lol I didn't notice about that, thanks
Initially a bad effect simply because mechanical keyboards drain your stamina faster, but in the end it should have a positive effect.Taikocracy wrote:
Wow it's fun when I'm the only poster in 3 months...
Anyway, I was just wondering if switching to a mechanical keyboard would have any effect (negative or positive) on my play style. I am starting to see some problems with using the standard MacBook keyboard...
It really does depend on your playstyle and how you hit your keyboard. I personally mash my mechanical keyboard and even though it drains my stamina, the purpose of a mechanical keyboard is that you get a response and feedback when you hit the keyboard. I've played on a flat MacBook sort of keyboard before and I tend to get more 100's due to little response from the keyboard which puts me off on the song. But I can stream and tap notes quicker on a MacBook keyboard, so that's a good upside. Eitherway, try both and see how it works out for you.Taikocracy wrote:
Wow it's fun when I'm the only poster in 3 months...
Anyway, I was just wondering if switching to a mechanical keyboard would have any effect (negative or positive) on my play style. I am starting to see some problems with using the standard MacBook keyboard...
From a quick glance at your profile, something you could work on is consistency FCing. You're likely working on songs that are a little -too- far out of your play range currently. Focus on FCing for a bit with at least S rank (no low acc A's). If a map gives you trouble, find out what pattern is causing that trouble and work on getting that pattern down to muscle memory. Ideally once you've learned how to play most triplet, quadruplet and quintuplet patterns, you can start to play any map up to your bpm comfort zone (including streams once you learn how to string those patterns together!)Purplehoboes wrote:
I could use some advice improving, as I seem to have hit a wall
Right now I'm just under 3000pp (honestly, I could probably get a couple hundred more without much struggling if I downloaded some more maps, but I want to get better, not farm pp on easy maps)
What's getting to me the most is streaming (I can stream in some maps up to 150ish bpm depending on the specific note patterns, but anything above that is pretty much impossible unless it's an easy pattern like ddkkddkk or ddddkkkk or dkkkdkkk)
Besides that, I've been trying to just increase my speed in general for the past couple weeks or so until I can play 200bpm more consistently, but I don't feel like I've improved at all in this time considering I can hardly score any higher on any maps I've done before.
What's the best way someone around my skill level could improve? Thanks in advance
Thanks, I appreciate itTasha wrote:
From a quick glance at your profile, something you could work on is consistency FCing. You're likely working on songs that are a little -too- far out of your play range currently. Focus on FCing for a bit with at least S rank (no low acc A's). If a map gives you trouble, find out what pattern is causing that trouble and work on getting that pattern down to muscle memory. Ideally once you've learned how to play most triplet, quadruplet and quintuplet patterns, you can start to play any map up to your bpm comfort zone (including streams once you learn how to string those patterns together!)Purplehoboes wrote:
I could use some advice improving, as I seem to have hit a wall
Right now I'm just under 3000pp (honestly, I could probably get a couple hundred more without much struggling if I downloaded some more maps, but I want to get better, not farm pp on easy maps)
What's getting to me the most is streaming (I can stream in some maps up to 150ish bpm depending on the specific note patterns, but anything above that is pretty much impossible unless it's an easy pattern like ddkkddkk or ddddkkkk or dkkkdkkk)
Besides that, I've been trying to just increase my speed in general for the past couple weeks or so until I can play 200bpm more consistently, but I don't feel like I've improved at all in this time considering I can hardly score any higher on any maps I've done before.
What's the best way someone around my skill level could improve? Thanks in advance
Also, a comment about speed. You likely do have the speed to play maps above 150bpm. You're more likely to not have good enough reading and finger control more than anything, which builds with playtime. Speed comes with comfort reading and playing patterns.
Whatever works for you. When I was learning I just played as many maps as I could get my hands on and tried to pass. It was pretty easy to tell which ones were too far out of my range (pattern complexity was too much / streams were too long for me to understand / etc.) and which ones were only slightly out of my range (~10 misses / FC but low acc). I'd just focus on the maps that I thought I could FC / improve my score on. As for your issues with dkd / kdk, make an effort to change it then. You'll notice a drop in skill initially but as you engrave into muscle memory how to do them the way you want to, you'll have less issues with it and you'll remove the problem you feel you have (speed / stamina) because of it.Zoggoth wrote:
@Tasha
Is the "recommended difficulty" in the search function a good place to start? Right now I'm doing random maps with "stars>4 bpm<241" but I could easily just sort by difficulty and play every map 5.4* (recommended) and up. I think I may have already messed up slightly by playing dkd and kdk with one hand, as I think it's messing up my speed and stamina on dkdk... streams
The best advice I can give with regards to 1/4+1/6 (with 1/6 usually being quads) is to be incredibly comfortable with all of the different 1/6 on their own and be extremely familiar with knowing how much time there is between a 1/2 snap at a given bpm. Reason I find this useful is quads fit within the spacing of two notes at 1/2 snapping. (i.e d k at 1/2 snapping and (ddkk) at 1/6 snapping would both start and end at the same time). Knowing this you can play 1/4 until the first note of the 1/6, play the quad within the 1/2 timing window and continue on with your 1/4. As for reading individual patterns, try to think of ways you can get the muscle memory down faster. For example the ddd(kkkd)dd pattern you struggle with? imagine it as dddkkkddd 1/4, a pattern you're already used to. It's the same inputs just done at different snappings, so try and train your fingers to get used to the different snapping.IControl wrote:
Maps With 1/6s in the middle of the streams?
I can do ddd(kkkd)kk fairly easily but I sometimes struggle with ddd(kkkd)dd or any generally any last note of the 1/6s that leads into the same color note as the 1/6 stream. Does anybody have any advice for a ddkk player? Also maps?
TL;DR Practice, first and foremost.HattuKeisari wrote:
I have problems with doing fast DK DK DKs (KD KD KDs). Any tips to improve?
Slower BPM, mostly. You want to find a spot where the BPM is low enough that you have enough time to think about which hand comes next, but not so much time that you remove the aspect of muscle memory. Then, you'll want to focus explicitly on improving where you're failing. For example, to get used to fully alternating such as rlrlr l r l ... then you have to actively rewrite your muscle memory - and then, once you start succeeding at it even slightly, swap it around and start doing that same pattern with lrlrl r l r ...Swerro wrote:
I'm trying to learn to full alternate and it's going pretty well, I can play many combs of 3 and 5 bursts.
but once those bursts come in I keep starting them with my right hand (R-L-R-L-R) and then continueing the next singletaps (or next burst) again with my right hand.
I can do patterns, but I can't get used to not starting everything with my right hand.
Any tips on this?
(Like for example what kind of maps should I practice: harder maps or go back to easier maps)
I think the problem lies in your speed. A 1/4 to 1/8 transition shouldn't practically make the beat more confusing. If you can't land hits simply because the notes are too fast, HT is a viable option to read, learn, and practise the patterns properly, then perhaps you can hit them quicker. It's like playing Galaxy Collapse without hitting everything because your hands aren't quick enough, unless you have HT, which is absolutely reasonable.Eeneehaww30PH wrote:
hey there! well, i'm a bit far now, but i would really like to have some tips from you.
any help on how to deal well with the sudden change of time measures? like you are doing well with 1/4 patterns around 160bpm? then some clusters of 1/8 appears. my hands end up being forced to hit them right, some were completed but mostly, it ends missed. that makes my hands more tired.
i've tried HT, but it seems to take me more longer to master them when returning to the original bpm.
any tips? or I only need patience?
Actually half time makes everything 2/3 speed and not 1/2 (despite it being called half-time) just like DT makes everything 1.5x and not 2xtkdlolly wrote:
But with 160 BPM, I would say forget HT, and just practise the patterns individually on your desk or keyboard until you can play them up to speed, provided that the patterns aren't too long to practise playing without looking at the notes themselves. You can always use the Edit panel to practise a particular part repeatedly if absolutely necessary (unless the map is a convert). If you use HT you're basically turning 1/4 to 1/2 and 1/8 to 1/4 which doesn't help if you keep playing 1/8 like you would 1/4, because you won't be able to speed up without HT.
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I just knewEdgar_Figaro wrote:
Actually half time makes everything 2/3 speed and not 1/2 (despite it being called half-time) just like DT makes everything 1.5x and not 2xtkdlolly wrote:
But with 160 BPM, I would say forget HT, and just practise the patterns individually on your desk or keyboard until you can play them up to speed, provided that the patterns aren't too long to practise playing without looking at the notes themselves. You can always use the Edit panel to practise a particular part repeatedly if absolutely necessary (unless the map is a convert). If you use HT you're basically turning 1/4 to 1/2 and 1/8 to 1/4 which doesn't help if you keep playing 1/8 like you would 1/4, because you won't be able to speed up without HT.
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On finishers *sigh*Hata-tan wrote:
I'm trying to get back into Taiko after my ban, but I realized that I've gotten so much worse accuracywise. Usually it was around 98% but now I end up messing up everything and ending up with 89 - 97% acc...except on easy shit like some Onis or qoot maps...
Well, also I realized that finishers make me mindblock so hard, especially if they are spammed like in Nwolfs Anima or in Onos TU4AR
Am I better off just ignoring the finishers and going for the FC/accuracy or should I consistently practice hitting every finisher just because everything else would be cheesing? I don't know about Taiko morals but ignoring finishers seems wrong to me and the fact that you don't break on them confused me since the beginning. But I guess it's fortunate
Playing two notes with one hand is a legitimate style that I know a few high-level players use. But note that you may run into trouble when facing longer streams, as in ddkdk or ddkdkkdkd. If you can figure out what's going on, awesome. But if not, consider playing the regular alt instead. Especially if you play HR, you might see ddk coming, but be surprised when you see another dk following. Do you alternate or repeat another dk? How about dkd? It would be good to think your style through so that you can play whatever pattern comes next without having to think on the spot and fumble with your keyboard.DJ Enetro wrote:
All too interesting, now that you consider it...
Not too long ago, I placed #15 on Ymir by MYTHOLOGIA, beatmap by MLREC, on Beginner difficulty (using FL, HD, and HR mods).
Then again, good osu! players are not judged by one song but by how they utilize patterns.
I am using the default zx/cv setup, and it seems that those ddk and kkd patterns put together seem to be fumbling me up. Maybe I should use xcv - vzx for them? It seemed smooth anyway.
Also, some general tips would be kindly appreciated. Thanks!