Voltaic Grandmaster Every VT Bench AMA
Not too long ago, I switched from AL to Kovaak’s to try it out properly this time, especially with Viscose benchmarks being popular. I finally managed to get to VT GM on all the Voltaic benches, as well as almost Fuchsia complete on clicking in the Viscose benchmarks. This milestone definitely felt like a relief, as it came after correcting many of the weak points that I previously had, such as tracking, coming mostly from a tacFPS background and a bit of hitscan in Overwatch.
I want to preface this by saying that I feel like it improved my aim in basically every single game that I play. Mouse mechanics seem to be less of a concern now, and there is a lot more confidence surrounding aim duels in any game. I am by no means a perfect aimer and still whiff shots and flicks, and I tense up too much on tracking sometimes. However, the awareness of those problems that aim trainers gave me is arguably the most important bit, as being aware of them makes it much easier to correct them.
I made this thread to highlight my milestone and potentially give some imperfect, yet hopefully useful, advice to anyone just starting out, so a newcomer to aim trainers could steamroll through plateaus much more smoothly than I had to.
If I were to point out the single biggest mistake that wasted me some time, it would be ego. I wish I had started out in a much more humble manner with aim trainers, rather than jumping straight into advanced benchmarks thinking I could get my first GM rank right off the bat and “speedrun aim.” The maturity definitely came from understanding that this is not, and should never have been, the focus, given that I used aim trainers as something I would warm up with and use to monitor my raw aim progress, not as a quick “solution” to perfect aim.
Other than that, just like I had to spam DMs of better aimers than me for advice, this is a thread where I hope people who are knowledgeable can contribute to with their advice for any of the specific tasks/categories and overall approach to aim training most efficiently.