How to Tap Strafe Tap-Strafe Movement Guide Apex Legends

What is Tap Strafing? Tap-Strafe Movement Guide Apex Legends
This tutorial is meant for beginner, intermediate, and advanced Apex players. This video has tips and tricks and tap strafing strategy. Tap-Strafing or W-Tapping is a movement technique used by high ranked competitive players like Apex Predators and ALGS competing Professional Players in E-sports Like Aceu, Lyr1c, and lululovely. This tap strafe movement guide works to some extent in Defiance, but it only works to an extent. You can no longer turn 180 degrees. You can only get about 90 degrees now but this is still useful and worth learning.
------------------------SOCIALS------------------------------
Twitter: / notfakefingle
Instagram: / notfakefingle
Discord: / discord
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Tap Strafing works on all legends including Loba, Bloodhound, Gibraltar, and Wraith but works best on Horizon. It will likely work on new legends like Ash, Blitz, Valk, Fuze, and Jericho.

[@jhaidvogl5]

Why is this the only tap strafing tutorial that isn't 10 minutes filled with bs and 30 seconds of an actual tutorial? Good job my guy

[@Fingle]

Zip Line Jump Tutorial coming soooooon ;D

[@burnttyrant5252]

Honestly would love a whole guide on most movement techniques

[@Fingle]

@@burnttyrant5252 there is a Playlist that I'm building. I have tap strafing and zip jumping. Wall jumping is coming soon. Find it in my channel. These videos take a while to make.

[@Asdayasman]

Because you searched in English. There's actually a shorter one with more granular steps out there in Japanese.

[@fqed]

Because people extend their videos to 10 minutes so they get paid 2x for ads. 10m is the minimum video length to serve double ads to viewers.

[@maksimcho.]

By far the simplest and most comprehensive tap strafe tutorial. You did something in 2 min that took other yters 20 mins and i still couldnt get the hang of it after those vids. You're a saint bro, keep doing what you're doin.

[@Fingle]

Lets GOOO. Thanks for the kind words.

[@bertuj]

i must be retarded or smt cause i dont even come close to tap strafing so far xD

[@RookieGuitarist]

@@bertuj same bro, i dont get why, its so frustating

[@seventeen9718]

@@RookieGuitarist @BigMan. iNiT - I can almost guarantee it has something to do with your use of the W key.

[@josecharpentier5703]

@@Fingle Finally I got the hand of it. I basically would try making it to aim at the dummies' at the shouting range and it quickly engaged. Time to lear how to bunny jump I guess

[@Aystub]

I'm here because Respawn just announced they're removing tap-strafing in patch 10.1, and I didn't know what it was. RIP.

[@brutalweazl]

Mouse and keyboard mumbo jumbo. It's for the birds

[@margherita_m1]

Ahahah idem

[@piekabeans]

Same lol

[@prf101]

Same 😂 Edit: After watching the video I’m sad its gone, would been cool to learn 😞

[@Cryothia]

Same. I’m on console so it didn’t really matter

[@silver34211]

at 3:20 i opened this video, it is now 3:35 and i can consistently tap strafe, thank you for such a simple and very informative tutorial.

[@aurabrawler77]

It took you 15 seconds in an unrelated part of the video? This is truly the best tutorial 👍

[@silver34211]

@@aurabrawler77 lol i meant irl time

[@perplexapple5888]

If I move like a predator I'll be more predictable evading the police.

[@Fingle]

Mmmmm you make a good point

[@exowo3757]

Liking this comment most likely puts you on some sort of watch list

[@Fingle]

@@exowo3757 I totally agree lol

[@perplexapple5888]

Nice.

[@Fingle]

@@perplexapple5888 good joke tho. Worth.

[@ellischeng123]

This tutorial is clear af, complete step by step demo and showing real time key input, really helped a lot, thanks for the content.

[@Fingle]

I got you dude

[@uniworkhorse]

"Move like a predator" Uncle simulator

[@Fingle]

noooooooo

[@robyrandom1148]

Bruh

[@sethboutilier]

AYYO

[@tktokgoogzyau774]

Dead

[@KidnapT]

Wait a minute..

[@acidsog7114]

Fingle , This is the best commentary on KZbin on how to tape strafe. All the other videos do not teach what you just taught ! Thank you. Anybody else feel the same ?

[@ifritap]

nice for me who bad at english still can understand when you explain it

[@Fingle]

ありがとごさいます! I am happy you were able to understand. I hope you learned something.

[@WinterzPlayz]

2 years later and it's by far the most relevant and easiest guide for me. Just picked up the game and this is the only vid so far that I haven't just given up halfway through in

[@Fingle]

Haha ya it still amazingly holds up today.

[@realhell]

After watching this video and understanding I can say I’ve improved dramatically, this totally changed the way I play this game . Thank you!

[@Fingle]

Sick! Glad I could help.

[@pumpkinthethird]

Same I spent like 2 hours in the firing range to get it down and its really helpful.

[@brainbox9219]

Gained a sub, best tap strafe guide ever, took me 5 - 10 minutes to get the action sequence down but doing it fluidly taking time, was like wow when I did it and before feeling the pull, thanks again 👌🏾🙏🏾😎

[@drei8689]

It was easier than I thought. Thank you very much for this tutorial

[@Fingle]

It's super easy. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@Omar-hv9pb]

U seem like a genuine dude just replying to comments, and i subbed just for that

[@Fingle]

Lol. Thanks man! It's fun to engage with the people watching the videos I've spent so much time making. Everyone seems super nice as well. I dont know how long I can keep up with EVERY comment but hopefully I can for a while.

[@kohler239]

I appreciate you for not making this unnecessarily long! Much love

[@liamchessor9827]

being straight up, this was the best easy to learn tutorial ive seen in my history on youtube. Dropped a sub for that.

[@meeko9811]

this video was really well done! i can see the effort you put into making this piece good job!!! subbed

[@Fingle]

thanks man!

[@jerichorejuso1825]

bruh, this man has a tsukasa dancing at the end of his vid, quality content

[@Fingle]

You know it

[@iAveryFox]

I’ve watched so many how to tap strafe, but their really not useful or understanding, but when you did the scroll for move forward I can do it now! Your so good!

[@coochi7575]

only tap-strafe tutorial it wasnt pain learning from 10/10

[@Fingle]

Thanks dude. Glad you were able to learn somthing

[@kukiewu1115]

oh so this was the move that i was literally using everytime thanks now i have a better grasp on it

[@Fingle]

Yur welcm

[@Zerheart]

Seeing those movement tutorials in Apex gives me so many Titanfall feels

[@smeander2]

Nice, love Jeeps reaction lol

[@AyeYoItsDorito]

I just started started playing apex and I learnt how to tap strafe in like 10 minutes thanks to this tutorial. This was a great explanation, thank you.

[@TheOutsider69]

This is the only video that has explained why I have to rebind my scroll wheel. No other video has ever explained why you need scroll wheel as forward in order to make it work, thank you. Now I might actually try it now that I've been given an actual reason to learn a new key bind.

[@Fingle]

Thanks dude! And you are welcome

[@TheOutsider69]

@@Fingle Keep up the good work, your tutorials are slick and to the point! Also quick question, what do you usually use for weapon cycle then? I generally use 1 for my primary but using 2 for my secondary always fucks me up because I have to take my finger off W. 1 and 3 are easy but because of this issue, I've become reliant on my scroll wheel for weapon cycling.

[@Fingle]

@@TheOutsider69 ya so I have side mouse buttons that I use. I use mouse 4 and 5. If I didn't use that I would probably use 1 and 2. Sometimes I wish there were more keys! Haha. I am seriously thinking of switching to esdf instead of wasd.

[@TheOutsider69]

@@Fingle Yeah that's what I've been trying past couple days since I saw this video lol. I actually found that binding mouse 4 and hotkey 1 to cycle weapon actually works for me for some reason. That way I still have two ways of switching weapons. One on the mouse and one on the keyboard, which is what I used anyway generally speaking. I would use 1 for primary and scroll wheel for secondary basically. I guess just rebinding to a different mouse button is easier for my brain. I also found that inversing the binds works better for me. So for instance I have forward bound to mouse DOWN and jump bound to mouse UP and this seems to work better with my brain. Even though mouse up being forward makes logical sense, every time I'm tap strafing my brain reads it as "I need to do a 180" or "I need to get around this corner" so binding it to mouse DOWN makes me think BACKWARDS which makes it easier and more intuitive. Jump being up is self explanatory, you go upwards when you jump. That's just me personally though.

[@Fingle]

@@TheOutsider69 awesome. It's whatever works best for you.

[@projektseele2197]

Thank you so much man, after doing it consistently.. I feel... powerful.

[@FL_Cordis]

Jesus, finally someone who can teach right, thanks man!

[@Fingle]

I'm not Jesus but I'm glad you learned somthing :p

[@FL_Cordis]

@@Fingle HAHAHAH

[@dr.deanasty58]

I literally HAD to sub, since it wasn’t only a good tutorial, but also very entertaining.

[@user-rj1tb5pi1g]

Yo,nice advises m8,thank you ,first time see person with few subs doing great content ,hope ur channel will become bigger soon :3

[@Fingle]

Me too. Thanks for the kind words!

[@bumbum847]

Yo its sooo awesome to see the tutorial come out!

[@Fingle]

It's here. Les go

[@Hooch802]

Tried a couple videos to learn this, yours is by far the best break down. thanks

[@johnnytopside7911]

Hey man just coming to your channel for the first time on this video, heard about the nerf but never heard of this mechanic before (not a huge APEX guy) so I wanted to learn. I gotta say I love the structure here- that you show, explain, and then show someone who doesn't know training in using it. That structure is absolutely perfect, keep up the great work. I'm 28sec in so im guna continue the video but again, awesome training implementation.

[@Fingle]

Thanks man! You are one of the only people coming because of the nerf that has been positive haha. I've got a walljumo tutorial as well with a similar structure so at least you can actually use that one.

[@Fingle]

I realize that at this point in time, 500 likes for a sequel is a bit unrealistic. let's go with 100 for this one yeh?

[@waitletemcook]

I liked it, it just hit 500 now!

[@Fingle]

@@waitletemcook well there we go. I guess I underestimated you guys haha. Next vis is in the works!

[@luctut17]

@@Fingle about that 500

[@Fingle]

@@luctut17 yaaaaaaa..... I guess patience is a virtue lol

[@Fingle]

@hyper I guess lol

[@koustubhjain6789]

Bro I have been trynna learn how to tap strafe for weeks now ! And your tutorial finally made it click in my mind how to do it ! One tip, always include what a movement mechanic should look like from thrid person view, when you showed your friend doing it, I realized what I was doing wrong and immediately learned how to tap strafe. Thanks for your tutorial, prepping for Valk and S9.

[@Fingle]

Awesome man! I will keep that in mind in my future tutorials.

[@JawZz]

what was it you were doing wrong..? im having a hard time getting it down, i can do a semi tap strafe but thats all, i cant 180, i dont want to bind my jump or anything to my scroll wheel, is it possible to do this with just normal keybinds..?

[@koustubhjain6789]

@@JawZz Well If you can't do 180 degree tap strafes, keep in mind you have to scroll as soon as you are in the air and keep scrolling until you have made a full 180 degree turn. A problem could be you are giving too many forward inputs wrt to your frame rate and if you have a good frame-rate then you will have to spam your w key like crazy (if not bound to scroll wheel already)

[@HumanSagaVault]

The best tutorial i have seen about tap strafing, you deserve our subscribe. Gonna watch out for more contents from you my guy. God bless you

[@Fingle]

Thanks dude I working on it! Haha

[@kn3stoga864]

this video was the most detailed and helpful one could'nt understand the first time but i kept watching few more time and practiced, thank you

[@Fingle]

Really glad you liked it!

[@kn3stoga864]

@@Fingle keep up the good work :)

[@Fingle]

@@kn3stoga864 will do

[@zaks7]

This is the most understandable tutorial I've seen on this subject so far, incredibly helpful! I put in the 494th like, hope we get to 500 soon. Please make a comprehensive wallbounce tutorial too!

[@Fingle]

Glad you liked it! Wall bounch tutorial is on the lost of future videos so stay tuned!

[@joellavinder5387]

@@Fingle 16k now. crazy stuff

[@ian140]

these videos feel extremely professional to only have 300 subs, good job!

[@Fingle]

Fake it till ya make it they say

[@iAvocadoz]

holy shit this is amazing... best tutorial by far no nonsense no bullshit just plain and simple tutorial... youve earned a sub homie good shit

[@Fingle]

Haha people really seem to appreciate the simplicity of this tutorial. Glad you liked it and hope you enjoy my future content too!

[@2Quick2See]

Thank you for this! All the other videos were a bit less specific on the tap strafing. I didn't know you had to hit "move forward" multiple times! I've watched prob a dozen of these and just gave up. Nobody ever specified that! Thanks a bunch!

[@BAWBBAGET]

Definitely recommend people doing this in 3rd person mode, it really helped iron out the timing issues.

[@millyionz7182]

how do i go in 3rd person

[@seventeen9718]

@@millyionz7182 Google is your friend.

[@lookatmyfeetDBD]

@@seventeen9718 or just fucking tell him

[@seventeen9718]

@@lookatmyfeetDBD I don't know the answer you pleb, and I'm not going to Google it to explain to him when he could Google it himself.

[@chomelle]

@@seventeen9718 if you dont know the answer, dont reply him?

[@968Yamii]

Yes sir I'm subscribing. Keep it up. it's funny cause this vids showed up randomly on my youtube page.

[@Fingle]

Let's goooooo. Glad you enjoyed dude.

[@gabrielstruve3609]

Sick usage of vectors to explain this. This is one of the first times I've seen the word "momentum" used correctly in when talking about something non-physics, much less using momentum vectors

[@Heartshackles]

I never tried to learn too hard because it was announced to be removed. Some masters and pred friends keep asking me if I already know how to (while I'm probably mid tier diamond at best) tap strafe. It's always been too difficult for me to understand whenever one of them has tried to tell me how. But, now for however long it lasts, I know how to. Thanks for the clearest explanation.

[@scarebuddy7732]

just did this and saw the huge difference instantly... i wont forget you friend.. these tips are golden thank you so much ( i have 1k+ hours ) and just found this out! very helpfull! you see so much difference it shocked me.. no wonder my strafes felt so slow :D

[@Fingle]

I'm glad I could help!

[@youtubedev706]

This was very professional and informative.

[@Fingle]

Thank you

[@ViiHideki]

FINALLY I GOT A VIDEO THAT MADE ME UNDERSTAND THIS MOV.

[@Fingle]

So glad I could be help!

[@Diadem37sGarrage]

Great Tutorial. Not to long and yo cover the essential points. Keep it up Fingle!

[@Fingle]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@MonkeyDLuffy60073]

What sucks is that I have my scroll wheel down to jump and up for looting

[@Fingle]

Watch my video on config files. You can bind scroll up to both forward and loot. That's what I have.

[@crypticcode7289]

@@Fingle I use origin and I can't seem to get the launch options to set mwheel to W. Any advice?

[@Fingle]

@@crypticcode7289 have you unbound all the secondary binds for move forward in game?

[@crypticcode7289]

@@Fingle I'm not sure. I was trying different things a lot and the servers are down now, but I'll see if that maybe helps, thank you!

[@crypticcode7289]

No that didn't seem to help. I decided I can bhop without the scrollwheel. I'll probably download Apex on Steam when I get some better internet.

[@rax1e352]

Great tutorial man, I am just sad I can do it in the firing range, but then I always fail to apply it in-game. Working on it though, thanks again for the video :)

[@Fingle]

Ya totally. It comes with practice. Just do it as much as possible and it will become second nature

[@kolbjrnkjeka9199]

Dude ur mad underrated, such quality, such voice, such knowledge. Love it, subbed

[@yumeayami]

i just got it instantly after it was explained, thank you for fully explaining it to me

[@MrKrimson]

30 seconds in im liking - even if its futile. Purely for the layout of this video and teachign your friend to show us how progress happens. This is awesome

[@jadenyuki5647]

Feels nice knowing this exists ... through the patch notes saying it's removed

[@augustscaesar]

It's gonna get Removed in the next patch*

[@yampolskie]

Now that's a very neat tutorial.

[@Fingle]

Thanks man. Just posted a new one today.

[@fearsomezq]

you deserve way more subs man, great video!

[@Fingle]

Thanks man!

[@phantasm6786]

Great tutorial, love how you explained tap strafing

[@Fingle]

Thanks dude. I tried to be as clear as possible.

[@phantasm6786]

@@Fingle No problem, just keep doing you and you'll go far

[@vaughnaiono]

jeeps reaction is priceless "I feel good."

[@Fingle]

Lmao ya that was so funny

[@flatwani]

Your videos are short and concise. Super neat and I love the break down in the steps.

[@haven_nb]

Absolute gem of a vid, you really hit the nail on the head man, great stuff keep it up

[@halotactics]

I'm a somewhat new key and mouse player and this is making me realize that I pretty much keep my finger glued on W lol and this challenging. I'll get it tho ;)

[@killotronjedi705]

To the point and succinct, thank you

[@Fingle]

I tried my best to cut out as much fluff as possible.

[@malikusama9564]

Thank you so much!... this was a great tutorial, best of luck for your future

[@mystyc1201]

this is like one of the best tutorials ive ever seen

[@pwopyt3811]

You can tap strife amazingly on Olympus: in those 2-floor buildings. You are on lower floor, open a door, wall bounce, tap strife 180° and you are up. It takes a lot of practice, but it's so confusing for the opponents

[@Fingle]

which ones?

[@pwopyt3811]

@@Fingle those in the rift, they are not too high so you can perform the trick. And it's actually not tap strafing by 180°, exactly it's - you open a door - you wall bounce - you turn the camera by 180° to look in a direction you're moving to - tap strafe to turn and get on a higher floor. I mean those buildings particularly as they are hard to climb on

[@bruh-pc1ss]

Yoooo that's me!!!

[@Fingle]

That's you!!!

[@ManuMitraan]

That's him!!!

[@angrybruce4770]

he is the kill leader if he wasn't already.

[@Fingle]

That's him!!!

[@facundopetersen6016]

That you

[@DrewbiesDoobies]

Great tutorial, thanks man!

[@Fingle]

Glad it helped!

[@anthonyabejay5937]

so far this is my best tutorial yet love it i understand this pretty quick Thx.

[@Simon-bb4sh]

this guy is so underrated

[@Fingle]

EDIT: Tap strafing is still working, there was a little bug apparently that disabled tap strafing for a few hours but it is working perfectly normally as of 8/16/22

[@SterbeinSiamion]

I just mastered tap-strafing im so sad.

[@justchillin7274]

I use a controller. Didnt even know what it was so i had to look it up

[@bigprojects2560]

People are all sad lol I think it's good though, it was an unintended movement mechanic after all

[@tomms5519]

It’s good

[@vigaxan86]

@@bigprojects2560 the issue I have with that argument is that new movement tech like this increases the skill ceiling of the game which makes it more interesting and fun to master. B hopping wasn't an intended technique when people started doing it in Quake back in the day, tap strafing is no different. Is it better to have a game that is more balanced by removing the mechanic but is more boring or to figure out another solution to balancing it? I'd honestly rather see input based matchmaking over removing it, and honestly I'll probably benefit from it's removal because I'm not that good at the game. It just sucks to see devs that are so resistant to innovation.

[@Stratxgy.]

Best tutorial, still in 2024! Great job! I'm doing it consistently after being dumb and realizing I need to let go of my w key (I was using scroll wheel).

[@rybidium7039]

I'm completely new to MnK. After playing apex since drop on controller and you made this easy for me to learn. Thanks a bunch!

[@ryanrj7500]

How much has your KD improved since switching to mnk?

[@Seanage]

"imagine going into a relationship and backing out like nope" that was awesome.

[@wumpireteef1536]

You can also reverse air strafe which I find a lot faster to get around a corner rather than tap strafing

[@Fingle]

you mean that 360 asd tech? I personally like tap strafing.

[@ShreddedNemo]

Grow grow grow! Keep it up, you'll grow :)

[@Fingle]

I'm seeing awesome growth already! I'm just excited to see what comes next!

[@MrThorTube]

Amazing! thank you! You did great with the break down of it.

[@Hydro366]

You are so underrated

[@Fingle]

Why thank you... now, do I agree with you and come off as a pp head or lie and stay humble... I don't really know

[@totallynotsappy]

After learning all the other movements I felt like I knew every movement for apex and then I heard tap strafing and was like "wait wtf?"

[@Fingle]

Pretty much

[@totallynotsappy]

@@Fingle Thanks for the tutorial tho. This was the best tutorial I could find for it :D

[@gualt6762]

yeah this earned my sub

[@Fingle]

Thankssssss

[@ItzzAction]

yo fingle thx I can do tap strafing now I looked at other vids and I didn't understand but this one I understanded it a little better thx again fingle keep up the good work too

[@nahuel6136]

what a great video

[@Fingle]

Thanks!

[@bapples1233]

I got tap strafing down in 5 mins thanks to you, I'm still working on implementing it on battles tho

[@mahirdaiyan8780]

can you tell me how to use it in fight

[@bapples1233]

@@mahirdaiyan8780 I don't know how to use it on fights either

[@jay.3323]

@@mahirdaiyan8780 no point in learning it, Respawn is removing it

[@notagamer32]

@@jay.3323 this comment didn't age well

[@seventeen9718]

@@jay.3323 Hopefully not. Removing skill expression from a game is only ever a bad thing.

[@bonfire8848]

man thankyou so much I had no idea how to pull this off and now im doing it constantly

[@ronnieherring]

Dude thank you for the shortest video that isn’t bs my god!

[@lubo3934]

Yo I'm subscribing just for the fact your cultured. I see that dancing tsukasa at the end 👀

[@Fingle]

One of us! One of us!

[@lubo3934]

@@Fingle helll yeahhhh

[@sparkymafia]

i didn’t even know what this was lmao

[@aedam3971]

thank you !,I just learned in a minute

[@rin0108_]

Perfect tutorial. Subbed.

[@static7743]

yo you lowkey cracked my guy

[@Fingle]

Dude, I go this cracked ass friend Static. You remind me of him for some reason

[@static7743]

@@Fingle bro fr??

[@Fingle]

@@static7743 Fr Fr

[@mess9781]

GOOD TIP! - do this in third person, it actually helps you understand what you are doing more clearly

[@digogil8805]

how do i set it for 3rd person?

[@mess9781]

@@digogil8805 It is a secret easter egg on the map, just look it up on youtube!

[@thevilnside]

I just woke up and this video made my day. Subbed, liked, shared.

[@Fingle]

Dude glad you enjoyed it.

[@fayt5645]

This is really well-explained. Thanks my dude

[@Fingle]

You are welcome my guy

[@XxLeon99xX]

Awesome Video men! I still have a question tho. I dont quite understand if I have to press the strafedirection key while sliding or after i jumped. I fell like both methods work but it feels really different.

[@Fingle]

Both methods do work. I start strafing before jumping personally. I feel like it is smoother.

[@BelladoriReigns]

trying to learn this with the wall jumping vid you put out is really frying my brain as a normie apex player with autism. i'm definitely struggling getting all these new movement binds to feel natural. definitely frustrating but i'm tryin my hardest to be good. atm I can manage 1 wall jump every 2 or 3-ish attempts and I was able to do my first wall jump combined with the mid-air strafing but that took a lot of focus off of me just moving. this will work for me..... eventually.

[@bigbutt5647]

this is motivating af, fuck yes dude keep going im right there with you

[@smhvito]

took me 10 seconds to learn this lol 20x easier than i expected thanks for the tutorial!

[@internalfyre6984]

Feels a little late to be learning the actual mechanics of tap straifing but I’m glad I found this video, good work my guy

[@BJovanovic1987]

The only problem is, I cannot utilize both tap-strafing AND wall-jumping, because my MousewheelDown is already bound to (simply) switch between weapons, something that is far more handy for me personally (I actually have more problems during fights if I'm chasing down 1 and 2 keys to select appropriate weapon). Meanwhile, my MousewheelUp is already bound to Jump which allows me to wall-jump.

[@MarkyPaligs]

I love that guy you just taught lmao

[@Fingle]

Lol. You'll be seeing more of him that's for sure.

[@PanzerPanic]

Took 2 minutes to learn. Really helped me thanks

[@andrewsike2029]

this was the most helpfull vid of all of them thx man

[@Fingle]

Of course man. Glad you enjoyed it