CS:GO is a game of strategy and reflexes. Even if you have the perfect gameplan, you’ll need a decent aim to seal the deal. While most professional players have years of experience, you can try to catch up to them, starting with aim training maps.
These maps are specifically designed to improve your aim by putting you in various in-game situations that will sharpen your skills. There’s one thing that most of these maps miss out on mentioning, however, and that’s the importance of your crosshair. If you’ve tuned into any professional matches, you may have noticed that not a single professional uses the default crosshair.
The main reason why players customize their crosshair is because the regular one is actually less than ideal when it comes to accuracy. While it does a good job of informing you about your weapon’s current spread rate, it can be too distracting at times. Most members of the community already know when their shots are accurate and when they have a wide spread rate, so having an indicator for that eventually becomes pointless.
Alongside making your crosshair more stable you can also tinker with its size and color to make it more noticeable while playing. These minor adjustments are usually up to personal preferences, but taking a look at what the best players in the game are doing will always be a decent idea to improve your gameplay. Feel free to make any changes to these crosshairs since the results may also vary depending on your monitor’s color profile.
Here are the best crosshair settings that pros use in CS:GO.
How can you use other players’ crosshair settings in CS:GO?
Before copying the crosshairs professional players use, you need to learn how you can copy and paste the crosshair configs to the game’s console. All you need to do is turn on the developer console through CS:GO‘s in-game settings and after that, toggle the key so it opens up. After the console is open, copy and paste the crosshair settings you’ll find below and press enter so they can be activated.
The best crosshairs in CS:GO
S1mple
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 5; cl_crosshaircolor_b 145; cl_crosshaircolor_g 255; cl_crosshaircolor_r 0; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -3; cl_crosshairsize 1.5; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 0; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
S1mple is the greatest player to ever play CS:GO. He was named the game’s player of the decade by ESL in 2022, was awarded the best player in the world three different times by HLTV, and won numerous tournaments in his career, including the PGL Stockholm Major in 2021. If that’s not enough to convince you to play his crosshair, nothing is.
ZywOo
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 4; cl_crosshaircolor_b 255; cl_crosshaircolor_g 255; cl_crosshaircolor_r 255; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -3; cl_crosshairsize 2; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 0; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
ZywOo started playing CS:GO professionally just in 2018, but he has already made history in the game. He was named the best player in the world by HLTV back-to-back in 2019 and 2020, and second-best player on the two next occasions due to his outstanding individual performances under Vitality, establishing a fierce rivalry with s1mple.
Ropz
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 1; cl_crosshaircolor_b -1000; cl_crosshaircolor_g 0; cl_crosshaircolor_r -1000; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -3; cl_crosshairsize 2; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 0; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
Ropz burst into the professional scene in 2017 after great showings in FACEIT Pro League amid cheating accusations made by fellow pros. He joined MOUZ in the same year and went on to develop into one of the game’s best riflers, especially in the lurker role. After helping MOUZ to win titles like ESL Pro League season 10 in 2019, he joined FaZe Clan in January 2022 and since then has helped them to become a dominant team who have won several events, including the PGL Antwerp Major in 2022, ESL Pro League season 17, and the Intel Grand Slam in March 2023.
M0NESY
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 253; cl_crosshaircolor 2; cl_crosshaircolor_b 255; cl_crosshaircolor_g 255; cl_crosshaircolor_r 255; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -3; cl_crosshairsize 2; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 0; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
The Russian AWPer m0NESY quickly became a popular figure in the professional scene after signing with G2 Esports in January 2022. Even though G2 went through some difficult hardships in the season, everyone could tell it wasn’t m0NESY’s fault, as he was displaying his talent in almost every tier-one tournament. G2 sorted out their gameplan at the end of the 2022 and since then have become one of the best teams in the world thanks to m0NESY’s firepower, and won premier events like BLAST Premier World Final in December 2022 and IEM Katowice in February 2023.
NiKo
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 5; cl_crosshaircolor_b 145; cl_crosshaircolor_g 255; cl_crosshaircolor_r 0; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -3; cl_crosshairsize 1.5; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 0; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
Even though NiKo is one of the most mechanically gifted players to compete in CS:GO, he struggled to win tournaments throughout his career because his teams were rarely the best out there. He had moments in FaZe between 2017 and 2020 in which he lifted tier-one titles, and is now trying to help G2 transform into a winning team. He’s arguably the best rifler in the world, so it’s more than worth checking out his crosshair if you play with the AK-47 and M4A4 or M4A1-S.
Dev1ce
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 5; cl_crosshaircolor_b 170; cl_crosshaircolor_g 255; cl_crosshaircolor_r 0; cl_crosshairdot 1; cl_crosshairgap -3; cl_crosshairsize 1; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 0; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
Even though dev1ce has never been named the best player in the world, he was up there competing against the best almost every time and played a major role in Astralis’ four Major titles between 2017 and 2019. The Danish AWPer is also known as “Mr. Consistent” due to his great individual performances year after year and is currently one of the few reasons Astralis are still competitive in CS:GO.
Twistzz
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 4; cl_crosshaircolor_b 255; cl_crosshaircolor_g 255; cl_crosshaircolor_r 255; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -2; cl_crosshairsize 1.5; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 0; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
Canadian rifler Twistzz is high up there when it comes to mechanical skill and headshot percentage, and is the most successful CS:GO player from North America of all time, after helping Liquid in a dominant run in 2019, securing the Intel Grand Slam, and helping FaZe to do the same between 2022 and 2023.
Sh1ro
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 2; cl_crosshaircolor_b 255; cl_crosshaircolor_g 255; cl_crosshaircolor_r 255; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -3; cl_crosshairsize 2; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 0; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
Russian AWPer sh1ro has been on the rise since 2020 when he was still part of Gambit Youngsters. That team went on to become Gambit, and the roster was later sold to Cloud9 in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sh1ro is currently one of the three best players in the world, and has helped C9 win IEM Dallas in June 2022 and finish runners-up at ESL Pro League season 17 in March 2023. He’s one of the youngest players out there and yet so dominant, so it might be worth checking what kind of crosshair he’s wrecking people with.
Ax1Le
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 5; cl_crosshaircolor_b 192; cl_crosshaircolor_g 255; cl_crosshaircolor_r 0; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -0.5; cl_crosshairsize 3; cl_crosshairstyle 5; cl_crosshairthickness 0.5; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
Together with sh1ro, Ax1Le is one of the reasons Gambit successfully made the leap to tier-one back in 2020. Unlike his teammate, Ax1Le is a rifling specialist and can put down any player in the world, even s1mple, on any given day when C9 are playing well.
KSCERATO
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 800; cl_crosshaircolor 1; cl_crosshaircolor_b 125; cl_crosshaircolor_g 50; cl_crosshaircolor_r 255; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -4; cl_crosshairsize 1; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 1;
KSCERATO is currently the best Brazilian player in CS:GO esports. He has grown into one of the most dominant riflers in the world ever since FURIA moved to North America in 2018 and is the key reason why FURIA keeps floating around the top 10 teams in the world. Whenever FURIA win a match, you’ll see KSCERATO sitting on top of the scoreboard, so his crosshair can be real useful if you want to try something new.
FalleN
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 1; cl_crosshaircolor_b 255; cl_crosshaircolor_g 255; cl_crosshaircolor_r 200; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -2; cl_crosshairsize 4; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 1; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
FalleN might be at the end of his professional career, but he’s still a relevant name in the competitive scene after all he did to enable Brazil to grow into one of the most respected countries in CS:GO. He’s been playing for over 20 years, taught many professional players and casuals how to win the game, and led the Luminosity Gaming and later SK Gaming roster to win back-to-back Majors in 2016. If you’re starting to play CS:GO right now, there’s nothing better to use the same crosshair “The Professor” does.
CadiaN
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 2; cl_crosshaircolor_b 50; cl_crosshaircolor_g 250; cl_crosshaircolor_r 250; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -2; cl_crosshairsize 2.5; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 1.1; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 2;
CadiaN has been around CS:GO since the first Major tournament in 2013, but after a rough path in his career, he only became popular after joining Heroic at the end of 2019 and guiding them to multiple tournament wins, including tier-one LAN tournament BLAST Premier Fall Finals in November 2022. He mains the AWP but also plays with rifles quite often, which means his crosshair settings are ideal for hybrid players.
XANTARES
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 1; cl_crosshaircolor_b 50; cl_crosshaircolor_g 250; cl_crosshaircolor_r 50; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap 0; cl_crosshairsize 3; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 0.5; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
XANTARES is the best Turkish player of all time and the one who has kept the country relevant after all these years. Even though he hasn’t won too many trophies in CS:GO, everyone knows he’s one of the best riflers of the game and could play for a team better than Eternal Fire if he wanted to. He’s also known for playing with his face nearly glued to the screen, so his crosshair might be a good option if you also do that.
KennyS
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 200; cl_crosshaircolor 1; cl_crosshaircolor_b 50; cl_crosshaircolor_g 250; cl_crosshaircolor_r 50; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -3; cl_crosshairsize 2; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairthickness 0; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
There are only a few professional CS:GO players that can be remembered for their prowess with a single weapon in the game, but kennyS is one of them. When anyone thinks of the AWP, his name comes to mind and his crosshair reflects that. He’s not on top of his game anymore, but still is a very respected name in the scene and recently became the player with the most AWP kills in LAN tournaments.
F0rest
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 5; cl_crosshaircolor_b 255; cl_crosshaircolor_g 255; cl_crosshaircolor_r 255; cl_crosshairdot 1; cl_crosshairgap -5; cl_crosshairsize 1; cl_crosshairstyle 5; cl_crosshairthickness 0; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1;
A new generation of professional CS:GO players have already arrived, but they still have a lot to learn from the veterans. F0rest’s career speaks for itself, having competed at the highest level in both CS 1.6 and CS:GO, and the Swede is still active in the scene, showing that he still isn’t done with his legacy. F0rest’s crosshair is a decent fit for anyone that rotates between different weapon types throughout a game. Despite shining as a rifler, f0rest himself also doesn’t hesitate to pick up an AWP if it’s needed.
Shroud
- cl_crosshair_drawoutline 1; cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 3; cl_crosshaircolor_b 250; cl_crosshaircolor_g 250; cl_crosshaircolor_r 250; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -2; cl_crosshairsize 5; cl_crosshairstyle 1; cl_crosshairthickness 1.5; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 2;
This wouldn’t be a true list if it didn’t include the crosshair of former professional CS:GO player and king of all FPS games shroud. The North American doesn’t play CS:GO as much nowadays, but you can expect him to make a comeback once Counter-Strike 2 fully releases in summer 2023. If you want to get the perspective of a player that dominates in nearly every FPS title, it won’t hurt to test Shroud’s crosshair in CS:GO.
