The fastest way to a crosshair that actually helps you shoot is not to design one from scratch. It is to copy a professional’s, because CS2 lets you share an entire crosshair as a short code and import it in seconds. The most-copied crosshair in the game right now belongs to Spirit’s donk, the teenager who was rated the best player in the world in 2024, so his makes a good template. Plenty of players search for exactly this, and the appeal is plain: you get a setting that thousands of hours of professional play have already stress-tested, for the price of a copy and paste. Here is how to lift a pro crosshair, using his as the worked example, and how to adapt it so it fits you rather than him.
Step 1: Get the code
Every pro crosshair is stored as a share code that begins with CSGO- and breaks into five short blocks. You will find them on player settings databases, and if you want the donk crosshair to follow along, his profile lists the current one:
CSGO-CCKXW-DO76Y-XR7RJ-23DKU-39SDA
Note: a pro’s crosshair changes over time as they tweak their setup, most often the colour, so any published code, this one included, can go out of date. His profile always carries the current version.
For reference, that code sets:
- Style: classic static, so it never expands when he moves or fires
- Length 1, thickness 1, for thin, short lines
- Gap: -4, pulled in tight
- Centre dot: off
- Outline: off
- Colour: a custom shade
Codes like his are public, and they change when a player tweaks his setup, which is the main reason to pull one from a live profile rather than an old screenshot. None of it is flashy, and that is the point. As an entry fragger who is often first through a door, he wants the smallest mark that still reads against a wall, so the enemy model sits uncovered when he clicks. It is a common shape at the very top. Many of the best players run something close to it, because a crosshair is there to mark a point, not to decorate the screen. That restraint is also why his travels well. There is nothing exotic in it to un-learn, so it works as a base for almost any player.
Step 2: Import it in CS2
The import itself takes under a minute:
- Open Settings from the gear icon, then go to the Game tab and the Crosshair tab.
- Press Share or Import.
- Paste the full code into the box and press Import. Copy the whole string, including the CSGO- prefix and every hyphen, or the game will reject it.
The settings apply immediately, and you can fine-tune each value in the same menu; if you dislike the result, the Reset button puts everything back. Every parameter, from length and thickness to gap and colour, is baked into that one string, which is why a code beats copying a dozen sliders by hand. A valid code is always the CSGO- prefix followed by five blocks, so a paste that drops one will not import. It is worth pasting even when you plan to change things, because starting from a crosshair that already works is faster than building one from the default slider by slider.
Step 3: Make it your own
Importing a pro’s crosshair is the start, not the finish. Their setup was tuned to their monitor, their eyes and their game, and a few things rarely transfer cleanly. Colour is the obvious one: donk’s custom shade may vanish against the maps you play most, so cycle through until one stays visible on light and dark walls alike. Size and thickness are personal too. If the lines feel too fine to track during a spray, nudge the thickness up a notch, since the code is a starting point rather than a rule. And if you play on cluttered maps and keep losing the crosshair against the background, switching the outline on is the single most useful change you can make, even though donk himself leaves it off.
One mistake is worth calling out, because beginners make it constantly. A crosshair and a sensitivity are separate settings, and copying one does not mean copying the other. donk plays at 800 DPI with an in-game sensitivity of 1.25, which works out to an effective 1000 eDPI, on the low side. That number suits his aim, built over years, and it is not a target for yours. Keep the sensitivity you already trust, think in eDPI rather than raw numbers if you ever switch mice, and change only the crosshair.
The setup around the crosshair
A crosshair does not sit in isolation, and it is worth knowing the rest of donk’s picture even if you do not copy it. He plays at 1280×960 in a stretched 4:3 format, which fattens the enemy models, and he turns Boost Player Contrast on to lift them off the background. Both are common professional choices, and both are habits more than laws. If you are still finding your feet, stay on your monitor’s native 16:9 for the wider view and leave the 4:3 experiment for later. The crosshair is the part of a pro setup that carries over most cleanly. His mouse, his monitor and the rest of his gear are a separate rabbit hole. Chasing a pro’s exact hardware is the least efficient way to improve, and none of it will fix your aim the way practice does.
The short version
Copying a professional’s crosshair is one paste away, and it beats guessing. Grab the code, import it through the Crosshair tab, then spend a warm-up round watching whether it stays readable while you move, peek and spray. Keep what works, change what does not, and leave your sensitivity alone while you do it. A pro crosshair is a good place to begin. It is a bad place to stop.
