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At the start of the match, throw a grenade. Realize the time between the hand animation and the actual grenade appearing and being thrown. Alternatively, walk on hard surface, and suddenly stop. The little bit of footstep-sound you hear is the game delay.
Using things like this, as well as other indicators like the time it takes the game to register you getting in a vehicle, you can see how much lag there will need to be. Pistols and snipers are the hardest, so I'll just give advice on those. Pistols, generally, if you have a 150-300 ping game(which is normal for me at least) make the outside of the recticle be on the person's head.(ie the person is running to your left, the right of your recticle should be adjacent to the left of his head.) But make sure you calculate for distance as well.
Sniping is hard, and the only advice I can give, is trace a person's trajectory for a while, then fast forward to where he will be in the time it took for the grenade to appear at the start of the game/other indicators. Never fire off more than one shot if you miss, as those'll most likely miss with the target alerted, and give away your position.
Also, frequently check your ping, and in time you'll be able to compensate accordingly.
Hope that helps some.
Also there's a custom edition level that allows you to practice sniping/precision shots with various weapons, even setting the AIs' sizes, speed, or even warping around to mimic lag[/custom edition ad]
[Edited on 9/5/2006]