Just hit Master Complete for the fist time on the Aimlabs S3 benchmarks here are my thoughts.

[iron egret]

I just hit master complete for the first time. Kinda sucks that it is on the new aimlabs benches that are still on beta so i cant have the badge but never the less i am really happy with this and i just wanted to share my experience during the grind with some ppl.

Every thing that follows is my opinion that i have concluded on after aim training for almost half a year and around 500 hours into aim trainers. Also I will be talking only about the intermediate benchmarks as these are the only ones i have put time into.

I will start with my thoughts on the benchmarks. First of all i think most scenarios are well balanced, meaning that with the corect technique and slightly pushing yourself you can get most master scores. personal favorites were VT Angleshot Intermediate S3, VT Shifttrack Intermediate S3, VT Steadytrack Intermediate S3, VT Dartswitch Intermediate S3, VT Smoothswitch Intermediate S3. I felt like these required a good amount of effort to break while also maintaining a fun factor.

Moving onto the scenarios that are under balanced. The new " Linear " category is honestly a meme. I aped the first 3-5 (around 70% acc and if i remember even sub 70% on one of them) attempts and got the rank. Although then i tried to get some better runs with proper technique which made the scenarios really fun to play. So i guess the take away is to punish missing considerably more. Other than that maybe some of the tracking scores, the reactive and the control ones, might also be under balanced because I remember getting them relatively quickly ( around a day for each one ) which alone is not an issue but i consider myself lacking into those categories.

Ending the "review" with the ones that i think are over balanced. The only ones that I feel like are really hard are the static ones. they are the only ones that I had to push myself to the point that my parts of my arm hurt. I might be over reacting and i be the worst static player to ever touch it...

... but i also have a master score on 1w4t Voltaic from the Kovaaks s3 benmches, Fiveshot jade (and Voltaic Immortal) while straggling to beat diamond on both the static scens.

Continuing on i would like to give a piece of mind to the ones that are grinding for master. In my opinion if you really straggle it is probably your technique, in my opinion you can easylly get to jade just with corect technique. You can fix your technique by watch better players both top aimers and just people that are where you want to be and then comparing their runs to yours, VOD reviewing is really important and i think that very few aimers that are on the novice to intermediate level do and do correctly. Also try to figure out your flaws by yourself not just posting a vod on the vod review channel and hope that the random dude that will answer you is correct. This last thing i feel like it is really important. After jade try to push a bit more. If you spot a flaw make sure to focus on it and try to find ways to fix it. That should be your only goal.

Another important thing is to have players you aspire to be. Choose some players and use them as inspiration. For example on my static grind i watched many players and ended up picking out some favourites to be exact, Zeonlo, Dracco and Bulldog are some of them. I really like their style and tried to copy that. If you are not sure which players you like just watch a lot of vods and you will end up picking some favourites too, i am sure of it.

Where you get your advice is also giga importand. I feel like if you google "how to get good aim" the amound of bullshit you will be met with is enough to make a man cry of disbelief. Make sure your sources are have a good rep on amongst the best aimers and are accomplished. By accomplished i don't mean popularity but aim trainer scores.
Some players that helped me with advice that they made public are Matty, Lorys, phantasy and probably quite some more but these are the ones i can come up from...

[iron egret]

... the top of my head. Takeaway is to research the source and not blindly follow. Also i just though of it but i really think that coaching is not necessary and i would even say might be bad for you if not done correctly due to the reason that learning what is wrong with your runs is a skill of itself that many times is not emphasised on coaching sessions, even if you are really new to fps and aiming ( as i was, i am currently on my 2nd year on fps and mnk and came from mobile competitive shooters lmao). This last part might be a hot take but i stand by it either way. Furthermore you setup might be holding you back but i think that master complete is still possible by the average joe even on a laptop, again i myself reached jade with some master scores on an laptop with a 60hz display and as of mouse and mouse pads i used a G203 (stock skates ofc) with a off brand rgb mouse pad up until jade where i upgraded to a GPX (stock skates) with a G640 that i use up to now, which makes it like a year old and as a result really really slow (since i mentioned my mouse and pad i should also say i have a motospeed keybord and i recently, before the s3 benchmark grind, i upgraded to a 165hz 1080p ips monitor).

Finishing of my yappathon i need to say that my grind for that master complete hasnt had any insane diferaence on my in game performace i think i migh be doing something wrong( most sertenly) and is the next thing i would like to work on. My main game is valorant, i klnow it is not a very aimfocused game but either way that is what i play, and my reak rank is plat 1 with quite average statistics. It is really demotivating to put all this effort into making your mouse control as efficient as possible and still be average but it is the reality and to be honest also the reason that i have the same hours on aim trainers and valorant, if you know what i mean. So in my opinion good scores don't instantly make you a good ig player and also the other way around.

Thank you to anyone that read any portion of this post and i would like you to give me your thoughts as well. Have a good one.

[iron egret]

also my ign on aim labs is mitsiscool if you want to check my voltaic profile on the app

[astral orbit]

aim for celestial man

[west igloo]

Very good read, hope it helps me (im platinum rn)

I think you can get a answer on why you dont feel you're improving a lot valorant in this video: https://youtu.be/pIJB7KD-TcY?si=BMKstdPU_La8slVA

[round elk]

You mentioned not getting a badge, but this counts lol @iron egret

[iron egret]

when they release the leaderboards i am sure i am going to also get the badge even tho it is not the thing that counts.