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A little while back I started using a trackball as my primary mouse. I've had Kovaak for a while, but never really used it. Found out about Voltaic last month and have been doing a few sets of VDIMs per week using a random sens modifier of .5 to 2. The trackball I use is the Elecom Huge, and the main goal I'm going for is hitting Gold in all categories to complete the Novice benchmarks.
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First Week 7/16 [Iron 116] - Initial benchmarks. No training as of yet, and I tried each map 5-10 times.
Week 2: 7/23 [Bronze 206] + 90
Huge progress here, ran through my first set of VDIMs: Clicking I, Tracking I, Switching I.
Week 3: 7/30 [Bronze 224] +18
Nothing big, but I cycled through the other set of VDIMs: Clicking II, Tracking II, Switching II this week. Going to keep that rotation between weeks, as 3 VDIMs in a week is pretty much all I have time for.
Week 4: 8/6 [Bronze 260] +36
This week I changed my sensitivity a bit. I need something a bit faster for longer jumps and strafes, so I went from 20cm/360 to 15cm/360 @1500dpi. It does however, make the jitter at lower speeds more noticeable.
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Week 5: 8/13 [Bronze 289] +29
Managed to get my first 2 golds! It's starting to get to the point where I can really identify my weak areas. Struggling a lot with tracking, as well as static clicking.
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Week 6: 8/20 [Silver 316] +27
Made it up to Silver! Still struggling on some maps, but I'm starting to push gold in a few scenarios.
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Week 7: 8/27 [Silver 321] +5 🙁
Not much to say about this week. Only got to practice 2 days, and has been my smallest week of improvements. Still got to up one score though
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Week 8: 9/3 [Silver 327] +6
Starting to feel like I've hit a wall. But I can definitely see improvement, but not consistency. I start a lot of scenarios on pace for a new pb, but can't close it out. Hoping to change that this week. I did finally get Bronze Complete, as well as gold in another 2 scenarios though!
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are u sane btw?
Mostly!
I actually just got my Gold in Penta Bounce, so here's the vid of that!
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this is beautiful
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holy balls
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Thanks, hopefully Ill have more to show in the next week or so. I'm really going to try and get my clicking scores up! Once they're all silver its on to tracking!
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Thanks, hopefully Ill have more to show in the next week or so. I'm really going...
How do you click with that thing? Sidebutton?
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Yeah, the left click is on the side. There is a cluster of buttons where my thumb is, along with the scroll wheel
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Week 9: 9/10 [Silver345] +18
Went back and touched up some older scores, which brought me up a bit! Didn't do full VDIMs, but went through the individual parts of the playlists focusing on my weaker benchmarks. I also did the Viscose benchmarks to get a baseline there too. Once again feeling humbled haha, since it was the first pass through, I think I can up a lot of those scores.
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Been liking the pressure scenarios a bit this week. Here's a quick score from fulgaaPressure! https://youtu.be/-OKFfMwUgGE
Definitely something I can improve on though!
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Week 10: 9/17 [Silver 350] +5
Wasn't able to do much in terms of practice this week, but I did manage to get another gold score! Really minor gain, but that brings me to 6 of 18!
Going to try and make a playlist for next week to help with Clicking/Static & Tracking/Precise. So if anyone has any recommendations let me know!
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Week 11: 9/24 [Silver 363] +13
Kovaaks/Steam have been giving me some technical issues this week, but I still got some practice in. The big increase this week is from my PGT score. I also got some movement on my 1w4ts score. This is the first gain in static since I increased my sensitivity. It's not much at only 10 points, but it means that I finally got back the speed/accuracy I had on lower sens!
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