1h per day - Goal: Master by year's end

[fast grail]

Didn't really practice for 1 year, since there was not much FPS that I wanted to play, but now hyped for BF6 I guess.

SEN: 48cm/360 38cm/360
DPI: 800 1600
FOV: 103

Mouse: Corsair Scimitar Elite (I know it is not a FPS mouse) -> Switched to Keychron M7 Wireless
Pad: Singularity
Skates: TJ PlastiX
Monitor: Acer Predator 24.5" 240hz IPS

Benchmarks: https://app.voltaic.gg/yun.m?benchmark=kovaaks_s5

Started at: Silver
Current rank: Platinum 526
Small goal:

• Gold complete and start intermediate playlist
• Hit diamond complete in October
  Big goal: top 100 (around Nova rank)

25/08/12 - Back to the grind (Gold)
25/09/10 - Gold complete
25/09/22 - First platinum (penta bounce)
25/09/28 - Platinum
25/10/01 - First diamond (PGT)

Current benchmark

[fast grail]

Decent flick in BF6

[fast grail]

I am practicing more static these past couple of days, got 3 PBs in a row. Sad that couldn't practice more today

Here is a couple more small PBs in static

[fast grail]

BF6 beta is over, got some solid kills the last day, but I think it was more because I learned the maps and got better positioning than the aim itself

[fast grail]

Tried the intermediate playlist, didn't manage to get any rank there

Got gold for the first time in DotTS

[fast grail]

I tried the aimlabs routine once, didn't really bother to replay, because I hated it. The targets are strange, the game almost crashed twice, and there is something wrong with the target edges

[fast grail]

Didn't really finish the valorant routine, but it was pretty easy since I got gold on almost every scenario I tried

[fast grail]

Only 1 week so far training, and I feel like my aim is a lot better in games with slower movement like COD. Still struggle with arena shooters, but I saw some improvement

[fast grail]

Practicing more this intermediate routine and the COD/BF routine these days. After a week or so, will retry the novice one to see if I can get gold complete

[fast grail]

If COD movement was not utter trash, I would play it a lot more. For now might stick to Kovaak and Valorant DMs

[fast grail]

Nice PB

Actually really close to getting my first platinum

[fast grail]

New small PBs Intermediate benchmark, still no platinum

[fast grail]

More benchmark improvements

Not sure why I only get worse at this

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Small PB

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More PBs in clicking

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New PBs for these scenarios

My benchmark looks like this now, probably plat in some after a couple of weeks

[fast grail]

1h per day - Goal: Master by year's end

[fast grail]

Not much progress today

[fast grail]

More benchmark, probably will try another playlist today

[fast grail]

Running a few COD/BF related playlists, mostly target switch

The click timing is so hard to make even small improvements

[left lake]

what’s ur valorant rank

[fast grail]

Hello, I don't really play valorant, only use the DM sometimes. I dislike the powers and stuff the heroes have

[fast grail]

Very small PBs, like 1 more hit per scenario

Got gold in FlyTS

Gold control

Very good PB and gold in floating heads

I got a bit lucky, but finally gold in a clicking scenario

This was very close, 3 more hits and would be gold

[fast grail]

More PBs

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Was tired from playing POE2 the whole day, so just went throught the benchmark once, a few PBs in tracking scenarios

[left lake]

ohh nice, have you seen any improvement with aim because of kovaaks?

[fast grail]

Yes, I did see a pretty big improvement since I started (a little more than 2 weeks). I'm pretty sure it will be harder to progress soon, but for now it is very nice.
Keep in mind that I play a lot less than most people around here, so far around 14 hours in kovaaks, and a couple of hours in DMs

[fast grail]

Small PBs

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I feel like when I'm tired I get better at tracking lol

[fast grail]

Almost no progress today, just some practice I guess

[fast grail]

A little stagnant the last couple of days, maybe it is time to hit those weakspot playlists

Interesting graph on this scenario

[fast grail]

Doing the easy click routine

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After weeks a highscore on popcorn

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Good PB frogtagon, got distracted in the last few seconds, would be huge

[fast grail]

Kind of forgot about it, but now I'm gold complete

[left lake]

congrats

[fast grail]

Thank you, took me a while. I kind of forgot about it and was just doing the intermediate benchmark for a couple of weeks hahah

[fast grail]

Smaller PBs

Big PB on EddieTS

[fast grail]

More PBs, the one on tracking went down a bit today

[fast grail]

They are small, but at least seeing PBs every day is giving a sense of progression

[fast grail]

I switch my sens from 48cm to 38cm, in the hopes of making it a more universal one that I can use in both arena shooters and tactical shooters. 48 works great for slower games, but i feel like i need to change it in order to play arena shooters more comfortably, so I will test it for a few days

[fast grail]

Got PB in tracking, new sens is good for this kind of thing, probably will take around 1 month to get used to it completely, because I was using 48 for several years, even though I never really practiced aiming like this, I still used for several games, so it is ingrained in me

[wintry fox]

There’s not really any need to only have one sens

It’s important to use different sens in aim trainers

It won’t affect your in game shots at all

[fast grail]

Thanks for the advice, I was more hoping to use one sens for all games, not just koovaks, so I wanted something that I could use in a wide range of games, from arena to tactical. The 48 one that I'm use to, feels slugish when players move very fast close quarters like in Overwatch, for example.

Another contributing factor is that I bought a new and smaller mousepad that will arrive next week probably, so I feel like the change could help getting use to it.

[wintry fox]

a single sens in aim training is pretty pointless

sens muscle memory isn't real, and there's several established and proven reasons to modify your sens as you train

you can still choose to do it, but it's essentially a willful choice to not listen to people who do it for a living

there's no benefits and several downsides

different tasks need different sens

[fast grail]

I will try what you mentioned here later, to see how it goes

[fast grail]

A few new high scores

[wintry fox]

Nice pbs

As you start to plateau you’ll need to start focusing on one category per session

VdIM will be 👍 for that

[fast grail]

Thanks. Yeah I'm still do PBs in a few scenarios every day, but progress is slowing down a bit

The method you mentioned is there a document for it or video? I saw a few when searched it, but not sure if there is an "official" one that everyone follows

[wintry fox]

#resources

VdIM for kovaaks

Read the guide and use the playlist codes appropriate for your skill

Feel free to mix and match

[fast grail]

Tried the vdim routine for wed, which is tracking 1 intermediate, PGT still my most disliked scenario, but got a small PB on it.
Didn't PB on Snake, Controlsphere or Raw Control. But was close, did only the 4 tries for each from the playlist

Routine took quite some time, about 2h, so it is not following the title today hahah

[wintry fox]

Pgt has prerequisites since its popcorn tracking

warm up this one

Pgti vertical silver

[fast grail]

Thanks, I tried it a few times, seems to be good for this bounce thing, I will practice more later

One problem I have with it too is that I never know how "deep" it will bounce, maybe because my theme doesn't have much lines

[wintry fox]

lmao

please use a texture

the ground isn't flat

it's a slanted disc

i like polished marble

[fast grail]

I can see it now

[wintry fox]

https://tenor.com/view/now-you-know-the-more-you-know-no-kidding-no-shit-obviously-gif-1342210079425559607

[fast grail]

Target switch will probably be my first plat, very close to it, in a few days maybe

[fast grail]

Vdim tracking 2, reactive. Got a couple of PBs, but aether I get worse the more I play it

[fast grail]

Bought a new mouse, mainly because cable was annoying me so much. But the fact that it is like 2x lighter is also a huge plus

I was using this old Corsair mouse that I use for MMOs

[fast grail]

Trying switching 1 vdim, was already really tired, it's like 2am and no PBs

Penta got really close

[fast grail]

Did switching 2, tomorrow I will play normally the benchmark and spend more time on games instead.
The 2 hour routine from vdim is not really helping so far and is really tiring. It's been only 3 days, so nothing concrete yet, but I will give it more time later, and focus on what was working.
Today only got a few score = to my PBs, but not new ones.

[wintry fox]

Scores unimportant

Put in hours with good form

Improvement comes

Make sure you’re doing scenarios with good technique

[fast grail]

Been playing arena breakout lately, the servers are shit and not really a game that depends on aiming at all, but is fun with friends I guess

I want to play arc raiders and bf6

[fast grail]

Redid the benchmarks, the tracking ones that I did the vdim routine had good improvements, specially the Snake track one, which I went from 2280 to 2778.
Good improvements in aether too - 1673 to 2038
Raw control - 2375 to 2706

Look at all these spikes in the graphs

Maybe the vdim improvements just come delayed after sleeping a bit, my adhd brain can't wait for improvements I guess

So many PBs, that discord didn't like it, so more pics here

[fast grail]

Yeah, thanks. I guess since it is a weekly routine, improvements will only be seen next week when you repeat the same scenarios again, like I mentioned above. Will try a few more weeks since today I saw great results (maybe after doing the routines and sleeping).

About the scores, I get demotivated quickly if I don't see numbers go up, so there is that. It is the reason I'm doing this whole thing and not just practicing randomly, because the benchmarks you can track your progress and that is pat on the back to continue

[fast grail]

I didn't notice it before, but actually hit my first plat: penta bounce

[wintry fox]

How to be successful:
• Train consistently.
• Use correct form.
• Use developmentally appropriate routines.
• Train adequate repetitions, at least 30 minutes a session.

[fast grail]

First time trying glass, wish me luck

[fast grail]

Can't really share footage, but been trying this other extract shooter Exoborne, a lot more arcade than ABI

[fast grail]

Monday progress was almost non-existent, played quite a bit of games, but not much kovaaks. I need to start doing this routine earlier in the day, not after midnight when I'm already sleeping and need to spend 2h more doing the routine

[fast grail]

Redid the vdim clicking 1, because yesterday I only did a bit, and was very sleepy. Didn't hit PBs, but probably in the benchmark at the weekend it is going to show.
Was using the suggested sensitivity of 60, because this one was only static

[fast grail]

Clicking 2 routine, this was in 45cm/360. I still need to improve a lot in the bounce/popcorn time scenarios, but look at that score spike, also got plat very nice.

At this rate I might hit plat complete before Oct

[fast grail]

I need to start taking more breaks mid practice, my wrist is hurting a bit and finger are stiff. Maybe every hour playing

[fast grail]

Double sided tape is actually pretty good for the mouse dots, was able to fix mine, it was scratching a bit before

Did the tracking 1 vdim again, some noticiable improvements. Took breaks every 40 minutes or so to rest the wrist

[stable bane]

Stop breaking things! :C

[fast grail]

I'm so trash at these reactive short strafe scenarios

[fast grail]

Did tracking 2, a few PBs. Tomorrow I'll see if I have time to do both switching, so that Sunday I can do benchmarks instead, because I kind of skipped a day.

Also changed my theme to something like this, not sure why but most top scorers use black targets, so I just copied them to check how it goes

[wintry fox]

I use charcoal and slate

High contrast without being overly taxing to the eyes

[fast grail]

Yeah, I noticed it a bit. Going to try something a little less harsh today

[fast grail]

Switching 1 routine, doing while with the flu is a little annoying, but got some improvements overall, including on the hard versions of the scenarios

[fast grail]

Switching 2, having headaches, but still managed to get huge PB on drift, actually mid plat

Not sure why, almost went straight to diamond on this scenario out of nowhere

[fast grail]

Another plat, I was inclined to test benchmarks now, but better consolidate and do it tomorrow

[fast grail]

Switching benchmarks to see what I'm lacking for plat. I got PBs in almost every scenario, but some didn't reach plat yet, and I will practice more of those later today

[fast grail]

Tracking benchmarks. PGT bot 1 still giving me trouble, I will isolate that to practice later. I'm also lacking heavily on both reaction scenarios

[fast grail]

Clicking benchmarks. Definately my worst category. Frogtagon was crazy, will take a while to beat that again I think.

Right now I'm half way to plat complete, maybe a few more tries or days, need to practice more clicking for sure. Drift was 1 point away from diamond

[fast grail]

Doing clicking 1, thinking of repeating the static part twice to improve this. Or maybe some Cs/Val deathmatches

[fast grail]

Very small PB, not sure how to improve more on clicking, probably will take a while? The tracking I can clearly see how to improve, but this one is hard. 1310 score seems so far away

[wintry fox]

post vod

at this point you've achieved a good pb; time to put in hours with good form

[fast grail]

Okay, will try to record

[fast grail]

Posted it here https://discord.com/channels/153919886471593984/1153030249198669884/threads/1422324599328342187/1422324599328342187

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Small floating heads PB

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Thought would be fun to do this

September recap:

• 47:38 hours aim training (about 1:30 per day)
• around 4h in DM matches in CS/Val/Delta
• between 10% ~ 14% improvement in all scenarios
• currently 508 energy and platinum incomplete

My biggest improvement seems to be Snake Track, while the worst was 1w3ts. Definately would benefit from more DM hours

[fast grail]

Yesterday I didn't have time to finish click 2, so I'll try to add it today together with tracking 1, a bit too much maybe

[fast grail]

Nice PGT spike and first diamond tier

Snake track also diamond, forced it a little more than the routine 4 tries

[fast grail]

This took more effort, and was a steady increase, but diamond too

[fast grail]

I managed to sleep only 3h and yesterday was such a good day, feels like a waste

[fast grail]

My new skates came with candy, interesting customer service

[fast grail]

Trying to align mouse skates is one of the most rage inducing things ever

[fast grail]

I decided to take a break today to rest my wrist and arm. Just playing some casual games, but no kovaaks. First time in 2 months, maybe I should use the Sunday to rest more instead of training weakspots for now, until I get used

[fast grail]

The flick training is making my static scores worse, until I get this right I keep overthinking when doing the benchmarks

[wintry fox]

learning dip

[fast grail]

Since I took a break yesterday, now is clicking 2, 30cm.
Small PB, but not plat yet on this, my reactive sucks too

Precise was a big improvement from 6123 to 8547

Maybe I should take some days off from vdim complete routine and focus on the weak spots since I want to be more balanced

[fast grail]

Tripe kill in ABI, this game doesn't really need good aim

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Aether and ground tracking plat (barely)

[fast grail]

Still practicing the playlist @wintry fox made, it is getting better, I feel like I still need to improve a lot:

• overflick
• too much wrist movement
• consistency when having multiple chained targets

I'm trying to maintain accuracy while keeping the tech, since I think this way is better than going faster to absorb it

Edit: I was going to post this on the other channel, guess I will just copy the message lol

[fast grail]

When you get more improvements on the hard mode than on the real benchmark

Tomorrow I will perform benchmarks and practice more static/flick. No switching 2 this week, but it is a little ahead, so ok. I want to bring the others to the same level

[fast grail]

My friends will not buy BF6, so I will be playing alone They only want to try the BR because it will be free apparently

[fast grail]

Okay caffeine got me really depressed these last few days it seems. I was trying to integrate it into my routine last week, but when I cut it during the weekend until now I feel exhausted, didn't do pretty much anything the last 3 days. Better stop to see if my body becomes normal again 😅

[fast grail]

Tried BO7, it's been a few decades since I tried anything COD related, time to delete and only try in 20 more years I guess

[fast grail]

All my scores went to shit after I started trying to improve flicks, and didn't recover since. Really demotivating

[wintry fox]

Learning dip moment

[median nova]

it's part of learning !! you'll be back soon and break all your records >:))

[fast grail]

A few BF6 clips 😅

[median nova]

nice clips !!!

[fast grail]

Training a bit on this 1w2ts perfected map, got pb after two weeks with the proper tech, hopefully all this time will lay foundation to better improvements later.

One problem I'm having currently is too much tension after flick that makes the correction shaky, but if i try to ease the tension the flick will be way off the target

[fast grail]

Small PBs, it's been several days since last, so yay. Still no plat tho

[fast grail]

I was thinking of increasing my static sens to 90cm, but maybe that would just mask my shaky flick instead of fixing it

[fast grail]

Just did an epic 12 kill streak with sniper close range in bf6 and the replay for some reason was lagging at 2fps I really need to figure out a better way to record these

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Tried the weakness specific routine for clicking from the #resources (easy one). Nice selection of scenarios. Also used 90cm today, since I saw some video explaining that is good to mix sometimes to get over plateaus

I will start saving for a better monitor, but probably will only be able to afford one after Feb

[fast grail]

Scenario decided to spawn a lot of good lines, so I guess I'm plat now on static

[fast grail]

VOD for this PB

[fast grail]

6 kills with this new gun from bf6

[fast grail]

I can't play more BF6 because they changed the camera shake for absolutely 0 reason, and I get headaches after 30m trying to play. Trash

[fast grail]

Started doing VDIM again, because my skills are around plat now in every category, and I think a more structured routine benefits me more

[fast grail]

Redid the novice benchmarks, some improvements, but clicking category still not 499 energy like the others

[median nova]

congrats !!!

[fast grail]

Some highscores here, doing Tracking 1 - Snake
Today my tracking is not smooth for some reason, is "jumping" a bit, maybe because I was carrying stuff earlier around the house. Idk how to explain.
Maybe the mouse feet seems to lag a bit, it almost feels like my pad has spots with more drag or something lol

[fast grail]

Turns out my pad was dirty
Just hit it with some water and rubbed a bit, good as new heh

[fast grail]

Controlsphere so close to diamond

[fast grail]

Some aether improvements, the ones from the practice scenarios had a lot bigger changes, but the benchmarks were okay too

[fast grail]

I got around 50% better scores in all strafe scenarios for some reason, even though I only focused on flicking the past 2 weeks or something

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Managed to crawl my way into plat in these two scenarios, pretty hard compared to the rest for me. Both are the speed category

Pasu plat, tried to focus more on accuracy instead and worked on this case, since I miss too much on this scenario

[fast grail]

Diamond in penta bounce, almost jade

[fast grail]

FlyTS diamond

[fast grail]

Played a bit of Arc Raiders... Idk what the hype is about, I didn't like the game. I don't see a world where a hardcore extraction shooter can be third person and be competitive. It is a clone of another similar game I played a few days ago, Exoborne. The movement and map are better, but that is about it. I will not buy it.

[fast grail]

Today is click 2 day, I skipped it for some reason the other day, I don't remember.
Minimal improvements in Pasu, might be a problem soon, because it is not progressing as well

[fast grail]

Tiny frogtagon improvement, but I feel like this was not as messy as the last PB, is my vision getting better, or am I staying calm while doing it hahah

[fast grail]

Small PGT PB

[fast grail]

My progress is REALLY slow this month, not how I planned this to go. Probably because I also don't have any games to play, so my motivation to put effort is also very low

[median nova]

what about BF6? thought you were playing it :((

[fast grail]

None of my friends bought it, so I was alone hahah. The changes to camera shake really made it hard for me to play the big modes too, so I was mostly playing the CQC modes or as sniper (because less explosions near). Maybe the battle royale will be good, and since it is free, some of my friends will try it 😅 I did like BF6 a lot, but I get headaches when there are a lot of explosions, etc.

[median nova]

ugh im sorry, that sucks. I’m playing CQC modes too rn

[fast grail]

Repeating some scenarios from VDIM 1, trying to get over my PB for ww3t, since it is the only one left for platinum complete.
Tomorrow I might try doing the viscose thing, since I'm a little stuck, and some variation might help.

[fast grail]

My reaction time got better in these 2 months I've been praticing, not sure if it is because of aim training or I just got used to website that does this benchmark after using it almost every day. Before was around 210

[wintry fox]

Just have a better understanding of how to use your VRT to do tasks

[fast grail]

I was without PC for 3 days, didn't practice this week. Tried BF6 BR today, was fun with friends, but alone I would not play it at all

[fast grail]

October Recap

• 45:16 hours aim training
• almost 6 hours deathmatches in different games
• a mix of improvements, some scenarios had 25%, while others had 0
• currently 593 energy, platinum incomplete (only scenario missing is ww5t

In the first half of the month I focused a lot of clicking scenarios, trying to improve my flick. After that I went back to VDIM, saw some scores increases even though I was not practicing those scenarios.
Didn't practice since day 25, so almost a week because I was not with my PC, and now I'm playing BF6 and POE on my free time, so I have only a little, but should go back soon.

The total improvement from all categories was 154%, which is a lot less than September (378%), but I think that is because the higher the score, the harder it is to make jumps close to 9x% in a each scenario. Overall was a good month to lay foundation for future PBs.

My goal this month was to get diamond complete, but was very far from it, only got diamond in 4 scenarios.

[fast grail]

Forgot to post this

[fast grail]

Lost quite a bit of progress, this month also had to take a time off because of health problems. Lets see if I get back into it. The goal of master this year is not happening hahah

[fast grail]

I thought it would take me a while to get back into practicing at the same level, but most skills doesn't seem to have decrease at all. Got this nice PB on reflex

[solemn junco]

1 hour is quite alot of time

You sure you arent burning yourself out?

[fast grail]

Not sure, never thought about it. Most of these routines like VDIM, Viscose, etc. require a lot of time, most of them being like 2 hours per day if you try to follow it

[solemn junco]

i personally do 30 minutes usually since i prefer getting into the game then aim training for quite a long time i also randomize the secnarios too

ill turn on the kovaaks randomizer on the playlist and play it like that