Voltaic Daily Improvement Method (VDIM)

BY LOWGRAVITY56 - AIMLABS VERSION

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INTRODUCTION

I am proud to present the “Voltaic Daily Improvement Method”, 6 playlists made for you to be able to practice all the different aiming techniques^[1] that make up aiming as a whole according to your skill level.

This is my small contribution to the Voltaic aim training community after all the great content, people and general skill and life improvement it has given me.

I hope you enjoy and find good use for these playlists! Take care, and happy grinding my friends!

• Lowgravity56

QUICK LINKS

1. Want to understand the theory behind aiming? Voltaic - Aim Journey
2. Still looking for answers? Voltaic - FAQ Guide
3. Voltaic x Aim Lab Benchmarks Progression Sheet
4. Join Voltaic's discord for more help or information
5. Follow Voltaic's twitter & LG56’s twitter to stay up to date!

QUICK START

Start by playing the Voltaic benchmarks first and see where you place. If you are new to Aim Training then we highly recommend starting at Novice and working your way up. This will help you develop good habits from the get go. Once you’ve played the benchmarks you can play the routine that matches your skill level. For instance if you place Bronze, play the routine that suits you according to the Rank Distribution. After benchmarking once, there is no need for you to continue benchmarking yourself on a weekly basis as the benchmark scenarios are already included in the routines themselves!^[2]

HOW IT WORKS

These playlists are an alternative method to the Voltaic Fundamental Routines and the general approach to benchmarking of the aiming community^[3]. Instead of focusing on general aim training every day, the playlists presented on this document are aimed towards isolating specific aiming subcategories each day of the week to build proper technique, and also to be able to beat your previous high scores because of the gradual increments of difficulty leading to the benchmark scenarios on each playlist.

Basically, each playlist is a combination of what I think are the best scenarios to train to get better overall aim, with extra practice on top to be able to beat the specific benchmark scenarios of this Voltaic season. This way you can rest assured knowing that you are not only getting better at the benchmark scenarios, but you are also developing your mouse control beyond them.

RANK DISTRIBUTION

For the purpose of this document and method, the rank distribution for the playlists is the following:

• ENTRY

• For unranked players up to Bronze.

• NOVICE

• For players from Bronze Complete up to Gold.

• INTERMEDIATE

• For players from Gold Complete up to Master.

• ADVANCED

• For players from Master Complete up to Nova.

• ELITE

• For players aspiring to get Astra or higher.

One of the main goals of this method was to intentionally make hard playlists to boost your progress. This is because I firmly believe that frustration is key for your improvement because it is the way to signal your brain that something is not working as intended and that it needs to change in order to overcome the tasks that are currently too difficult. So I urge you to not give up and push through if you are having a hard time getting “good” scores. The important thing is that you understand what you are doing wrong and consciously try to correct your technique so that after a good night's sleep^[4] your brain has a lot of errors to learn from and improve as fast as possible. You can learn more about this here.

With this being said, there is such a thing as too hard for you, which usually comes when the difficulty of the scenario is so high for your current skill level that you are completely lost and incapable of understanding what it is you are doing wrong; to put it simply, you know that something (or many things) is wrong, but you don’t know what that something is or how to fix it. This can result in you learning bad habits that would be hard to get rid off later in your aim journey.

So what I recommend is that you should be humble and honest with yourself and not just play the hardest scenario you can find, I assure you it won’t help you. Try to stick with the scenarios that are hard enough so that you know what you have to improve at, but not too hard to the point you want to quit.

Having said all of this, it is important to remember that everyone learns at a different pace and has different levels of tolerance to frustration, so feel free to experiment with the playlists if you feel that the ones I said were meant for your level are either too easy or too hard for you. I tried to group the Voltaic ranks into five big categories so that you can freely explore them and find what works for you, but this is just a recommendation, so if for example you are BRONZE and you feel that the Entry playlists are no longer challenging for you, feel free to move to the Novice ones, or if you are at PLATINUM and the Intermediate playlists are too big of a jump from the Novice ones, feel free to keep going with Novice until you feel you can continue your training with the Intermediate playlists.

If you have any further questions my Discord is always open, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can:

FAQ

1. Q: How are the V.D.I.M and fundamental routines different?

1. Even though both of these routines are meant to help you improve your “overall aim”, the VDIM routines have a clear second role of helping you improve at the Voltaic Benchmarks as quickly as possible by adding scenarios specifically made for you to improve at the benchmark scenarios of each aiming subcategory.

Additionally, the VDIM playlists are generally harder than the Fundamental routines, hence the need to create 2 extra difficulties besides the classic Novice, Intermediate and Advanced.                  

2. Q: How many scores do I need in a certain benchmark rank to advance?

1. Please refer to the benchmarks progression sheet and benchmarks guide in our resources channel.

TASK APPROACH & APPLICATION

• STATIC CLICKING

• Application to FPS games:

• Improves timing of clicks, speed, efficiency of motion, micro-corrections, precision and target acquisition (high emphasis on efficiency)

• Do your best to keep clean lines on your initial flicks and follow them up with micro-corrections that land directly on the bot. Identify if either your accuracy or speed is holding you back and then adjust your practice to account for this.
• For “Pressure” and “Reflex”  scenarios  (such as Pulseshot variants) make sure to eliminate targets as soon as possible before they despawn.
• For “Pokeball” scenarios make sure to hold down your shoot button through the whole run.

• DYNAMIC CLICKING  

• Application to FPS games:

• Improves reading skills, speed, precision, target confirmation and smooth target approaches, also helps with peripheral vision.

• Read each target for a short period of time in order to confirm you’ll hit it, while avoiding being misdirected by a sudden direction change. Also use your peripheral vision to keep track of the other targets. Then quickly acquire each target and click as soon as you’ve confirmed your hit.

• PRECISE TRACKING

• Application to FPS games:

• Improves reading skills, reactivity and reacquisition on moving, blinking or dashing targets.
• Also helps building important tracking fundamentals, which includes underaiming (tracking to the closer edge of the target), tracking in one smooth motion instead of multiple micro-jitters and smooth reacquisitions when a target changes directions, blinks or dashes.

• Hold down fire during the entire duration of the scenario.
• Move your mouse in one steady motion while matching the target’s speed, try to avoid any inefficiencies and jitter.

• REACTIVE TRACKING

• Application to FPS games

• Improves reading skills, reactivity and reacquisition on moving, blinking or dashing targets.
• Just like Precise tracking, it helps building important tracking fundamentals, which includes underaiming (tracking to the closer edge of the target), tracking in one smooth motion instead of multiple micro-jitters and smooth reacquisitions when a target changes directions, blinks or dashes.

• Hold down fire during the entire duration of the scenario.
• Focus more on the target than your crosshair.
• Try to match the target’s movement instead of chasing after it. Do your best to  be smooth and focus on reading the target’s movement, so you can react as soon as possible to any direction changes. Be reactive, not predictive.
• An additional tip is to  assume the target won’t change directions, and to only react when it actually does, then smoothly return back to the target. This may help you be more reactive instead of relying on prediction.

• SPEED TARGET SWITCHING

• Application to FPS games:

• Improves speed, target acquisition and target confirmation.
• Useful for tracking heavy games with low-ttk, to increase up-time and to make swifter and more accurate target switches. This will as a result increase your DPS and the amount of pressure you can do to the enemy.

• Preferably, hold down fire during the entire duration of the scenario.
• Make sure to force full eliminations  as much as possible, leaving as little partials up as possible. Attempt to land your initial flick directly on the bot with no micro-correction and keep this action consistent on both small and large switches.

• EVASIVE TARGET SWITCHING

• Application to FPS games:

• Improves speed, target acquisition, smooth (re-)acquiring and target confirmation.
• Useful for tracking heavy games with multiple enemies, to increase up-time and to make swifter and more accurate target switches. This will as a result increase your DPS and the amount of pressure you can do to the enemy.

• Preferably, hold down fire during the entire duration of the scenario.
• Land your initial flick directly on each target and smoothly track each target to completion. Time your switches to close the margin between the target's elimination and the start of your flick. Smooth transitions from target to target will make reading their movements much easier

ABOUT THE TRAINING

All of these routines are roughly an hour long except for the Advanced and Elite playlists since at that level you need extra practice to properly train the techniques and there is an extra benchmark scenario. To properly take advantage of the “benchmark practice'' aspect of the playlists you should play them in the order they are presented to gradually increment the difficulty leading to the benchmarks scenario.

MOUSE CONTROL MAINSTAYS

When training on the Voltaic Daily Improvement Method routines, improvement has to be brought on by deliberate identification of mistakes, and a base understanding of correct principles to adhere to. Practicing with this mindset allows a player to lay a strong foundation early, so they can carve out their own preferred styles and regimen down the line. The common subcategories identified within mouse control training all have principles that work for multiple scenarios of the same type, an overview of which can be seen on each training section.

MONDAY

STATIC CLICKING

Pushing improvement in static will be brought on by ensuring a continuous balance of speed and accuracy as you progress, while observing details that influence a player’s ability to achieve both. Maintaining straight initial flicks, underflicking as much as possible, and attempting to land initial flicks within clusters are keys to success that will prove useful down the line.

Click the links below to play the respective playlist that suits you best (see Rank Distribution)

TUESDAY

DYNAMIC CLICKING

Reading target movements and hit confirming before attempting an elimination make tracking single-click targets much easier to deal with.  It’s easy to oversimplify movements to their larger and more obvious motions while being unaware of slight changes in depth or speed, and minor direction changes. Smooth target to target transitions will make these movements much easier to perceive, and should prevent disorientation by switching too abruptly or haphazardly.

Click the links below to play the respective playlist that suits you best (see Rank Distribution)

WEDNESDAY

PRECISE TRACKING

Direction changes will be relatively infrequent, and when they do happen they will usually be predictable. Minor changes in speed and depth will be the primary adjustments needed once the simpler strafing motions are initially understood. As with most subcategories, correctly tracking a target with these behaviors is highly dependent on well-refined smoothness.

Click the links below to play the respective playlist that suits you best (see Rank Distribution)

THURSDAY

REACTIVE TRACKING

Typically an intimidating category for newer players, reactive scenarios stress-test both your smoothness and perception. The stark changes in speed and direction are intentionally present to influence you to overreact and thus inadvertently force multiple adjustments from a single movement. Attempt to find opportunities to undertrack your target and position your crosshair within the target such that you have a buffer to react to sudden direction changes.

Click the links below to play the respective playlist that suits you best (see Rank Distribution)

FRIDAY

SPEED SWITCHING

Targets within these scenarios are intentionally larger, so that eliminations can become more frequent and influence more switches as a result. Landing your initial flick on each target whenever possible and smoothly tracking its path will be the main aspects of a successful run. Micro-corrections should be few and far between, and partially damaged bots should be avoided whenever possible.

Click the links below to play the respective playlist that suits you best (see Rank Distribution)

SATURDAY

EVASIVE SWITCHING

Where speed switches lean more toward the accuracy of your switches and less on the smooth tracking once the initial flick has been landed, evasive is meant to assess the opposite conditions. Your transition to smoothness upon coming out of your initial flick should ideally be both seamless and immediate.

Click the links below to play the respective playlist that suits you best (see Rank Distribution)

CREDITS

Below are people who have provided feedback or have assisted in creating these routines.

• Lowgravity56 - Routines, Method, Tasks Creation and Video Script.
• Sini -  Task/Routine Conception, Writing, Formatting, Feedback, GFX and Video Script
• Grissom - Mouse Control Mainstay Section (Explaining Subcategories) and Video Script

• MattyOW - Task and Routine Testing and Brainstorming.
• Cesar - GFX
• Cartoon - Task and Routine Testing.
• Minigod - Task and Routine Testing.
• Lorys - Task and Routine Testing.
• Viscose - Task and Routine Testing.
• Buckshot - Task and Routine Testing.

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