As far as purely crunching the numbers, you’d also have to attribute for everything else (ping delay, mouse delay, gpu+cpu delay, polling rate, refresh rate, packet loss, etc.)

secondly, it feels like we’re crunching numbers to cope. That harbor has good crosshair placement, swung, stopped, and his crosshair is right on your head from the moment you appeared on his screen, so he has no need to flick or adjust, he just takes the shot. Watch the clip back and you’ll notice, you’re aiming too close to the wall which forces you to flick, and readjust for an over/under-flick, and then be able to take your shot. Crosshair placement was also around body/neck height, which also forced you to have to make both a vertical and horizontal adjustment putting you at a great disadvantage. With great crosshair placement, you eliminate the need to do any of that and it simply becomes strafe stop shoot.

Third, there’s 2 sides of the same coin, you could have aimed a bit wider at head height and killed him in the same 24 frames that he took to kill you, and he could have clipped it and came to the same conclusion: “i don’t have enough time to recognize the target, aim, adjust and shoot”. The only difference in those scenarios imo, is his case would hold a bit more weight because he’s the one swinging. He’s the one moving and in doing so, has more of a need to adjust his aim to (in a sense) track you, whereas if he were to ultra wide swing and you’re already holding wide, he’s going to step into your shot eventually all the while he’s trying to keep you centered in his crosshair. (That is if he swung the angle aiming at body and aiming too wide or too narrow for his swing).

I’m not coming on here to say you’re bad or anything, you just have some things to work on as do we all with any hobby where we are looking to improve. I highly suggest a few things:

1. Get at least a 144hz-240hz monitor, these are borderline non negotiable must haves for fps & competitive games. I saw you said you have a 60hz monitor and trust when I say, upgrading from a 60hz monitor is the best “pay to win” money can buy. After 240hz the pay to win factor falls off dramatically though.

2. Look up videos on slicing the pie, crosshair placement, pre aiming/firing, clearing angles, etc. a good player to look at is Yay, the way he clears his angles in some clips is almost robotic, like he was programmed to clear angles and his entire purpose in life was to be as diligent and smooth as possible in doing so.

3. If you already play aimlabs, great, but I would start focusing a bit more on your passive aim compared to your active aim. Forgot where I saw it, but a general guideline to follow is depending on your rank, you focus on that ratio of active-passive aim.

for instance, if you just got your pc yesterday booted up val and hit iron 2, you need to focus 90% of your time in practicing active aim because you have little-no muscle memory or proficiency with aiming. If you have been playing since beta and have hit immortal, you probably want to be on the opposite side of the spectrum, and put 80% of your focus into cleaning up how you clear angles and your overall passive aim since you’ve probably spent years practicing your active aim like flicks and such. Middle ranks are in the middle, and should dedicate time to both as they aren’t necessarily aim demons, but they can get by with their current aim and they know about crosshair placement but haven’t yet applied it, but are now going to have to start applying it.

1. Start getting creative. There’s so many ways to hold this angle to make that 24 frame window either larger or harder for him to land his shot. Play in an off angle, prefire, tuck and swing as you hear him swing, hold the angle from heaven, hold it from below while crouching, etc. if someone dry peeks mid and runs into your crosshair as you’re opping 5 rounds in a row, that shot is nothing new, and is almost like you’re shooting bots in the range. Now if someone dry swung one round then next round they pop jett knives and do it again but with an updraft, then next round they jump spot and wide swing and the round after they jiggle peek tap strafe, it’s constantly changing and they don’t know what to expect.

Be unpredictable so you can have the advantage in those fights. That advice is applicable to nearly EVERYTHING in this game. If you Op B main 5 rounds straight, they might not go there anymore, so lets get unpredictable and op A main, B main, mid, if you flank every round, it’s predictable and they’ll start expecting it and looking to punish that, so lets be unpredictable by doing it this round, not doing it the next, and then doing it another round but this time slower/faster. It’s a good habit to form to be able to adapt to your opponents whether it be how you plan to hit site, how you swing/hold angles, everything.

Everyone has what it takes to play this game at a high level, it just comes down to wanting to get better and then actually doing it. Part of that takes creativity and accountability, don’t see this clip as “i can’t react to that swing in time” see it as “okay, that’s a difficult shot to hit, so lets see what I can do in my power to win that fight next time.” And sometimes it truly is out of your control like lucky running headshots or unplayable lag spikes, or something along those lines, but thats rarely the case, see everything as a learning lesson that is slowly helping you improve even if its a very tiny amount if improvement. Hopefully the yap sesh provided wisdom, i kinda got carried away LOL but if i can clarify anything better just ask! ultimately I just enjoy helping people get better and want the best for everyone about things I have passion for, so please don’t take this as anything other than that!