r/Voltaic

for those who don't know cm/360 is how much you need to move your mouse in real life to perform a 360 turn in the game. so if you need to only move 3 cm to spin 360 degrees that is insanely fast, and super bad for your wrists. cant believe i used to be so stubborn lol

recently been doing voltaic series and notices my weak tribute. dynamic clicking. im bronze on dynamic clicking yet i can almost reach platinum on tracking, what am i doing wrong? https://medal.tv/games/kovaak/clips/mKsJNzGjmS7Zfw08X?invite=cr-MSw4czgsNDE5ODA3Njk4

It has been exactly 1 year since I started taking aim training seriously. I first started the Voltaic Season 5 benchmarks in Iron, and now today ~188 hours later, I'm Jade. Evxl profile: https://evxl.app/u/76561197986713986/Voltaic%20S5/Intermediate?tab=charts

For quick context, I do have thousands of hours experience in:

• CSGO - LEM
• Overwatch 1 - Widowmaker one trick in Masters 3.9k, like a game or two away from GM
• Valorant - Ascendant Sage instalock

Coincidentally these high ranks are achievable even with crap aim like mine used to be. Prior to last year, I had ~35 hours in aim trainers, back then when Voltaic used to be called Sparky (Sparky.gg), and Aimer7's guide used to be all the rage. Back then, aim training was in its infancy, and not nearly as well understood as it is today.

The first screenshot you see shows my original scores in Iron. Later after I hit Gold Complete, I had the bright idea to take screenshots of my profile on Voltaic.gg app (which I later then switched to Evxl.app) every time I hit a new high score. This allowed me to make a nice little progression video: https://youtu.be/ONYAeo3KIes?si=GK-AR8K-VWm3w4LR

tl;dr progression:

Date	Hours (Cumulative)	+Hours	Rank
2025-05-20	36.42 hours		Iron
2025-06-20	42.07 hours	5.65	Gold
2025-08-12	43.21 hours	1.14	Gold Complete
2025-08-28	67.74 hours	24.53	Platinum
2025-09-26	93.77 hours	26.03	Platinum Complete
2025-10-08	112.60 hours	18.83	Diamond
2026-04-14	187.97 hours	75.37	Jade

Note on hours: I use an app called ManicTime, which is an automatic time tracking software (I use it for freelance, and general tracking of my PC usage). It only tracks time when I am at my computer, and when KovaaK's is the main active window. It reports ~188 hours spent using KovaaK's, which I believe is more accurate than Steam which reported ~317 hours. That's because I spent a lot of time leaving the game running (using the bathroom, going to the kitchen, etc.) and also a lot of time spent alt-tabbed to watch YouTube videos, do VOD reviews, read Reddit, etc.

In addition to the rankup, I'd like to share all my aim training notes that I've taken. I believe that one of the things that makes the aim training community great is that we're all here to help each other improve, and I encourage others to do the same when they post their own rankup stories. The rankup posts I've learned the most from are the ones that share what worked and what didn't work, as well as their own advice on how they tackled challenging scenarios.

Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CggIdA8MmZ-6-d-WbcQXKlYDohiT0jM-j0RHR9BGKsc/edit?usp=sharing

Feel free to ask me anything.

edit: added Evxl profile.

edit 2: formatting.

2nd MASTER score in VT S5 Controlsphere!!!! so happy!!! something switched i guess

Hi all, I just completed my first voltaic benchmarks and I figured i'd post them in case there were any takeaways or advice you might have. I never really aim trained before outside of a few isolated incidents and mostly just played games to get better.

That said, i've been pretty inconsistent or bad untill recently when I lowered my sensitivity by a LARGE amount and saw how much improvement came from it. That got me thinking that I might actually be able to grind it out and improve so here I am. Any advice or pointers would be very appreciated

FINALLY

Here is the link to all the ones I'm able to buy from AliExpress:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HFW-uUd7EFXzeWE7HtbyKA7Cgbhly61PaFhfrhntuEc/edit?gid=0#gid=0

I've recently bought a VXE R1 pro which I even made a review on, I also use my Haste 2 Wired from time to time but one thing I noticed with my skypad is that the skates run out very quickly. I mainly aimtrain alot and play fps tac shooters so there's a lot of movement.

I need skates that aren't too expensive but work well on both cloth and glasspad, and that they last a bit longer than the cheap Chinese dots I got off of temu.

I've already explained the two mice I mainly use so if someone has experience with these and knows which ones would be best in terms of my requirements, then please let me know.

Honestly dots are much better than stock skates, and I always thought it was just a joke until I bought a new mouse and tested it myself haha, it was a night and day difference. The stock skates on the VXE R1 Pro felt awful on the skypad 3 but the dots felt like it was gliding on ice, even though they were very cheap and run out fast.

Gyro aiming is still a hugely underrepresented input method in aim training spaces. Hopefully this helps show what's possible and pushes more controller players to explore motion controls.

full vid - https://youtu.be/ymIMg5cdyCg?si=N_2LhjDFyxU2SDTf

I just reached Immortal this season, and wanted to try a bit harder on my mechanics. I do not aim train at all in the past few years, and I don’t warm up before going into ranked, just get on instantly, but regardless I feel a bit overwhelmed knowing where to start. But all I know is I want to improve my HS % per game, and overall for the whole season. I feel like I struggle maintaining a HS % above 20 every game, I know it’s not a big deal cause I’m still winning but it’s messing with my mind.

I feel like some problems I lack in game is probably not taking my time with some of my shots? Initially I spray and it ends up snapping to a headshot, or I flat out just get body shot kills.

My sensitivity is 0.18 1600.

How can I improve and how should I start?

I've had tons of improvement in the past week and I've broken almost every record today in the medium Benchmarks of viscose S2 along with several records in the voltaic intermediate benchmarks yesterday hitting diamond.

As shown in the first and second picture which contain the medium and easier charts of the viscose S2 benchmarks respectively. I am unable to improve upon the technique of click timing, and mainly pasu. I know people recommend watching videos from minigod, Matty and implement the bardoz method even if it's dynamic clicking or static clicking.

I've worked upon tension management for the past 3 days because I am always used to deathgripping my mouse, which significantly improved my aim in linear and erratic tracking when it comes to longer strafes. But I still need help with the bottom portions of these benchmarks because that's what's holding me and my confidence back.

Any advice upon improvement in those categories will be much appreciated.

I tried the benchmark thing and i wanted to complete all in novice before advancing, all the other scenarios I did were 1st to 5th, but the VT angle track one is proving to be really difficult I cant even break 3000 on it, any tips?

Hi everyone! I just finished my first set of benchmarks and I am looking for help on what to do next.