What is the best mouse sensitivity?

[I cant Speak chinese]

I just bought a new PC, and i need to reset all the settings so im curious about the mouse sensitivity. i like mine fast but ive read somewhere to lower to get kills. but is there a optimal number?

[4FCG]

There is no optimal number, this is entirely dependent on what feels best for you.

[Twoflower]

Most professional FPS players in CSGO have a 40cm 360 distance, which means if they move their mouse 40cm from left to right across their mousepad their character turns a full 360 degrees around and returns to looking in the same place they started. Most casual FPS players have about double that sensitivity, so about 20cm 360.

Personally i use approximately 85cm 360 distance but that's a lot lower than most people.

[DustyOldBones]

I was curious after reading your post and just measured my 360 distance. It's a hair over 6cm. How many times do you have to pick up your mouse to do a 360 at 85cm?

[I cant Speak chinese]

Originally posted by 558DustyOldBones:

How many times do you have to pick up your mouse to do a 360 at 85cm?

lol, mine is around 20cm but il try lowering it. see what 85cm feels like or 40cm.

[Clonefarmer]

Mine must be unusually high. I can move the mouse cursor from one side of the screen to the other and only move the mouse maybe 1 or 2 cm. I almost never have to pick up the mouse or move my wrist or arm. All the movement is in my fingers. The dpi is at 16000 iirc.

I had bad wrist pain from years of controller use to the point I don't really play anything with controllers anymore. The high setting seems to help keep the stress off my wrist. I've tried lowering the settings, but I'm so used to it high that the low settings feel really awkward.

[Twoflower]

Originally posted by 558DustyOldBones:

I was curious after reading your post and just measured my 360 distance. It's a hair over 6cm. How many times do you have to pick up your mouse to do a 360 at 85cm?

I have an absolute unit of a mousepad. It's half a metre wide. I bought it specifically because i like abnormally low mouse sensitivities. I set my mouse optical sensor to only track the surface under the mouse when it's extremely close, because i pick up and move my mouse so much. I haven't measured, but from my memory i think i can turn my character about 270 degrees before needing to pick up and move my mouse, lol.
I move my whole arm at the shoulder rather than moving the mouse with just my wrist or elbow.

[I cant Speak chinese]

Originally posted by Iatohihakitar:

i can turn my character about 270 degrees before needing to pick up and move my mouse, lol.

wow lol

[Twoflower]

Originally posted by Alienprobe:

wow lol

I have really bad dexterity in my hands, I used to have really bad aim because of it so this is how I overcame it and now i can have some kind of ok aim. The downside is if someone surprises me from behind i find it very hard to suddenly turn 180 and fight back.

[Parasol]

Originally posted by Iatohihakitar:

The downside is if someone surprises me from behind i find it very hard to suddenly turn 180 and fight back.

To me, the right sensitivity is when I can easily turn 180° super fast.
You should be able to do it really fast, but also in a confortable way.

At least that's how I set my sensitivity since CS 1.6.

[Vladimir A]

Go to VR training.
Straferun around a Target and try to stay with your aiming on the targets head.
If you cant do that, adjust sensitivity.
Everyone uses other Numbers , you are the one who must play with it, not the guy from the Internet.