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Kyle "Ksharp" Miller (born 1984) is a professional Counter-Strike player. His success has allowed him to defer attending college while earning a living as a gamer. Kyle currently plays for Team 3D.

Career

Miller started his professional career at the age of 14. Miller broke into the American CS scene with CK and NHG, but it was with X3 (eXtreme 3) that he made a name for himself. His precise play in de_dust2 against iwa (Issues with Authority) led to the back of the B bomb site being designated the "Ksharp spot" by players around the world. Miller, along with clanmates Ronald "Rambo" Kim and Sean "Bullseye" Morgan, left X3 and formed Team 3D (Desire, Discipline, and Dedication). He has won three Cyberathlete Professional League tournaments with X3 and two with Team 3D. He also has several CAL-Invite championships under his belt, as well as two World Cyber Games championships. While Miller prefers using the automatic rifles the M4 and AK-47, he is best known for his sniping skills with the AWM (mistakenly referred to as the AWP in beta versions of Counter Strike).

Imitators

Miller's popularity is such that some Counter-Strike players often attempt to impersonate him online. However, they cannot duplicate his WON ID number (1335) nor his Steam ID (0:0:1662), so most players are not fooled by the name-change.

Techniques

Miller is believed to have pioneered the 3-fingered mousing technique, which involves holding the sides of your mouse with your thumb and pinky only so that you can use your middle finger to hit the mousewheel and your ring finger to hit the right mouse button, though it is unknown if he still does this.

Miller and other CPL snipers often use the "quickswitch" technique. In this technique, the sniper binds "previous weapon" to a key like "Ctrl" or leave its default as "Q". When the sniper fires a shot, they instantly press "Ctrl" or "Q" which switches him/her to the secondary gun. This technique is used because the sniper can avoid the tedious process of manually descoping and also gives the sniper a larger peripheral vision. Although some players say this reduces reload time, it has no evidence reload time is actually reduced. The game itself doesn't provide this function anymore since Valve, the maker of Counter-Strike, added a certain delay after switching back to the AWM sniper rifle. After switching the weapons player has to wait a while before they are able to aim or shoot with AWM.

In addition to the "quickswitch" technique, Miller and other professional Counter-Strike snipers have all used the "quickscope" technique. The quickscope technique is one that a sniper clicks the right click and instantly the fire button. The bullet that is fired is a 100% accurate "no scope". The reason this works is because the right-click (scope function) tells the server that the sniper is scoped already even though the scope has not yet appeared on the screen. This technique was very difficult to master because the sniper had to visualize where the aiming reticule was at all times as it did not appear on any sniper rifle, or place a small dot on the weapon model or computer monitor.

Tournament Victories

1st Place Speakeasy Cyberathlete Professional League (X3)
1st Place 4 Year Cyberathlete Professional League (X3)
1st Place Cyberathlete Professional League Invite (X3)
1st Place World Cyber Games USA 2002 (3D)
1st Place Cyberathlete Professional League Winter 2002 (3D)
1st Place World Cyber Games USA 2003 (3D)
1st Place Cyber X Games USA 2003 (3D)
1st Place AMD ZipZoomFly Ultimate Area (3D)
1st Place World Cyber Games USA 2004 (3D)
1st Place World Cyber Games 2004 (3D)
1st Place Electronic Sports World Cup USA 2004 (3D)
1st Place DigitalLife NY (3D)
1st Place DigitalLife GGL AmeriCup 2005 (3D)
1st Place World Cyber Games USA 2005 (3D)
1st Place World Cyber Games 2005 (3D)

League Victories

1st Place Domain of Games Season 1 (CK3)
1st Place Domain of Games Season 2 (X3)
1st Place CAL-Invite Season 1 (X3)
1st Place CAL-Invite Season 2 (X3)
1st Place CAL-Invite Season 5 (3D)
1st Place CAL-Invite Season 7 (3D)

External references

, a Washington Post article about Miller

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