I Used a Sensitivity Randomizer for Three Weeks - Here's What Happened 

Aimbeast also has one built in. Kovaak's really needs to step things up these days honestly.

That's actually a great idea. I'm sure it will be implemented on Kovaak's sooner or later.

@@opfreak It's not about finding the perfect sensitivity but about fine tuning it. If I was a programmer, I would definitely work on it.

@@opfreak Dude, I've been playing FPSs probably longer than you've been alive xD I know all that stuff. I even made a RU-vid channel to explain all these concepts to less experienced players. I get your point, believe me. There is nothing more important than finding your style, having a decent mouse and a mousepad that fits your style. But my interest regarding this stuff I was talking about is more scientific than practical.

No such thing as a perfect sens. All mouse control

@@shanelee188 i underatand that, but if you always get better scores on a certain sensitivty, then wouldn't that be the best sensitivty for you?

everytime i see gamers talk about muscle memory i have to laught. thats exactly the audience with the lowest probablity of have been done any sports on a medium or high level and talking things they dont understand. if only half where true what the "aiming" community claims there would be no tennis player beeing able todo their job. that would one of the best examples. how do you think pros are able to hit 150+ kph balls to a precice spot (plus minus 30cm) when the ball they hit is always on a different position, with different spin and height on a different velocity while the player himself is also on a different speed - every time. the key here is simulation. our brain simulates beforehand what it has todo, calculates and trys to execute. i can even make a case why it would also be very beneficial to use an accelerator instead of fixed sense. the fixed sense is the hardest thing for our brain to understand and is even a bit of disconnect how things work in real world.

@@woswasdenni1914 honestly I think this is hilariously lacking in self awareness. 1. Sports and especially exercise "science" are specifically known to be hilariously awful. 2. If it took less than 5 years of kovaak's existence for the concept of muscle memory to be debunked, it's only because traditional sports' pseudo-intellectuals created the concept in the first place. 3. Your analogy doesn't make any sense. The tennis players needing a wide variety of skills isn't analogous to the concept muscle memory, the concept of muscle memory is analogous to the concept of muscle memory. If you said that tennis players gained a bunch of muscle or lost weight, that'd be much more similar- but obviously in conventional sports logic that would be considered a big change! The most equivalent scenarios would be literally changing the gravity, air density, and to a lesser extent the ground surface of the court. All of those would be considered massive changes. But, even so, no one would think an average person would stand a chance vs Roger Federer in 80% gravity. Even if it took a bit for Federer to adjust, the body control and racket control he has would absolutely carry over. IDK why you would choose gamers to try and dunk on though.... Have you ever been to a gym? The advice given at gyms are a complete joke, literally everyone thinks they know everything to the point where it's nearly unbelievable that someone could think gaming is worse.

@@woswasdenni1914 Worst example I've ever seen haha

Thanks friend, it really means a lot to hear positive feedback and gives me motivation to keep with it! :)

100% great mindset to have, and I look forward to hearing about your success stories :)

@Silky Crisp 4 months later and you hit master on voltaic! What a success story lmao

@@mridangsheth3206 Hell yeah brother! we're at the tippity top and we're only half way there, think about it

@@SilkyCrisp What do you think? Did the randomizer help you or your practice? Or both? How much do you think the randomizer has contributed to the skill development?

@@impulse_101 I haven't used the randomizer much actually, but I have changed my sens frequently to emphasize arm vs wrist in the 20-40cm/360 range. Challenge creates growth, so just do harder scenarios at sensitivities that are not ideal and you'll get better quicker in my opinion

Awesome, glad you liked it!

Hopefully you'll be pleasantly surprised as I was !

Thank you so much, it really means a lot to get such positive feedback!!

Bob?

@@gravizt9613 Hola xD

Awesome!! Glad to hear it :)

Thanks, yeah I have to say I went in with limited expectations given what I've heard about people who have used it, and I was pleasantly surprised with the results.

its been 6 months how did it go?

@@siykko2147 I tried it on and off, not really sure if it helps or not. But I will say just being consistent with any practice pays off so much. My scores are way beyond what they were 6 months ago just from getting in a mix of training styles each week

Didn't think I'd see a bonified D2uber in the comments here xD. Thinking about using this for Destiny. Did you use it while playing crucible at all?

@@McBlitzen I

Thank you! It means a lot!!

I sometimes question if I'm putting too much effort in lol, but I sort of can't help it either. Thank you for stopping in and leaving some feedback :)

Thank you so much! I'm glad you find it so helpful!

LOL right!? For my new high scores, it happened just naturally as part of my normal daily training. Sometimes the randomizer was on and sometimes it was off...I didn't plan around it. Which makes it all the more remarkable in my opinion. And I wasn't even trying to break high scores or do benchmarks, just focusing on improving my weaknesses.

@C J B crack cocaine injected into your mouse

Awesome. If all I can do is motivate other people to push in their training I will consider my videos a success :)

What happened bro? I've been raised on the "muscle memory" stuff and I'm so curious about this, what were the results bro?

Thanks! As it turns out I can't help it but I really love how the aim community attracts a lot of like-minded folks, especially since it's such a fast-moving and growing field of study!

Good point, I actually didn't think about the fact that cheat engine devs are using Interceptor for malicious purposes. Definitely another reason to only use it while training in Kovaaks (although, I don't know if anti-cheat just looks for the existence of the driver period). I haven't had an issue running any online games with it installed, for what it's worth. Thanks for mentioning the Aimbeast randomizer, I had no idea that feature was added!

@@RiddBTW According to www.kovaak.com/mouse-acceleration/ vanguard and faceit are blocking interception driver atm. Haven't tested it, but it looks like the driver itself is listed. On the aimbeast randomizer: No worries! I found it somewhere on twitch or youtube myself, had no idea aimbeast had this in it's settings. Normally I only use kovaaks, but these days I startup aimbeast once in a while to use the randomizer cause I don't wanna risk installing the driver and getting banned somewhere. Thanks again for the vid, looks like I'm gonna spend a couple of weeks in aimbeast only ;)

@@boxbal8022 Interesting, ok, thanks for sharing!

Thanks so much! Glad you like them :)

I wouldn't overthink it too much, I basically just run it to raise the difficulty level of the scenarios I'm doing. If you're seriously grinding out benchmarks then I wouldn't be using the randomizer, its purpose is largely to increase the difficulty and push yourself to improve. Especially if you're stuck and you have no idea what's preventing you from getting better, it's good to change things up by running this. There's no set right or wrong way to run it.

@@RiddBTW TY soooo much man!

Honestly I think it could help even this early in your training. If you find yourself hitting brick walls in your improvement, or just want some extra challenge, I would try it out for a bit. You want some amount of consistent tension in your training so it's always effective.

Thanks for checking it out!

It's old, but I do talk about it starting around here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ogbHickR7R4.html Short version though, I always start with a sens where I can do a full 360 when swiping from one end of the mousepad to the other. I'll fine tune from there depending on the game, favoring higher sens for movement/reactive heavy games and lower sens for more tactical or CS-like shooters.

Sorry to hear that, I wouldn't necessarily attribute that to the randomizer though. It's pretty typical for aimers to have certain aim mechanics they're really good at, and other mechanics they struggle with. TS for me is consistently worse than my other aim areas.

Yeah, generally lower sens is going to allow you to be more precise and smooth more easily, and higher sens is going to highlight your shakiness but gives you more flexibility in reacting to movement (especially with wide angles). So it just depends on the game and what your priority is. In Apex shaky aim may not matter as much, for example because of the higher TTK esp. if you have an aggressive playstyle. It can't hurt to train on a higher sens in Kovaaks than you use in game, and it may lead to you being smoother/more precise while at the lower sens...but I would spend some time getting comfortable changing between sens while playing Kovaaks so it doesn't get in your head.

@@RiddBTW okay thank you bro I'll do it! as i just want to improve mouse control instead of aim for specific game.

Hey, Maybe i can answer you better, Before i used to play on 800dpi with .3 in game sense which IMO falls under low sensitivity, but now i play on .35@800dpi which is still low but compared to .3 it's high so Now i play on high sense and low sense at the same time, Basically i changed my own perspective about low sensitivity by playing on really low sens for so long. It worked for me and after using randomizer i can play on any sense and get comfortable in like 2-3 minutes

So the creator of the program (Whisper) talks about it in this reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/FPSAimTrainer/comments/cve6oi/tool_for_smoothly_randomizing_sensitivity/ "where new sensitivities are iteratively chosen using a Gaussian distribution and updated to be the mean of the next iteration" THEN a second algorithm he doesn't describe smooths out the final sensitivities. So short answer is...math :D

@@RiddBTW Gotta try this maths! Soon we couldnt be able to use mouse without some sort of university degree. 🤣

@@milosgrujic9118 LOL I know right? No wonder so many engineers are into aim training :P

I have heard reports of people getting banned in Valorant because apparently hacks have similar characteristics as the interception driver that the randomizer uses. You can always contest the ban, I have read success stories with Valorant players who have contested them.

same :)

You can try either method, I would try the randomizer personally.

What I like to do is run a shorter playlist at half my sensitivity and then roughly my normal sensitivity then double my sensitivity. And you can just experiment with the ranges. It's a good balance between getting the benefit of randomization and convenience.

@@RiddBTW yeah that makes sense. I've been switching between those exact values (relative to my usual sens) while aim training recently and it does really force you to re-evaluate what aiming is and what biomechanics are available to accomplish it. Great video btw!

Absolutely, and raw aim (what you train in aim trainers) is just one component of your overall success in FPS games, especially for FPS games where your raw aim has less of an impact. So I wouldn't look at them as one complete picture, I would focus on training your aim and working on the FPS game mechanics and gamesense separately.

i cant describe the feeling when ur aim is good in every game, thats what fundemental routines make you mouse control, smoothness, speed and accuracy, other gun mechanics u have to learn

some fps will auto close the randomizer or just not start if the interceptor driver is installed. like QL i had to uninstall the interceptor driver to run it

He said that in the vid

@@s7robe297 that’s what notes are called

I didn't benchmark specifically with it on or off. Sometimes I got new high scores with it on, and sometimes with it off. Quite interesting!

I could've sworn I replied to this...you could but it'd be super tedious. You could try just changing your sens (pick a random number between an upper and lower limit) every few minutes and get similar benefits.

Thank you so much!! ❤

Thanks friend!

Hm, not sure, that's never happened to me. You can try going through some of the options to reset your settings and see if that helps: themeta.com/meta-faq/

Honestly! I have it in my backlog to try out, and it is starting to gain a lot of popularity so I may have to take the rawaccel plunge :P

@@RiddBTW i recommend experimenting with it. i dont main accel but its fun to use and i find that i do exactly the same with accel vs without accel

@@RiddBTW rawaccel is good and is compatible all games apparently. if you like to play quake style shooters it definitely helps

@@lordsiomai i've heard really good things, I'm excited to try it at some point and make a video about it. it's a little further down in my backlog but I will get to it ;)

I have a video on using the sens randomizer, I don't think there's specific scens you would run it on. Keep in mind for smoothness scens in particular, using a higher sens will probably net you lower scores at first. I would use a sens randomizer to help improve overall mousefeel, but it is uncomfortable especially at first.

@@RiddBTW am very thankful

I hv tried aimer7 guide ( increase sensitivity (10-20)% & lower ur fov ) and doing tracking scenario) also Christmasiscancel support that ) but its only temporary i dont feel much change . Thats why am doing ur scenario . I hope to get better.

Haven't seen Tenz so I'll have to check him out. But yes I agree, once you can change your sens, mousepad, mouse, etc. with minimal impact to your aim, you're in a great spot to optimize your improvement.

i have no idea but i'm seriously considering making a new vid on randomizer or something because it's causing people so many issues and i feel guilty for recommending it :/

@@RiddBTW thanks for taking time about it

Try uninstalling it before jumping in warzone and make sure to restart after uninstall.

@@frankestienboy yeah uninstalling and making a clean install was my first reaction after many tries failed. No luck. I eventually solved the problem, it looks like wz is incredibly bad at managing virtual memory, you have to clean it too from time to time

Good question, I mentioned in the video I haven't been in that position before (i.e. new to aim training + using sens randomizer) so I don't know for certain it would hurt your improvement. Because the investment in using it is so small, I noticed its benefits in less than a week, I would say it couldn't hurt to give it a shot, but I know some people would disagree with me there. If you try it and find it so distracting that you can't focus on improving, then I would say to discontinue using it. One of the main benefits is to help BRING focus to your improvement so if it has the opposite effect, it is not worth using IMO.

@@RiddBTW I'll give it a shot and let you know in a month lol.

@@cfjlkfsjf updates?

​@@cfjlkfsjfso how did it go

I've seen this question a few times now, and I'm not 100% sure because I've never been in that situation (i.e. I didn't start using the randomizer until ~300 hours in kovaaks). I personally think it would help you learn mouse control faster IF you don't let the changing sens get in your head. If you can be ok with having ups and downs and not blaming it on the randomizer, you'll get better faster, IMO.

@@RiddBTW appreciate the reply, I'll definitely give this a try!

Yeah it's unfortunate that the Interceptor driver is potentially flagged by some cheat engines (I've heard, only Valorant can give it a false positive, may be others though). But yeah you can just keep changing your sens, doesn't have to be as often as the randomizer would do it to still see results in my opinion. The key thing here is to develop your mouse control.

Good question, I think it's just an arbitrary number honestly, I just don't like to have it running the entire time for a point of reference. You could easily run it the whole time if you want. I would experiment and see what works best for you.

Hey it's a fellow btw, are we related??

@@RiddBTW most definitely I was at your bar mitzvah lmao😂

This is actually a really interesting idea, I just don't think I'd be the one to execute it. There's so many variables we'd want to isolate to make sure that the sens randomizer ALONE is the only thing that is affecting the improvement rate. I think one of the best ways would be to have A/B groups of players (large enough sample size) at roughly around the same skill level...maybe Voltaic benches used as the metric there. And have A group run with the randomizer, B without, measuring rate of progress at the end of the experiment. Something like that, with a way to minimize external variables.

awesome, thanks for sharing!

1. I would recommend changing your FOV depending on the scen type and as you need it. Normally you would play at 103OW, but players usually change to 110-115 source for tswitching, or any scen where you need to see more real estate to get high scores (like Bounce 180). 2. Using the randomizer will be uncomfortable at first, and it will lead to inconsistency in the short term, which is what you want. Think of it like building muscle, you have to break down your existing ones and over time they repair and get bigger.

i think sens randomizers are useful tools throughout pretty much your entire aim journey. i actually talk about it in detail in my latest commentary video, i'm about to post it soon.

Interesting 🤔

@@RiddBTW vouch. I have it as a channel point reward on my twitch. My viewers think they're trolling me with it but its actually really fun. My movement sucks when I suddenly get a lower sens than I'm used to but my aim adapts or will even improve

@@LOBOTOMYtv That actually sounds kinda dope ngl

I could certainly understand why people would want their playing surface to be steady, gluing seems a bit extreme, but most mnk FPS players prefer mousepads with a sticky back, mostly for comfort purposes. But 'drift' is just one of many variables, many of which are uncontrollable (humidity, dust) unless you play in a clean room with a hazmat suit. So I can understand why some players would want to minimize those variables for the same reasons baseball players might wear lucky socks. A lot of people can't help but intensely focus on minor changes in sitting position, monitor resolution, fov, sensitivities, etc. so they choose to keep them constant. But that's for their own comfort level and in no way required for successful outcomes. The other phenomenon you describe is referred to as 'reading the map' particularly in clicking scens in Kovaaks, for scens like pasu and b180 where target selection and hitting groups of bots are required to maximize your score. This isn't memorizing but simply reading available targets and choosing optimal paths based on what's presented. Being able to quickly flick to targets and land close to it doesn't require memorizing a specific sens, it's practicing the technique of flicking + microadjusting and gaining speed over time. Check out BardOz video on how to approach clicking scens. Once your mouse control is strongly developed you can change sensitivities as needed depending on the FPS/map type and get used to it very quickly. Because those techniques are still relevant regardless of your effective cm/rev, they just might require different parts of your arm.

@@RiddBTW Gluing the tablet to the desk is not for having a steady surface, it's about parallax. Since the top edge of your display is mapped further away from your body on the tablet, moving the cursor to the top of the screen means moving your fingers away from you and moving the cursor to the bottom of the screen means moving your fingers. You end up with 3 possible scenarios. Either the distance between the pen and the tablet increses when moving the cursor up and decreases when moving the cursor down, or you stretch your fingers out when moving it up and retract them when moving the cursor down to keep the distance consistent, or a mixture of them both. The rate at which this happens depends on the angle of your pen. If the pen is perpendicular to the tablet, the difference between going up and down will be minimal. If you hold the pen in a way that makes it point away from you the difference will be more pronounced, so essentially you will have to move your fingers less to move the cursor to the top of the screen than to the bottom of the screen. If your grip makes the pen point towards yourself that actually makes all of this work in the opposite way. If you hold your pen like a normal human it will often also point away from your hand. Left for right handers, and right for left handers, and vice versa if the pen is pointed towards rather than away from yourself. As you can see, depending on how you hold the pen it literally changes your sensitivity on different parts of the screen. And since your posture and the position of your hand are linked, people will glue their tablet to a fixed position to force a specific posture so that their sensitivity can be consistent. Top tier players will sometimes take weeks of practise to get back to their previous level when they make a change to their setup (new chair/desk/monitor changing their posture, new grip to alleviate RSI, etc). Without muscle memory this would not be a thing. And yes, as you say looking forward is referred to as reading, which is highly dependent on pattern recognition. The positions of the bots are in fact random, but the relative positions between bots are things that you have experienced before. Yes, it may be a completely novel situation, but the pattern (for example the next bot is 400 units to the left and 700 units to the top) itself is not. Without the ability to read the pattern you would simply be reacting, which would take a lot longer than reading, meaning that pattern recognition (aka memory) is a key part of aiming. And yes, I agree that you don't necessarily need muscle memory to aim, after all even someone who had never used a mouse in their life could hit a bot if given enough time (although the ability to move your hand to move the cursor could pedantically be attributed to muscle memory, but I know this isn't what you meant). But that doesn't mean that muscle memory is not a contributing factor. I have watched BardOz' video before, and if I remember correctly he also mentions that, depending on how good you are, you will be able to predict where your cursor will end up during the motion so that you can prepare for the microadjustment. If that is not a clear reference to muscle memory, then I don't know what is.

@116iq genius Well, you've obviously spent a lot of time thinking about this, I'm certainly not going to invest a lot of time into responding to lengthy YT comments, no offense. I would encourage you to consider the classic definition of muscle memory which is specifically long-term, procedural vs. shorter term which you seem to be conflating the two even in your own descriptions. Language evolves of course but this is a common thing I've seen in the aim community where they call something 'muscle memory' but really mean something else. I'm always trying to clarify against the classic definition of muscle memory, because in that definition any variable changes like sensitivities and fovs would 'break' your muscle memory. edit: to be clear I'm not saying muscle memory in aiming doesn't exist, it just doesn't play nearly as big a role as people in the community refer, and it's constantly misapplied. I should make a video on this sometime in the future...

​@@RiddBTW Arguing that muscle memory is not long term because any alteration would "break" muscle memory, is arguing that muscle memory cannot be altered. But that would mean that the capacity to develop muscle memory in the first place would not exist, which is factually false. In fact, the term procedural defines the alteration itself. And if muscle memory were not procedural, then that would mean that after changing sensitivities you wouldn't need time to recalibrate, however short that time may be, which is also factually false.

@@TheofanisIII Got ya. This isn't a scientific research channel, I guess I'm just trying to teach people to be comfortable with changing their sensitivities, to get better aim, and get better at FPS games. I actually practice my aim daily and make content helping people get better aim by playing the game, not talking about scientific minutiae. I'm not a scientist, and I don't study memory, neuroscience or anything similar. So I definitely don't want to give you or anyone else that wrong impression, if they're looking for a channel to debate in-depth about scientific concepts, this channel isn't it. If they want to learn how to get better aim, I gotchu.

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A lot of people have suggested that. I have it in my backlog, no plans to put one together in the next couple months but I will plan to make a video on it this year (tm)

HItfilm Free edition! It's pretty dope considering it's free although it decides to crash outta nowhere every once in awhile 😒

@@RiddBTW lol, I’ll check it out

Check out this Reddit thread: www.reddit.com/r/FPSAimTrainer/comments/mcq3nn/update_for_those_wrongfully_banned_on_valorant/

this is so stressful, i just wanna improve on kovacks and this is what i get.

Wait so you train at 1 sens and also haven't tried it, but just say it "isn't needed"? Interesting

at the time of making the video, this was not well known, and there's no way to just edit in a disclaimer or something unfortunately, I'd have to take down the whole vid...not exactly sure how to handle it

@@RiddBTW would make a pinned comment explaining that situation. Faceit for example fully blocks running intercepts

what a coincidence, I'm YOUR biggest fan ;)

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no they've just put thousands, probably 10s of thousands of hours into fps games. so they've developed the skill of aiming adjacently by just playing a shit ton (sorta like shroud). it is after all a motor skill so you will definitely develop it through rote practice alone, it'll just take a really long time.

all are different, ron rambo kim and Tenz. u cant compare them. both are OP nd have diff mindsets

It's totally fair, I'm not an expert and this isn't a field of study with massive amounts of scientific studies, it's mostly conventional wisdom and practitioners. Ron Rambo Kim objectively has way more credentials than me. That said, the aim field is constantly changing, and I really try to stay plugged into the rapid changes and condense them into video form. Also, topics like muscle memory have really evolved, and most of the time when pros like Rambo Kim refer to muscle memory, they really mean mousefeel. The idea of muscle memory has been really misused and I'd be surprised if he was misusing it in a similar fashion. Just my 2 cents, ultimately it's up to you to practice and do what's best for you!

LOL pain. I have heard a lot of buzz and good things about rawaccel, so it is definitely on my list of vids to make.

no way jose

The man, the myth, legend!

LOL i just might 👨‍🍳

yes

There's another comment of similar nature I replied to, apparently Valo devs will review and restore people banned for using a randomizer. It's unfortunate that people have created aimbots using similar characteristics as the mouse interceptor driver, because the randomizer is such a useful tool. But yeah, you can use Aimlabs or Aimbeast's built-in randomizer if you're worried about getting banned.

@@RiddBTW OK. Thanks for the info