Aim Trainer (Click Targets, Flick & Tracking Practice)

About the Aim Trainer (Click Targets, Flick & Tracking Practice)

Practise your aim with a mouse, a trackpad, a pen or your finger. 30 targets times every flick from one target to the next; Grid shot keeps three targets on a grid for 15, 30 or 60 seconds; Shrinking targets vanish if you are too slow; and Tracking moves a target around for you to keep the pointer on. Choose the target size and, for 30 targets, how far apart they appear.

Every run reports what it measures — time per target, hits, misses and accuracy, or the share of time on target — with a chart of each target’s time and a heat map of where your presses landed around the target centre. Turn on Same targets every run and a seed gives the very same targets in the same places, so two runs compare fairly. Your best and recent runs stay in this browser, and there are no leaderboards: you compete with yourself.

Common uses

• Warming up before a game, or practising flicks and tracking between sessions.
• Trying a new mouse, a new mouse pad or a different pointer speed and seeing whether your times change.
• Practising accurate taps on a phone or tablet.
• Training hand–eye coordination with short, repeatable drills.

The four drills

• 30 targets: one target at a time; the next appears as soon as you hit one, at the distance you chose. The score is the average time per target — lower is better — with your accuracy beside it.
• Grid shot: three targets on a 4 × 4 grid; each hit target moves to a free square. The score is hits in the time, with accuracy and hits a second.
• Shrinking targets: targets appear every 0.65 seconds and shrink away over 1.6 seconds; hit them before they vanish. Vanished targets are counted separately from misses.
• Tracking: one target glides along a smooth, changing path. With a mouse, keep the pointer over it; on a touch screen, keep your finger on it. The score is the share of the run you stayed on target.

Mouse DPI and in-game sensitivity

A mouse’s DPI (strictly CPI, counts per inch) is how many movement counts it reports for each inch it travels. A game turns those counts into rotation: the angle per count is its sensitivity setting times a factor of its own. So the turn you get for an inch of mouse movement grows with both: doubling the DPI and halving the sensitivity gives the same turn per inch. Players often multiply the two (“eDPI”) to compare settings within the same game, but the factor differs between games, so the same number can feel different elsewhere.

The pointer on this page is moved by your operating system, with its own pointer speed and acceleration, while many games read the mouse’s raw movement and ignore those settings. Use this page to practise reaction, accuracy and smooth movement, and fine-tune sensitivity in the game itself.

How runs are timed and compared

Presses are timed with the browser’s high-resolution event time stamps, and each target from the first animation frame that showed it. The targets keep their size on every screen down to small phones, where they shrink a little so the spread of the targets stays the same. A seed makes a run repeatable: the same seed, mode and settings place the same targets in the same order, on a play area of the same size.

Only two drills move anything: Shrinking targets shrink and the Tracking target glides. If your device asks for reduced motion, Tracking starts at Slow speed and the page says which drills move; 30 targets and Grid shot never move a target.

Limitations

• The drills need a pointer: a mouse, trackpad, pen or touch. They cannot be played with the keyboard alone.
• Times include the delay of your screen and input device; compare runs made on the same device.
• The pointer follows your operating system’s pointer speed and acceleration, unlike games that read raw mouse input.
• There are no leaderboards: your bests are kept only in this browser.

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