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Micro Flick: a Valorant micro adjustment drill

Micro Flick is a Valorant micro adjustment drill. For 60 seconds, head-sized targets appear 15 m away, each just 1 to 6° from the last, and the score is kills × 100 × accuracy squared. It trains the tiny last correction that turns a near miss into a headshot, using your fingers and wrist.

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What are micro adjustments for?

They finish the job. Most kills in Valorant come from a crosshair that was almost right and needed a degree or two. At Standard these targets have a 0.11 m radius, the same as the head hitbox in AimKata’s hit model, and at 15 m that is less than a degree across.

How do you control movements this small?

Use your fingers and wrist, and keep the arm still. Grip pressure matters more here than anywhere else: if your hand is tense the small movements turn into jumps. Then click on the target, not while you are nearly on it.

Why does squaring accuracy change how you play?

Because a miss hurts twice. At 80% accuracy you keep only 64% of your kill score, and at 60% you keep 36%. The mistake that loses the most points is speeding up to chase kills, since the drill pays for clean runs far more than busy ones.

When should you do Micro Flick?

After Grid Flick, while your hand is warm but not tired. The Path pairs the two in its flicks chapter, and a run of 60 seconds is short enough to repeat. It is a good last check before you queue ranked.

What is a good Micro Flick score?

These are the Micro Flick scores at Standard difficulty where each rank starts.

RankScore from
Iron 11,282
Bronze 12,643
Silver 12,988
Gold 14,158
Platinum 15,798
Diamond 16,995
Ascendant 17,840
Immortal 19,769
Radiant12,873

AimKata’s own drill ranks, calibrated with a simulated player tuned to the reaction, aim and precision of each Valorant rank. They are a training yardstick and do not predict your Valorant rank.

Micro Flick settings and scoring

SettingMicro Flick
WeaponsGhost by default, or Vandal, Phantom, Sheriff, Classic, Operator
DifficultyRanked runs use Standard. Training runs use Easy, Medium, Hard, Elite or Adaptive.
ScoreKills × 100 × accuracy²
MovementYou stay in place
Enemy fireNothing shoots back
StandingRanked. Your best three ranked runs set your rank on this drill, which feeds your precision rank.
In the PathFlicks and micro-adjustments

Micro Flick questions

How small are the targets in Micro Flick?

Micro Flick targets have a 0.11 m radius at Standard, 15 m away, which is less than 1° across. Training goes from about 0.13 m at Easy to about 0.08 m at Elite.

How far apart are targets in Micro Flick?

Each Micro Flick target appears 1 to 6° from the previous one, in a random direction. The drill keeps them inside a window of 15° to either side, so you never wander off the wall.

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