Mouse sensitivity question

[Yn Crashout]

I discovered that the best mouse sensitivity is the one that lines up best with your natural genetics, i.e. the way your hand personally moves.

Through some spot aiming/tracking testing that I'm doing in Counter-Strike as it has a very high requirement on precision (and thus should scale down to every other game more or less perfectly). I'm somewhere between 0.8 and 1.3 with 400 DPI. I just have a few questions

A low sensitivity causes the arm to burn when doing large swipes in somethin glike L4D2. Is this normal and it becomes comfortable/tolerable (i'm not complaining about it) over time? Or technically with the sensitivity that suits your dexterity, you should never feel any discomfort? I.E. i'd be COMFORTABLE just using my wrist, but I wouldn't be optimal for the way my hand works.

Also at close range I lag behind targets some. Will improvement come with practice or do you basically just give up close range viability with a low sensitivity?

Ergonomically, should you aim with the elbow or the shoulder? I.E. straight arm, moving with the shoulder like a pole, or more from the elbow? I'm just talking about the proper way to use a mouse here. Don't want to hurt anything; large muscle groups prevents RSI.

[LordBuckethead]

If you burn your arm from friction when you're moving your mouse, I assume you have a Palm Grip habit. Palm Grips are best suited with large mouse or customizable mouse so that you can rest your whole hand on the mouse without worrying to burn your arm. It still depends on the way you use your upper arm, though.

The way you use your mouse is solely based on your personal preference and there is no 'right' or 'proper' way to use it. Just use whatever position you are comfortable with since you know very well CS: GO requires a lot of mouse movement precision. If you always lag behind targets, use higher dpi when engaging in close range. Mouse with programmable comfortably-positioned macro buttons are the best solutions. This is a very common case and gaming peripheral companies have some really good designs for it. You can check out Logitech G502 Proteus Core or Razer DeathAdder or a lot of other mouses that has the well positioned macro. Just program the macro with the software provided so that whenever you hold the assigned macro, it will increase your dpi into your liking for close quarter combat.

I personally only use my upper arm to move my mouse around and mainly only use my wrist when I play games other than CS: GO. I find using the whole arm and shoulder way to tiring and uncomfortable. But again, this is personal preference. I use 1.6 and 800 dpi for CS: GO and I found it perfectly well fit for both long range battle and close quarter combats since I'm already used to it for a pretty long time. I use 1200 dpi for Dota 2 since I can move around the camera comfortably with that dpi and required more dpi to react faster, and I use 1600 dpi for fast-paced games like Star Wars Battlefront or CoD. I also change my dpi levels constantly depending on where I play since I have 2 different desks with different size of mousepad and suface. My point is, it depends on your personal preference + your own gaming set.

My tip is, don't bother spending a lot of time thinking about how to use your mouse. Just find a comfortable position and don't think too much about the difference. The more you think about the sensitivity effects, the more you never find it perfect. I experienced this myself since I also spent a lot of time trying to find the 'proper' way to use a gaming mouse until I realize such thing doesn't exist since it's based on everyone's personal preference.

Hope this helps!

[Yn Crashout]

It is preference, but in a way it's not; you gotta suit it to what your hand can do to be optimal. Maybe it's that I'm not playing in an ergonomic position (at a tall table in a tall chair with strange space amounts.

Yes, it is YOURS, but how you find it IMO isn't. Otherwise, you CAN find what's right for you, but it'll take a LONG, LONG time. And ain't nobody got time fa-dat xD

When people say "it took me a year to get good with keyboard and mouse" these are people that said "hmm this feels good" while moving around sensitivity sliders.