Finding the Perfect Sensitivity...Sensitivity is not "personal preference"

[Three Angry Inches]

Sensitivity is not a preference. Sensitivity is dependent on your hand dexterity which is largely dependent on your genetics. While a brain surgeon may be able to make small micro adjustments with his 3 sens accurately, you're most likely not a brain surgeon.

Anyways...here's the guide: http://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1ykz5l/video_how_to_find_your_perfect_sensitivity_guide/

(NOT THE VIDEO...Read the first guys early comments. He explains it properly)

I performed this technique multiple times over the last week. Every single time I end up around 1.55-1.60 sens @ 450 dpi. Oddly enough, in my competitive days of CS 1.6 where even my own teammates thought I aimbotted at times, I used a 1.5 sensitivity.

@ 1.60 sens I am able to hit 80-88 out of 100 targets on training_aim_csgo (.25 delay, .50 duration...same settings Friberg uses)

After using this technique, my sensitivity was dropped from 2.4 down to 1.60
My Headshot kill percentage has gone up from 44% to 55.4% over the span of 1 week.

My KDA in competitive seems to have went from around 1:1 to close to 2:1

My stats: http://csgo-stats.com/76561197970500701/



Another setting that is not as "personal preference" as you would believe is right handed vs left handed gun models. More on this below.

[Cherry]

i will try 1.6 thanks

[Three Angry Inches]

Originally posted by Miiichelle:

i will try 1.6 thanks

Don't try 1.6

Go through the process for yourself and find the one suited to your own hand and setup.

[Three Angry Inches]

Be skeptical if you want guys. Skepticism is great...

Another "personal preference" that is not actually personal preference is left vs right handed models. This is due to eye dominance. One eye always accounts for the majority of what you see. When you place your gun model on the same side as your dominant eye, it reduces your reaction speed and interferes with your vision and focus.

-The gun model takes up space
-The gun animations draw your attention whether you realize it or not.

After performing the eye dominance test and swapping to a left handed gun model, it's almost as if i cannot even see my gun without actively trying to focus on it. It almost feels like I'm playing without a gun model entirely.

Dominant eye test: http://www.wikihow.com/Determine-Your-Dominant-Eye

[Three Angry Inches]

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[Shmoof]

Yea, it isn't personal preference xD.
I hit ~94/100 targets on target practice with a 1.2 sens.

Regarding your second statement about left and right: This is bs. Not to insult you man, but a friend of mine (dominant eye: left) has the gun on the right side and performs better than with both eyes opened. With his dominant eye closed!

Also: This may apply to the real warfare, real life, whatever. But you are playing on a screen. There is no difference if you put the gun left or right, because both occupy exactly the same amount of pixels.

Tbh i hate elitists, and i saw that you are one of them.

EDIT1:// Your first post is invalid, because if you would read what the link says, it says: how to find YOUR perfect sensitivity.
"Your", as defined by common sense, is personal, thus it IS personal, unlike you said it isn't.

[Three Angry Inches]

You most likely hit 94/100 with easier settings. Adjust your settings to that where you have a .25s delay between targets and less time to hit the targets. Friberg sits around 84 and it's very unlikely that you, a nobody, would be able to consistently dominate his aim/reaction time/acc.

Personal PREFERENCE means you prefer to use something...IE it doesn't matter what you choose if you prefer it then it's correct.

However, there are thousands if not millions of players across numerous games who "prefer" to use a sensitivity that is not suited to their hand dexterity.

And yes, eye dominance is scientific. There's no way that your friend would play this game properly with his dominant eye closed unless he plays at a level so unbelievably sub-par that his reaction speed or lack thereof literally didn't matter. This is a game of milliseconds and there's a lot of different ways of shaving off time from your in game reaction speed.

[Shmoof]

Super-Giga-mega-atomic facepalm of death.
Man, you just point out facts, throw around with them and then you use your own power to comment to tell me that it actually IS personal perferance, although you said personal preference isn't really personal.

Don't wanna quote you, but you said that.

[BlackyS]

Originally posted by Headshot:

And yes, eye dominance is scientific. There's no way that your friend would play this game properly with his dominant eye closed unless he plays at a level so unbelievably sub-par that his reaction speed or lack thereof literally didn't matter. This is a game of milliseconds and there's a lot of different ways of shaving off time from your in game reaction speed.

playing with dominant eye closed and preform better is possible you dont know what kind of sickness or other problems the person has in his dominant eye. when you close your dominant eye you force your other eye to become dominant and takeover the tasks. this method is also used in the military. also this game isnt only about miliseconds there also is something called tactics and position. yes reaction is a big part but it can be compensated with good comminucation with your team.

[tuturutu]

Sens on Windows 6/11 or other? on 400 DPI

[Chocolate Coconut Cake]

I have sensitivity 3 @ 6400 DPI, is that normal? (I'm an MG1)

[SaYon]

Just stfu and get ur own damn sensitivity.

[Three Angry Inches]

Originally posted by Blackside:

Originally posted by Headshot:

And yes, eye dominance is scientific. There's no way that your friend would play this game properly with his dominant eye closed unless he plays at a level so unbelievably sub-par that his reaction speed or lack thereof literally didn't matter. This is a game of milliseconds and there's a lot of different ways of shaving off time from your in game reaction speed.

playing with dominant eye closed and preform better is possible you dont know what kind of sickness or other problems the person has in his dominant eye. when you close your dominant eye you force your other eye to become dominant and takeover the tasks. this method is also used in the military. also this game isnt only about miliseconds there also is something called tactics and position. yes reaction is a big part but it can be compensated with good comminucation with your team.

Yes...there are always exceptions, but exceptions don't make the rule.

Originally posted by Knife:

Super-Giga-mega-atomic facepalm of death.
Man, you just point out facts, throw around with them and then you use your own power to comment to tell me that it actually IS personal perferance, although you said personal preference isn't really personal.

Don't wanna quote you, but you said that.

No. If something is personal preference, it means that your choice or preference is always "correct" in that it's your own preference. IE which ice cream flavor do you prefer. However, personal preference does not relate to mouse sensitivity if we are going to discuss which sensitivity is best for an individual. There is a process to find this and it has nothing to do with your preference.

The process of finding YOUR CORRECT sensitivity is not a choice. It is mathematical. If you run the process multiple times starting with ANY sensitivity, you will land very close to the same value every time.

There is a damn formula right in front of you that finds YOUR sensitivity for you...therefore, it is not a personal preference.

Originally posted by HS Chocolate Coconut Cake:

I have sensitivity 3 @ 6400 DPI, is that normal? (I'm an MG1)

That is most likely WAY too high unless you have freakish genetic hand dexterity. Run through the process and find out what sensitivity you get. I'm not telling you what mouse to buy or what to set your DPI to. I'm only talking about how you can find the correct sensitivity for your dexterity.

Originally posted by SpAwn:

Just stfu and get ur own damn sensitivity.

That's kind of the whole point... where did I tell anyone what sens they should use?

[ithie]

I have ranged from sens 1 to 4 @ 6400 DPI. Im currently playing and feeling comfortable on a sens 2.4. I just recently changed from righthand wievemodels to left hand and it feels great.
I think it's down to personal preference though. Back in the days when cs just came out. The old one. I remember playing with a sens of 10-12 and liking it :)

[Three Angry Inches]

To drill it further home... I PREFER MID-HIGH sensitivity. I could play with mid-high sensitivity for 5+ years, practice hours on end, dedicate my CS:GO life to learning this sensitivity...

and I would still under-perform with that sensitivity because my hand dexterity is not suited to mid-high sens.

So here we have a case where my Personal Preference is Mid-High sensitivity and yet it's clearly the wrong choice for me to play with my preferred sensitivity.

Originally posted by ithie:

I have ranged from sens 1 to 4 @ 6400 DPI. Im currently playing and feeling comfortable on a sens 2.4. I just recently changed from righthand wievemodels to left hand and it feels great.
I think it's down to personal preference though. Back in the days when cs just came out. The old one. I remember playing with a sens of 10-12 then :)

What typically happens is that as you get closer to your ideal sensitivity, your accuracy and responsiveness improves. I ranged from 1.0 to 2.5 when I played in the top percentile in CS 1.5-1.6. Oddly enough, when I was at my best, I used 1.5sens @ 400 dpi, which is fairly close to what I get through the sens finding algorithm.

Over a very long period of time, you will probably trend towards your ideal sens, but you'll likely never get there exactly as you'll stop at a point somewhere in between.

With 2.35-2.50 sensitivity, I could hit around 70% of 100 targets on training_aim_csgo set at difficult settings. (very fast targets). I had roughly a 44% headshot rate. I've used this sensitivity for years started in CS 1.6.

It's not a coincidence or placebo that after finding my "perfect" sensitivity, my acc on training_aim_csgo went up to 80-88% and my headshot rate has improved by 11% seemingly overnight. The headshot rate hasn't even stabilized yet meaning I'm likely shooting something in excess of 60%

[DEAD ISAAC™]

Thank you