CS2 Float Chart: Every Wear Range, What It Looks Like, and What It Costs

These five ranges are fixed by the game and identical for every skin that uses the full scale (capped skins are covered at the end of this guide). The availability and price columns reflect what I see across the 400+ skins in my tracking spreadsheet as of mid-2026.

Two things jump out. First, the tiers are wildly unequal: Battle-Scarred spans more than half the entire scale, so two BS copies can look like different skins. Second, the number is assigned once, at unboxing, and never changes — a fact BLAST's wear guide explains in detail. Memorize the two borders that matter most for your wallet: 0.07 and 0.15.

Numbers are abstract until you know what they do to the paint. This table describes the typical visual state at each tier for a standard full-range finish; exact behavior varies by skin, which is why the worked examples below matter.

A useful habit: wear concentrates on edges and high-contact points first, then spreads inward. That is why a 0.16 can pass for Minimal Wear at gameplay distance — the early damage hides on parts of the gun you rarely look at while playing.

Finish style changes how harshly the chart bites, too. Glossy, detailed finishes like the Printstream or Asiimov telegraph every scratch, while matte and pattern-based finishes such as Case Hardened blues disguise wear so well that a mid-FT copy can look nearly as good as MW. Before paying a wear premium, ask whether this particular finish even shows its wear.

Here is how I actually use the chart when a listing is in front of me.

Example 1 — a 0.03. This sits comfortably inside Factory New, well clear of the 0.07 border. On an M4A1-S Printstream, a 0.03 looks identical in-game to a 0.005, yet collectors pay steep premiums for the extra zeros. Unless you are collecting, the middle of FN is the smart end of it: you get the pristine look without funding someone's vanity-number premium.

Example 2 — a 0.16. Just inside Field-Tested, one hundredth above the Minimal Wear border. This is the single best value zone on the whole scale. A 0.16 AK-47 Redline shows only a whisper more wear than a 0.14 copy, but it is priced as FT while the 0.14 is priced as scarce MW — a gap that on the Redline ran to roughly triple the price in mid-2026. When two FT listings cost the same, the 0.16 is strictly better than a 0.30.

Example 3 — a 0.45. The exact floor of Battle-Scarred. Because BS stretches all the way to 1.00, a 0.45 looks dramatically better than the tier's reputation — essentially a Well-Worn skin wearing a discount label. Bargain hunters filter for BS copies under 0.50 for precisely this reason. The mirror case is buying a "BS" sight unseen and receiving a 0.93: same label, completely different gun.

The routine that ties these together: when several listings of the same skin sit at the same price, pull the exact numbers on each and buy the one closest to its tier's floor. It costs two extra minutes and it is the closest thing to free money the wear system offers.

To put dollars on the chart, here are three skins from my own tracking sheet with approximate marketplace prices as of mid-2026. Prices drift constantly, so treat these as the shape of the curve rather than quotes.

The Redline row shows what a capped range does to the curve: with no Factory New and only a thin 0.10-0.15 MW band, Minimal Wear absorbs all the scarcity premium. During the spring 2025 market run-up — when the broader skin economy climbed toward the $6.7-8 billion valuation SteamAnalyst reported for 2026 — I watched mid-tier FT prices on my sheet climb faster in percentage terms than the FN copies of the same skins, because that is where the 27.9 million item owners actually shop. The chart is not just trivia; it is a map of where demand piles up.

One caveat when comparing gaps across platforms: the Steam Community Market takes a 15% total fee out of every sale, so Steam prices sit structurally higher than cash marketplaces for the same copy. When my sheet shows a wear gap, I always note which venue the quote came from — a $20 tier gap on Steam can shrink to $14 in cash terms.

Two complications keep the chart from being the whole story. First, many skins have capped ranges, so entire tiers never exist: the AWP Asiimov runs 0.18-1.00 (no FN or MW has ever existed), the AK-47 Redline runs 0.10-0.70, and the Glock-18 Fade caps at 0.08, making Factory New the default rather than a prize. Always confirm a skin's real range before paying for a tier that might be its ceiling — the CS2 float pillar guide covers capped skins in more depth.

Second, borders create pricing cliffs the visuals do not justify. A 0.069 and a 0.071 are visually identical twins, but one is labeled Factory New and the other Minimal Wear, and the market prices the label. Working that border is a legitimate strategy in both directions: buy just above it, sell just below it. The Factory New vs Minimal Wear vs Field-Tested comparison shows border pairs side by side, and my guide on checking a float before you buy shows how to get the exact digits in under a minute. For current tier-by-tier prices on specific skins, our homepage price tables are the fastest starting point.

In short: keep the CS2 float chart in your head as two numbers, 0.07 and 0.15, plus one warning — always verify the exact digits and the skin's real range before money moves. Everything else in the wear system is a footnote to those three habits.