Aim Secrets: How long does good Aim take? 

Overwatch is my first FPS. When i saw the trailer, I decided i will master Widowmaker no matter what. I have played the game less than a year, and i have 300 hours. My aim is really good now. (3.5 ingame 800 dpi) Why? Because i was practicing all the time. Nobody can teach u how to aim, u have to put in ur effort and dont give up. So don’t spend ur time watching aim guides, and practice instead.

I wish I were a Grandmaster Carpenter

I love this video because it should resonate extremely well with anyone who ever wanted to be really good at something. The pro players that look like Gods are not really Gods at aiming but rather they just have massive numbers of hours ahead of you. Sidenote: don't be discouraged with aiming, when I started PC less than a year ago I was completely awful at aiming but after roughly 300 or so hours on hitscan(mainly mc cree and soldier) and countless potato aim hours I'm finally a gm mc cree main and I'm playing on a 60hz monitor don't get discouraged and don't give up it is very possible!

I thought my screen was dirty lol.

I used to study music in college. My conductors/professors had a saying that 1 day of missed practice is 2 days behind your peers. I love your emphasis on practicing every day, and it really can't be said enough. To be *excellent* at something, you need to practice EVERY. DAY.

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Holy shit what a great video, great music, great drawings, great explanations, great content... I can't wait to see the next 23

Well i’m a grandmaster sleeper at least

wow. aight. new plan. competitive barbie: horse adventures i am coming. no aim needed there.

Slayergramps was a console player till overwatch. That was his first PC game and FPS using a mouse. He climbed to top 500 (and has continuously maintained it) after 6-8 months of playing mostly Soldier, Tracer, McCree, Widow and hog. His aim is clearly at the same level as most pros and when I asked him about it, he just said that he actively practiced for a few months. In his view, just practicing and focusing for a few minutes each day is a lot better than passively playing thinking you'll get better over time. He also emphasized that building aim was the easy part and took a lot less time than actually developing the game sense needed for high level play. So while your numbers might have some authenticity to them, there's an extremely high probability of them having major exceptions and it all comes down to the player. Yes, you need to put in time and effort. But needing 2-3 years with 4+ hours a day just to get good aim at the same level as the pros? Nope, it can be done much earlier and much later depending on the player. And I think the biggest factor is actively practicing. By that I mean adjusting to a good sense, doing aim drills and while playing a match, actively focusing all your efforts on aim for that specific match. Say to yourself, "doesn't matter if I lose this match or if I literally have to stand still. My job is to not miss" Again, something Slayer said. Active and critical practice for short term is always going to be better than passive playing for long term. While I agree with a lot of stuff you say about aim, I think this video and the next few ones are not really relevant towards practical application. All these statistics and knowledge won't help anyone improve their aim. Actually going in game and trying to play better will. No player should be given a straight answer to how long it takes (like you saying two years) because there simply isn't one. For all we know, there could be one prodigy here who gets his aim built up in a month. Maybe even sooner. There's no number to how long it will take, only the player and his effort. There are legit players with 1000s of hours and are still in bronze with horrible game sense and aim. And then there are players like Slayer and countless other GMs who reached their ranks in a lot less time with a lot less experience. Call it natural talent, critical practice, efficient playing etc whatever. Point is that there's no timeline for it and every player is different and will have their own pace that only they themselves can change. P.S he also considers it a hobby xD He's not even a full time streamer.

Oh god! You're back! I thought you were dead! And just in time for the new season too!

Thanks so much for all you do for the community! Its easy to lose hope and question yourself when it comes to accuracy. Using your guides on tracer and mcree alongside your psa video, I've been able to maintain ~35% accuracy with tracer and ~50% with mcree all while increasing my crit % and k/d. After only a few weeks of playing dps, I've placed a new account into high Plat. Would love to see a genji guide if your still doing guides. A hero with such a high skill ceiling, and I have yet to see such a detailed guide as you would do for him (stages etc.)

Thanks. This makes me feel better. I get frustrated a lot comparing myself to pros thinking that I should be better. This reminds me that I haven't earned it yet and that it is possible

I love that you said "Thank you for learning". Thank you for teaching ❤️

I appreciate you making this video. I've only played Shooters since Overwatch's release, and when I looked into how to improve my aim, the only two pieces of advice I'd see is either to keep adjusting settings till I get good, or to not focus on that at all because it doesn't matter as much as other skills. Now that you've given me some perspective into how much time actually goes into getting to that higher level of aiming skill, I can stop being so aggravated and under confident in my abilities, and take the time to just keep working on improvement, as you helped me to realize that there really is no easy way to "git gud," I just have to keep going. Thank you.

I've only been playing fps games seriously between 1 1/2 or 2 years. I really have no other goal than reaching a professional level with this game, putting this into perspective shows that even though I may be above average at the beginning of my experience, I still have a long way to go.

The thing is some people wanna have aim like sinatraa when they have 5 hrs as tracer lmao

Solid advice! I checked out Jayne after reading a comment you made on your discord. That was also solid advice. I’ll continue learning while give my aim Time to develop. Seems a better use of my time! Thanks for the video!

Ohmygod thank you. Im already aware of what you're saying, but i really needed this. I only started playing FPS last Nov 2018 (Overwatch is my first game) and people (including myself) are disappointed of my aim and gamesense. It takes time to learn things and i will try to remember that from now on. Thank you ♡

It depends on how dedicated you are to achieving your goal. It took me 5-7 months to learn crazy fast songs on the guitar when I was 13 years old. I liked playing these songs and it was fun for me. The same happened when I picked up Piano.

Wow I was actually obsessively searching for this information yesterday and now you upload a video on it. I have 800 hours in Overwatch and less than a year of using high end equipment and I've peaked at 3417. My aim as McCree is definitely not all that bad but I miss shots that I know better players would make. I've never played FPS games on PC before OW so I'm still relatively a newbie. I've been so worried that I just hit some sort of block and can't get any better. But the amount of time I put into the game and FPSs in general is infinitesimal compared to those that I look up to and compare myself to. Thanks for the video man.

I have almost 10k+ hours in fps since i was 4, im 20 now. Aiming to be a pro player. Wish me luck ;)

i love your vids man, i already sent you a message on discord about 2 weeks ago but i want to say it again because they are just that good. Thank you

Stop comparing yourself to others. Compare your progress to your own. You feel better.

dang, i wish i found your channel a year ago.. about to watch all of these aiming secrets and take notes!!

I don't play overwatch but found the link on reddit. Love it. it's inspirational. Your english is very good. I can tell though

This was a really help video for me to watch. I play Overwatch an hour or so a day so this really helped me put it in perspective because my aim sucks.

My massive issue is, I have other things i have to practice in life. I have studies. i want to get into art when i grow up. Still drawing and getting really good, Gaming is something i really want to get good at and aiming is the top thing i want to get good at.

This is just a good video about mastering anything in life.

Nice video, I see so many people complain about them having bad aim when they have no idea how much time really good aim takes to develop.

2:47 this is what people dont understand sir in India its really tough to pursue your career in esports ....you gotta emerge from your so called hobby of playing games...people here dont let their child make Gaming whatever it be FPS MOBA etc as their job ....however I m studying right now and will get a job so that I could get independent of my family and pursue my dream....I found your channel today sir and I m Overwhelmed by your words ..love from India

Thanks much for this! I think I've been getting in a rut as well and I think that the upcoming series will help me get more motivated to get into using more hitscan characters

This was a great video, and thanks to RU-vid algorithm I was recommended this video 3 years later... I agree with everything that was said in this video but one thing that wasn’t mentioned was how efficient each hour was spent perfecting your skills in a game. If you spend 700 hours doing everything you can to improve as fast as possible rather than occasionally playing and sometimes doing things that doesn’t help your aim at all for 1400 hours then I would assume they should be on par with each other. But is that the case? I have no clue lol, I’m just saying my opinion is all.

Started playing widow in deathmatch maxed maybe 4 kills. Won my first deathmatch after two weeks spamming her, that with 200ms playing from South Africa. Aim is just practicing like a mad man :)

Thank you, this video is needed and now I am more determine to practice this game! :)

Guys, just train your aim all the time. Even when playing single-player. Aim at the corner of the wall, aim at the horse's ass. Aim at whatever, just aim at something all the time. That REALLY helps. Just try it.

This is true. I've only put in about 500~ Hours into Overwatch and I'm sitting at Diamond right now. If I would invest the time and quit playing other games that take up time I could vastly improve my aim as Ana or Zen. But alas I am addicted to MMORPGs, I've probably put around 7,000 hours into the handful of MMORPGs I've played.

The comic with the drawing was so perfect.

Love the new animations! Great video

I kinda learned this from switching from console to PC. I was really good mechanically on console because I had been playing for 5-6 years because of experience and when I switched to PC it was very uncomfortable to aim, and I'm still learning

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Just a random tip to add, for those who think they deserve better, just train every single hero (preferably in qp) so you actually know the game. I'm at high master rn but back then when i was diamond even after 80 hours with genji i was bad, why ? Because i played only pharah junkrat (150h/300) . Now after 500 hours i can play 20 heroes of overwatch cast in masters and do well with them. You don't get good at the game only by playing him over and over, at least learn how to play well at least 2 hero of each category (dps, tank, healer) at a certain elo and you will climb faster

This video hit the spot.

thanx for mentioning us ut/quake veterans. i play ut99 since it was released 20 years ago. there are some players who acquired insane aiming/prediction skills over the years. aiming is a skill like any other, the more time you invest in it, the better you get. edit: i forgot to say that vast majority of today's fps games suck. developers are mostly focused on making the games look nice and overlook the actual gameplay itself. just for comparison -overwatch: /watch?v=weJM2dz8YRU -ut99: /watch?v=9NjPN8U1FeE

I started playing First person shooters with MW2 back in 2009 (I think), then to black ops, then to MW3, then to black ops 2, then to CS:GO, then to black ops 3, then to Overwatch, then to Rainbow Six siege. Overall I have around 10,000 hours of experience with FPS games. And I still suck at it. Most of those hours were spent on console (wich I'm good at) but only like 700 hours on PC, so I'm sooooooo bad at aiming with the mouse. I'm bronze on R6 Siege, but master on Overwatch (because I play Zarya lol). But ye, It takes a LOT of practice.

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Your right, I REALLY REALLY want to become a McCree main. But he takes allot of practice. So I always do quick play everyday until I get better. Even if I’m not doing good...I’m not giving up. Thank you for this advice.

Well, I am in first category of people. However I still watch your videos cause they pass on knowledge and concepts which are useful in other games and even in live in general.

Makes sense. I’ve played console since the PS2 came out, seeing how I hit grandmaster in just over a year. Only been on pc for 5 months and I’m only diamond

I started playing FPS games at a young age. Mostly Quake and UT ironically, and my aim is fairly better than most others aim. But I am simply not at a level of top aimers and never have been. I believe that I am not practicing the proper techniques, because my aiming habits have never gone away and it's cost me tens of thousands of deaths over the last 15+ years.

Iostux for me my aim got pretty good really quick cos ow is my first fps i got it last year and i was a 1400 winston main now i have 3 3800-3900 masters acc and i play mainly tracer mcree soldier genji

When ioStux finally posts

I started learning Soldier this week, moving from a Winston main. My aim is very bad it’s discouraging. I’m between 25-35% accuracy on average. I’m playing on console and finding the right aim settings for me has been infuriating.

I'm level 800+ on overwatch, 6 months of practise in comp since level 25 and always placed in bronze/low bronze. I noticed after 4600 games in bronze that I'm slowly increasing my winration every season of 1/2% like s8 46% s9 48% s10 49%. In the meantime I learned half of the roster of ow so i can play any role since I specialized in dps/tank/support so pratically any role, my bad doesnt sucks so bad, the problem is Im not enough reactive to survive. If I would die at least 1/3 of my actual deaths, I would be in diamond.

i was feeling pretty shitty about my skill level but this kinda made me feel better

I love that you used Linkzr as a pro example.

:'( i'M so happy to see this, thank you to help me overcome my fear.

Thanks for motivation !

I just subscribed ur an awesome youtuber

Dude i'm lucio LETS AMP IT UP. nice to have you back!

Really how people should look at anything they wanna get good at tbh

Been playing fps since I was a teen. Now I be 25 and I still can't hit shit lol.

Damn I really like where you're coming from I just shifted to pc gaming(never played on a pc before) and I have really bad aim(high silver and low gold) even though I want to get better I just dont have time to do so being a broke student and all.

I needed this video

Helps a lot to understand why I'm still Silver 😁

Great video man

Up until 4 days ago I've only ever played games on console. Literally 0 experience in any PC games (except Age of Empires when I was little lol). On Xbox, I'm a casual Mid-masters player. Playing mostly Hog, Ball, 76, Hanzo, Ana, Zen, not too try-hard or anything, I'm a real person. BUT I'm only level 9 on PC OW and I feel like my aim is ALREADY on par with myself on console. So to ME, imo, it tales 4 days. 4 days is the answer boys lmao

Great video! We need to talk about those ice skates though lmao 😂

Greta analogies. Excellent advice.

3 types of people... you forgot the hanzo mains. I'm one of them and now I need to go learn my craft and ruin billions comp games

I have over 2k hours in MW2 alone and that's not nearly the majority of my playtime. But I'm still facing major consistancy issues. It's to the point where I can't even get enjoyment out of my good performance because I know it's going to go downhill any time. Sometimes it's impossible for me to warm up and I know I won't be able to do well that day, or even that week. I feel like I've plateaued a long time ago since I haven't really gotten better for as long as I can remember now. And I have no idea how to break through this.

You're a coach? Wow that's wonderful! But I haven't got a PC! To play!

ok. video one. roadhog/moira main. i want to learn to aim. lets see how this goes

Alrighty time to start the grind

Just started playing OW a year ago on pc, but I have probably clocked near 10k hours in first person shooters, and definitely 10k or more gaming, probably 20k hours gaming tbh. This dude doubts how little life I have lol, this isn't discouraging at all, if anything I feel like I'm right on pace with the other pros lol, in a year or so I'll be insane once I got 2 or 3 years of aiming with mouse under my belt.

I appreciate the images of LiNKzR. One of the better widows in the league, and it will be a fun season to be a Houston fan.

hey, that's a good point thank you ^^

I hope I don't have to hear you ask us to headshot the suscribe button every episode.

one season, i played so much overwatch that i got depressions so i decided to slow down a little bit xD (In this season i dropped from 3.6 to 3.1)

I can aim but I perfer the mechanical/game sense aspects of overwatch so I mostly play tanks.

I think you're aim is born with you, I'm silver portrait and been playing FPS for about 4 years and been grinding my mechanical skill on overwatch everyday and I still have garbage aim

Even though I played call of duty for a long time, I main Lucio because I just find him More fun to play. Edit: I gotta show this series of videos to my brother, this might help him understand why he's still in platinum/gold.

TF2 doesn't have movement acceleration though.

I’m above average at almost all things I try but I can never go above to the next level.

what kind of crosshair are you currently using? mainly play mccree and widow looking for advice because i just use a tiny crosshair right now

Great vid bud

I'm a Winston main, and I've already seen this video on Jaynes stream. Why am I watching even this? kek

I wanna play but my parents don't let me...:(

I play 12 hours a day for school days at least 6 hours so will that take around 1-2 years?

I use the 2nd slowest mouse sen to practice on Aimbooster and somehow got I got better at flicking and reacting.

Then how do you explain people who have been playing FPS games and grinding their aim for YEARS and still suck at it?

i started at plat season 4 and about 600 hrs later im Grandmaster and even hit top 500 a couple of times Keep the dream! XD

Insane video

LiNkzr is my dad

Ive been cod for like 10 years and my aim is still bad im begging for help I dont know what to do. Ive watch so many video on improving my aim I practice in custom games like every day and I do everything I can to get better aim but it just doesnt happen. Plus I'm playing every multiple hours a day. And yet still after all these years trying to improve my aim it has never gotten better than average. I just don't understand. I need help

I can't believe I am no where close to master at eating category.

bro im ofc not feeling bad knowing pros put more time; what im feeling bad about is that some of them trained for the same amount of time as me and that they are on a level that I might never reach even by training 2 times more. + the fact that i dont see any diff between the me from last year and the me from today, thats depressing af, a thing where i put myself in a lot, i cant improve at it, there is almost nothing that I will ever like to tryhard more than this game, for exemple tryharding ur work is pretty rare, ppl do what they have to do and thats it. So even with the most tryhard I can get, I cant improve, what kind of loser am I?

So you are telling me that i cant be a pro in a year? I played fortnite for more than 140 hrs and my aiming is still bad and i feel disappointed. I started playing video games seriously only a year ago. Is it natural that my aiming still bad?

Honestly I wanna get better and keep playing, but not having as much time as I want due to school and then comp amd social anxiety doesn't really help as well. I need to try something new cuz im silver boarder, boarding silver lol.... I am one sad boi

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