Intro

Hi guys, after seeing this post earlier today, I started wondering how the sensitivity of pros differs from your average player. Grabbing the data from prosettings.net, I threw together a quick script to compare sensitivity distributions. To calculate your eDPI, simply multiply your mouse DPI by your in game sensitivity.

Data

side note: the reddit data was categorical (e.g. 201-400) so if there were, for example, 15 people in that category, I took a uniform distribution between that range and sampled 15 data points. This means the pro data is a little more accurate. Furthermore, there was far more data available for pro players.

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Takeaways

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Pros overwhelming fall within the 200-450 eDPI range, with a mean of 282 and a median of 256. The wider player base has a much larger variance in sensitivities (as you'd expect), as well as having a much higher average sensitivity (mean 442 and median 345).

In other words, if your eDPI is over 500 you're almost definitely doing something wrong, and if you're under 150-160 you're equally likely to be hurting your chances of success.

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While we often see people tout things like "its personal preference", this seems to be a bit of a misnomer as across the entire set of pros sampled, the great, great majority fall within the bounds of 200-300.

What are your thoughts?