300 hours on voltaic and no great progress (Very little experience with aiming in general)

[reef otter]

Disclamer: I'm not a good english speaker, and the whole thing may sound super silly also xd
Logitech 440 hardpad and g203

I use a Logitech 440 hardpad and a G203.

I've always played with ultra-high sensitivity, with 25 cm (360) being the minimum at which I've been able to play decently (although I can barely move my arm). I used to play at 15.20 cm (360), which was pretty comfortable but not ideal; I still struggle with aiming up xddd

I've played some shooters (Valorant and CS) for around 200 hours, and I played some web games when I was younger (but I was never very good), now I have been playing some overwatch

Recently, I came up with a thing with a wooden board that allows me to use my arm, which has let me lower my sensitivity (At the one that I mentioned), but it's still uncomfortable. The pad is raised by about 3 mm, and I experience a lot of friction when moving my arm. I’ve been considering a sleeve to reduce the friction, but I’m not sure if there’s something better.

My mouse grip is fingertip, and it has worked well for me so far.

So, I can improve with this setup? Should I change something?

[dense gust]

Play more

[stark latch]

Yeah thats fair actually

Youve hardly touched fps games youre going to develop slower than someone else who has 1.5k or even 5k hours playing

[lucid sluice]

benchmarks are also quite general, it seems like your tracking smoothness needs work so i would try smoothness senarios if i was you

[silver epoch]

On 25 cm youre gonna have a hard time doing a lot of tasks, not because the sens is unplayable. Its because playing on higher sens will build a habit of aiming with just your wrist instead of your arm. arm movements feel really fast on high sensitivity and so you wont want to do them naturally, and it will hard to be smooth. Especially on a hard pad. Lower your sens to a range between 35-80cm and change it around depending on the task. it will help you to learn about which muscle groups in your arm/hand you should use for different movements. try to aim without moving your wrist or fingers for a while, this isnt the end goal, but will help you get used to arm aiming.

[reef otter]

Thank you all, I'm trying to incorporate all the feedback you all give and I'm actually getting better as the days go on

[silver epoch]

Nice keep it up 😄

[reef otter]

Well, there hasn’t been any more improvement (Like really, nothing). I think I really don’t have the resources to improve, so I will probably stop. It’s frustrating, I've encountered a number of problems since I started. Maybe in a couple of years I’ll give it another try, but with the resources I have at this time, it’s impossible.

[silver epoch]

I mean if you want to stop thats fine, but if by resources you mean your setup then i disagree. there are players better than me who could hit my scores on a ball mouse with a tiny pad. Its all about mindset to improve, and technique when aiming. watch youtube videos and guides, ask for help and post vods. You wont improve if you dont enjoy the process sitting down and criticizing yourself.

[reef otter]

I mean, they're that good because they've been doing this forever. It's not just a matter of time, and I know it's a mental thing, but this will be another area where I'm not as strong, and yeah, resources aren’t a limiting factor in terms of having a hard cap (is not only the setup), but if it means putting in many more hours than someone else, I think not worth it. Maybe I give it another chance, Idk.

[scenic aurora]

This is definitely the fault of poor technique and self misled by not having a proper routine, maybe record vods? What playlist do u use to train?
I dont think ur sens is the problem, nor is the fact that u have hardly played real games. Aimlab is the second ever software from steam i downloaded in my lifetime, at that time i barely had 10 hours of pc usage, and i used 20 cm all the way to diamond so

[silver epoch]

my advice is to just find something you enjoy enough to grind without thinking about it. aim training shouldnt be a chore and no one is forcing you to play. if you wake up tomorrow and want to practice aim training do it, if you feel unmotivated dont. you dont have to put in more or less hours than anyone, and if you decide its not worth it then its not. If you enjoy playing games more youll improve much more organically just playing those, than forcing yourself to hit some arbitrary goal in the trainer.

[silver epoch]

Also your resources arent even soft capping you. my setup was dog ass when i was younger, i had a laptop setup on a bed with my mousepad on a folded up a tv tray that was also on the bed, red dragon mouse too. The reality is people just improve at different rates, and even the faster improving people take time to learn that you just didn't see. just because someone has 300hr in kovaaks and is nova, doesnt mean they just woke up clocked 300 hours into kvks and hit it in the year. a lot of these players have thousands of hours in other games. Learning any skill takes time and effort, and not a small amount. Whether aiming in video games is a skill thats actually worth your time is up to you.

[reef otter]

since this I've been experimenting. I've been playing on specific Weakness-specific in aimlabs and practicing general playlists (mainly valorant ones) as well as the benchmarks, and now I've identified 2 main issues.

Mousepad: The surface is weird; some areas of the mousepad slide more than the others (And it is to fast in general).

I've noticed that I tend to use my pinky, ring finger, and thumb in the mousepad for precision, but I can't do this because the mousepad is too sticky, leading it not reliable. The problem with this is that I have try without doing this but the precision is too low then.

I've tried sensitivitys of 43, 32, and 25 cm and low sens in general, as well as higher sens just for testing. But none of them resolve the issues. Extremely low sensitivity, like 80-90 cm, is workable in Valorant, but then the space is the problem.

Higher sensitivities, around 25 and 20, are impractical in Fast games due to the stickiness when I try to stop the mouse with my fingers.

I think that these are the things that are making this to difficult to be practical at the end.

[silver epoch]

idk bro clean ur mousepad why is it sticky?