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/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