How to Fix Shaky/Jittery Aim

[@nabieladrian]

1:45 No cap, that fan example was my lightbulb moment. Thanks!

[@TheMeta]

So glad to hear the fan example works :)

[@dominikweyand7497]

@@TheMeta DUDE, i paused the video and was freakin speechless. This was by FAR the most accurate thing ive heard in a while... :D THANK YOU!

[@Disquan]

But what does this mean? In his IRL example you focus on a blade rather than look at the whole picture. In CS:GO or valor at you would focus on the head rather than looking at the player. But what about the apex example. What are you supposed to focus on? I don’t play apex so I don’t know, I’m just wondering

[@dominikweyand7497]

@@Disquan i know your problem, after i saw this video i trained to focus on the enemy only, im also a long time csgo player but in apex tracking is necessary. Its so much better than looking on your crosshair and shoot when a player ran into it. Imo you you need to train yourself and your eyes for trackin games cause its a different type of shooter. As i said, targeting the enemy only while shooting for tracking/apex and pinpoint accuracy for slowpace/flick shooter lile Val/csgo is the key! Its just different, apex is also sooo much faster and flicks are very unnecessary.

[@robn2497]

Very good, I been collecting bread crumbs for a few months trying to fix my terrible aim this was a great one...

[@j7u4a81]

I actually recently started doing Kovaak's tracking mode and can confirm that focusing intently on the target is probably the most important thing. It was insane how much my tracking improved from that.

[@TheOperationHastings]

Explain how exactly to fucuse instead of just looking. For example. Ignoring my crosshair in the end and just focussing at the target. I need however to test it to figure out how its properly done. Can you explain how you practice focussing?

[@TxntFPS]

@@TheOperationHastings in my experience moving closer to the monitor and just ignoring everything else but the target helped me literally double my highscore

[@poiseful]

@@TheOperationHastings he explained it in the video with the fan

[@Solafein]

The best I can explain is this: instead of mentally focusing on the crosshair and trying to get the target to it, focus on the target and try to get the crosshair to it. Im starting do do this and my aiming is improving really fast.

[@blazarian]

Only issue is that in my opinion the picture is never clear enough with all the effects and blurs and such to keep focused on a small moving character in a game. Especially in Apex. I have the classic 240hz zowie screen with DynAc but I just feel that the gfx + picture size + mivement ghosting etc is just too much. I would think that what matters is visual aids (simpler gfx, vibrance, low blacks..) and looking the monitor with your nose touching it would be the real things to improve this. But for the sake of my eyes, shoulders, neck.. I just can’t do that and have to accept the handicap in this…

[@xPangu]

That analogy with the fan was brilliant. It really puts things into perspective.

[@curist8411]

For the focusing target part, avoid "predicting" or trying to shoot in the future, actually focus on the target

[@faideastro2760]

bro saved me from rewatching this vid in the future, i always come back to keep my mind on the fact i need to track but i ALWAYS subconsiously try to predict their movement

[@noahtemple8312]

On the topic of focusing on the target, I recently found out how much having a high refresh rate monitor helps with that. I went from a bad 60hz monitor with heaps of ghosting to a decent 165hz monitor. It feels as if the targets are slowed down. This was especially apparent in faster more chaotic games. It makes it far easier to calculate your shots and overall just keep track of the situation.

[@RurouniKenshinShinta]

This. I spent almost my entire life playing on 60hz monitor and i can't express how vital a good monitor is. I might argue that its the most important part of FPS on the list of things you need like a mouse and keyboard. You can have the best peripherals in the world but whats the point if you can't see/track players consistently. For anyone who still uses a 60hz monitor.... seriously, save money and get a 144/165hz.

[@theSato]

@@RurouniKenshinShinta Monitor (and of course, the GPU/hardware to drive it) is by far the most important thing to spend extra on if you're wanting to "buy better skill" so to speak. A $30 keyboard is fine, a $30-40 mouse is fine, but a $150 monitor is not fine. (That said, making sure to get a mouse with a good sensor and extra thumb buttons to map abilities to definitely helps - putting frequently used things on mouse thumb buttons stops you from needing to remove your fingers from WASD and hinder your movement!)

[@laphonz]

what SPECIFIC monitor did you buy

[@noahtemple8312]

@@laphonz I got the AOC 24G2SE 24". It's only 1080p but for the price at the time it was awesome, you can probably get an even better one for about the same price.

[@N1TRO]

If you have the time at some point. Would you consider making a video about yourself? I only knew a little bit and recently found out more about how you originally started playing fps games and then how the lack of effective aim training in games made you decide to create your aim trainer. I would be super interested in a csgo pro spotlight style "the story of (dont know your first name) kovaak" Or "The creation of kovaaks" I feel like a lot of people know of the aim trainer but the casual players or even some more frequent users font really know much about you. Also the insights you have on this channel are brilliant and deserve more recognition, plus they could really help a lot of people. If you dont have the time or dont want to create this kind of video, i want to say thank you for all the time and effort you put into advancing aim training and helping others out, we appreciate your efforts more than you know.

[@nikolajevremovic-martinovi5800]

for the love of god please share your visual settings kovaaks! the orange bot and dark grey walls are so easy on the eyes

[@Dolphiyn]

pls\

[@saibot_y]

I think its one of the default presets called bowser

[@carlapr97]

Have you found them?

[@Dolphiyn]

@@carlapr97 yea

[@carlapr97]

@@Dolphiyn can you share them please?

[@nashwalker7]

You hit the nail on the head as far as looking at a target vs focusing. When I lose battles it’s because I’m just looking

[@aighty7216]

Just maybe a tip with the focus one. Focus on a specific spot of the enemy I normally focus around the neck. In kovaaks per example I will focus on the very top part of the cones. Also this is more of a personal thing when playing music while playing, I prefer listening to soft beats etc things that calm you down, makes me more consistent since im calmer. Ofc for the others the hype of some hard beats will help but in my opinion that hype doesnt last more than 5 minutes and the burn out hits faster.

[@Soliinu]

thank you i was confused on how focusing helps but where to start and what i should do. but you cleared that.

[@ghettohamsteri2785]

I just want to add warmup/stretching your arm and hand to the list. It made the difference for me. I spent hours and hours on aim training and gaming trying to fix jittery aim with no results. Just made it worse. I even lowered my sensitivity tremendously and switched to palmgrip wich helped a bit but took a huge toll on my playstyle. After I started to stretch before and every hour or two while gaming I realized how tense my arm and hand have been and now I'm actually going back to higher sensitivity and old grip and I'm confident I can improve and make progress.

[@NizVision]

I find a lot of time when I end up missing more, its because I'm busy looking at my crosshair and trying to make sure my aim is "good" rather than looking at the target and actually hitting my shots

[@tc_kommark]

The fan example was AMAZING. I would do just that to pass time when I was a little kid.

[@Ryn0_333]

Thank you for telling others to wash your hands and arms before playing. Not only does it get rid of that "humidity" feeling but it increases the life of your pad by a lot. However, your arm and hands can get dry quickly, so moisturize after playing 🙃

[@JacobPeterzon]

Really big tip too is to de-tense. It will help you avoid exhaustion and produce more consistant results especially when perfected.

[@od_avenon]

Step one: take a fucking shower KovaaK's is savage 🔥

[@N1TRO]

XD

[@Mando581]

My aim improved a lot once I heard about actually focusing on the target i always worried more qbout the reticle instead of mind muscle connection if that makes sense 👌

[@Silent_Stillness]

on the topic of friction between forearm and mouse mat, I know it might sound ridiculous but for people that have some hair under their forearm, when you start playing regularly what ends up happening is that the hair starts breaking and gets shorter and ultimately it increases friction, a simple solution for that is just to shave the portion of your forearm that contacts with the mouse mat. Unless you're a total bear no one will notice lol :D

[@sadbrains0]

Wish I've seen this video sooner. My main problem was focus where I had this thing where I could only do so after smoking (more relaxed and less stress) or at least that's what I thought at the time. I've been actually focusing on my targets and whatever I had going on where I thought I could only play while high has been this all along. Sober gaming is the way.

[@xkai07]

Gaming on stims>

[@monkegr759]

@@xkai07 gaming on mushrooms>

[@Xoilen]

This is going to apply to barely anybody but I hope I can help some people, some are unable to fully control the tension in their fingers and or arm and will tense up uncontrollably, for those people you should be playing on a mid/hard pad so you aren't pushing your mouse into the soft surface of your pad and causing jittery aim.

[@izaapex7687]

you had a lot of big brain explanations in this, then i see its the official kovaaks channel, but yeah this was really helpful

[@TheMeta]

Thank you!

[@merefailninja953]

seeing how your arm is rested on the mouse pad might be the best tip i seen and i feel like a fool not trying that

[@paperbeatsrock_]

Hey all, if you're noticing extreme shaking in games I recommend getting tested for Essential Tremors. I got diagnosed and, now that I know what causes the shaking, I'm much less frustrated these days when I underperform in games.

[@realmichaeltian]

1:23 I can vouch for this ive always played on 270 degrees or less per mousepad swipe. Recently got back into FPS after almost 3 years, my aim got really bad and Ive not had to work on it this hard since I started FPS gaming.

[@D1DeLo]

Apex is such a good example of when I do this, It's the only game I do it in. (since warzone is similar combat it happens sometimes in warzone but not as much.)

[@DatGoodSir]

This is a pretty good start! Nice video

[@Particing]

omg you're here

[@LyadinDima]

Realizing that I wasn't actually tracking with my EYES made a huge difference when I started doing it.

[@kamiskam420]

yo that first tip is money. subbed, thank you.

[@blas4me50]

My aim was jittery, I used Kovaaks, tracking training. I hated it at first, but it got easier to track. Since we're not WZ streaming pros, we actually have to practice to get guud.

[@SaltyMaud]

Sleep well, eat well, drink well and make sure your air quality is decent. Basically make sure you're actually functioning well.

[@Andre-ld5xu]

that ceiling fan trick worked thanks!

[@DONBOYMAEID]

I really like ur kovaaks background

[@msventurelli]

Although this is a great video and all of the points are valid, it missed a CRUCIAL element: mouse grip. I've played pro CS 1.6 (last tournament literally 18 years ago) and recently I was trying to learn CSGO and play a bit. I was disappointed on how bad and shaky my aim was, and thought it was due to my, uh, "experienced" age. But no, I actually fixed it with a proper grip. Turns out that 18 years without playing a competitive fps and working on software made me default to a claw grip that did not give me nearly enough stability for playing a precise game like Counter-Strike. (For those interested I'm currently using a "hybrid claw/palm" grip, or "aggressive claw" grip which gives me a lot of stability and stopping power, plus it helps locking in horizontal axis which is very good for CS - but there's no "best" grip as it depends on your phisiology and choice of gear as well as the style of game you're playing)

[@Hampteerr]

i would REALLY recomend to learn surf in c.s that's how i got smooth

[@dreawmy2912]

having sore muscles and putting very high pressure on the mouse as a habit that resulted from sore arms was my biggest problem.

[@twitchyql7020]

I believe genetic sensitivity to caffeine is highly overlooked when trying to smooth out your aim.

[@mrtoxicff3378]

thanks alot this video help me so much, but should I buy kovaaks?

[@SATANAMA]

Certified hood classic🖤 Thanks for the tips!

[@sideshow4463]

I have had aim labs for a few days but bought KovaaKs today. I heard good things about it. My plan is not to be the best in the world but I want to have a chance when it comes to FPS :)

[@illitero]

I feel like my awareness, reaction, and snap accuracy are generally really good. But I have a degenerative neurological disease where impulse conductivity between nerve endings degrades in the hands and feet. My feet are pretty much dead, but my hands are still good. One of the side-effects of the specific sub-type of the disease is shakiness, which has become worse in recent years. So the point of my info dump is to give a backdrop of my fine aiming issues DESPITE my decent abilities with everything else. I tend to get the first shot off in PvP on an opponent, but they tend to get the kill because my reticle is CONSTANTLY dancing ear to ear, causing shots to fly by just past either side of their head when trying to correct aim, hahaha. Frustrating as hell and I've yet to find settings to help minimize the effect. Everything's either too fast or too slow in the various combination of settings I've tried 😅

[@Capy.T182]

When i am my hand just flicks itself

[@abbadox315]

also having more of your palm on your mouse helps as well since your hand is covering more surface area to control the mouse

[@Dizzeke]

not if you use your fingertips to grip your mouse, palming it forces arm aiming which is good for macro movements but gives difficulty with very fine movements like farther away. using fingertips gives you the ability to do both

[@abbadox315]

@@Dizzeke using fingertips allows you to have shaky ah ah aim. I'd rather have the smoothest aim than be able to have a niche ability that is 100% replicable with moving my mouse slightly.

[@Dizzeke]

@@abbadox315 go try to write your name with a pen using your palm/arm to write lmao. finger tip grip would give you the smallest, most precise control of movement possible. you're below average intelligence, bye

[@Recker1125]

The focus on target thing It will be easy for both eyes open shooters. Cuz u have to learn this technique in order to fire a gun with both eyes open irl

[@CMDRFandragon]

My aim used to be pretty on point. My chair had an arm rest that sat *slightly* higher than the table, so my arm was raised slightly and my natural posture left my arm kinda mostly dangling off the side of the arm rest, offering little resistance. Was great times. My aim has been trash ever since I broke that chair out of rage in World of Tanks.....

[@bjenev]

Thanks for fixing

[@paulatabbada7774]

I like your tutorials Very much

[@ssjyash]

Do you have a video on customizing your kovaaks scene the way you have it setup? thats so cool and I wanted to know how/what you used for them? So much more interesting than a gray background

[@KZNer_Drag0n]

Thanks!

[@Valgient]

This guys aim is too good

[@RadishHead7]

Reduce friction is the hardest one

[@kovawtf5180]

THANKS I NEED THIS

[@ВладимирВладимирович-д7ш2я]

would be good if your app could reccomend specific sens

[@slof69]

unironically dropped to 125hz polling rate and my god i dont shake around as much it sounds troll but actually try it out

[@inj3ktorofdust293]

Nice informative video

[@christianharness9428]

shoot me if u catch me wearing a sports sleeve for games

[@CHIKI7AKA]

yo kvk what the visual and graphic setting u used for Smoothness Training 60 its look pretty welcoming

[@polarrbtw]

Difference in looking and tracking is easier when you aren't doing anything and just focusing on the target but its way harder when you have to move around and move your mouse

[@Official-Khronic]

I was like: Yo this dude sound exactly like Struth

[@tropixi5336]

iv just moved over to pc and thats my main problem rn

[@sly2670]

2:30 anyone know the settings to make the targets glow like this on Kovaaks????

[@sly2670]

@@beegest_yoshi thank you boss!!

[@gorillaballsack3849]

@@beegest_yoshi how do you get glow as a ssetting? i only have full bright metallic and roughness

[@orbis17]

It's a feature of the LTM or limited time mode, called "control" not something you can get in the other modes of the game(BR/Arena).

[@gorillaballsack3849]

nah i found it its a theme you have to download and it works on every scenario

[@InstincTx4]

@@gorillaballsack3849 whats its name

[@lkadhad7958]

my entire shirt is a sport sleeve lol

[@zylohwtf]

Also workout your arms

[@TheMeta]

True.

[@geodyjaurigue4370]

Problem is I don’t have a bigger table and everything is cramped so i suffer with wrist problems 💀

[@enssdb]

my main problem is that i look at something with my own eyes instead of placing the crosshair over that thing

[@quantumthuglife4444]

What aim trainer is being used in the video if you know. (Btw great video)

[@Shaymin1]

I use Aim Lab

[@privtprofile24]

So my eyes tend to lose track of targets. How do I isolate this so I can practice just that.

[@Spladoinkal]

A good target switching scenario might help a lot. There are multiple targets moving around at once but you'll have to burst one down before moving to the other. That should help

[@stu_gahtz1740]

I usually go to intermidiate and advanced playlist. Would you suggest those amoothness challenges are the best way to find your sens? I just dropped 40+grams off my mouse with a starlight and got a new mouse pad so im having trouble readjusting

[@TheMeta]

Generally speaking the 'best' sensitivity for you will change depending on the aim requirements of the game you play. If the scenarios closely emulate the types of aiming you would do in your game of choice then it can be a great way to find a comfortable sensitivity. If the parallels aren't so clear you may want to experiment in the game you play and take that sens into KovaaKs to train. Each scenario will usually have a sensitivity range that performs the best on it, so choosing a sens purely based on score can be a bit misleading.

[@stu_gahtz1740]

Thanks for the response. Such a good answer as well. I kind of felt this way about it already but was unsure if i was right or not. Also probably why I’ve been 400dpi-1,800dpi and now back down to 800dpi. Im trying to find that perfect happy medium that is good for flicks and tracking. I think im settling at 800dpi and somewhere in between a .9-1.3 apex in game sens and for kovaaks as well

[@jelly8594]

@@stu_gahtz1740 I'm also constantly changing and hope to find the best sense for CS, Quake Live and Kovaaks combined 😂 but I guess that won't happen and so I have to change constantly. Some say it's even better for training to switch often.

[@Fiqnz]

Make sure you aren't tensing your rist when you aim that was my problem

[@themusicmusic9755]

Didn’t think about that.. focusing on you’re target will improve am.. we are always focused on our scope if that makes sense

[@333mike8]

when i track to the left my hands are fine, to the right though my hands start shaking like crazy

[@beamertoy]

Idk I feel like I've been focusing on my target all this time? Its trying to track them when they are strafing that is the most difficult thing as that seems to always be the case for me.

[@CobiTheYoutuber]

this vid helped me a lot, when he said look at the target, i understand and it actually worked , deserve a like (NOT A BOT BTW REAL PERSON LOL)

[@thebulletkin8393]

I feel like maybe I’m doing more of the looking at than focussing, I’ve been doing eye exercises and in apex 1v1s I’ve been trying to follow the target to better read them, but after this I’m thinking that maybe I’m not actually focussing on them properly. The ceiling fan concept makes sense, so essentially I can still look around with my peripheral vision but still be able to read the target?

[@calcomcolt]

My take on your last paragraph is you're looking at the crosshair while using your peripheral vision for your target maybe? I stopped doing that because it made my eyes go blurry because I've been staring at my crosshair for many hours, and my monitor is just the right distance away from me. I follow the ceiling fan concept as if the blades are my targets, so in-game I point my crosshair to my target with feel. I don't know if you get this whole block of text, I don't either lol

[@TheMeta]

The idea is to focus on the target you are fighting, and allow your peripheral vision to absorb info about your surroundings and other potential opponents. The problem many people have is that instead of focusing on their target, they just 'look' at it, so you don't get that locked in feeling.

[@winniethepopopo]

Did i understand it right? More fokus on Crosshair instead of the enemy?

[@flash0909]

the video is so useful but there is competitive games like warzone needs to have fast movement + good aim so how to mix between 2 of them when choosing the best sens for game like i play on 800 dpi and 5 sens i feel like aim is good the problem is my 360 degree view is much slower than making sens 10 it's kinda shaking of aim but makes me move 360 easier so what should i choose Peace

[@Dizzeke]

you should almost never be shooting without ADSing in a game like warzone, hipfiring is generally bad. get a good sens for movement for your sens thats comfortable for normal movement then fine tune your ads sens. it is okay to use something other than 1.0 ADS sens multiplier. what resolution, what ADS mode (legacy or relative) and what fov setting (affected or independent) do you use?

[@yallknowtheresnofear1199]

@@Dizzeke hey, so you guys are playing warzone at 4000+ edpi? Why is there such of a difference between warzone and cs for instance? As in cs almost every pro sticks to the sens of like ~ 1000 dpi at most? I even heard some ppl are using like 25000 edpi but I never played warzone myself so i'm being curious :)

[@Dizzeke]

@@yallknowtheresnofear1199 warzone is a much much easier game than cs go, you can spray someone down 150 meters away while strafing with extreme accuracy, cs go is all about headshots and first shot accuracy usually, so you need to precisely be aiming at head height and be able to micro flick and all that. for that specifically, you want lower dpi and in cod people can be anywhere at any height, up or down or behind you. in cs, you pretty much will always be roughly aiming within a few monitor inches of where the enemy is going to be so a lower sens and dpi for easier linear movement is optimal.

[@yallknowtheresnofear1199]

@@Dizzeke oh yh, thank you for the explanation, I guessed it will be something like that, I just thought that with the sensitivity that high (25k) you will just be making 5 360s for the centimeter of mouse movement xd

[@knockedgoose4206]

I need that wingman skin at 2:10

[@rhymedinn]

When doing the tracking course on Kovaak’s that you showcased at the end. Am I meant to be tracking it with my wrist or whole arm.

[@NeonRanger03]

What if I just have really bad nerves and can’t make fine adjustments? Is there a way to train my nerves to soothe?

[@dio8070]

I don’t understand the blade part, when I look in the middle I can see all of em move without blur. Also the shaking hands is a lot better know

[@alimau216]

Anyone know how to get that wall at 1:13? Thanks in advance.

[@hyperox7601]

the funny things is that you're showing apex clips but, with Apex you kinda want jittery aim with auto weapons for no recoil

[@Terra101]

Kovaaks crash when I try to play the Juggling Aimer scenario for some reason.

[@lukenycz7967]

does kovaaks have a program to calibrate mouse settings and sens? like it records my gameplay and tells me if i need to lower in game sens because of shakiness or need to raise it to tracking faster?

[@zyswanson7865]

how did you get kovaaks looking like that?

[@LeadRakFPS]

This video won’t play for some reason. I figured it was just my connection, but every other video I click on plays just fine. This one just stays black screen/buffering symbol when I touch the video to “pause or play” it. Really weird. Edit: Just tried to view some of your other videos and none of them will play.

[@yarincool1237]

1:47 this tip is almost impossible for me with ADHD especially in game.

[@steviegi584]

is it normal to put the entire arm on the desk? ^^ i never thought of that . my wrist is at the start of the desk

[@Dylanzitkuz]

god tip

[@JonelKingas]

1. get better mouse 2. play low sens 3. get big expensive mousepad... that's it...

[@pugall0]

как же он трекает, господи, как же он прекрасен

[@gasparddepaepe7069]

what can i do if my tracking is smoother when its from right to left than left to right ??

[@ricosvault]

What sens should i use when playing smoothness training 60?

[@johnnykoven6758]

First tip bro just tells us to take a shower im dead

[@Bdaddybear]

I still feel like i get stuck with my arm with sleeve on cloth pads. I mostly notice on smoothness tho. Guess i just gotta live with being a bit shaky🧐

[@TheMeta]

Unfortunately the materials and directions of the weave vary greatly between arm sleeves which can cause all sorts of problems if you don't have the right combination. We have heard people having success wearing their sleeves inside out, perhaps that could help you.

[@Bdaddybear]

@@TheMeta Gotta try it out!

[@N1TRO]

@@TheMeta it would be a true innovation if someone made a sports sleave that could either go up yo the thumb area but remain flat to the palm without restricting motion or much more realistically cover the wrist and a very small amount of the bottom of the hand and be gently secured in place there. Wrist on pad friction really is the last thing that can be improved upon. Shame its difficult to factor in comfort, firmness/security and most importantly freedom/non restictive.

[@markkerseyansis9259]

Wearing arm sleeves makes you less shaky? For real?

[@SXAOCOO]

Is it ok if I use Aimlabs?

[@Savag3174]

doesn't work when someone ferrari peeks you

[@JulianGrant]

Is this optimum tech?

[@WooHooLadttv]

im allergic to soap, vtuber and all that

[@zenchiii]

I can't lie. Aim assist is something I'm extremely thankful for. I've been using both kbm and controller for most my years of gaming and while kbm is cool, it just doesn't feel comfortable for me compared to using a controller. Kbm makes me prop my shoulders up on my desk, elbows bent, shoulders tense and it makes me feel like my eyes are on crack. My aim still sucks with a mouse. Not the worst aim but I can't track to save my life. Controller I can sit down, relax and play with it at waist level and drop bombs every game.