Flicking 1.5 instructions - is this really so?

[temez]

"Focusing your gaze on each target will improve your accuracy. Try to avoid lazily aiming with peripheral vision."

Now with peripheral vision aiming I get pretty good and consistent accuracy, but trying to focus my gaze on targets actually ♥♥♥♥s my aim completely and I get all mixed up and confused (probably cuz I'm not used to it).

Should I still try and focus my gaze on the targets, will it be better in the long run? I have a, I guess decent, top 800 result in Tile Frenzy, will focusing my gaze help improve that score?

Thanks for your thoughts in advance!

Edit: It feels like my focused vision can't keep up with the tempo of how fast I'm used to flicking
Edit2: I'm noticing that it's not probably "the most peripheral" vision that I use for flicking, but it's not a focused gaze either, kind of like a balance between those two

[Yashi]

for very fast scenarious i think you shouldnt focus the target.
1. While you move your eyes your brain blanks out and just changes your perception of time (Saccadic masking)
2. after that your eyes focus on one point, but this is not a linear process and takes time. If you try to do it full speed it might also be to tiring for your eyes and your perfomance will stagnate fast.
3. And third point is that the targets in tile frenzy dont change size or move and have good contrast, so your brain is fully capable to recognize and aim at them without focusing them.

Flicking 1.5 is for something different. If you want to headshot a Tracer (or any other fast moving target with a random skin on a random background with a random speed, direction and distance), you should try to focus your gaze on her. Focusing is not the fastest method of shooting, but in games usually faster than needing to shoot a second time. And you need the better vision so that your brain can actually predict alle the parameters above for the time your crosshair has actually moved.

But this is just a theory i am just avarage at aiming so better dont listen to me.

[Struth]

Interesting, I find focusing to probably have the most influence out of anything on my performance. Whenever i'm missing shots that's the cue I remember and I instantly start performing better. There's a certain cadence to it where you look at your crosshair > look at target > flick, all in a very short frame of time. It can certainly be difficult if shooting targets as fast as possible, especially in a scenario like tile frenzy so maybe don't bother there.

To help show how this works I just jumped into Asp Level 2 Combine with my eye tracker.

Normal speed shots - https://gyazo.com/cc6efb90b55b46f1bf430ddf891a0f52

Looking at crosshair before flick - https://gyazo.com/009629d468dc30b60b32b763b91543f0

Eyes looking at target just as flick starts (not sure if there's delay on eye tracker or if I flick before fully focusing on target, either way it happens very quickly) - https://gyazo.com/ed8caa19cf231e9dd3a847b208f585c3

Eyes gets thrown off with the flick as you'd expect - https://gyazo.com/b85885c60bb84fb206af225c81df6d7a

Slower motion flicking - https://gyazo.com/fce5b576f5e066bef714521eebef9e1d

Can't really say if this is correct but i've got several top 10's in 1wall6target/pressure aiming type scenarios and it makes a big difference to me.

I'd also like to mention the 'focus on your target' style aiming is much better for tracking, flicking in the trainer and flicking/tracking in FPS games. Kovaaks clicking maps are often so fast paced that it doesn't really work the same way.

[temez]

Wow thanks both for your detailed replies. Think I actually got something out of them, but I think I'm going to pass on writing an essay about it :D

[temez]

Originally posted by Struth:

Eyes gets thrown off with the flick as you'd expect - https://gyazo.com/b85885c60bb84fb206af225c81df6d7a

This seems to have been my problem actually. I first tried this focusing thing so that I would just try to keep my focus on the target even during and after the flick... So I think I got the quick crosshair into target glance thing and even think I got something off it into scenarios like tile frenzy