1. How well your muscles are trained (wrist/arm/fingers), affecting stamina, coordination and speed
   
   
2. How well you established your osu-related schemata. In the beginning, all you see is circles. After having played countless maps, you begin to notice certain patterns, like doubles, triples, triangles, streams, more complex patterns that lack a name... you begin seeing each of them as a unit instead of individual circles. This enables you to play more effectively. Adversely, you will have a harder time playing maps with patterns that you aren't used to as of yet.
   
   
3. Muscle memory. This is the most important factor of all.
   Think of how you use your keyboard. When you started out, you had to search for every letter individually. Once you practice typing more, you will get used to your keyboard, you will remember where the letters are so you don't have to look for them as long. Later, you won't even look at your hands anymore when typing. THIS is what increases your speed, your hands "remember" where the letters are. You don't have to spend conscious effort on typing, you just think of what you want to type, and type simultaneously.
   For osu, it means that you know how you have to move your hand to reach a circle that pops up anywhere on the screen. You don't have to concentrate on hitting the circle. You just have to correctly spot it on the screen and then your hand does the rest. This is what gives you speed and accuracy.

kirueggy wrote:

(unless you go on some hiatus, which then you start over lol)

Based_God_ wrote:

kirueggy wrote:

(unless you go on some hiatus, which then you start over lol)

Apparently cookiezi and reimu's hiatus didn't affect them too badly, just saying

kirueggy wrote:

I thought cookiezi's one and only hiatus was when he timewarp hacked on purpose for a reason to get banned so he would never play osu! anymore

Trash Boat wrote:

TLDR, you are getting good.