I just want to point something out for all the people crying over gender specifics here. Women (and I say this as a guy) are generally better shots than men are. Take a look at history if you will. Annie Oakley for one, was the best shot in her time. Another example is The Vietcong who used women as snipers during the Vietnam war (a shining cinematic example of this is the final segment of Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket"), and the Russian army who used them in WWII. Women have a whole lot more going on than men do that give them an advantage when it comes to firing a gun. I'm not talking sharpshooting per se, simply point, aim & shoot reflexes, concentration, focus & mental capacity. A woman isn't thinking the way a man is. Us guys tend to think waaaaay too technically and cloud ourselves from the fundamentals. We just tend to overthink everything. Plus, there's that whole EGO thing (looking at all you KDR whores with that one) which will almost always -blam!- you up when you're more worried about how well you're doing it as opposed to just doing it. The majority of girls who play FPS games (as well as those who fire real guns) just have a calmness about them that all the shooting fundamentals are natural to them. Then add to that the fact that most women are perfectionists AND the added incentive of proving men wrong and well...there you go. I'm pretty sure someone like Ms5000Watts (one of the female gamers on YouTube who plays Destiny and is notoriously accurate) could probably fire a pistol or rifle with the same accuracy, not withstanding the obvious physical deficiencies women have compare to men (ie, can she lift a rifle up & hold it properly, etc.) FPS games of course erase those factors and just brings it down to it's base level of "who's a better shot?" And 1v1 if a elite male and female FPS player squared off, I'd put my money on the girl. TL;DR- Girls focus more and think less when it comes to fundamental tasks than guys, which is why they generally melt face in FPS games more than their male counterparts. Women historically have been used as sharpshooters in real warfare as well, with extremely effective results.