I won't downvote you, but if you are only shaving in one direction, you either aren't getting totally smooth, or you are needlessly torturing yourself by only shaving against the grain of your hair.
From experience, your beard, or any other patch of body hair, can literally grow in multiple different directions in the same patch. Regardless, the only way you can get baby smooth is to shave against the grain, which I really don't recommend as your first pass, unless you shave literally every day, and for some guys it would be twice a day.
I can't shave more frequently than once every 2 days. The USN literally gave me a "shaving chit" for that in boot.