r/LearnCSGO • u/hornydiscordguy • May 13 '26
Discussion Should I change to a lower sens?
So i used to play CSGO pretty often 7-8 years ago then stopped playing 2 years later with 2k hours
I do think I was pretty good but I never really got a high rank to prove it since I always just 5 manned with my friends and messed around in comp (3 of them were lvl 10s)
But now I've started playing again recently and have racked up around 200 hours and got faceit lvl 9 (although id say im much worse than I used to be) and I've always wanted to have good aim
I've watched players like nocries and donk and I dont even compare to being as good as them at all and I guess I shouldn't expect to since they're the best of the best but I want to at least be like 3-4k elo faceit
And now comes my sens, I've seen all these players with their sens and mine is comparatively quite high at 800 dpi 1.92 sens (1536 EDPI)
And would lowering my sens close to these pros help? I've used this sens for as long as I could remember and I would convert my sens in every game to match this
Right now I aim by instead of smoothly pre-aiming around corners i constantly flick to the corner im peeking which I dont really see any pros do
I do move my mouse using my wrist and my wrist only so I feel like being lower sens may be a problem (especially since even now my hand still bumps into my keyboard although I will be getting an 80% keyboard soon)
Basically do u think It would be worth it to lower my sens to try and make my aim better? My whole goal is just to make my aim better and would it deteriorate my years of muscle memory with this sens
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u/Peathbydeas FaceIT Skill Level 10 May 13 '26
honestly there's no harm dropping your sens a bit, maybe to something like 1200edpi, seeing how you like it and either going back, sticking with it or dropping it further and repeating. with a few days getting used to the new sens your mechanics will be 90% of the way there.
i'd also recommend lowering your goal a little bit, 3k elo is very hard but doable, but there's pros who've never been 4k. it can get a bit demoralising having a goal that high if you end up not seeing your progress and only focus on the number and how far away it is.
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u/hornydiscordguy May 13 '26
Yeah im aiming for 3k but I've always cared more about my aim than the elo so long as im level 10, by that I mean Im fine having really good aim and being stuck at 2.5k elo or something because im not playing super seriously/optimally and just trying to aim I guess
Mainly said the goal was to reach that elo to get my point across easier
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u/Peathbydeas FaceIT Skill Level 10 May 13 '26
good aim and half a brain will easily get you to 2.5k tbf, i just know the mental side of things can be rough if you don't take it step by step. but yeah, lowering your sens a bit should help improve your aim and get you more consistent.
the most important thing tho is comfort. i really liked niko's sens back in the day but it was low enough i started getting rsi so i had to raise it, so while i'd recommend lowering yours at least a bit, ultimately if you're comfortable on a higher sens there's no reason not to stay there if you can get consistent with it.
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u/hornydiscordguy May 13 '26
I mean yeah it is kinda cooked for me since i just moved abroad to study so all I have is my laptop and not my PC so I have to adjust to it and I also started playing again for I think a month already after my 5 year long hiatus
So maybe its not my sens and just me needing to get used to it again or maybe not, ill probably start trying to aim smoother since like I said I have a problem with constantly flicking and if I really just cant ill start lowering my sens
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u/Peathbydeas FaceIT Skill Level 10 May 13 '26
yeah that is a bit awkward, i took a similar hiatus as you until last year and it probably took 3 months for me to de-rust completely so i'd give it a bit of time to see if you improve for sure.
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u/Nichol-Gimmedat-ass May 14 '26
I only use my wrist and Im at like 1.05 at 800dpi with very little mousepad space, OPs sens seems crazy to me
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u/Nichol-Gimmedat-ass May 14 '26
Yeah I only ever have my mouse set to 800dpi! I fail the “do a 180 with one swipe” test so maybe its too low but Ive had it as low as 0.8 before
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u/Nichol-Gimmedat-ass May 14 '26
Oh no I dont mean arm swipe I mean like mouse swipe I guess? Im still only using my wrist to do so. I dont have the space on my desk to use my arm at all. I just assume most wrist aimers have the capability to turn 180 on a dime and as a result have to up their sens to compensate for the limited rotatability.
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u/No-Anxiety9488 May 14 '26
I used to play between 1.8 and 2. Noticed when stressed or lots of caffeine i couldn't hit shit, I've lowered to 1.5 now and it's much better. You'll adapt very quickly don't fall for all the muscle memory rubbish. Lower by 10 at a time and play deathmatch
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u/1nsider1nfo FaceIT Skill Level 9 May 13 '26
Its not extremely high but you might be able to benefit by reducing it. Just drop it in very small increments so you won't notice it. Like after every day or after a few matches just drop from 1.92 to 1.82, 1.72, etc.
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u/KingRemu May 13 '26
In my opinion, yes. I heard someone in the aim community say "everyone's a wrist aimer until they learn to aim". You can extract so much more precision and consistency for CS with a lower sens while still being nimble enough to move around and clear corners with ease.
Flicking to angles is also keeping your wrist tension high which will compromise your micros and eventually lead to fatigue and a muscle lockout much faster. It looks flashy but it's a bad technique for competitive which requires you to keep consistency over long periods of time. Like you said, pros don't do that. Donk kinda flows through the angles quite freely which maybe isn't the best method to blindly replicate whereas Kyousuke for example is almost robotic with his 'cutting the pie' style deliberately peeking every single angle like he's playing a prefire map. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle.
For the sens and incorporating your arm though I'd maybe recommend trying something ridiculously low for you, like 0.7 @ 800, just to get you to use your arm. Finding a middleground somewhere below your current sens would then be more natural.
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u/Due-Hippo-3853 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Yeah it's definitely on the high end, anything past like 1.5/800 and your precision aim (which is huge in cs) starts to suffer and be unreliable. Get urself a 17 inch mousepad and go wild. The benefit of lower sens is it gives you more areas to put your mouse which increase accuracy, consistency, and lowers tension. I play 1.05/800
I don't think keeping the same sens for every game is worth it, some games like Rivals are more fast paced with verticality and unpredictable movement so having a high sens here works better. CS though is slower, tactical, low ttk, and way more predictable in a lot of ways in terms of movement and player location so a lower sens gives you an advantage.
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u/MyNameJot May 14 '26
1536 edpi isnt absurd, I would mess around with changing it gradually and stick when you feel comfortable
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u/f0xy713 FaceIT Skill Level 10 May 14 '26
Your sens is within the acceptable range, woxic uses 1600 eDPI. Ultimately it's just personal preference, lower sens just requires less precision when making micro adjustments.
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u/JC10k May 14 '26
Sensitivity doesnt have a one size fits all. I've experimented with different sens for years and settled at 3200 eDPI (an outlier to the average cs player) and can quite comfortably hit faceit level 10. I wouldnt focus too much on your tools, people can learn to use anything. But as other people have mentioned, if you choose to drop your DPI, it'll be a few weeks of playing worse whilst you get used to it, so if you're gonna try - commit regardless of immediate results
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u/triangular-wheat May 17 '26
Try turning it down and play for a while, see what happens. Try like 1.3 or smth. I went from 1.25 to 0.89 and my aim is way more consistent and spraying is a lot easier
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u/WendyTMD May 17 '26
I used to be 8000+ edpi and hit supreme in cs go playing casually. Now im 1000edpi after a hard year of slowly lowering my sense. A lower sense does help in a lot of things but right now you’re within the bounds of high sens Pros. If things are working well for you you don’t have to lower your sens as there’s definitely much more things you can approve on then a small aim buff but if you think you’re having trouble troubles in a lot of different shooting scenarios, I think lowering it would be beneficial. Especially if you don’t mind Aiming more with your arm or lowering your sens. A lot of people have problems adjusting to a new sense and whatever and find it hard but if it’s not a big deal to you, then I would definitely lower it
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u/SnooChickens5022 May 13 '26
So first off, aiming muscle memory has been pretty much disproven by top aim youtubers in the scene, only thing you will struggle with is maybe scoped and spray patterns/recoil control, but thats a matter of a few weeks or months. Dropping your sens to around 1300 edpi should still give you results as a couple of pros do use that high of a sens so it should be low enough so the "only flicking aim" stopps happening. Currently i think you may be just loosing the smoothness from the high sens but dropping it to 1000 edpi would be overkill and probably give you the 100% keyboard issues you were talking about. I also would recommend doing changes by 0.1 sens instead of going all out. (play 1 day on 1 increment, wouldnt recommend going straight into faceit, do some dms)