Valorant Crosshair Cheat Sheet Weekly

Understanding the Valorant Crosshair Cheat Sheet Weekly

I have spent more hours than I care to count tweaking crosshair settings in Valorant, and most people never get past the basic presets. This is where the weekly cheat sheet becomes useful. It is a compilation of tested crosshair configurations that are updated regularly, not a static list you set once and forget. The weekly format means something important. Riezeveld, the developer behind the tool that generates these sheets, accounts for changes in Valorant's render pipeline, updates to how crosshairs behave at different framerates, and shifts in the meta. The most common crosshairs on the sheet are the ones that sit in the sweet spot between visibility and recoil control. I use these numbers as a starting point, not as gospel. Here is how the actual system works, from download to final setting.

The cheat sheet lists five core parameters: inner horizontal, inner vertical, outer horizontal, outer vertical, and thickness. There are also gap settings, color codes, and opacity values. Most people only look at the first three numbers and ignore everything else. That is the difference between a crosshair that looks clean on paper and one that actually tracks well during sprays. The inner gap is the one most players mess up. A gap that is too tight causes the crosshair to blur together during recoil. A gap that is too wide makes micro-adjustments feel floaty. The goldilocks zone for most competitive settings sits between 1.5 and 2.0 for inner horizontal and vertical. Thickness matters just as much. The default Valorant crosshair is a single pixel thick, which is nearly invisible during fast mouse movements. Setting thickness to 1.0 or slightly above keeps it readable without eating into your vision. I ran into a specific problem a few months ago that the sheet did not explicitly address. I was using a preset with an inner horizontal gap of 1.8 and outer horizontal of 3.6, but the crosshair appeared much wider on screen than the numbers suggested. The issue was my monitor's scaling. Windows was running at 150% display scaling, which caused the in-game crosshair renderer to apply an extra offset that made the gaps appear roughly 1.5 times larger than the raw values. The workaround was simple: I set Valorant to run in borderless windowed mode, disabled Windows scaling overrides for the game in the compatibility tab, and the crosshair matched the sheet numbers exactly. Without that fix, I was playing with a crosshair that was functionally a different configuration from what anyone else was using.

Here is a counter-intuitive thing about Valorant crosshairs. Smaller is not always better. A compact crosshair like the common 0,0,2,2,1 preset might look elegant, but at high refresh rates and fast flicks, the tiny gap can cause eye strain. Your eyes constantly try to fill in the missing center pixel, which creates a subtle but real fatigue over a long session. Some of the better presets on the weekly sheet actually use slightly wider gaps than you would expect because they account for this. Another detail that gets missed is the dynamic crosshair behavior. When you move in Valorant, the crosshair expands outward before snapping back to its resting position. The speed of that snap back is governed by your crosshair settings, not your sensitivity. A wider outer gap with a thinner thickness will actually snap back faster than a compact crosshair with the same inner values. I tested this repeatedly with frame-by-frame recording. The difference is measurable, usually around 10 to 15 milliseconds of recovery time. Over a full round, that adds up. There is a section on the cheat sheet for color codes. The standard recommendation is a bright green or cyan against dark backgrounds, but the real factor is contrast ratio, not hue. If you play predominantly on maps with lots of greenery like Ascent or Haven, a green crosshair loses definition. Switching to a cyan or white variant during those matches is a marginal gain that adds up across multiple games.

The process of applying a crosshair from the sheet takes about three minutes. Open the settings menu, navigate to the crosshair tab, select Custom, and input the five numbers. Then set the color using the hex code provided. That is it. You do not need third-party tools unless you want to automate the process across multiple profiles. The built-in Valorant system handles it fine. One limitation of the weekly sheet is that it does not account for individual hardware variations in input lag. Two players with different mice, different poll rates, and different monitor response times will perceive the same crosshair slightly differently. If you have a 360Hz monitor and 1000Hz mouse polling, the crosshair feels tighter than someone on a 144Hz display with 125Hz polling. The sheet values remain consistent, but the feel does not. This is unavoidable. For most players, I recommend picking one preset from the sheet that has good reviews in the community, applying it, and then using it for at least a week before making any changes. The most common mistake is switching crosshairs every few days because it feels weird. Everything feels weird for about four to six days as your muscle memory adjusts. After that period, the crosshair either works or it does not, and you can make an informed decision.

If you want the latest version, search for the official Valorant Crosshair Cheat Sheet Weekly from Riezeveld's community pages. The numbers there reflect the current state of the game, and they are more reliable than any archived list you might find on a random forum from six months ago.