Surpass your limits with the bardOZ method in KovaaK's

Stuck on the same scores#

For a long time my aim training looked the same every day. Open KovaaK's, play my usual static scenarios, try to beat yesterday. Some days I did, most days I didn't, and after a while the numbers just stopped moving.

The annoying part is that I knew why. When I wanted a better score I clicked faster, and when I clicked faster I got sloppy. A few of those sloppy clicks still landed, so the score looked fine, but I wasn't actually getting better at anything.

What got me out of it was the bardOZ method.

Where it comes from#

bardOZ (Giovanni Frongia) is one of the best static aimers out there, and he's been sharing his way of training for years. People call it the "bardpill". It isn't a playlist. You keep playing the scenarios you already play, you just play them by his rules. He posted the short version on X and it's only four lines.

First, learn aiming the way you'd learn an instrument, slowly and correctly before you try to go fast. Second, flick fast but take your time on the correction. Third, if you miss in the first ten seconds, restart. Fourth, restart on your fourth miss.

When I first read it I thought it sounded too simple to matter. It isn't.

Why it actually helps#

Every fast shot is really two movements. There's the big flick that gets you near the target, and then a tiny correction that puts you on it. Most of us rush both, and the correction is where the misses come from.

bardOZ's rule pulls them apart. You still flick as fast as you want, but the correction gets slowed down until you actually land it. Weirdly, after a while the corrections get faster by themselves, because your flicks start landing closer and there's less left to fix.

The restart rules are what keep you honest. If four misses kill the run, you can't spam your way to a good score anymore. The only way through is clean shots, and that's exactly the habit you want to build.

How I ran it#

I only used it on static clicking scenarios in KovaaK's, the one-wall target ones and the small-target clickers I was already playing. I kept my Valorant sensitivity so everything carried over, and I kept sessions short, around 20 to 30 minutes. Any longer and I'd start getting lazy with the corrections.

Fair warning: your scores will drop at first. Mine did, for a few days. You're not getting the lucky hits anymore, so it feels like you got worse. You didn't. If restarting on the fourth miss feels impossible, a lot of people start at six and work their way down.

The one thing I added#

The rules tell you that you missed, but not why. So every time I had to restart, I made a tally mark on a piece of paper next to my keyboard. One column if the flick itself was way off, one column if the flick was fine and I just clicked too early.

After about a week it was obvious which one I had a problem with. For me it was clicking too early, pretty much every time. Once I knew that, I knew exactly what to slow down.

I also made myself end every session on a clean run instead of quitting right after a frustrating restart. Small thing, but it made me actually want to come back the next day.

Did it work?#

I didn't log my scores while doing this, so I can't show you a graph, which I kind of regret now. What I can tell you is that my misses stopped feeling random. When I missed, I knew why. In game, my first shots felt like I meant them instead of like I was hoping.

If you try it, save your scores on a couple of scenarios before you start and check them again after two weeks. Then you'll have the graph I don't.

Flick fast, correct slow, restart on the fourth miss. Give it a week.