[0:00]What's going on, everybody? Toby Wan Shinobi here and today, I'm going to fix your bad aim or at the very least, improve your aim. Now, a lot of people have struggled with bad aim for far too long without understanding the fundamental issue at play. This is an extremely common problem that a lot of people just don't know about. But the good news is, it's very easy to fix. So let's get into it. All right, so what's the root of the problem for bad aim? Well, for starters, looking at your crosshair. And then, on top of that, being distracted by visual effects or anything else that takes your eyes off of your enemy for even a millisecond. You would be incredibly surprised at how effective your motor functions of your hand and fingers are. If you put enough time on controller or mouse, then your hand and finger movements are generally very consistent and precise. Which means that the missing link is your visual focus. So Fortnite or any other shooter is just like sports. The best hitters keep their eye on the baseball the entire time and let their body do the work. The best tennis players watch the ball as it comes into the racket. The best basketball players focus on the basket when taking the shot. The best golf players are 100% focused on the ball. No athlete is looking at their racket, their club, their bat, or their hands when hitting or shooting. And it might be surprising, but that totally translates to aim in video games. The best players are not looking at their crosshair or their reticle. They are hyper-focused on their target and only their target. They allow their peripheral vision to line up the shot with the crosshair or pick up other information in the environment. I would wager that over 80% of aim duels that you've lost in any video game ever were the result of bad focus on your enemy. And a concerning amount of players aim by looking at their reticle first and then lining up a shot on their enemy. Which means they are always experiencing latency in gunfights. And what I mean by latency is that they're always trying to catch up to their target. Because their eyes are on their crosshair, they can't keep precise tracking on enemy movements or cues. Meaning if an enemy animation changes, they usually don't see it right away to realize that they're beginning to move in a different direction. They're too busy lining up their crosshair on the enemy, so their aim is always lagging behind. So how do we fix that? Well, a couple things. Number one, turn off your reticle in whatever game you play. I'm not joking. In Fortnite, that is under your game UI settings, and it's the first option at the top. You can even take it a step further and turn off every piece of UI on the screen. This will also help with reload management and other pieces of game sense. Now go jump into practice maps or creative lobbies and play for a bit with your crosshair off. I recommend the pit zero build, the code's on screen and in the video description below. Now, you might be surprised as to how accurate your shots are, and you might even be more surprised to learn that your close-range aim is now significantly better without a crosshair. Have you noticed that the gameplay that's been playing in the background the whole time has no crosshair at all? I recently did a one-on-one training with someone, and I noticed their aim was really struggling in close range fights. After some time, I said, hey, let's try something new. Go to your settings and turn off your reticle. No joke, as soon as he did that, his aim improved three-fold. He began to absolutely shred me in close range fights. He was blown away, and I could hear the joy in his voice. He literally fixed his aim with a single setting, and then proceeded to call me Dr. Shinobi for the rest of the training, while I continued to diagnose other issues I was noticing. He even decided he'd rather play with no crosshair at all for the foreseeable future, because his aim was so much better without it. What he hadn't realized was that the whole time he'd been looking at his crosshair during fights and trying to line it up with the enemy, instead of focusing his sight on the enemy. He was basically swinging a bat at a ball, but only watching the ball from his peripheral vision the whole time. So I highly encourage you to turn off your reticle during your warm-up or practice games before you start real Battle Royale. This will improve your visual focus on your enemy and you'll start aiming with more instinct. Watch the comparison between these two types of aiming. All right, hopefully to better illustrate what I'm talking about with visual focus, I am using a Toby Eye tracker 5. And basically it's shooting infrared laser beams into my eyeballs and reflecting their movement on screen. So you can see that little red dot moving around, that is actually where my focus is. I'm looking up at the score, looking over at these eliminations, shots missed, shots, and then I'm looking at this guy. Now I'm looking at my reticle. So, wherever my eyes look, the little ball goes. Now, hopefully this illustrates the difference between crosshair aiming and focusing on your enemy. So, for focusing on our enemy, we're going to hit a lot more shots. And when I focus on my enemy, it actually might look like I'm crosshair aiming. But really, what's happening is my hands and my fingers are so in sync with my eyes, that really, I'm just following the player, and then my hands and fingers are doing all the movement to kind of catch up, or not even catch up, but just be completely in sync. So it's a lot cleaner like this. If I look at my crosshair the whole time, I'm going to be trying to like kind of line this stuff up, and I'm always going to be lagging. I'm always lagging to these movements because I'm just using my peripheral to find my enemy instead of my actual eyes. I'm looking too much at the crosshair and it's kind of hard. Like I'll lose them in these fast movements and I'm sure that's happening to a lot of people in fights when people are moving around crazy, right? When they start jumping around, sliding, moving left and right, you're just going to start missing shots because you're looking at your crosshair and you're not reading the enemy movement. So here's what it looks like if I am looking at my crosshair the whole time while trying to shoot these guys that are moving around crazy.
[6:00]Okay, when it gets when I line them up, yeah, it's great, but it's super hard to find them unless they get right into that crosshair, right? So, it might look like it's a minor difference, but it is a huge difference because every time they move, I'm basically lagging behind. trying to try to find out where they went and get them back into my sights. It's just, it's really bad, and I'm sure a lot of people are doing this. They just have no idea, right? All right, now here's what it looks like to track players and let my hands and fingers do the work. Now again, it's going to look like I'm crosshair aiming because they're so in sync that it looks like I'm just looking at my crosshair, but really I'm looking at the enemy the entire time. Here we go.
[7:05]Right there, I got a little distracted, I started looking at my crosshair and I missed a few shots that were easy. And it happens to me too, right? I'll start looking at my crosshair a little bit because I kind of get distracted. But if you keep full visual focus on your enemy, you're going to hit way more shots. All right, I hope that was helpful just kind of showing the difference between crosshair aiming, right? Looking at your crosshair the whole time versus tracking your enemy with your eyes and the major benefits that that's going to give you by being able to read their movement. Real quick, if you're enjoying this video, please consider smashing that like button and using code Toby Wan Shinobi in your Fortnite item shop. If you take both of those actions, your in-game accuracy will increase by 7%, and you will be a better person. Thank you, my friend. All right, now let's talk about the other major factor to improving your aim, which is sustaining visual focus. You probably don't realize how difficult it is to remain visually focused on a target and not be distracted by anything in the environment. Here's a fun little exercise to show you what I mean. Go ahead and look around your environment, anywhere in the room. Find a singular point to focus on that's at least 10 feet away. Make sure there's also some other objects around this point. It could be the tip of an object in a framed painting, an electronic device laying on a table, whatever. Now, stare at that point for 60 seconds straight with total focus on that singular point. Go ahead and focus on a point, pause the video and count to 60. Now, you may have noticed that after 30 or 40 seconds, your eyes started to get fuzzy blobs and your vision might begin to swirl. This is because your brain craves new stimuli to look at. And during this exercise, you might notice that if something in the environment is moving at all, your focus is easily drawn to it and you will take your eyes off your target. Now, in pretty much every single video game these days, there are hundreds of distracting effects that will draw your eye at any given time. In Fortnite, you'll be fighting someone and your shield might crack, which has a very intense effect where blue glass shatters around your character, and as you're being shot, your screen is shaking and bright blue and red hit markers are flying around the outside of your crosshair. It is extremely distracting and your brain is begging to look at these crazy effects and stop looking at your enemy. So even if you have good focus on an enemy during a fight, it can easily be lost for a moment by a single visual effect displayed on your screen, which frequently breaks your focus and loses you the fight. This is also super common in fights where you feel like you're at a huge advantage. Have you ever had someone so hurt that all you needed to do was land a few more shots in them and then they'd be eliminated, only to find that you couldn't land a single bullet and they ended up eliminating you instead? Well, this has been so common for me that I call it lazy aim. You let down your guard and you decided you didn't need to try all that hard to finish the fight. But it turns out if you aren't trying very hard, your aim is really terrible because you don't properly focus on your enemy, causing you to choke an easy fight and lose. So we need to improve our visual stamina and focus. And the good news is that can easily be done with eye tracking exercises. I made a video that is simply a ball moving around the screen quickly with a distracting background environment. A link to this video in the video description below. The challenge is to keep 100% focus on the leading edge of the ball and not be distracted by the background environment. The more you do this, the better your visual focus will become. This is also extremely effective at warming up your eyes before playing any game, and you'll find that your aim will be much better right off the bat without having to warm up very much at all. If you do this every day, you'll begin to notice that your in-game focus will improve and you'll be hitting your targets much more consistently when playing. All right, I hope this video fixes your bad aim or will significantly help improve your aim over time. If you enjoy this type of analytical content with the aim to improve your Fortnite Zero Build gameplay, you've got to check out my must-watch playlist on my YouTube channel for Fortnite Zero Build. I promise you won't regret it. And if you want to help support me and my family, please hit that like button and use code Toby Wan Shinobi in your Fortnite item shop. Thank you so much, my friend. Have yourself a great day. Shinobi out.
