Interesting. Training spinners to get better at not rotating your mouse. I'll have to test it.Cowbrowncow wrote:
Interesting thread I've come across here...as a rank 18k mouse player I've always had a bit of an issue not even with drift, but mainly with grip. I fixed the drift problem early on by basically hypertraining my circles at every break.
To explain...when I started playing, I do remember having a slight drift problem at first. I ended up increasing my sensitivity rapidly as my skill grew, and I capped at my current 1.05 which seems to be the most comfortable for both full screen jumps and controlled streams/rhythms. So my first solution really would be to get used to a decently high sensitivity (therefore decreasing your play area, which really really helps with drift).
However, training your spin is -key- to creating good mouse aim (or at least good mouse -stability-) in my opinion. The more perfect you can consistently spin, the more your muscles train toward keeping your mouse at the perfect angle. The ONLY problem I have now, as stated earlier, is sometimes on longer songs my grip gravitates/slips very slowly toward the back of the mouse over time. Eventually, it interferes with my aim. I've begun to remedy this simply by always using a tighter grip than I usually would on other games. It's strengthened my hand, and in turn also increased my speed.
The only other thing I can think of is I don't place my entire palm on the mouse. As a matter of fact, only my fingertips touch it, with the side of my thumb and side of my pinkie on their respective sides for stability. I also place the bottom of my palm -firmly- on the mousepad, using the area in front of it for play. I'd say I play with my wrist, but...honestly because of my palm being lifted I use a lot of those palm muscles, as well as a few arm muscles that connect to my fingers.
To conclude, I think the best "fix" to this problem is to get used to keeping the angle of your mouse consistent. Very weird explanation maybe, idk if it's unique or not, but that's the best way I can explain my style. I guess it works? For me at least xD
I haven't thought about it sufficiently, but my current leading hypothesis is that by letting your fingers and wrist take care of the movement of the mouse, I'm better able to learn fine and accurate movement. My arm is much heavier and, it seems to me, not built for as fine and precise control as my fingers are. If I try to move my mouse with my arm rapidly, it's going to be hard to stop the mouse at precisely the desired spot, for the same reason a large and heavy car can't reduce its speed from 100 km/h to 0 immediately: inertia.
But it also seems to me that if you let your fingers and wrist take care of mouse movement, you tend to rotate the mouse more, thus creating more drift than what you would if you let your arm do the moving. Given the benefits of finger/wrist movements I explained above, switching to moving with my arm is not an option for me.