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Lower your mouse sensitivity

While mouse sensitivity is a highly personal setting, some casual gamers are guilty of using a sensitivity that’s far too high for their skill level, leading to overshooting and missed hits. Lowering your sensitivity gives you far more precision control, making it easier to land careful shots.

You should also adjust sensitivity for your different games. While some games like Valorant and Fortnite lend themselves well to a higher sensitivity, since the action and player movements are quick and frantic, in traditional shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield you’ll benefit from a reduced sensitivity. Just make sure you don’t reduce the sensitivity so low that you can’t turn around quickly to counter foes behind you.

Relax your arm

One of the best bits of advice for aspiring guitarists is to relax your arm while playing. This simple piece of advice works for aiming in games too. It’s easy to tense up when you’re in the heat of combat, but when the muscles in your arm, wrist, hand, and shoulder aren’t relaxed, your range of motion is reduced and your movements become more erratic.

The opposite of that is also true, if you’re relaxed you will move more freely, and your hand movements will be more controlled.

Find your perfect grip

You need to spend a fair amount of time working through the three major grip styles to find out which one best suits you. Many players swear by the claw and fingertip grip styles as being faster and more precise than the palm grip style, but it really comes down to personal preference.

You should also consider each of the three styles to be a rough template. You might find that the grip style that works for you is a hybrid of more than one of these styles put together.

Adjust your crosshairs

Most games allow you to customize your crosshairs so you should do this to optimize your chance of getting hits. Your crosshairs are your main focus, so what you want is crosshairs that stand out clearly against the background of your game.

There’s no single crosshairs that works for everyone, which is why pro gamers use vastly different crosshairs. You’ll need to experiment to find a crosshair that works best for you.

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Master counter strafing

Strafing is the technique of moving your character sideways, making it harder for your opponent to hit you. While in some games it’s easy to aim while strafing, in others like Counterstrike 2 it’s a lot harder. In these games it’s useful to learn how to counter strafe (e.g. pressing left while simultaneously moving right) before you start shooting. This will bring your character to a quick halt, allowing you to aim with better accuracy.

Keep your crosshairs at head height

Keeping your crosshairs at the typical height of a player’s head helps you get more headshots. The reason is because you’re minimizing the amount of screen space you have to move your crosshairs to make a headshot when you see an enemy.

Players typically lower their crosshairs when they turn corners, so be sure to keep your crosshairs up at head height next time you come tearing around a corner.

Aim vertically as well as horizontally

Because most players move horizontally in games, your muscle memory is going to be well honed to aim left to right or right to left. That’s reinforced in target practice where most enemies also appear at your level. But that leaves one whole axis unaccounted for. Enemies can jump, crouch, or find an elevated position in a map, leaving you vulnerable if you haven’t practiced shooting vertically as well as horizontally.

Make a conscious effort to aim vertically and move your hand up and down as well as from side to side and I can guarantee you you’ll land more hits.

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