Valve has always allowed users to inspect their weapons in CS:GO. It does not directly affect the gameplay in any way but allows users to show off their weapon skins, if any, to other players and mostly just admire it themselves. However, over the years it has just become something that most players often do instinctively, not even looking at the skin half the time while the inspect action is going on. Also, it makes for some awesome highlight reels at times. Intrigued by this behavior showcased by the majority of the players, CS:GO stats analyzing website ‘Scope.gg’ compared the average weapon inspect time across different ranks.
They have compiled their findings and represented them in the form of a graph, that compares average weapon inspect time in seconds to the different CS:GO ranks from Silver I to Global Elite. Check out some interesting things that we found from these findings and some key takeaways.
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CS:GO stats analyzing website ‘Scope.gg’ compiled all this information based on a total of 500,000 demos. So it may not be absolutely perfect but it is fairly accurate considering the massive sample size taken for the study. From the graph below which forms the crux of this whole research, we can draw some interesting conclusions which are as follows:
These were some of the key takeaways from the graph. The research in no way shows that inspecting a weapon affects performance, it is just a personal choice at the end of the day and just depends on how much you want to style on your opponents, show off that skins, or just do it instinctively as a behavior trait.