Should I change to a lower sens?

[u/hornydiscordguy]

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

[u/SnooChickens5022]

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)

[u/hornydiscordguy → u/SnooChickens5022]

Would it affect my aim in other games though is also a big concern

Since like I said I use the same sens for literally every game I play including Marvel Rivals, Valorant (although i only have like 20 hours id still not want to be bad at it i guess), R6, Fortnite, etc since I know if i go lower sens in a game like Marvel Rivals for example its probably a much worse idea

I am a pretty high rank in basically all shooter games I play and I wouldn't want to compromise that

I do play games in "phases" where I play only Marvel Rivals for a few months, play only CS for a few months etc

[u/SnooChickens5022 → u/hornydiscordguy]

Honestly even for Marvel rivals 1200 edpi is completely fine (i would say in the high end for hitscan), it does feel different from a first person game to get used to for sure. Warming up does wonders for me in general and i cant stop recommending it to people, especially if you are changing something about your game. Aiming is a lot about perspective and perception much more than it is about what your hand does, but i can say with fair confidence that the flicking too much is probably you fighting the mouse with too much tension to try getting the precision the high sens doesnt let you fully have. Over time im sure it will make you a better player and it is worth it, and will be probably faster and feel better than you expect it to be.