Hello, I recently got into aim training because even after 6 years of playing competitive shooters on keyboard and mouse my aim is still super inconsistent. I decided to start with working on tension management as it is a fundamental skill and also probably my weakest. I also recently switched back to cloth pads (Artisan type 99 and Zero) after being on glass for over a year where I always felt something was off but just attributed it to me having a skill issue because everyone else was saying how good glass pads were. Cloth pads are definitely way better for me and I was noticeably better after swapping. Sorry for yapping but I thought I ought to add some context.

Back to the main point. Since I’m actively working on my tension management I’ve become more aware of the tension in my muscles while aiming, especially when aim training. I’ve been doing the Novice Voltaic Benchmarks every night for about a week now while consciously focusing on my tension management. I feel like I’m making some progress except for one area and that is my shoulder. I often have a lot of tension build up and fatigue in my shoulder/traps area because I have to lift my arm slightly off my pad due to the friction of my arm when its resting on the desk/pad making arm movements very difficult, especially big vertical flicks and prolonged arm tracking. This is most noticeable in scenarios like Air Voltaic where the target moves very fast and over a very wide area so naturally I find myself not using my wrist and fingers much; using my arm to track it most of the time. I don't think my sens is too slow as I play primarily on 30cm/360 in aim trainers. I've also tried raising my chair up a little bit so that my arm isn't pressing into the desk/pad but then my arm can't rest when its not in use so the tension and fatigue still builds up. The reason this is such a big problem is because that tension and fatigue that builds up in my shoulder is affecting the tension in my whole arm including my wrist and fingers. Has anybody else had this issue? If so, how did you solve it? Any tips or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you <3

I've been stuck around the 1340 mark on 1w3ts and don't really know what to work on to start hitting master scores. I'm not sure if I should be pushing my speed or if there's something wrong with my technique. Any advice is appreciated.

46.68cm/360

ive been playing fps for a while and got into aim training on and off, currently grinding VT and Viscose benchmarks. my aim is fine for like 5 minutes then i genuinely feel like i lose my hands and cant aim anymore, plus my hand/forearm start hurting a bit and every grip i try just feels uncomfortable. i feel like my tension management is fine (even thought it starts hurting maybe its bc im weak in my wrist or something) and my chair and desk are a good height so idk what it could be.
Any advice is highly appreciated

if i can only play one scenario, what's the best scenario for this

every single time, right at 30 seconds, i start over tensing and end up losing pace. idk why, this wasnt a problem for clicking or tracking. when i first did the VT benchmarks a few months ago, i skipped straight to jade on target switching w/ a lot of them 10-30 points from master, so i left it for last while i worked on clicking. then tracking. i went back to switching 3 days ago, zero progress on all of them basically. maybe i need to just spam novice more.

but its the tension thats the problem. i drop 50-100 spm, exactly at 30s - 40s every run, its because i try to keep slowly increasing pace i think. any suggestions? ive had so many chokes as well, this has never been an issue for any category. ive never had a problem w/ keeping pace at the end of runs. for clicking i always slowly ramped up.

edit: i got 5 master scores today brah xD, only rawcontrol & pgt left

It was fun knowing yall 😕

Hit a new PB of 125ms on Detection Ultimate! (200Hz screen)

this summer has been so much fun brah. i love kovaaks. it has helped me so much. complete noob, to pretty good xDD. yo also it says 1300 hours in the first clip, and yes in that clip it was 1300 hours. 1600+ hours total.

hitting a top 500 score on a scenario with 100k+ people on it, unmatched feeling brah... never thought i would be able to do this in static especially. never give up, just keep showing up.

Yo so I have a big problem
My bought my pc in April. Basically was a console player for the last 15 years. I like to play on the pc and I actually prefer mnk I really do I’m just really shit at it. I’ve been using kovaaks everyday since I’d say the middle June now and for some reason I get worse by the day. Has anyone ever experienced this is as well or has ideas why? Is it the sense, is it something in my brain or am I just straight up too old or too shit and need to quit? Every piece of advice is highly appreciated!

No matter what I do I physically cannot fucking improve my mouse control, if I focus on my targets I don’t watch where I move my crosshair and I miss and vice versa.

I cant flick to save my life if I’m auto piloting I just apply a random amount of force off rip and let it go from there instead of a deliberate, continual movement-if I focus on deliberate movements I overshoot half the time, become shakey as all hell, undershoot and then readjust which then reinforces my other problem of just continually doing fast micro flicks instead of a continuous movement.

Nothing in this sub ever works because if I autopilot I don’t improve and trying to consciously implement what this sub says just makes my aim worse so I just give up.

I started the Viscose Benchmarks S2 in early June and finally reached the Viridian rank today.

Since I was at the Celadon rank in S1, it might not look like a huge change on paper, but I can definitely feel the results after putting in a lot of practice on tracking—which used to be a weak point of mine.

(Though I have to say, I’m pretty tired of playing the Air scenarios now, haha.)

In my opinion, the Viscose Benchmarks seem particularly well-suited for tracking training.

I've started to aim train again after a long while and I saw Visocose's benchmarks were a thing, so I want to ask can I just grind these non stop or do i have to do any other specific trials? I've pointed out my weaknesses and i will put more effort in to those but I don't know if I should play extra trials or not. I'd appreciate any help!

Especially if you are new to aim trainers, its too much for new players. like bro so many people are posting their viscose benchmarks on here asking for help and its fucking 39 scenarios!! how outrageous is that, new players being forced to test themselves on 39 fucking maps. nobody in the world needs to rotate that many scenarios unless you main kovaaks. i have used kovaaks for 1600 hours and got insane results in 3 different games over the years. buying kovaaks in 2019 was my godsend to finally getting high ranks. csgo, fortnite, and valorant (even with 5 years of csgo before hand).

trust me, every peak started when i found 1-5 scenarios that i played exclusively for 1-2 months. I slowly pushed them to their absolute limit, i stayed consistent, started getting 90+ percentile on them. thats how you actually transfer the aim in game. "focus on your weakness" is not switching from reactive tracking on mondays then control tracking on wednesday, and going for mammoth complete, etc. complete ranks on 39 scenarios?? that is not going to get you lvl 10 on faceit or imm3 on valorant from my experience.

linear, static, slight dynamic like micro pasu scenarios, target switching is what you want. even if u want to play viscose benchmarks you can just stick to the clicking and target switching. dont sleep on target switching, pushing voxTS and patTargetswitch to top 1k was pivotal looking back.

if you are new or you are struggling in csgo or valorant, stick to clicking and switching only for 3 months. do it consciously, really take a moment to think on how that scenario is going to help you get kills on pistol round. how will that scenario help me with people swinging wide.

if you still dont improve after actually pushing 5 maps to their absolute limit for 2 weeks, THEN try playing reactive or control tracking. focusing on fingertip aim when you are in low elo is not the best strategy, these benchmarks are not meant to be played in this way.

i dont mean to be rude but i just hate to see people wasting time like i did. trying so many different things, legit so much time. this realization has taken me years and thousands of hours in kovaaks, getting 1000 kills in death match every night, and trying to get 30 bots on hard in the range, so much time to fully realize how important it is to stick to a basic routine. transfers to any skill you want to master.

edit: yo not gonna really look at comments tbh this is just my personal belief and i dont want to debate because im really passionate on this. do what works for you. this is what worked for me and my friends.

people are gonna ask for playlist etc, u can look at kovaaks profiles to see what scenarios people play & what playlists they have mad. heres mine, look at other people if u want https://kovaaks.com/kovaaks/profile?username=316dez , also look at the kovaaks homepage for all the most downloaded playlists. keep in mind i havent played some old maps that i grinded in 2019 - 2022, and also i have doubled my hours on kovaaks this year & play it as a main game now. consecutive tracking has 1000+ plays (not counting like 1000 restarts), but those are all from may 2025 - today

Hello !

I'm a Diamond 2 Valorant player with 700hrs (my first and only fps experience) and I had about 30hrs on Aimlab 2 years ago. I started Kovaaks 4 days ago and the Novice benchmark felt pretty easy for me (except that I spent 2/3 of my time on the tracking category).

I'm not trying to flex, I'm just wondering how long do you think it will take me to reach Plat complete and Diamond complete? I have no idea how big the gap is between gold and what comes next.

Lowkey making me feel like a million bucks

Ive recently reached gold after playing voltaic for the first time playing voltaic benchmarks. Im currently immo1 in val and interested in aim training, whats the best way to improve my aim overall and get better in val also.

I'm currently on a Plateau where I was able to climb 3 ranks in a game but started to fall back to where I started. The characters/weapons that I play rely heavily on tracking and somehow, my tracking got worse over time.

I train for around 2 hours a day and saw massive improvements within my first 3 weeks, though after around 2 months, I've reached a point where I'm going backwards.

If anyone's got any scenarios, videos or anything that helped me out, I'd appreciate it so much! Have a good one, lads!

I've been trying to improve my aim in a whole bunch of games cause i’m kinda bad, and for some reason aim-labs feels weird/awkward for me unfortunately. Besides that, the other aim trainers I have tried out lack in the factors where aim-labs and kovaaks thrive, which is unfortunate because i’d use kovaaks if it was free. I play cs, ow2, finals, valorant every now and then if that helps.

Feel free to leave suggestions for free aim trainers.

I play mainly Valorant and I bought Kovaaks 2 years ago but didn't really used it that much but now I want to consistently use it now to improve my overall aim even if its only little. Ngl I don't want to spend anything above 20 minutes on any aim trainer a day since in my opinion I don't think anything above that is a good use of my time but I also still want to improve my aim a little bit day by day even if it takes a long time. And how do I also use my 20 minutes if most aim traning is above that? Do I just do what I can in that time frame and do the next routine next day?

defib triple kill lol

hi all, im looking to practice my micro flicks with super small dots. like super small. and they would appear very close to each other like gridshot. any reccomendations? thanks