I also used to think this of myself... barely breaking 160 BPM, and 170 BPM was my peak when I was warmed up.
You want faster fingers?
To work on your speed, you need to first have a good sense of what your fingers are doing (not mashing), otherwise you are just going to get worse at the game the more you try. However if you let accuracy sink in first, you can play the fast stuff as much as you like afterwards without side effects.
For speed: Play short streams (3-9 notes). I don't quite know why this works, but it does, and is done easiest by spamming DT, as Almost said. I think that higher BPM's (200+) are a little too fast to think about, so you shouldn't... and must practice the motions on shorter streams first, and as you get better and more accurate at these speeds, you can sustain it for longer, because you have the endurance now. Currently I can only do about 50 notes without freezing up, but this was enough to S rog-unlimitation, which apparently only has OD7, as opposed to OD8. I'm not quite there yet.
You want faster fingers?
I can tell you that what worked for me was NOT playing really fast stuff first, it was actually playing slower deathstreams and playing them well... working my way up as I got S full combo's (good accuracy first!) at each BPM. You also need the endurance gained through this method to sustain good accuracy.hArk3n wrote:
hopelessly grind stream maps
Once I finally did it on DM Ashura - AAA (stream practice map 160 BPM), I found Mendes (168 BPM), Perditus (172 BPM) and Almagest (178 BPM) and absolute walk in the park in such a short space of time afterwards, I couldn't believe it. Once I did Almagest, it was the same thing again, eventually I did the same all the way up to the 200 BPM map (Snow Goose) and found I could somehow grasp the finger speed required for rog-limitation. It was at this point that I started fooling around to get better "speed" because I could finally tell what I was doing.Soulg wrote:
listen to the music and hit along with it while focusing on the rhythm rather than on hitting for as fast as you can
To work on your speed, you need to first have a good sense of what your fingers are doing (not mashing), otherwise you are just going to get worse at the game the more you try. However if you let accuracy sink in first, you can play the fast stuff as much as you like afterwards without side effects.
For speed: Play short streams (3-9 notes). I don't quite know why this works, but it does, and is done easiest by spamming DT, as Almost said. I think that higher BPM's (200+) are a little too fast to think about, so you shouldn't... and must practice the motions on shorter streams first, and as you get better and more accurate at these speeds, you can sustain it for longer, because you have the endurance now. Currently I can only do about 50 notes without freezing up, but this was enough to S rog-unlimitation, which apparently only has OD7, as opposed to OD8. I'm not quite there yet.