Average Aim Trainer Score (Time per Target)

Aim scores are unusually sensitive to mouse settings, which is why comparing raw numbers between two people tells you less than it appears to. What matters is not DPI on its own but effective sensitivity — DPI multiplied by the in-application sensitivity — and the more useful way to express it is centimetres per 360 degrees: how far the mouse physically travels to make a full turn.

Very high sensitivity makes large movements fast but small corrections twitchy, because the smallest movement your hand can reliably make already overshoots the target. Very low sensitivity gives fine control but runs out of desk. Most players who take aim seriously end up somewhere in the middle and, more importantly, stay there. Consistency across sessions is worth more than any particular value.

Surface and mouse feet matter for the same reason. A mouse that stutters at low speed makes fine correction unreliable no matter how good the sensor is.

Target-acquisition tests like this one measure flicking: moving from wherever the cursor is to a target that has just appeared, and clicking. Tracking — keeping the cursor on something that keeps moving — draws on a different mix of prediction and fine motor control, and being good at one does not guarantee being good at the other.

That distinction matters when you try to read your score as a prediction about games. A strong flick score transfers well to games built around single decisive shots. It says much less about games where you hold an aim on a moving target for sustained periods.

It is also worth separating speed from accuracy when you read your own result. Two players can reach the same overall score very differently: one moving fast and correcting often, the other moving deliberately and rarely missing. Both are viable, but they respond to different practice. If your misses cluster on small or distant targets, the problem is precision, and lower sensitivity usually helps. If you are accurate but slow to arrive, the problem is commitment to the initial movement, and deliberately overshooting during practice fixes that faster than slowing down does.