App Store Everyone says four-finger claw. Can your phone even count to four?
Touchscreens have a maximum number of contacts they will track at once — ten on a flagship, five on plenty of phones, two on some. Past it, the newest finger is simply dropped, and from inside the game that is indistinguishable from a button not responding. Before you rebuild your HUD around somebody else's layout code, find out what your own screen and your own hands will actually deliver.
The short answer
Press and hold inside the pad below with two fingers, then three, then four — the way you would hold the phone in a fight, not spread flat on a table. The page counts the contacts the screen actually reports and shows where each one landed.
Hold two, then three, then four fingers here.
Press and hold with two, three and then four fingers at once. The page counts how many the screen actually reports — which is not always how many you used.
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Both thumbs. Comfortable, and it forces a choice: you cannot aim and fire at the same time unless the left fire button is on.
Both thumbs plus one index. The index takes fire, which frees a thumb to keep aiming through the shot.
Both thumbs plus both index fingers. Fire, jump, crouch and scope stop competing with aim entirely — if the screen reports all four.
This is the part the sensitivity guides never explain. On a mouse, a 180-degree turn fits in one motion because the pad is bigger than the movement. On a phone the screen is the whole world, so below a certain sensitivity the turn does not fit — and you pay for the second swipe with the time your finger is off the glass. Swipe across the pad the way you would turn to face someone behind you, and keep going for as many swipes as it takes.
Swipe here. Lift and swipe again if one is not enough.
Swipe across the pad the way you would turn to face someone behind you — and keep going, in as many swipes as it takes.
Free Fire keeps a separate sensitivity for every situation, which is why your hip-fire can feel perfect and your 4x unusable at the same time — they are different numbers. No values are recommended below. Every “best sensitivity” list on the internet is somebody else's hand on somebody else's screen, and the bench above is a better guide to yours.
Moves, resizes and duplicates every on-screen button. Layouts are saved per profile and can be exported and shared as a code.
Adds a second fire button on the left side of the screen. The single most important switch for a two-finger grip, because it lets the left thumb fire while the right thumb aims.
Merges aiming into the fire button. Removes one contact point from the layout at the cost of never being able to aim without firing.
Switches weapons on a single tap instead of a tap and a confirm.
Reloads automatically when a magazine empties.
Double shows both throwable slots as separate buttons — one more contact point on the screen and one less menu step in a fight.
Two-handed splits steering and acceleration across both thumbs.
Changes how the aim assist snaps when a target crosses your crosshair.
Auto keeps sprinting without a held input, which frees a finger.
A fire button your thumb cannot miss forgives a mediocre position. A perfectly placed button that is too small does not. Set the size first, then move it to where the bench above says your finger already lands.
The six are independent, so changing all of them at once tells you nothing about which was wrong. Change one, play a few matches, and keep the one that helped — the same discipline every other measurement on this site is built around.
A shared layout code is a description of somebody else's fingers. The reach map above tells you where yours actually go, and a button under a finger that is already there beats a button in a position a better player uses.
This page measures your hands on the glass. These measure the device under them.
It is faster if your hands and your phone can deliver it, and that is a bigger if than any guide admits. Two things have to be true before the advice means anything. Your touchscreen has to track four simultaneous contacts — plenty report five or ten, some report two, and past the limit the newest finger is simply dropped. And your four fingers have to land far enough apart to carry four separate buttons without one pressing another. The bench on this page measures both on the device you are reading it on, which is the only place the answer exists.
Almost always because the digitiser has hit its simultaneous-contact limit. Touch panels report a maximum number of tracked points, and once you pass it the newest contact is dropped or an existing one is deleted. Inside the game it looks exactly like a button not responding, which is why people blame lag or the server. Hold two, three and four fingers on the pad on this page and it will tell you how many actually arrived.
The one that puts each control where your finger already goes. A shared layout code is a description of somebody else’s hands on somebody else’s screen — it can only match yours by accident. The reach map on this page shows where your own contacts land and flags any pair sitting too close to carry separate buttons, which is the commonest reason a copied code feels wrong.
Six independent sliders: General, Red Dot, 2x Scope, 4x Scope, Sniper Scope and Free Look. Each applies only in its own situation and none of them affects the others, which is why hip-fire can feel perfect while your 4x feels unusable. This page lists what each one governs and deliberately recommends no values — every "best settings" list is somebody else’s hand.
Because a phone screen is not a mouse pad. A mouse can turn any distance because the desk is bigger than the motion; a thumb runs out of glass. Below a certain sensitivity a turn simply does not fit in one swipe, and you pay for the second one with the time your finger is off the screen. The swipe bench on this page measures that gap in milliseconds. Raising the slider does not make your hand faster — it makes the turn fit, which is what removes the gap.
Nothing on this page will claim a magic setting, because there is not one. What is real and measurable is that your aim cannot be steadier than your grip: if a finger is being dropped by the panel or two buttons are fighting over the same patch of screen, no sensitivity value fixes it. Sort the grip first with the bench above, then change one slider at a time and keep what helped.
No. The game is touch-only on its supported platforms, which is exactly why the control surface is the screen and the grip is the thing worth measuring. There is no button layout to memorise — every control on screen can be moved and resized in Settings › Control.
No. Nothing in a browser can see the game. Everything here comes from your own screen and your own fingers, and it stays in your browser — the grip reading is kept locally so a later visit can compare, and nothing is uploaded.
I answer from this site only — the 28 browser tests, the controls library for 46 games, the sensitivity converters and the two games. I can tell you which page to open, how a tool works and what its result means.
I will not guess. If something is not on the site, I will say so.
Answers come from this site's pages.