Need advice on improving! 15 years of shooter experience and I can't even reach Plat.

[silver anvil]

Hi guys. I'm new to (proper) aim training and I need your advice

But first, some background

I've been playing shooter games for ~15 years, my main games were CS:GO (~2016-2018), Overwatch (2018-2020) and Fortnite (2020-now), in each game I have ~1000-1500 hrs

Right now I'm playing only Fortnite, just for fun cuz I have a very bad GPU (GTX 1050 2GB + 75Hz 1080p monitor) so I can't play all the games I want, but I'm looking forward to buying a decent GPU and playing Apex Legends, The Finals, ARC Raiders, HUNGER, Beautiful Light, and Deadlock (I know some of those games aren't aim heavy and not released yet, but nonetheless)

I bought KovaaK's in Feb 2019 and played ~210 hrs, mainly old scenarios like Tile Frenzy, Ascended Tracking etc.
I just played whenever I felt like it with no actual goal and without any consistency, I could play for 7-10 days in a row max. But usually I played for 1 week every 3-4 months if I remember right.
Recently after a few recommended vids on YT I decided to give it a proper try and actually get better, so I've tried VT S5 Kovaak's benchmarks (Novice first) and I got Gold Complete without big issues (some scenarios were difficult but with enough tries I got them). But after I tried Intermediate benchmark I realized how trash I am lmao, Plat feels waaay out of reach.
Btw novice playlist I completed with 32cm sens, for Intermediate I switched to 37 cm. Btw for tracking scenarios I'm not changing sens, it feels wrong cuz in games I wouldn't be able to constantly change my sens.

I've been trying for 6 days to get Plat but I think playing whole benchmark over and over again isn't helping. I made a Google spreadsheet to track progress but I think Im doing it wrong.
How should I train, one type of aim for a day or should I do a little bit of everything? Which scenarios should I play, weakness specific routines or maybe you can recommend something else?

Pls give me all your advice ladies and gentlemen, it will be massively appreciated. THX!

Google spreadsheet if u wanna check it for some reason
Sry for amount of text, I wanted to give u guys all the context, had to cut some bs out to make it 2k symbols lol

[craggy mist]

Just for a point of reference, I probably have even more years of experience in FPS games than you, yet I started out fully Unranked, lol. So Gold Complete is pretty good.

Although, there's a big difference in difficulty between Gold Complete and Plat. And also later on between Master Complete and Grandmaster.

For actual training, I wouldn't grind the benchmarks themselves. The benchmarks are not really for practice, but for actually benchmarking your current level of Mouse Control.

For actual training, you can try doing VDIM (Daily Improvement Method, in #resources).

[silver anvil]

Thx man, thats what I thought about benchmarks too after 3-4 days of playing it

[silver anvil]

Btw, would you recommend VDIM over weakness specific routines?

[craggy mist]

Like your scores are all pretty even, so it's not like you have any clear weaknesses at the moment. So you can just do VDIM

Later on, if you have trouble with a specific sub-category, you can do weakness routines, or focus more on specific scenarios that help with that category, ask others for advice on the specific sub-category / scenario you have trouble with, etc

[silver anvil]

Ah ok, thx.
I feel like dynamic clicking and control tracking is way worse but maybe its just me. I'll start VDIM's tomorrow and will decide about weakness specific routines in a week I guess 😄

[craggy mist]

Yeah, see how it goes with VDIM first, you can still ask more questions afterward

[silver anvil]

Thx a lot man!

[inland viper]

you can treat vdim as a weakness routine, just skip the stuff you're good at from it

[silver anvil]

Thx for advice, its good to know cuz Im a bit lost on amount of routines and scenarios

[craggy mist]

VDIM is like a pretty decent way to get experience with a lot of different types of scenarios in general.

It basically isolates components from the benchmarks into separate scenarios (which is why it's so long)

[silver anvil]

Is it rly long? Can I finish it in a hour or so?
I have a lot of time but my concentration falls after an hour or so

[craggy mist]

Each VDIM is actually 3x different Sub-Categories. So it's like 3x sections per VDIM. All the scenarios that help train for a specific benchmark, they lead up to the actual benchmark at the end of the section.

So if you are doing a VDIM every day, it can be long. But if it's too long, you can split them by 3 sections per VDIM and do them over a longer period of time.

You can also use Matty's score thresholds concept to do VDIM, to help shorten it that way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bO2R4p7RR4

I use that method myself

[silver anvil]

Nice, thx.
I will give it a go