Timo Timo wrote:
Interesting. Training spinners to get better at not rotating your mouse. I'll have to test it.
I haven't thought about it sufficiently, but my current leading hypothesis is that by letting your fingers and wrist take care of the movement of the mouse, I'm better able to learn fine and accurate movement. My arm is much heavier and, it seems to me, not built for as fine and precise control as my fingers are. If I try to move my mouse with my arm rapidly, it's going to be hard to stop the mouse at precisely the desired spot, for the same reason a large and heavy car can't reduce its speed from 100 km/h to 0 immediately: inertia.
But it also seems to me that if you let your fingers and wrist take care of mouse movement, you tend to rotate the mouse more, thus creating more drift than what you would if you let your arm do the moving. Given the benefits of finger/wrist movements I explained above, switching to moving with my arm is not an option for me.
Oh yeah, I don't even use my arm for aim lol literally like, my wrist is the main power for my jumps or any movement of the mouse, while my fingers stabilize the mouse. I'd say it's probably solid. I was thinking about this thread last night and I found out another good way to test your angle. Basically, visualize the screen having a x/y axis, with the center being the center of a spinner (obviously). Now, you want to find the most comfortable position for your wrist on the mouse. Afterwards, move it left to right quickly, from side to side of the screen, keeping along the x axis (horizontal middle of screen). You should be able to comfortably keep it pretty close to that line -- if it leans from top left to bottom right (or vice versa) then you need to change the angle because it is unnatural for your wrist.
You'll know you've got it perfect when you can consistently rotate a near-perfect circle like I said before, as well as doing the above test for the x-axis and the y-axis. After that it's all about making sure your fingers keep the mouse steady and maybe a tad bit of muscle-memory adjusting. I already improved my own aim after reading this thread and delving into it though, so I'd say it's worth the effort