Apex Legends Sensitivity Calculator

Mouse sensitivity in Apex Legends determines how far your crosshair moves on screen for every inch you move your mouse. Getting this number right is one of the single most important steps any player can take to improve their aim consistency. Too high and your crosshair overshoots targets; too low and your reactions are sluggish during close-range fights.

Apex Legends uses a raw sensitivity value that ranges from 0.1 to 3.0 inside the game's settings menu. But the in-game sensitivity number alone tells only half the story — it must be combined with your mouse's hardware DPI (dots per inch) setting to understand how your cursor actually moves. A player running sensitivity 1.5 at 800 DPI feels very different from someone running 3.0 at 400 DPI, even though both configurations produce the same effective speed.

This Apex Legends sensitivity calculator takes both inputs and computes your eDPI (effective DPI), your physical mouse movement required per full 360-degree rotation, and your ADS (aim down sights) sensitivity — giving you a complete picture of how your settings translate into real-world aiming behaviour. Whether you are a new player trying to dial in your first setup or a veteran converting from another battle royale, this tool covers everything you need.

Apex Legends also ships with an ADS sensitivity multiplier that scales how fast your scope-in aim moves relative to hipfire. Setting it below 1.0 slows your scoped aim, which many players prefer for long-range precision. The game additionally allows per-optic ADS overrides so that each zoom level can have its own tuned value — a feature heavily used by professionals to maintain consistent real-world angular tracking across all magnifications.

The two most useful numbers when evaluating any mouse sensitivity setup are eDPI and cm/360. eDPI combines your hardware DPI with your in-game sensitivity into a single comparable figure. cm/360 tells you the physical centimetres of mouse movement required to spin your character one full revolution — the universal currency for comparing sensitivities across any game.

Apex Legends uses an internal yaw value of 0.022 degrees per tick at sensitivity 1.0 with a reference DPI of 400. The game's sensitivity scale is linear, and the resulting cm/360 formula accounts for the 5.0 multiplier baked into the Apex engine (the same constant used to normalise the yaw to physical distance).

Both formulas are exact matches to the calculations this tool performs:

• eDPI is simply DPI multiplied by your in-game sensitivity.
• cm/360 converts that effective speed into centimetres of desk space using the 2.54 cm/inch conversion factor, the 360-degree rotation, the game's internal yaw constant (5.0), and the DPI normalised to the 400-DPI reference baseline.
• ADS sensitivity is your hipfire sensitivity multiplied by the ADS multiplier you set in-game.
• Per-optic ADS values multiply the base ADS sensitivity by a scope-specific coefficient (1.0 for 1×, 0.9 for 2×, 0.8 for 3×, 0.7 for 4×–8× and 6×, 0.65 for 4×–10×).

Most competitive Apex Legends players target an eDPI between 800 and 1440, which corresponds to roughly 28–55 cm/360. This range gives enough speed for quick close-range tracking while retaining precision for long-range 3× engagements.

When you press your aim-down-sights button in Apex Legends, the game applies a second sensitivity layer on top of your hipfire setting. The ADS sensitivity multiplier is a number between roughly 0.1 and 2.0 that scales your hipfire sensitivity for all scoped engagements. A value of 1.0 means your ADS feel is identical to hipfire; anything below 1.0 slows it down.

Why would you want slower ADS tracking? At higher zoom levels the target appears larger on screen, which means even a small mouse twitch becomes a large angular movement. Reducing the ADS multiplier compensates, letting you fine-tune shots with gold and purple body armour opponents at 200+ metres. Many professional players set their ADS multiplier between 0.8 and 1.0 for a slight slowdown while keeping the feel familiar.

For players who compete at the highest level, Apex Legends offers per-optic ADS overrides that let each attachment zoom level carry its own dedicated sensitivity. The game ships with the following default per-optic multipliers that are applied on top of your base ADS sensitivity:

To use the per-optic feature, enable the checkbox in this calculator and it will compute each scope sensitivity for you automatically so you can enter exact values in Apex's advanced look controls menu.

If you are migrating to Apex Legends from another competitive FPS, the fastest way to feel at home immediately is to convert your existing sensitivity. Every game applies a different internal yaw value — the degrees-per-tick the camera rotates at sensitivity 1.0 — which means a raw sensitivity of 2.0 in CS2 is completely different from 2.0 in Apex Legends.

This calculator uses the standard cm/360 matching approach: it finds your physical cm/360 in the source game and works backwards to the Apex in-game value that produces the same physical rotation. The conversion multiplier for each game is derived as 5.0 / sourceYaw, where 5.0 is the Apex internal yaw constant and sourceYaw is the yaw of the origin game.

The supported conversion ratios built into this tool are:

Note that CS:GO/CS2 and Valorant share identical yaw values (3.18), so the conversion multiplier between those two games is exactly 1.0 — your sensitivity transfers directly. Players moving from Overwatch 2 will need a significantly lower Apex value because Overwatch's much higher yaw makes a given sensitivity number feel far faster than in Apex.

Not all eDPI values work equally well for every playstyle. This calculator classifies your eDPI into one of five speed brackets based on how competitive Apex Legends players and coaches categorise sensitivity ranges:

• Very Low (Precision) — eDPI below 800: Extremely low sensitivity used by precision snipers and long-range specialists. Tracking close-range opponents requires large arm sweeps. Players like Aceu (800 eDPI) sit right at the boundary of this bracket.
• Low (Competitive) — eDPI 800–1199: The most popular bracket among professional Apex players. Gives a balance of tracking ability and fine-aim precision. The majority of ALGS-level pros cluster here.
• Medium (Balanced) — eDPI 1200–1599: Works well for all-round play across all ranges. Slightly more comfortable for controller-crossover players and those new to mouse and keyboard.
• High (Aggressive) — eDPI 1600–2399: Favoured by aggressive entry-fraggers who prioritise fast flicks over precision. Useful for close-range legends like Wraith and Octane mains.
• Very High (Hyper) — eDPI 2400+: Extremely fast settings that require significant muscle-memory training. Rarely seen at the professional level for mouse players.

Looking at the pro player reference data embedded in this calculator, names like ImperialHal (1120 eDPI), Genburten (1040 eDPI), and Ras (960 eDPI) all fall comfortably within the Low (Competitive) bracket. The pro average of 960–1440 eDPI spans the Low-to-Medium range, confirming that the competitive sweet spot lies between approximately 25 and 55 cm/360 physical movement.

Rather than immediately copying a pro setting, use this tool to find the eDPI closest to your current feel, then gradually adjust in steps of 50–100 eDPI per week until your tracking and flicking consistency peaks.

Your DPI setting lives in your mouse driver software and affects every application on your PC — not just Apex Legends. The three most common competitive DPI settings are 400, 800, and 1600, each with different tradeoffs in precision and in-game sensitivity range.

At 400 DPI, your mouse hardware interpolates fewer physical dots, and any hardware imperfection or micro-stutter in the sensor has less visible effect. Many old-school CS players favour 400 DPI for this reason. The downside is that you need higher in-game sensitivity values to achieve the same eDPI, which can reduce precision at the sensitivity slider's granularity.

At 800 DPI — by far the most popular setting among both pro gamers and regular players — you get a clean balance. It is high enough that in-game sensitivity values stay in a comfortable 1.0–2.5 range for typical eDPI targets, and virtually every modern gaming mouse performs flawlessly at 800 DPI. This is the baseline used for almost all pro-settings databases.

At 1600 DPI, you achieve very low in-game sensitivity values (often 0.5–1.0) for an equivalent eDPI, which some players feel gives them a more precise feel. The risk is that some mice exhibit reduced accuracy at higher DPI settings due to hardware interpolation.

The eDPI formula makes DPI and in-game sensitivity interchangeable for the purposes of aim speed — 400 DPI at sensitivity 2.0 is identical to 800 DPI at sensitivity 1.0. What matters for your aim training is keeping your eDPI consistent. Use this Apex sensitivity calculator to verify that a DPI change does not accidentally shift your effective speed.