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How to go from Normal to Hard?

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boat
Aqo is a tool and is right out stupid on so many points.

Practice makes perfect. Play maps that are fast that you are able to play, just don't overdo it, don't play maps on which you miss more then you hit.

And your skin is just fine. ugly but lol that people complain about efficiency
Floks
I play at 5600 horizontal and 4200 vertical DPI. 800x600 fullscreen.

Play at a comfortable DPI, for YOU.

I hate this mentality:

YodaSnipe wrote:

low dpi
I love this mentality:

silmarilen wrote:

keep trying
I have literally been playing for 2 months. I know I'm not some beast pro, but I can FC more and more insane maps every day, and I can pass a ton of insanes.
Aqo

boat wrote:

Aqo is a tool and is right out stupid on so many points.
So cruel. I'm not posting those things out of my ass, I brought over 20 people into osu and I follow their improvement and recommend them maps and stuff, and I get to see what kind of playstyles make people improve faster than others or slower. I see people who learn to clear Hards easily in just 2-3 weeks from the point they started playing, with zero previous rhythm game experience, by just having good play habits, and others that get stuck on normals without improving for really long - and the pattern for how they play is always the same.
Topic Starter
TocoToucan

Aqo wrote:

I brought over 20 people into osu and I follow their improvement and recommend them maps and stuff,.
Can you recommend me any Normal and Hard beatmaps?
Aqo

TocoToucan wrote:

Aqo wrote:

I brought over 20 people into osu and I follow their improvement and recommend them maps and stuff,.
Can you recommend me any Normal and Hard beatmaps?
Yes.

Here is a [map list] to start with, it's separated into groups of 5, because usually you're allowed to download up to 5 maps before reaching the download limit.
Play those one by one, first play the lowest difficulty per map, even if it feels too easy to you, and aim to hit everything for a 300 while you play. If you accidentally didn't get a 300, don't worry, just keep playing. Do not use retry at all.
For "Easy" and "Normal" difficulties, use the HardRock mod.
After you played each map one time on its lowest difficulty, go back to the start of the list (back to the first map) and look at the score letter you got on the first difficulty. If it's S (which usually requires 94% accuracy or higher, and no misses), play the next difficulty, if it's not S, re-play the same difficulty. Do this for all maps in this list, i.e. this means that in some maps you'll stay on the same difficulty while in others you'll move to the higher one.

If at any point you fail, don't worry, just move on with the list, but remember that you failed on that difficulty in that map. Once you finish going over all maps on the 2nd run, go for the 3rd run over the list - at this point you should already be playing some [Hard]s after S-ing the Easy and Normal that was sitting before them. If you failed on any [Hard] in a previous run (and you already have S on the lower difficulties in that map), play that Hard with NoFail next time.
OR, instead of using nofail, you can just play it in multiplayer with friends, which allows you keep playing the entire map even if you fail which is the same as NoFail without using that mod. Again, aim to 300 everything, think about the timings of notes - notice the relative difference between them as they appear, and use this to decide how much to wait between hits. Listening to the drums and bass in the background usually helps click in a steady timing.

If you just do this, and play for about 10 hours per week, you should be getting 70%~ accuracy on Hards in one week, 80%~ in two weeks, and on the third week you'll already be clearing Hards normally without NoFail with 85%-90% accuracy. Keep doing this, keep downloading new maps from the recent ranked (just check whatever got ranked the latest and dl that), you don't have to play their lower difficulties anymore at that point if you can clear hards, just play the hardest difficulty that you can pass without mods (if you tried a difficulty and failed, try a lower one).

Once you get 95% accuracy or higher on all Hards you try, start trying Insanes that are below 140bpm. You can see the BPM of a map in the top-left part of the screen in the play>solo menu. Start moving up and trying higher-BPM insanes as you start clearing those. In 2~ months you should learn to clear insanes no problem. Good luck.

When you do the transition from Hard > Insane, you might have trouble with the AR (approach rate), which is the speed of the approach circle that closes into the note that gives you warning of hitting it. To deal with this and learning to read AR9 quickly, what you can do is watch Insane maps with BPM higher than 170 with DoubleTime and Auto. Watch and try to follow all the notes with your eyes. It's surprisingly effective; watching 3-4 maps like that will make playing high-AR maps feel normal and not any different from previous difficulties you played.
TheVileOne
Here's my tip. Play multiplayer servers a lot. You'll get a lot of different songs, but you have no control over the difficulty level being played, can't restart etc, and also don't have to restart when you fail. It's really good practice.
Sorun
Just keep playing and having fun, judging from your first youtube link, it only seems like you need more practice. Also remember your mentality towards this game should just to have fun.


Other then that the other members posted some good reasons. I really liked the theme change tip, you should look into that.
smoogipoo
I took on the mentality that every small action in osu! helps you in the long run, actions such as spinning spinners close to the middle (even if it's not faster) help you a lot.

For accuracy, you could try going for a theme change with a small ball cursor rather than one of the nice round cursors such as the default theme. The theme I used until a couple of days ago is actually my compilation and modification of a few themes; http://xplora.biz/smoogie.zip The idea of that theme is to improve your mouse accuracy, and I believe it has helped me getting to the rank I am now, and to my level of gameplay.

Pretty much everything has been already covered in this thread, so apart from that I can't really say anything else, sorry~

Good Luck~
Kanye West

YodaSnipe wrote:

1.0x sens, low dpi, tryhard

GL!
I use default sens with 400dpi and i can play insanes

umadlol
BeatofIke

TheVileOne wrote:

Here's my tip. Play multiplayer servers a lot. You'll get a lot of different songs, but you have no control over the difficulty level being played, can't restart etc, and also don't have to restart when you fail. It's really good practice.
Pretty much this. That's how I improved going from normal and hard. Also, using the Half time mod on hard and insane difficulties helps as well.
Not to mention, James training. =_=
kriers

BeatofIke wrote:

TheVileOne wrote:

Here's my tip. Play multiplayer servers a lot. You'll get a lot of different songs, but you have no control over the difficulty level being played, can't restart etc, and also don't have to restart when you fail. It's really good practice.
This is where I spent my first year on osu! :)
Mythras
play more, nothing else to say, then you'll take a break at some point and suck again then you'll have to play more to get good again.
Sorun

Unkind wrote:

then you'll take a break at some point and suck again
Yeah I know that feel, OP I suggest never taking a break.
kriers

Sorun wrote:

Unkind wrote:

then you'll take a break at some point and suck again
Yeah I know that feel, OP I suggest never taking a break.
taking breaks every now and then is really helpful if you make sure you play sufficiently between them
Sorun

kriers wrote:

Unkind wrote:

taking breaks every now and then is really helpful if you make sure you play sufficiently between them
I took a 4 month or so break, when I got back on osu! it felt like my first time playing all over it again.

Haha but yeah OP it should be fine as long as you get a few plays in every now and then while on a break.
kriers
breaks shouldn't be longer than a week ;p
Soly
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Frizz
But newest maps mostly have identical patterns /D:\
Topic Starter
TocoToucan
I gradually began to play a bit better. Which rank can be considered as normal result?
nanda2009
jusy try and try it again until you master it . .
Tanzklaue

Sorun wrote:

I took a 4 month or so break, when I got back on osu! it felt like my first time playing all over it again.

Haha but yeah OP it should be fine as long as you get a few plays in every now and then while on a break.
I took a 4 month break too.
after coming back, I could do stuff I couldn't do before, it was like doubling my skill. but I think that I am a single case with that ^^'
Wishy
Don't play low diffs + mods, useless shit is useless.
Noobita
use Harden.
JAKACHAN

Noobita wrote:

use Harden.
This is it! This is /thread
Sup A Noob

Aqo wrote:

Toco: if a map feels boring to you, it means you're playing it only to pass it - which is why you're not learning to read maps correctly.
You need a different goal while playing. Instead of thinking "I just want to pass this map", try thinking "I want an SS". i.e. aim to 100% accuracy every run.
If you try doing this, you'll have to think about things differently, and even low level maps would become very fun.

Note: if you suddenly get a 100, don't just quit. Your accuracy will drop below 100% and 100% will no longer be possible, but keep aiming to be as close to 100% as still possible in the rest of the run. The point is - try to hit everything for a 300. This will teach you to read maps correctly.
If you're not actively trying to read the map correctly, you'll be stuck just mashing keys "more or less" by when and where, and this will prevent you from improving to higher levels.
*Looks at accuracy, plays for the past year and plays since I started*

I must have been doing it wrong.
JAKACHAN
Viagra

/thread
sCam
To go from normal to hard, go to hard and never go back.
Hanyuu
You only need good control settings. Most people only find it difficult because they can not keep up i think
[CSGA]Ar3sgice
Normal => wcx's Normal => Hard => wcx's Hard => Hinacle's Insane => ignore's Hard
jianzii
Find a Hard song that you can barely pass with a C rank. Then keep playing it. Over. And over. And over.

Eventually this song will seem slow as f*ck
Eyenine
Just play Banned Forever w/ nofail over and over again. It helps!

Just play any random hard map you feel like playing. Then, once in a while, play some normal maps, see if you improved somewhat. Multiplayer helps, but won't help much if you're not the one to wait for the other players to finish downloading the map and click ready, or if your internet's somewhat slow (which most likely isn't the case). Also, try playing any random easy insane maps. They're gonna punish you for real, but will also help you improve.

Yeah, right. I'm the one to talk. As if I'm that skilled.
-Kirika-
Try hard until i can pass Normal beatmap to Hard beatmaps ;)
hinamizawan
Buy tablet and then you will be playing like Cookiezi :D
now srs, just keep playing Hard/Insane diffs and you'll get used to it
Stefan

makkura wrote:

Buy tablet and then you will be playing like Cookiezi :D
Unfortunally, some people really thinks that.
G0r
You mean I can buy a tablet and play like Cookiezi!? Eureka!!!
darkmiz
You may not play like Cookiezi, but at least you can FC insanes with a tablet.
boat

darkmiz wrote:

You may not play like Cookiezi, but at least you can FC insanes with a tablet.
Or a mouse.
G0r
I think noobs just adjust to tablets faster because they don't have to worry about learning how to set it up or grip it or what not. Most people grip a pen more naturally than they grip a mouse, and it's easier to understand the concept behind area vs the concept behind DPI and all else that goes into mouse use. Not to mention that I think tablets ignore Windows cursor settings.
silmarilen
i am a noob :(
G0r

silmarilen wrote:

i am a noob :(
Quiet you.
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