Steam A config you built rather than copied. Choose the sensitivity, the crosshair, the viewmodel and the buy binds; take away a file where every single line carries the reason it is in there. Then find out whether your keyboard is counter-strafing on your behalf.
A config you cannot read is a config you cannot debug. Change anything on the left and the file rewrites itself; the list on the right explains each line in the same order it appears in the file.
Since the 23 September 2026 update these are plain pixels at your resolution, and codes saved before it no longer import. Convert an old crosshair code, or bring your VALORANT crosshair.
Save the file in game/csgo/cfg and add +exec autoexec.cfg to your launch options so it runs on every start. Grenade aliases have been changed by updates before — re-check the jump-throw bind after a patch.
Two different things hide behind one convar, and most players match the wrong one. At the default the scoped view keeps the same speed across your screen. It does not keep the same speed through the world, because the scope narrowed the view. Both numbers are below.
Pick one deliberately. Matching neither is how a scoped shot ends up consistently short of the head: the hand moves the distance it learned unscoped and the world moves less than it expects.
Counter-strafing is release, then tap the opposite key — the skill this game is built on. Some keyboards do the releasing for you the instant the opposite key goes down, and Valve moved against it. The browser can see it, because the board sends a real key-up your finger never made.
Your keyboard may only behave this way in its game mode or on one profile. Test the profile you actually play on.
The result names the behaviour, not the feature. We can see that a key was released without a finger; we cannot see which setting did it.
Browser timestamps are deliberately coarsened for security. It does not matter here: a hand needs tens of milliseconds to lift a key and a keyboard needs none, so the two cases sit an order of magnitude apart.
Verified 7 September 2026. Most of this game's depth is not in this table — it is in the console lines layered on top of it, which is what the studio above writes.
| Action | Key | Group | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Move | W / A / S / D | Movement | |
| Walk (silent) | Left Shift | Movement | |
| Crouch | Left Ctrl | Movement | |
| Jump | Space | Movement | |
| Fire | Mouse 1 | Combat | |
| Secondary fire / scope / silencer | Mouse 2 | Combat | |
| Reload | R | Combat | |
| Primary weapon | 1 | Combat | |
| Secondary weapon | 2 | Combat | |
| Knife | 3 | Combat | |
| Grenades (cycle) | 4 | Combat | Individual grenade keys are unbound by default; bind them in Settings or the console. |
| Bomb (C4) | 5 | Combat | |
| Last weapon used (quick switch) | Q | Combat | |
| Drop weapon | G | Combat | |
| Inspect weapon | F | Combat | |
| Cycle weapons | Scroll Up / Scroll Down | Combat | |
| Use / defuse / open door | E | Interface | Hold E on the bomb to defuse; a kit halves the time. |
| Buy menu | B | Interface | |
| Scoreboard | Tab | Interface | |
| Player ping | Mouse 3 | Interface | Middle mouse marks a spot for the team. |
| Choose team | M | Interface | |
| Radio commands | Z / X / C | Interface | |
| Voice (push to talk) | K | Interface | |
| Chat / team chat | Y / U | Interface | |
| Spray graffiti | T | Interface | |
| Console | ` | Interface | Enable the developer console in Settings › Game first. |
The config above is only as good as the hardware running it. These measure the hardware.
Checked, dated, and the same wording the reference page uses.
Left Shift. Holding it drops your speed enough that footsteps are silent to enemies; release it to run at full speed again.
Stand at the planted bomb and hold E. Without a defuse kit it takes 10 seconds; with a kit 5 seconds. Releasing E keeps no progress.
Open Settings › Keyboard / Mouse › Weapon Keys and set Flashbang, Smoke, HE, Molotov and Decoy to keys of your choice (many players use Mouse 4, Mouse 5, 4, C and X). The default 4 only cycles through them.
The grave/tilde key (` under Escape). It stays disabled until you turn on Enable Developer Console in Settings › Game.
Not officially. The game is designed around keyboard and mouse and has no controller layout in the settings; Steam Input can map a pad but it is not competitive.
No. CS2 reads the mouse directly and m_rawinput was removed with the engine change, so there is no setting left to get wrong. Guides that tell you to check it are describing CS:GO.
Four rows in Settings › Game › Radar: Radar is Rotating off, Radar Centers the Player off, Radar Map Zoom at 0.4, and Radar Hud Size around 1.1 so the smaller dots stay legible.
Unofficial Keymap Labs is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Valve Corporation. Counter-Strike is a trademark of Valve. Console commands change between updates: this page is dated, and a line that stops working is a patch note rather than a mistake here. The crosshair lines follow the pixel crosshair of the 23 September 2026 update; share codes, old and new, are read by the crosshair code converter.
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I will not guess. If something is not on the site, I will say so.
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