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Description: Human motor adaptation relies on both explicit conscious strategies and the implicit unconscious updating of internal models to correct motor errors. Implicit adaptation is powerful, requiring less cognitive processing, but recent work suggests it is limited to some absolute magnitude, regardless of the size of the perturbation being adapted to. However, this contradicts some previous findings with gradually introduced perturbations. Here we systematically test whether different perturbation schedules can overcome this apparent limit. We found when a perturbation is introduced in partial steps over multiple learning increments, the magnitude of implicit adaptation can be improved above other common methods of introducing perturbations.