I'm 30 years old and new to fps gaming, so obviously when I picked up Valorant I sucked. Literally bottom fragged every single game. After about 80 games bouncing between Iron 1 and Iron 3 from pure RNG of my teammates, I decided I didn't want to hear little kids screaming in my ear how bad I was and I wanted to actually try to improve instead of just playing games and slowly improving through sheer gameplay.

My aim really is/was atrocious so I decided to focus on improving my aim mechanics. I looked up aim lab routines and settled on one I found on youtube.

The schedule consists of:

Tracing - Microshot - Spidershot - Spheretrack - Strafetrack - Decision Shot - Gridshot.

I play each task six times in a row, taking breaks when needed. Here is a chart of all my high scores for each task every day. I only started tracking my daily averages on Day 5, because I realized the daily average was a better metric of tracking progress - but high scores look flashier.

Notes: I tried recording my day 7 routine but somehow managed to mess up the recording and not get anything. So here are general notes on how I feel about the tasks.

Tracing - In theory, this should be helping with my time to kill because it's training me to trace the most efficient path to the enemy. Although my scores steadily increased all week, I didn't' feel like I was improving. I started moving a bit faster but my accuracy dropped to around 70%. Maybe someone can chime in with the best way to practice properly on this task.

Microshot - Improves short flicks. Definitely a noticeable improvement as I play this one. My muscle memory is getting more precise and my hand flicks and shoots to a target before I even fully register it exists. Accuracy and speed are slowly increasing in a noticeable way.

Spidershot - Same as microshot except for longer distances. Instead of wrist movement this requires more forearm movement. Obviously a weakness for me, when I start using my forearm my accuracy and preciseness drop a lot. I don't know if I should increase my sensitivty and stick to wrist movements only, or if I should continue trying to improve my forearm movements.

Spheretrack - I hate this task. It feels completely random. My score is entirely dependant on if the ball moves back and worth within 180 degrees or if it circles 360 degrees around me. Basically, sometimes I have to "reset" my mouse because the mousepad isn't big enough, which obviously reduces the time I can properly track the ball. I would love some tips on how to improve tracking because it is very applicable to in game. Enemies are usually not standing still unless you're in a 1v1 firefight. If you're holding angles time the enemy usually runs/walks right past you and nothing is more embarrassing than whiffing the tracking.

Strafeshot - A lot better than spheretrack. I am still not good at this task, but at least it doesn't feel like RNG even though my scores are all over the place. I have a lot of trouble tracking the targets when they move back and forth unpredictably. Maybe I'm too old and my response time is never going to be able to keep up.

Decision shot - Like a combo of microshot and spider shot with a little bit of split second decision making tossed in. In theory this helps in game when there are multiple targets and my brain forces me to just immediately pick one and start shooting. Clear daily improvements.

Gridshot - Just a bit of fun. Helps to warm up for when I actually jump into valorant.

OVERALL: I still suck. My gamesense needs work, my crosshair placement could be better, my comms needs improveemnt. However, my aim is noticeably better albeit still pretty bad. I managed to rank up to bronze and now it seems like my aim is garbage compared to both teams again, so hopefully more daily aim lab will help with that.

Tracker.gg profile : https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/PhaxiPhaxi%23NA1/overview

TL;DR Targeted aim training works. Duh. Hardstuck Iron to casual bronze in less than a week.