How long did it take you to become "decent-good" at Cs go ?

[nhatduy1611]

Just got cs go for myself 5 day ago due to the sales and i'm slowy improving bit by bit. I just won my first competitive match today and it was a really nice comeback on dust 2 even though we were down 4-11 after the first half. I want to know how long did it take for you to reach the ranked that are considered to be "decent-good" at the game like MG1+ ?

[TheGamingBarrel]

I dont consider myself decent good, and I was supreme.

[nhatduy1611]

I dont consider myself decent good, and I was supreme.

How come ? Smfc is a really high rank already 

[ZetZet]

Longer than a year.

 

MG1 is not a decent rank, it's only one step above the majority of all player base.

 

Eagle and above is a decent rank.

[IMPERIUS]

I got mg1 after the 10 comp wins, I would say I got my aiming and reflexes skills from my earlier battlefield days

[Minetex]

Maybe about 200 hours? But now, seriously, the Valve MM sucks, I just play FaceIt, till they fix some of the things and start banning the right people.

[xQubeZx]

I can say I don't consider myself "good" and I've reached supreme as highest. But say DMG can be considered "decent" by many (I'm not one of them since I aim to be the best in most things...even though in CS I wont get best obviosly) but it took me around 300-400 hours reach DMG (It was before all the VAC waves and such because now its a lot easier, helped my brother to MGE in a few days. 

[TheGamingBarrel]

How come ? Smfc is a really high rank already 

High Rank =/= High Skill.

[KemoKa]

Define "Decent-good"? I hardly ever play competitive matches and have been playing for less than a month, but in most casual deathmatches I'm always around the middle of the leader board, so I'm not terrible.

 

I'd played an awful lot of Bioshock Infinite and Borderlands 2 prior to CS:GO, so... In terms of FPS games I'm not the worst in the world, but I'm by no means the Awesome Deathgrip Overlord.

[DebatED Nothing]

I'll tell you when I get there.

[Vivilacqua1]

5 hours. When I first got on, I played pretty well, but my friends showed me what to do, and after playing with them I consider myself moderately good.

[BrightCandle]

The second time I went from pretty good to competition grade was about 2 years of nightly training. You can train reasonable accuracy in a few hundreds of hours but match grade accuracy takes considerably longer. I would estimate with COD European championships I was putting in about 3000 hours before I got selected to run a team and then another 3000 hours in practice and playing the competition itself. I started from a baseline pretty average FPS player but i put in a lot of hours to continuously improve.

 

So I would estimate for me it was about 1 year of CS, 2 years of COD for a total of 9-10k hours. After I won the match I quit playing and returned to gaming a few years later and found myself pretty average again!

[Fluffinator]

Still getting there, in Global it's insane how good people can get. I have 2,000 hours and there are people still way way better then me. (Global Here)

[Praesi]

Depends on your natural Skill. Some People will never reach the Top, no matter how long they play.

[eLucid]

Depends on your natural Skill. Some People will never reach the Top, no matter how long they play.

 

Very much this.

 

You can have perfect aim and know all the spam spots/angles in maps and still be just average. The real skill comes when you're under pressure in 1v2+ situations. Do you often win these scenarios? Are you clutch? Can you carry your team if they're under performing?

 

Reading and outplaying opponents is something very few people master. People call this "meta game". If you can anticipate what the other team is doing then you're well on your way to becoming a pretty damn good player.

Edited January 1, 2016 by eLucid

[crystal6tak]

I don't even know if I'm "decent good"

 

Certainly never topped the scoreboard yet, but I can manage 1.5+ K/D most of the time.

 

I mean, I don't consider myself a bad FPS player, I easily top the scoreboard in games like Battlefield 3/4 with 3-6 K/D. But god damn, CS:GO is a whole other level of FPS shooter.

 

As to how long I've played CS:GO, I started playing 1.6 against bots or friends on lan 4 years back. Played a variety of shooters over the past years. Only recently got into CS:GO though.

[Stickeric]

5 hours. When I first got on, I played pretty well, but my friends showed me what to do, and after playing with them I consider myself moderately good.

 

What did you play in those 5 hours?

[eLucid]

Most people on here claiming to be "good" will never play beyond cevo-im. That's average, period.

[Vivilacqua1]

What did you play in those 5 hours?

mainly bomb scenario with only our friends, about six to eight of us. Three of us were newbies and the rest were high ranks (can't remember what)

[X99stattrak]

260hours and I'm sadly only a dmg, currently have my main down in nova 3 trying to tune game sense.

[fank]

ehh. i personally consider supreme decent (the rank ive been at for a while)

and div 2+ are good players

and any players who perform well at lan i could consider great

 

it took me about a year from when i picked up css til I made nationals to answer OP's question

after owning the game and seeking improvement for 1 month i found my first team, then started to scrim on private servers

if you want to improve, actively try to improve

most people want to have fun, which is probably the best option unless you want to make money in cs

[Monarch]

You can play it for 10 years without getting better. It's about studying the game and getting good advice from the pros. I would never reach Eagle without Adren's advice here: https://www.youtube.com/user/CurseCS?&ab_channel=adreN_TV

[Yoyomaster420]

I have 250+ hours in game. I have been playing for 8 weeks. Everytime I play I learn something new. No matter how good you get there will always be someone better, this is why I love csgo.

 

So if your having fun keep playing.

[JorenBus]

Took me around 10 months or so (500 hours) to get to global with no previous cs experience.

It really depends, I have friends who needed 2.000+ hours to reach global.

[Stickeric]

Most people on here claiming to be "good" will never play beyond cevo-im. That's average, period.

Well to be honest teams etc are not 'average' those are good players and not just 'average'.

See image of an example what the rank distribution is

 

 

mainly bomb scenario with only our friends, about six to eight of us. Three of us were newbies and the rest were high ranks (can't remember what)

 

So you were playing casual that's usually a easy gamemode but will not show how good someone will do in competitive, and competitive is harder to learn in just '5' hours.