Wrist here, never moves from where I orginially plant it, sometimes I will adjust the sensitivity on the mouse though

 

I use both, arm for bigger movements, wrist for small movements.

 

Neither, trackball

 

I'm guessing 95% wrist, 5% arm.

 

There tends to be larger differences based on how you hold the mouse. The main two ways to hold a mouse are Claw and Palm grip. People who claw grip usually move their wrist, and people who palm grip tend to move their arm. I am typically a hybrid gripper because I change my mouse sensitivity on the fly. I use claw grip for DPI > 1800 and Palm grip for DPI < 1800.

This is all a matter of preference, but I believe their is a strong correlation between DPI and grip style.

 

You don't need your arm, but rather practice with the lower DPI setting. 800 DPI is actually a common setting among many wrist players.

 

I always just assumed low dpi meant you used your arm more. I palm grip but use just wrist I have tried to use my arm but its soo weird with never doing it.

 

I practice with 5600 Dpi. I figure if I can get good at higher sensitivities that it will increase my control. I then turn it down to around 1200 when I'm being serious.

Also, I feel like I end up doing the lift-n-drop when I have too low DPI while using only wrist.

 

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Originally Posted by Acefire;15308003
I practice with 5600 Dpi. I figure if I can get good at higher sensitivities that it will increase my control. I then turn it down to around 1200 when I'm being serious.

Also, I feel like I end up doing the lift-n-drop when I have too low DPI while using only wrist.

Yeah that's how it was for me I was lifting it up every few seconds no idea why.

 

100% wrist
3500 DPI

 

I don't know for sure. Its mostly unconscious movement. I just react to the pointer or where I wanna look.
Probably most use both. Arm for big movements then wrist for fine ones.

 

I don't think about it when I do it. but wrist 80% of the time and my arm only for large swipes, like turning 180.

 

I've gotten used to a high DPI so am pretty much 100% wrist now.

 

We should get some game Stats and compare wrist players vs arm players...

I would say that snipers are probably more wrist players. Just a guess.

 

I use 900dpi and use mostly my wrist, use my arm for large sweeps.

 

its depends if im playing a game like counter strike or AVA i use my Arm with low sens. If im doing a game like rts or some hardcore sniping I use my wrist with high sens so I say 50/50 for me.

 

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Originally Posted by Acefire;15308003
I practice with 5600 Dpi. I figure if I can get good at higher sensitivities that it will increase my control. I then turn it down to around 1200 when I'm being serious.

Also, I feel like I end up doing the lift-n-drop when I have too low DPI while using only wrist.

er how do you build any muscle memory lol

5600 is REALLY REALLY fast and i doubt even doable on 1440 res

 

Arm. I get wrist pains if I use my wrist for long enough.

 

Mix of both. I can generally aim almost anywhere on-screen using only my wrist, but if I'm moving beyond that I'll usually be using my arm.

 

I must say back in my CS 1.0/1.6 days I used an MX510 (800DPI) and was using maybe like anywhere from 3.5 to 4 on the settings and I did fairly good then after going on to MX518 (1800DPI v2) I started to use more of a fingertip/claw style use on my hand and I was using a hardpad as well so it was pretty slick and eventually I started playing like flick style movements. While I use my wrist to move around if I have to quickly go 180 then I may have to use my arm but maybe 5-10% arm 90% wrist.

I guess it all has to depend on your style but if you get to the point where your wrist/hand/arm feels uncomfortable and you feel pain then you may need to change your style or mouse. Yeah many will say thats just because you use the computer too long but it could primarily be the placement of your hand because for the longest time I have been using claw type/wrist/hardpad and I started to get minor pain on the ring and pinky fingers, after switching to the cm storm spawn and going softpad the pain went away, I mean there can be many variables that can come to play but thats just from my experience.

It could also depend on the game because if I played BC2/BF3 and I was sniping then I'll go with low DPI/wrist but when it comes to a fast pace game (when I used to play Quake/UT) then I was using a lot of hand movement but if you're really accurate with your wrists you can get away with high dpi.

 

DPI is not mouse sensitivity. You wanna leave your DPI alone and adjust the ingame sensitivity if you wanna go low sens. You need to measure how much you need to move your mouse for a 360 turn. That is your sensitivety. DPI has nothing to do with it.

 

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Originally Posted by a11an;15339734
DPI is not mouse sensitivity. You wanna leave your DPI alone and adjust the ingame sensitivity if you wanna go low sens. You need to measure how much you need to move your mouse for a 360 turn. That is your sensitivety. DPI has nothing to do with it.

Other way around. Leave sensitivity at 1, adjust DPI.

 

For me neither, I use trackball instead. With Logitech M570, I only need to move my thumb to move the cursor.

 

I use wrist + fingertips for movement, never move arm, which is very silly since I own a huge mousemat (QCK+), which is 90% unused. Oh well, it looks nice

 

My sensitivity is set to the point where I really only have to pivot my wrist and move my hand two inches or so to get around my screen.