Is there an effective method to retrain your muscle memory?
Muscle Memory is an effect not only known in gaming. It is an effect stored in your brain which is in gaming responsible for your capability of aiming with a mouse in e.g. First Person Shooters. I used a G5 Logitech Mouse for almost 8 years and the last few months it was half broken, but still worked. However, compared to my new mouse, Logitech Proteus Core G502, it was not really sensitive. My new mouse has higher polls, way higher sensitivity (up to 12.000 DPI@1000 polls/s) and, as expected, my aiming sucks.
Therefore I would like to know if there are any known exercises for gamers to retrain muscle memory for a new mouse effectively besides playing the games you play over and over until you stop sucking?
Best Answer
Buying a new mouse does not mean you must change your sensitivity. You should maintain the same sensitivity when going to a new mouse so your gameplay remains the same.
That said... if you do want to change your actual sensitivity than you will only improve after spending a lot of time with your new sensitivity. I would recommend doing some "mouse exercising games" to get use to the sensitivity (same idea as doing scales for a musical instrument or the typing exercise "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog").
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If you start to zero in on your cues and what happens in the moments before you start a routine, you open up opportunities to retrain that muscle memory.How long does it take to retrain muscle memory?
You'll need three months to gain it all back. It might come back even faster. Sports scientist Greg Nuckols noted that a 3-month detraining period might require a month or less to regain all of your lost muscle.What is the best way to train muscle memory?
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The first step to regaining your muscle and strength is to start lifting. Pick up the weights or get out your resistance bands and start training again. However, if you've had significant time off, then don't just jump in headfirst as your body needs to re-adapt to your strength workout.How To Use Muscle Memory To Re-Build Lost Muscle (Science Explained)
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DPI when referring to a mouse usually refers to its hardware capability in terms of the sensor's accuracy. How it actually maps to screen movement will vary from mouse to mouse and be dependent on the driver's implementation. So just because they advertise the same DPI doesn't necesarily mean your effective sensitivity will be the same. This is why there are some programs that allow you to measure your effective sensitivity:
http://www.mouse-sensitivity.com/dpianalyzer.html
For this to be of much use you'd really have to measure both your old and new mouse so that you'd have an idea of how you need to adjust sensitivity settings.
Not of much use to you now probably, but if you take the time to measure your current mouse then next time you change mice you will have a reference point when measuring the new mouse.
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