I've turned on accel about a month or two ago. I'm using a WMO (400dpi), as of now I'm using 4 sensitivity and .2 accel. I was using .1 accel before but decided to increase it.

I've toyed with other values, lowering sens, increasing accel, then trying increasing sens and lowering accel, and I find 4 sens with .2 accel is comfortable, but I don't feel confident with it. It's a nice sensitivity, but when it comes to rail, I don't feel confident at all. My rail accuracy has dropped 5% or so since turning on accel, which I'm fine with, considering my rockets are a lot better and LG.

Point being, during tense situations it feels odd. Maybe too high, I'm not sure.

How long did it take for you to get fully confident and comfortable with accel? Should I try having accel turned off when I have rail out? Are there any tips or suggestions for accel?

Thanks :)

BTW I'm an arm player, I aim with a BIT of wrist but mostly arm. (if that helps)

UPDATE: I appreciate all the responses so far, very helpful, you are kind people :)

What I think I've decided (not 100% on) is that maybe accel isn't me. Maybe I'm not a person who should be using accel. I never grew up with accel when I played PC games, and maybe if I did with certain games, I didn't know it was on.

That being said, I never grew up with it, so I don't think I should be turning it on at this point. 4 sens with .1 felt pretty nice, but the rail was definitely lacking.

When I tried having 4.6 sens with no accel yesterday, I felt 1000% more confident in my game. I felt like I was actually aiming properly, it felt extremely nice. With accel, it felt like there was always some doubt, and if nervousness kicked in or anything, I didn't feel confident at all.

So, unless I add some very LOW amount of accel to my existing sense (Running 5 sens now), I doubt I'll turn it back on. I think if I grew up with accel a few years back, maybe I'd be used to it. At this point, I don't think I can really mess around with accel right now. Who knows, it could take me a year to fully get confident with it, and that can be a long time. Sure I have to move the mouse more now, but I just feel so much better about my aim with it off.

I guess I'm just not an accel person :)