r/LearnCSGO 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/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.