what do you think of the method presented in the video to quickly improve your aim benchmarks scores? Introduction
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INTRODUCTION:
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So, the Voltaic benchmarks…
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If you are into aim training you have probably  heard this term once or twice. If you haven’t…  
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then why are you watching this video?
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Even though everyone pretty much gets the  basics of the Voltaic benchmarks and ranks,  
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there is still a lot of confusion on how  to actually use them and how to practice  
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in order to get better at them. How often should I use them?  
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should I grind them? how do I get better at  specific benchmark? Should I only aim train  
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with the fundamental playlists or should I use  other playlists as well? And so, on and son on.
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The truth is, there isn’t a definitive  answer to these questions, and it mostly  
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comes down to opinion and what YOU are  trying to achieve with aim training.
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If you are just trying to get that sweet sweet  street cred and flex with a high Voltaic rank,  
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you would probably approach the benchmarks  in a different manner as someone trying  
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to improve their overall aim, or someone  just trying to improve in a specific game.
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While all of these goals are perfectly fine and  valid, this video is intended to people that are  
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trying to get better aim in fps games in general,  and use the benchmarks either as a way to check on  
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their progress or as an additional motivation to  push them further in their aim training journey.
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OBSERVATIONS:
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Through Reddit polls and just watching what  people in the aim training community do,  
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I’ve found that most people that fall in this  category usually use the benchmarks either once  
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a week or once a month, with the majority choosing  the former. And they aim train through the week,  
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usually doing the fundamental playlists from  voltaic or with a combination of different  
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playlist they’ve gathered from popular creators  or people that compile them such as PureG,  
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RiddBTW, WestProter, 4bangerkovaaks and many more.
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While the fundamental playlists are good  “general” playlists to play since they  
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cover most aiming techniques, I find that after  a beginner level they do not provide the amount  
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of repetition and challenge required to push  you towards fast and efficient improvement.  
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And since they try to condense every aiming  category in a playlist that lasts roughly an hour,  
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they inevitably suffer from a lack  of scenario variety and repetition  
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times that become essential to your  progress later in your aim journey.
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With this I am not saying that you should  never play these routines, but on their own  
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they are probably not enough, or at least not  the most efficient path to improve your aim.
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On the opposite end of the spectrum, playlists  made by other creators, could potentially be too  
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specific or harder than what you need right now  in relation to your current skill level. And even  
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though there are amazing playlists and scenarios  made by great creators and aimers out there,  
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it could be hard to find the best playlist for you  if you don’t know where to look or even what you  
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are looking for, and you could end up giving  too much of your time and attention to skills  
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that are secondary or even harming you because you  lack the fundamentals necessary to know what you  
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are trying to improve at, ultimately creating bad  habits that would be hard to get rid of later on.
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THE VOLTAIC DAILY IMPROVEMENT METHOD:
The Voltaic Daily Improvement Method
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So, what I propose is the following. As you  know, Voltaic divides aiming as a general skill  
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into three main categories; Clicking, Tracking  and Target Switching. And these are separated  
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into 2 subcategories each; dynamic clicking,  static clicking, smooth or precise tracking,  
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reactive tracking, speedTS and  evasive TS. And also, with Season 4,  
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for the intermediate and advanced benchmarks,  Voltaic added movement scenarios as well.
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With the introduction of this  new season I decided to find  
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an alternative way to go about my aim  training instead of doing the classic  
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fundamental playlist plus a more specific  playlist combo I was doing last season.
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After some time thinking about it I decided I  wanted to create playlists that worked both as  
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a way to improve my overall aim, but also  as a way to get just enough extra practice  
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to be ready to beat my high scores on the  benchmark scenarios. Because let’s face it,  
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beating PB’s is a really great feeling and  a great motivation to keep aim training.
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In time, and with the great help of VT MattyOW who  provided amazing feedback on all of the playlists,  
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my friend TenguTerror who I basically used as  a test subject for the last couple of weeks,  
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the approval of SilkyCrisp who’s a great  inspiration of mine, and the initial feedback  
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I got when I started working on these playlists  by RiddBTW and WestProter, I managed to create  
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7 playlists that I’m really proud of, one for  each aiming technique and correlating to a day  
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of the week designed to properly and fully train  each technique in relation to your Voltaic rank.
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These playlists, whose Kovaaks sharecodes  are in the description by the way,  
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are divided into Novice, and Intermediate and as  said before, are titled after an aiming technique  
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and day of the week. So, for example, if you  are platinum you would download the intermediate  
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playlists (by the way, to do this, you must go  search the code in the description and copy it,  
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then in kovaaks head to online playlists  and at the bottom you must paste  
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it and press enter) and every Monday you  would play the Dynamic clicking playlist.
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In this playlist you will find different bot types  and scenarios to help you on your overall dynamic  
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clicking technique, but also harder versions  of the dynamic clicking intermediate benchmarks  
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and the benchmarks themselves. So technically,  
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every time you fully run each one of these  playlists, you will also be benchmarking  
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that specific technique, in this example VT Pasu  Rasp Intermediate and VT Bounceshot Intermediate,  
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and the same goes for every other  aiming technique and benchmark scenario.
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I think this way to go about  benchmarking has many benefits  
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over the established practice  of benchmarking once a week,  
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the main reasons you would want to do this,  in no special order, are the following:
Reasons to use this method
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1.- You are not “missing” training days.
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There are 16 benchmark scenarios. All lasting at  least a minute. If you were to run all of them at  
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least five times each, this would be a total of  80 minutes. 80 minutes is quite a lot of time,  
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and this is even without considering the time  you probably waste by resetting runs of the  
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benchmarks. Or all the time you spend getting  stuck running one benchmark 20 times in a row.
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From what I’ve seen from posts in the aiming  community, most people have a maximum of 1  
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hour a day to aim train, some even less. So,  this essentially means that “benchmark day”,  
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usually Sundays, are a lost day for aim  training, since you are playing all of the  
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benchmarks and trying to get high scores  and not actually focusing on improvement.
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With the playlists I made, you are actually  aim training every day, including Sundays,  
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for around 45 to 50 minutes, and only  spending 10 minutes a day for benchmarking.
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2.- You are benchmarking at your full potential.
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Let’s continue with the example of the 80  minutes I calculated on the last point.  
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Assuming you follow the order of the benchmark  spreadsheet and started benchmarking with VT  
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Pasu Rasp Intermediate, there is no way  that after going all out on the benchmarks  
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trying to beat your high scores you can  perform optimally by the time you get  
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to VT Bounce TS intermediate. You are basically  handicapping yourself by making you really tired  
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and by the time you get to the  last scenarios you will perform  
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worse than what you would have if you had  started in the bottom of the spreadsheet.
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Basically, with my method, you are only doing two  different benchmarks per day, and all of the other  
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scenarios you play are meant for you to gradually  improve your aim, without the need for you to  
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grind them with the same intensity as if they  were all benchmarks. Plus, since they are all part  
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of the same aiming technique, you will likely be  readier to face the benchmark scenarios and warmed  
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up to try to beat your high scores, as opposed to  doing all of the benchmarks on the same day, in  
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which you are essentially jumping from technique  to technique without having the time to adjust.
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3.- the benchmarks are comparatively easier  than the harder versions of the scenarios.
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This is a well-known practice and one of the  two main things I wanted to achieve by making  
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these playlists. On every one of these playlists  I added a harder version of the benchmark scenario  
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of the technique you are training. The point of  this is that just before you have to play the  
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benchmark, you play a more demanding version  a couple of times. This will have the effect  
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of making it so that when it is time  to run the actual benchmark scenario,  
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it will feel way easier for you, helping  you break plateaus and get higher scores.
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4.- You can optimize your training  session for the specific aiming technique.
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A very overlooked and often misunderstood  aspect of kovaaks, is that you should try  
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to optimize it as much as you can in order for  you to train in the most effective way possible.
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There are a lot of posts of people trying  to use their main game’s FOV while training  
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despite it not being the most optimal way to  run the specific scenario they are playing,  
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or people searching for gun skins  to mimic what they see in game even  
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though this results in having half of their  screen covered, and many other examples.
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You have to remember that kovaaks is a  tool meant for you to train your aim,  
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so you should try to avoid anything  that limits your ability to do that.
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So, you may be wondering how does  my method helps you to do that?  
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And the answer is simple: visual themes and FOV.
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It’s no secret that there are visual themes and  FOV settings that work better for certain scenario  
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types. The most common example is the classic grey  background with black targets for static clicking,  
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and FOV higher than 103 for  target switching scenarios.
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If you want to make kovaaks as optimized as  possible you should be using the settings  
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that work better for you and change them  depending on the scenario type you are using.  
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What my playlists offer in this regard,  is that before even starting to play them,  
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you can set your preferred visual theme and  FOV and then don’t worry about it for the  
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rest of the day since you are training the same  aiming technique in mostly similar scenarios,  
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instead of what you would have to do while playing  the fundamental playlist or in the benchmark day  
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in which you would have to go to your  settings and change the visual theme  
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and FOV every time you have to play a  different scenario, while this is doable,  
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it’s certainly annoying, and easily forgettable,  with my method you are more likely to be using  
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the most optimized setting for you in every aim  training session. (by the way, in the description  
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of every playlist I give my recommendation of  the FOV and sensitivity you should be using)
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5.- Personally, it worked for me.
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After using these playlists, I have to say that  I have personally seen actual fast improvement.  
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In season 3 I peaked at diamond complete  with jade scores only in the clicking  
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benchmarks. Then I took a break from aim  training and on my first run of the season  
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4 benchmarks I landed on platinum and  decided to make these playlists. Now,  
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after 2 weeks of using them, and at  the moment of recording this video,  
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I am currently at jade and 3 scenarios away  from being jade complete, I am very proud of  
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how far I have come as an aimer, and I know that  with these playlists I will go even further.
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Also, around 2 weeks ago I gave these  playlists to my friend TenguTerror,  
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an up and coming streamer you should definitely  check out, and this is what he had to say:
TenguTerror's experience
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Tengu: "Hey what's up? TenguTerror here. So, the playlists (are) absolutely amazing.
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before I started I was mostly unranked  in the Intermediate (benchmarks)
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I had gotten gold complete pretty simply but  when I was doing the intermediate (benchmarks) I  
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was having issues until Gravity  said that he was making a playlist
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So, I started working the playlists and just  absolutely started crushing all my personal bests.
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started pushing Platinum, and  even got my first Diamond (score)
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So, if you have any worries, this  playlists is the best and does a great job.
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Gravity, you've done an amazing  job, and I support it 110%"
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I think that jumping from Silver  to *almost* Platinum Complete  
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is actually a huge achievement  and I couldn't be happier for him.
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FINAL THOUGHTS
Closing Thoughts
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If you think anything I just said makes sense  to you, I think you should go ahead and give  
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these playlists a try, I worked on them with  the intention to use them myself to improve,  
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but also to give them to the aiming  community as solid playlists to cover  
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every aiming technique and a different way  to go about using the Voltaic benchmarks.
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I hope that if you end up using them  you enjoy them and feel that you are  
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getting better because of them. And I  am personally committed to update them  
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as time goes on if I find better scenarios  or if the benchmarks change (By the way,  
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if this happens the playlists should automatically  update for you or show a download arrow with and  
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exclamation mark next to the playlists to  indicate there is a new version available).
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A word of advice; even though these playlists  are divided based on your Voltaic rank,  
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they are not “easy” playlists. I made them  with the intention for you to be challenged  
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through the whole playthrough, because I  firmly believe that frustration is key for  
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fast improvement when learning new skills, and  using scenarios that feel too easy for you is  
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really not optimal for improvement. So if you  feel that the scenarios are hard, that is ok,  
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and if you get frustrated that is ok too!  The important part is that you understand  
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that you are getting frustrated because  you are trying to overcome the current  
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limitations of your aiming ability and you  have to push through the whole playlist.
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So, the takeaway, is that getting frustrated is  ok, but quitting because of frustration isn’t.
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TEXT: "You got this my friends, not feeling  at 100% is ok and part of life, when learning  
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new things you will hit roadblocks, it is what  you choose to do in that moment what matters."
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When you go to the description of  this video in search for the codes,  
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you will notice that in every aiming category  I added a video that says “must watch” on it  
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and others I recommend. Even though they are  highly recommended, you don’t have to watch them,  
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but I urge you to at least watch the ones  marked as “must watch” because they will  
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help you understand what it is that you  are training in every technique and the  
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correct way to approach the scenarios on each  playlist, as mentioned before, it is important  
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that you know what you are trying to improve  at in order to avoid developing bad habits.
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Lastly, I want to thank Matty, Tengu, Silky, Ridd  
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and West once again for their feedback  and inspiration in general to make this  
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type of content. Please if you haven´t  already go check out their channels,  
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they all make great content and if you liked  this video I’m sure you’ll enjoy what they do.
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If you found this video helpful I would  really appreciate it if you gave it a like,  
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and subscribed to my channel, and of course  comment whatever you think about the video or the  
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playlists down below, if you have any questions  or something to say I’ll answer as soon as I can.
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This was Lowgravity56, take care,  and happy grinding my friends!