usa wrote:
inb4 "practice more"
anyways, sometimes the best thing is to stop playing for a few days or a week if you've been playing nonstop.
let your body and mind recuperate, and you'll be ready to play at your peak again.
also, there are a dozen other threads like yours so search those up.
Basically this. Even though I never play standard, being a mania player, this is what I find the most effective way to "improve" (though I wouldn't really call it "improvement", because there is no way that someone can get better without playing for a while). It's exactly as usa said. After stopping for a while, when you play again, it will feel awkward at first, but your reflexes and all the stuff related will quickly come back, and you'll - somehow - get better results in the end.
Not only this happens in osu!, but whenever I stop playing something else and come back to it later I feel like I do better. So yeah, try this. Actually, this is what I'll be doing from now on, as I feel like I've hit a "skillwall" in mania too. After a few days, I know I'll get better scores or acc.
Also, if you look closely, I'm sure you can notice some improvements when looking back on these two weeks. I also thought it's been some time since I last felt like I've improved, but in fact I see an increase of my acc or my scores on some maps (even if it's 1 or 2% more, or a few thousand more points - mania is capped at 1M max score - they are still slight improvements.)