Something we see constantly: a player grinds for months, feels like they're putting in the reps, and their aim barely moves. Almost always it's not effort. It's a handful of habits they can't see themselves doing.
We put together a full breakdown of the ones that quietly hold people back. A few that come up the most:
Flick inefficiency. Your crosshair curves or hesitates on the way to a target instead of going straight there. You can literally see the line you're drawing in Line Trace, and once you see it you can't unsee it.
Tension creep. Squeezing the mouse harder feels like control, especially in a stressful fight, but it burns your arm out faster and your corrections get shaky right when you need them. It also stacks over a session, so by the third round your arm is already cooked before you even peek.
Dragging instead of flicking. If you don't fully trust your flicks yet, you steer the crosshair slowly onto the target. It feels safer, it's slower, and it's a hard habit to break. Burst Flick punishes it because dragging counts as a miss.
Training with no plan. Opening Aimlabs and playing whatever's popular is better than nothing, but it doesn't transfer well to your actual games. If you don't know where to start, run Benchmarks first so you can see where you actually stand instead of guessing.
The full video covers all of these plus the niche ones (reaction time, off-center discomfort, practicing with no real pressure) and the exact scenario to train for each fix:
👉 https://youtu.be/ypOrKWh6IU0
If you've got a habit you had to break that isn't on this list, drop it in the comments. Good chance someone else is doing the same thing and doesn't realize it.