damn bruh theres like 50000 different videos about kovaaks with hundreds of thousands of views all saying the same shit, im lucky af to get this vid recommended because you actually say something different and useful, wish you got more views on this man

Thank god I found this video. All I could find is “I aim trained for a week and it made me INSANE”

I absolutely love your videos. Keep them coming! ❤️

Aiming is a compound movement utilising fingers, wrist, forearm, shoulder. Without changing our sens we might be 60% wrist, 20% fingers, 15% arm, 5% shoulder. In this instance, our finger dexterity 'might' be holding us back. By switching to a 90% finger sens (e.g., 7cm/360) 10% wrist, we can isolate and focus the gains in that specific area. Switching back to our original sens sees those gains realised. In this way, it's identical to compound weightlifting.

You're awesome and deserve more attention for the calmness and reasonable logic you've presented!! Keep on rockin' 🤙

Such valuable information for so little views!! Thank you for this 💯

Absolutely amazing video. You are really informed and are speaking the honest truth. Thank you for this Banger

Great video! I’m also plat in sparky right now and agree with pretty much everything you mentioned

I followed the steps in this video and now im hitting prs almost every 4 runs in Pasu. Nice video, great help appreciate it!!!

Greatest in depth video for Kovaaks improvement that I've ever seen. Deserves more attention

thanks for this man, been loving ur vids so helpful :)

You have opened the doors to heaven for me with this video, thank you so much! I went from bronze to diamond thanks to all your content.

Been feeling discouraged lately and this video seriously helped, thank you!

I have been consistently going backwards in my game performance for the past 5 months that I have slowly reached the point of self-loathing. I will do my best to implement your advices (and perhaps try to be a bit more relaxed and forgiving towards myself). Thank you for this video. I really needed to hear that I'm not just genetically predisposed to be a loser.

This is pretty much a general guide on how to improve at anything. Good job :D

dude this video is really helpful now that Voltaic updated their benchmark document. Thanks for making this

Thanks for the tips!

Another great video thanks again took notes the whole time keep it up!

Great video!

this was a very good video keep up the good work it helped me a lot

Great video thank you!

it's awesome that an engineer is teaching us.

Yes now I can finally get Sparky Plat! Thank you so much!

Informative!

Great video, it has motivated me tremendously

I am halfway getting to diamond and I never reset my runs just because those bad runs you learn, from my experience the most of the time. It sort of gives you the weirdest combo of all things that sometimes fuck up you're highscores because it's otherwise not a "perfect run" But one of the best and most detailed vid I've seen so far! Keep up the good work!

Hi I'm sparky diamond going for master rn, and I thought this video was super well made and had tones of great info in it! Instant Sub and Follow on twitch!

MUCHAS GRACIAS, ERA LO QUE BUSCABA TE AMO!!!

You inspired me to try Voltaic and after my first couple of times running the benchmarks I'm at gold with a couple plat scores on some scenarios! Now I just want to grind hard and get plat and maybe even diamond! Thank you so much for the great content, please keep it coming!

Very nice video

Very good video! I was already training at a lower fov with a higher sense and my tracking improved greatly. Now I train at 35cm and play my main game at 40cm, that 40cm feels so slow now that my clicktiming and flicks are much more accurate as before. What I find out the hard way is that I reach a plateau using always the same sense just as you said! Since I ramped up the sensitivity quite a bit it showed me again all of my weaknesses,just like when I started kovaaks. 35cm is for now my main sense in kovaaks and I switch sometimes back to 40cm and boom i hit new high scores. I do this until I reach those scores with my 35cm and I decide If I go lower or not. Cheers!

Learning English with ridd, today our topic is "by the same token" Good video as always

as a voltaic diamond, it took me 388 hours from being brand new at fps games to here. very well made video, very informative

i dont believe this has 700 views, sir you deserve 1m

dude i honestly cant believe it. i didnt realize how few views this vid had until another comment pointed it out. how do other "aim" vids have 20-40k views and this only have 700?

I'm diamond on what is now the voltaic discord from sparky, and I think that this was a great vid. I used to be bronze, and thinking that I'm terrible, but I just stuck with it and now I'm diamond. I have about 170 hours active on kovaaks.

I am pretty experienced in the gym training strongman/powerlifting. I applied much of the same training technique/philosophy/mindset there to my aim training. I was able to coach myself from newb to Voltaic Silver pretty quick. My progress isn't slowing down yet either. I highly suggest the book Mastery by Robert Greene

"get rid of noisy pets" sorry old yeller...🐶🔫😔

nice

A lot of this is great advice. I will actually be using some of it myself. Like using different scenarios again, instead of running the same ones constantly, think thats a big one for me. I slightly agree with the experimenting of FOVs and sensitivities, but, I feel it would be better to stick with one sens and just get better at it, convert it to the other games you play. The more you use it, the better you get at it, and yeah, the different games you play might have different sensitivity ranges, but if your being limited by the actual sensitivity, change it, but I would first figure out if your being limited by the actual sensitivity or your comfort with the sensitivity. If you feel a sensitivity is good for you, you have enough movement while also being able to be precise, use it, get better at it, try to perfect it. If your constantly changing your sensitivity I feel you would just get hard blocked by constantly struggling to correct and get comfortable with that sensitivity. While Valorant and Counter Strike dont "need" the entire "movement" that you would in games like Apex, why not have both, that way your not limited by your sensitivity leaving yourself going "Oh, that wasnt my fault, nothing I couldve done there." But instead saying "Oh, I could practice better ways of flicking or doing 180s". Doing that while also using the same CM/360 on other games, will really help increase your comfort and skill with your sensitivity, that is, if you found a good sens for you, where you feel you arent limited by the actual sensitivity, but rather your control over it. Great video though :D

Instructions Unclear : I gave my dog and cat away. Stil not Plat :P Thanks for the video ! I always thought Aim training was somthing I would be interested in so I downloaded Kovaaks. Other games have a Campaign or Multiplayer option and Kovaaks is quite overwhelming at first ! Thank you for your videos as they have given me direction and act as a sort of "Campaign" for my aim training journey :)

you are the cutest human bean ever xoxoxo

As someone who is motivated to improve not just short term but over a long period, whether that be months or maybe even years, I really do not focus on score but rather my mechanical soundness. Perhaps what I am even more focused on is disciplining my eyes and how I look at things. START AT THE BASICS: MOUSE GRIP: Be aware of what kind of grip you have for consistency. Palm Claw Fingertip (Note that this is more personal preference and thinking that the claw grip is better because it’s somewhat of a middle man is a logical fallacy) AIMING: SHOULDER AIMING | It’s something that I was at first really terrible at but now after starting extremely slow I put most my effort into training. I think if you’re able to be accurate and precise with just your shoulder, the rest of your arm has a good foundation. (I may be wrong but it’s kind of my own theory :P) ELBOW AIMING/PLANTED ELBOW AIMING | You can aim with your elbow either lifted or planted on your desk. WRIST AIMING/PALM AIMING | Most likely planted on desk with palm You obviously get fatigued very quickly if you’ve just been using wrist aiming or keeping your arm planted on your desk but you’ll slowly work the muscle that’s responsible after training for a while. ALSO KNOW ABOUT TRAINING YOUR EYES: TARGET FOCUS CROSSHAIR FOCUS On the Kovaak website there is a great article discussing whether you should focus on the target or the crosshair when aiming. In short, it’s important to work on both. There’s playlists for both eye focus individually and a mix. This goes beyond video games! Great video and awesome editing! I hope this list that I created put into context of how I look at aim training as a beginner even though you’re probably well aware of all of these things. Thank you and I won’t let the excuse of thinking about genetics or the inevitable plateaus stop me from constantly getting better!

I love you

I fucking love you dude

How do you deal with ghosting/ smearing? The hardest thing about aiming is how blurry the screen gets when moving the mouse fast. This happens even at 240hz 120+ fps.

7:41 Vaas approved

Hey RiddBTW, I just started out doing the Voltaic routine and benchmark and I just passed the bronze benchmarks. However, I am realizing that my tracking is horrendous. Sometimes I get pretty good runs but in general I'm lacking. I feel like for some reason my tracking always has moments of jitter / shake which causes my aim to totally get thrown off. I have tried to train more and be more conscious of it but it still happens. What can I do about this?

Gold felt very easy to get with only about 50 hours in aim training. But the jump to plat feels crazy...

thankyou h3h3!

do you think i should stick to a routine for months or change it up? i feel like my average score dropped in the last few days

you look like albrelelie's dad, nice vid.

I'm definitely one of those 98% accuracy players lmao, trying to break my internal metronome is very difficult haha

I have a question about Sparky's benchmark Should I get the score of the 5 scenarios in click timing and tracking? or just 2 of every category?

I’ve been using christmasiscancelled’s flick playlist and it has helped a lot

On the talk about experimenting with different sens, I tried mouse accel (with rawaccel) for 4 months, and when I went back to no accel, my smoothness improved A LOT. You should try it, it makes being smooth on, let's say centering II, a little bit t harder, but after some time it will make you a lot smoother on no accel.

Thank fuck for this video. Only other videos on the topic I can find is the ones where people aim train for thirty days and then show their *INSANE* VALORANT AIM! while neglecting to mention that they have 4k hours in CSGO and went semi-pro in CS Source. If you still read comments this late after upload, I want to ask a question. I am currently typing this from a pretty shit laptop that gets nice FPS on Valorant and Kovaaks (sometimes) but not much else, and when I do tracking scenarios on Kovaaks, I can see the lagging colors behind the targets as they move. I have a nice mouse, however my mousepad is 12 inches by 10 inches so I'm forced to play games and aim train at unrealistically high senses. Is it worth aim training on this setup while I save for an actual nice one? Will I develop bad habits as a result of struggling with FPS issues?

very few people talk about 3d aim trainer for some reason. It is amazing, has good progression overview. All it lacks is custom scenarios / playlists

Almost like a pareto distribution.... people spend an inordinate amount of time on the same scenario hoping to get that last 20% of performance increase, where it's probably easier to change things up and quickly get that '80%' chunk. As you said, great aiming is made of up a subset of skills. For argument, let's say there's 5 and different scenarios and sens stress different components. Maybe you're at 80% of skill 1, 20% of skill 2 through to 5. What should you focus on? Obviously skills 2 through to 5 as the gains will be bigger and easier as they're furthest away from their potential. Get them all to 80%, and then maybe you'll find if you're particularly observant that those skills 1 to 5 have their own subcomponent skills. Repeat. Similar to building muscle, you may aim for 12 reps with a minimum of achieving 8. But, once you have reached 12 reps, you don't stay there hoping for further minute improvement, you increase the load (the challenge). The difficult part with Kovaaks is finding that sweet spot where you should move on.

Does anyone have a link to reddit post presented at 1:28 ?

Nice video but how do i download or get these routines?

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I’m in bronze and it’s been a struggle for me, my aim has tremendously improved and my tracking has improved but click timing and target switching, I’m awful.

The central nervous system needs time to recover, that's why there's rest day when practicing a specific skill. Once the central nervous system repairs itself after aim training you will see improvements. Though, you'll experience diminishing returns if you go over the 90 minute mark of aim training. If you wanna play a game, I suggest 15-30 minutes of warmup before every game. Don't aim train until the night, that's when you do 60-90 minutes of aim training completely tiring the central nervous system. If you tire the central nervous system early by aim training at the day you won't be able to play the game at your peak, even worse feel like you downgraded yourself.

Extremely helpful insights in this video, BUTTTTTT, i cant get over how much you look like h3h3productions xD

I just started doing the voltaic fundamentals and yesterday i tried to change my sens for every scenario that i wasn't feeling it, so like most of the scenarios is that right?

5:22 ok i got rid of all my pets! they are whining outside, when can i bring them in its cold out?? But what about my high scores?

Any tips to improve when stuck at a rank. I have diamond and for months I have played daily and still no master. I have 2 close scens to master but the rest is diamond/plat with tgv2 being gold.

I am a bronze player with 2 weeks of following sparky routines I want to do the benchmarks once every week My question is the day i do the benchmarks do i need to do the routine too?

I mean, i just played a little of kovaak, 50 hours in and i got diamond. Can i still use this video for improvement?

i tried to get to get rid of my distractions but the orphanage wouldn't take my kids

theirs metronome sounds on spotify that i use so i can simply play and pause as needed on my keyboard rather than playing a youtube video or something like that edit: how does someone dislike this video ??? must have been bad mouse aim

How to get plat for me: Play cs 1.6 when you are 5-8 yrs old, play some minecraft too. Casually stumble upon kovaaks, play benchmarks. Nice, your first ranks are plat and 2 diamonds. 70 hours later of traing you reach almost jade complete and 1 master

Actually, for anyone who didn't see that their aim got better, You're wrong I just spent 120 hrs and my aim is a lot better, maybe your aim is not the problem try to improve your game sense or your game mechanics, crosshair placement and such things.

Is it okay to train 1 hour a day to improve fast on voltaic and aim training if I'm also grinding valorant?

Hey. I wanted to tracking one day for an hour, then clicking one day for an hour, and so on. Just keep switching like for all the types of sparky aim stuff. Then on Sunday I take the day off. Is that okay?

I have 100 hours in kovaak and 300 in apex and I'm diamond with no fps games prior to that so I guess that's pretty good then. I've been seeing progress all the time - around every 2 days I'd beat highscores by a little amount and my averages constantly went up

Should I not listen to music while training?

bold of you to assume that im silver in kovaaks

im in bronze with 100hrs but just started voltaic

Im very scared about the guitar and bass corner, please make sure they dont fall over.

I can’t for the fucking life of me hit sparky plat for the static dots man fuckk

it look like the same technic on how to get better on osu but harder

their Voltaic or some shit now:)

ur 80 years old thats good for u ngl

In the beginning you said you wouldn't waste our time with basically BS but you spent 2.5 minutes saying that and I believe you even realize that and thats why you have the intro at 2:35. So skip past this point.

you look like ethan from h3h3

5:31 I will eliminate my dog.

"getting rid of noisy pets" you heard it here first it's impossible to be a good aimer with a dog.

xD why do you look like a young 20 year old and a 70 year old grandpa at the same time.

what rank are you in apex?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! ARE YOU TOTALLY SERIOUS?? 270h -> learned the hardway??? no you did not. nothing was hard about that, people grinding silver for 1k hours is the hardway.