on some other areas again

immo angleshot micro

immo skyclick multi

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the last set of nerfs to the tracking tasks were pretty heavy handed tbh

I'm 500 points over master on steadytrack but GM still feels a long while away

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Played some shimmy static benchmarks today, did some micro playlists in kovaaks and two tacfps playlists, one by minigod and one by skylr I think

set a lot of new highscores

played like 4 valorant comp games

which is a lot for me haha

good day

a

been farming lately

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don't mind me just getting humbled by @cold moat and @inner wren

[rough lava]

What is that benchmark?

Is there a public link to the Google drive?

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https://x.com/animacantaim/status/1830251850941301081

Anima (@animacantaim) on X

proud to announce i have made a MICROADJUSTMENTS benchmark with @shimmyaim ‼️

a collection of micro-based dynamic, static and tracking scenarios to finetune your mouse control

likes and retweets appreciated ❤️

https://t.co/FcCGobGkDY

Twitter · Sep 1, 2024, 2:30 PM

Sorry for the ping peepos but I like the scenarios you put in here gonna grind them a bunch

[cold moat]

thank you <3

[rough lava]

Thanks mate. Would have missed it as I don't have twitter

[silk spear]

np!

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Was incredibly close to finally breaking my quadshot high score last night - been practicing shimmy’s static technique and doing a few different micro/tacfps playlists

[sudden magnet]

seeing this is crazy to me, sorry to just randomly but into ur progress documentation but this is quite motivating.

personally ive hit immortal and struggled a lot with consistency getting there so I stopped at a peak of 68rr, I never really aim trained but I had "good aim" which was mainly just good crosshair placement I believe and less raw aim

but when i started trying to aimtrain my raw aim is awful in comparison

and seeing someone able to hit such hight scores is crazy impressive

[silk spear]

Thank you haha just be consistent and trust the process and focus on anything other than your aim when you play val - that’s my logic

Luckily raw aim isn’t a huge factor in val but I do believe the highs are much higher and the lows much less frequent after putting in the time to really practice. Granted I’m only plat and play 1-2 comp games per week on avg

Chaining kills together, hitting people who move weirdly (or raze/neon) and just generally more demanding shots happens a lot more and it generally feels effortless because high level aim trainer scenarios are far more difficult than most situations in-game

I have a lot more fun knowing that even if I’m having a bad aim day, my aim is the best it could possibly be on any given day because I’m consistently practicing

[sudden magnet]

yeah its really just insane how high your scores are and it shows what can be done with dedication

i find it difficult to stay consistent, even though its not alot of time

just seems like such a massive hill to climb

but ur threads name matches it perfectly ahaha

1%/day

[silk spear]

That’s something a lot of people struggle with so perhaps look at it as a test of your discipline instead?

20-30 min a day will make a difference if used productively and you know this so why not just do it even if you don’t really feel like it?

it feels good to know you beat that urge to not do something sometimes. No need to focus on the end goal because the goalposts will move every time think you improved

Not to get too deep but you’ll probably want to apply it to other parts of your life when you start to see results haha - at least I know I did.

I just like aim training because the difficulty is humbling and when I do have time to play games I haven’t forgotten how to use a mouse

Up to you to decide if there’s a good enough reason for you to commit to it too

[sudden magnet]

yeah i go to the gym frequently and use the same sort of reasoning

even if i feel ass

i know i'll feel better mentally for having done it

and the more days u don't do it, the harder it is to convince yourself to get back into it

plus id rather play a quality game of Val and some aim training, than 2 average games and no aim training

[silk spear]

Yeah it’s the same kinda idea but obviously getting hiscores in an aim trainer isn’t quite as instantly satisfying as seeing results in the mirror so you need to set some expectations haha

[sudden magnet]

speaking of 1% a day

[silk spear]

Agreed

[sudden magnet]

another one

lets go

[silk spear]

Congrats let’s go

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Took my first full day off in a long time yesterday - no gaming whatsoever (thanks work)

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getting extremely close to breaking my quadshot intermediate hiscore

i can feel it's coming soon and master is around the corner finally

been playing valo and training on a higher sens and feeling way cleaner now that I readjusted to it

A long while back I had played 54cm (iirc) for my entire val career but swapped to 40cm for a while to train my fingers a bit as they would quickly lock up in intense situations even on low sens which would use more of my arm

More recently i've been playing between 58-68cm (0.14-0.12 1600dpi) but kinda felt like, ever since I adopted a more fingertip-focused grip, my fingers wanted to do more but couldn't.

So I've been stuck in this purgatory trying to smooth out the end of my flicks, using my fingers for the end of the movement and for microadjustments, but have felt like the lower sens is holding me back now, preventing me from microadjusting properly. However, every time I tried to change back to a higher sens it felt too fast again because it had been a while since I used anything faster than 58cm for valorant

Finally bit the bullet and went back to 46cm for now and it feels infinitely more precise now that i'm used to it again

[lapis chasm]

real!!!

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Something I've learnt lately is the impact of mouse weight and more specifically mouse inertia. We talk a lot in this community about mousepad speed, surface, glide, as well as skate types and sizes, mouse shapes and grip styles.

One thing that doesn't really come up that often surprisingly (unless advising someone that - YES - they will notice the difference between a 80g mouse and a 40g mouse) is the actual impact of mouse weight, because I've gone through every stage.

When I was younger I played csgo on an apple imac mouse (magic mouse or w/e they are called now - the earlier versions of this) , I started playing valorant on a razer naga trinity/hex (136 grams), swapped to a gpx superlight (63 grams), and have since used various 50g mice and a couple of 35g mice.

Most people in my experience actually advise that you won't really notice the difference between a 50g and 30g mouse, and as long as they aren't using a razer naga like I was it'll be fine.

Good advice to be honest, but I think mouse weight (and weight balancing) is perhaps the single change in peripheral that affects my aim the most. Could be because I fingertip grip/relaxed claw and because I don't really push down into my pad (in fact - it's very likely why), but in a percentage reduction that's 40% which is not at all insignificant.

Newton's first law tells us that mass has a direct relation to inertia and a 40% lighter mouse will therefore stop faster as the same amount of friction is far greater, in relative terms, to the force that must be applied to move the mouse in the first place.

When we look at flick technique in particular, we tend to use the mousepad to slow down our mouse and transition into a smooth microadjust in order to move most efficiently.

Applying 40% less force to an object to reach the same acceleration, and requiring 40% less force to stop the mouse sounds simple enough, but in terms of feel this means that if we were to start decelerating at the same point in our flick, we would have to use some force to stop the heavier mouse where the lighter mouse would stop on its own. Likewise, releasing the force (lol) earlier with the lighter mouse would have us underflick significantly where the heavier would have a smoother deceleration.

What I find this means is that, once the mouse is light enough, I can pretty much leave deceleration until the very end of the flick, where with a heavier mouse I used to tell myself to flick as fast as I can (while staying in control) for as short of a distance as I can and adapt based on the speed my mouse decelerates on the pad (way back in the past).

Ultimately I just think it's understated how wild what 15g can do really is, because when I play on a 35g mouse I feel that sort of 'true input / extension of the arm' kind of sensation. Playing on high vs low sens feels completely different and it's interesting that it's not spoken about more with how common it is for new mice to be shaving off as many grams as possible for marketing reasons 😅

sorry in advance for anyone who reads that monologue

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Interesting read. I basically went through the same progression as you. Mouse weight is also something I learned to appriacate/notice more since I have some trouble with my forearm (which I got through too much static in too short of a time frame right after starting this) and switching to a lighter mouse def helped with that. when I switch back to a heavier mouse I can actually feel the impact in my forearm while decelerating. That being said I think people kinda give too much value into the whole mouse weight thing. I enjoy trying out new things but I kinda wish I would never discovered the amount of different mice. Because back then I had one mouse, and I was happy with it. Whereas now I order some, try it out and then nitpick about it and order more of these almost identical mice trying to "min-max" the peripheral.
Interesting read. waiting for the next take 😄

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Took a solid month break thanks to work being crazy, travel and some family stuff but we back - time to slowly get back to where I was I guess. This is why I say don't take breaks. Life schedules them in whether you want it or not

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we back and the aimlab benches look a lot less purple after the last round of buffs

but quickly reclaimed master

not touching it again now that kovaaks s5 is on the way

at least not for now

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ey

gg

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hey hey :)

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do you enjoy the kvk s5 tasks?

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yeah loving them so far actually

hbu?

only done a couple of runs on each so far and like 20 on controlsphere lmao

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I only tested the first half once when being really tired at 2 am so a bit early for me to say. gonna get the last 5 energy for jade in aimlabs first before giving them a proper test 😄

either that or I wait until they have the web connection ready 😄

does the controlsphere feel different than the "normal" one?

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uhh I've lost track because i played a bunch of variants today

I think it waas a little harder than the regular controlsphere task

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I think I was a bit confused that so many of the tasks are based on old ones

but then again. why invent the wheel again

I really enjoyed frogtagon

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yeah me too haha

looking forward to grinding I really don't like aimlabs but didn't wanna play old benches before

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did you also end up not even getting plat on some of those on the first run?

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for me its the other way around. enjoy aimlabs way more 😄

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a few yeah but it's been a long time since i aim trained properly so a bit rusty too haha

wasn't as big of a shock to the system as when AL season 3 came out

that one humbled me back then

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jade pasu in like 3 tries

was on pace for master for sure too

maybe this one gets buffed haha

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dia complete not too bad

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almost master controltrack sadge

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fuck all

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let's go

did it

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not bad? thats great!

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didn't screenshot the first one but jade controlts

not clean but jade driftts

jade penta bounce - Jade in all TS complete

jade overall

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master pasu for now

jade popcorn

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jade 1w3ts

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been playing a ton of marvel rivals the last few days so no new progress

but we move

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jade snaketrack

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Dude big

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i feel like i got so much worse at tracking in particular while not training but the scenarios are kinda hard too

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Yeah. Im actually struggling quite a lot

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jade raw control

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jade ground

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jade aether

complete soon?

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what is your "problem" category? the one usually dragging a bit behind? not in just S5. overall.

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Static generally. I just need to put in the hours

It was my best one when I first started haha

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finally got somewhere with PGT after playing various variants for practice

jade pgt

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jade floating heads

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jade frogtagon

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what a big day! gg!

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i'm literally one click on ww5t away from jade complete lmao

1490 / 1500

but I also swapped back to glass for a bit so doubt i'm gonna get anywhere

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which glass pad? and what do you usually use?

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skypad 3.0 - lately been using exclusively the hien pretty much

but I own quite a few different pads

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just as all of us fools

https://tenor.com/view/cappys-nft-cappys-cappys-one-of-us-one-of-us-cappys-sei-gif-10943681618443699439

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yep

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tried most of the artisan pads and didnt like any of them. all of their fabrics kind of trigger me. and I dont like their softness. so what did I do? Order the key83...

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hahahah respectable

I'd like to try key83 it sounds good

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yeah. after pingus review I almost bought it. then I saw another one last week. hoping to find some cloth I can enjoy again

just too addicted to glass

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AH SAME I saw that and it made me want one

I'm thinking about selling my 3.0 and getting an sp.004

I want the extra 3cm height

square would be ideal but apparently that's too much to ask..

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I didnt own an 3.0 but enjoyed the 004

wish I would have kept it so I can compare it to "newer" pads

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what do you use now? I saw in your vods and I recognise the pad but don't know the name

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actually have 3 pads coming in.... I am always disappointed in myself ^^

but those will be the last ones for a while... for sure

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surely? 😭

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mostly the arbiter x Godzilla pad. I had the La Onda Glaze out the past 2 days but mostly the arbiter one

the Glaze is good but way too big. would have to reorganize my desk again

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ahhh ok

damn that one is big

i should get that

haha

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and what cloth pad did you sue before

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it should be sold out. but apperantly there are two versions of it coming out soon(ish) the glaze ultra and glaze moonstone

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oh nice i'll keep an eye out

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when?

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the one before switching back to glass now?

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oh

pretty much just hien mid

I didn't like it when I first got it but it grew on me a lot

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ah yeah you wrote that already. mb

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haha all good

let me know how the key83 is

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they are on winter break until the 13th. so maybe in 3 weeks^^

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they heard me

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pretty ez jade complete soon if things stay like this

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well jade complete done

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so green. such an inspiration!

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hopefully a bit more purple soon when i get used to the sp004

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kinda popped off here

master flyTS

792/800 energy for master overall

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That's actually a huge jump on flyTS

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Haha yeah don’t think I have many plays on that scenario but it was a big jump after a little bdim

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Not much to report today some small PBs on ground and popcorn

Reactive is kicking my ass atm but it’ll click soon I’m sure

Popcorn is kinda addicting too even tho I used to hate it

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master driftTS

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omg i choked it so hard and somehow brought it back in the last few seconds

master dotTS

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done a bit of linear clicking and dynamic clicking and probably choked an easy master run on several scenarios but it's ok I'll get back there soon

haven't done much dynamic in a while now even tho it's usually one of my stronger areas

master just around the corner

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master Aether

(that graph was some pain I probably could get like 100-200 more pts if i didn't choke one bot every time)

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master PGT

master overall

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aaaay. congrats

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TY!

now I've matched my AL S3

time for new heights

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master raw control

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GG

Man I missed aim training the past 1.5 weeks. So happy when I have time again this week

Have to catch up to you

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haha yeah I believe you got this

sometimes a break can be nice and it lets you recover a bit

I'm running out of things to do to avoid static 😢

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yeaaaa, 1% party the best

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master popcorn

been slowly grinding this one in the background for a bit it's pretty addicting

master floaters

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1.5 score away from master eddieTS no problem

I really didn't know that was possible

choked it hard

i guess i did it

master complete seeming kinda achievable

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pentabounce is in the bag I just stopped to play marvel rivals instead of getting it

new pb is like 582

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master pasu

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a

master pentabounce

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been all quiet but i'm a little addicted to popcorn atm

100 points off gm

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master frogtagon

not master yet but first static PB in a long time

1390 is tough

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slowly improving at popcorn

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Let's go!

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did your new pad(s) ever arrive?

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the key83 arrived 3 weeks ago

I cant, I just cant use it :D. Never had as many problems with mousepads as the artisan ones 😄 wasted money :D. hopefully it will teach me to not buy their pads as I am clearly not their target audience 😄

Quality and all is okay though

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oh damn that's unfortunate haha but lesson learned for you i guess at least

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for sure 😄

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Played a bunch of ground intermediate and almost hit master - didn’t take a screenshot of the hi score because I was pissed I threw a good run lmao

Master complete looking pretty achievable soon if I can just clean up static a tiny bit

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lost the screenshot but finally hit master ground track

haven't been aim training much the last week or two work is super busy andi 've been gaming w friends in the evenings

good excuse imo

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wow my name has some colour after all this time

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gratz

and I'm the fucking color

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can't find the screenshot

but i got this randomly

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reclaimed master flyTS

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gah damn

went from low jade to masters

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master dot ts reclaimed

back to where i was pre- the most recent changes

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master snaketrack

god