Counter Strike: Global Offensive is one of the biggest online games currently available, with an insane amount of weapon skins that players can get for their favorite guns. Besides guns, there are also knife skins, gloves, and many other visual items players have to keep track of.

Each of these items can be extremely valuable, and easily worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to interested collectors. This is why CSGO skins collectors put in a lot of effort to effectively sort and categorize their inventory for any potential traders.

However, getting your CSGO inventory in order is actually much more difficult, than it looks. That’s why we have prepared a guide on how to sort your CSGO inventory effectively.

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Why Should I Sort My Steam Inventory?

If you’re a standard Steam user, chances are you have never sorted, nor have you ever had a need to sort your CSGO inventory. Your Steam items are probably scattered all over your inventory, mixed and unsorted. While for most Steam users this is perfectly fine and they don’t need anything more, an organized Steam inventory can greatly help you when making trades and makes it easier for potential buyers to access the in-game items they want to buy, without having to search through your inventory by themselves.

While everyone can sort their Steam inventory, Steam’s default system for organizing your inventory cannot be changed. Because of this, sorting your CSGO inventory is generally based on gaming the way Steam’s organizing system works, so that it will display the items that you want in your chosen order. Sadly, while it’s nice to have your own dedicated inventory space, the locations Steam organizes items can’t be changed by the players. You can, however, rebuild your inventory in exactly whatever order you want your items to be sorted.

How To Sort CSGO Inventory

While it’s possible to sort your Steam inventory, players don’t do it often, since it can be quite difficult and take up a considerable amount of time and effort. The platform itself doesn’t offer any integrated features, which allow you to easily sort your in-game inventory, and instead requires you to use methods, which can circumvent the default sorting rules.

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Before you go and sort your own inventory, it’s important to understand the way Steam records data and sorts all items in your inventory. Basically, Steam inventory records all data on every item, which includes:

  • Whether it came from a case, dropped at the end of a match, whether it was a promotional item, etc.
  • The exact time and date it was created by the server
  • The skin’s trade history and its previous owners
  • The float value and pattern index
  • A custom name if the user has used a name tag
  • Stickers that are attached to the weapon, their CSGO wear values, and their locations

Most importantly, Steam records the data on when the item was last modified, and in turn organizes your inventory, so that the items you modified first are on the bottom, and newer items are on the top. Modifying the item data includes things such as opening it in a weapon case, purchasing it on the Steam market or applying a name tag or a sticker. Thanks to this system, the items you haven’t used in a long time are on the further pages of your inventory, while any of the new drops are moved to the front.

As you can see, the system is made to work efficiently and allow you to quickly access all of the newest items in your game’s weapon skins inventory without having to dig around too much. However, you might be sitting on some rare skins that you don’t want to trade just yet, or simply have some important, valuable items that you obtained a long time ago. In this case, you’ll probably want to have these items displayed upfront.

Thankfully, there are a couple of methods that allow you to use the way the Steam platform uses to organize items to your advantage. Here is how to sort your CSGO inventory:

Steam Market Method

One of the simplest ways you can sort your inventory is by using the Steam market trick. Although it allows you to modify your inventory in a simple way without having to use the hep of another player, the Steam market method carries some risk, since it requires you to list the item on the market, at least for a couple of seconds. If someone malicious knows about what you’re trying to do, they could simply snug your items and leave you empty-handed (though often with a nice amount of cash).

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Basically, this method involves modifying the item’s data by putting it up for sale on the Steam market, and immediately de-listing it. This will move the item to the top of your inventory, allowing you to effectively order the items in your inventory around. However, you have to keep in mind, that you can only move around tradable items this way. If you have any tradable items you want to sort in your inventory, simply list it way above the average steam market price, and as soon as possible, de-list the item from the market.

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Name Tag / Sticker Method

While this method isn’t very effective for a large inventory with many valuable items, it is also the only way to efficiently move around untradable items. With this method, you simply use a name tag or a sticker to modify the item, which immediately moves it to the front of your inventory.

The obvious downside to this is that it can cost quite a lot to move many items around. Still, it provides you with a neat way to order untradable items, or StatTrak skins that you don’t want to lose your score on. Simply place a name tag or a sticker on your gun, and it will be moved to the front of your inventory.

Trading Items

Perhaps the easiest and safest way to organize your CSGO inventory is with the trading method. You need a trusted friend to help you with it, but many professional traders simply use dedicated trading Steam accounts to make this process easier and safer. While you can use a second account of your own as well, keep in mind, that in order to trade items on the new account you’ll still need to make a purchase of five or more dollars first.

In short, you trade your items to the other account, and they trade them back to you. This involves modifying the item’s data and immediately moving it to the top of your inventory. Still, this method requires you to have another account available, and can only be used to move any tradeable or marketable item.

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In Conclusion

As you can see, sorting a CSGO skin inventory is not an easy task. Although it can be quite time-demanding, it can also really improve all of your trading and is a great way to obtain better and more trade offers in the long run.