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