Hey there all, I get that this is a question that's over asked all of the time and that the answer is to simply play the game more. I've spent around 11 months putting in consistent play and working to improve my gameplay in every aspect (speed, tech, jumps, streams etc.) I've logged around 640 hours, and I felt for a long while that my improvement was steady but on a good course. Recently however, I've found players such as mReKk that have managed to climb and improve at an absolutely absurd pace. He has a 1k pp play with only 90 ish more hours of playtime than I have. It's definitely true that PP isn't the only thing that measures skill, but taking that into consideration I'm not even close to being able to pass maps that would give 500-600 pp. To put it simply, for a player around my skill level what are the best ways to continue improving at this point? I don't want to plateau here and it feels like I'm going to unfortunately :c. Any tips and any advice is greatly appreciated .

I'm pretty sure you already know all the usual tips and advice about how to improve.
They're easy to find around forums, videos, guides, internet...
Unfortunately, it seems that there is no secret tip or magic techniques.

But, improving well-rounded need more time than mastering one specific thing,
if you focus on your strength, you'll improve faster at it.

There is nothing wrong doing that, as long as you have fun doing it.

Get ready for this. Take a deep breath and listen to what i have to say.






Did you take the deep breath yet? Take it if you haven't already







Alright, with that out of the way, it's time i told you something.....

First of all, remember that everyone improves at their own rate. And that perseverance and endurance is a key. Remember this for you will need it for my next advice. And no, it's not play more, I'm sure you know that part already. I'm going to tell you the other part that fulfills the play more advice. Take another breath




Okay, now for this important part. Depending on what your skills' levels are, you may or may not have to start from the bottom of the star range. But it will be worth it. Whenever you want to improve at a certain skill, first try to find your comfort zone on that skill. (You can also apply this to the general starrate you can play to an certain extent). Your comfort zone is where you are able to apply that skill proficiently to the difficulty that is presented to you, where you are able to get (very) good results from it. After finding it, try going slightly out of that where it starts becoming more challenging and you find that there are minor flaws that prevents you from doing well like in your comfort range. Don't go way over your comfort range to the point you don't understand what's going on, but feel free to test a few maps of that range to test your skills and stuff. But don't do it too much, i don't want you to develop bad habits, like mashing, misreading and etc. But feel free to do it a few times if you wish. I personally am not the kind of person to go for mere (C) passes, but doing them from time to time may actually be helpful, but you focus should be on the mastery of your skills.

With that, i will now (try to) introduce you to some skillsets. Most fundamentals, at least in my opinion, are aim, reading and finger control/tapping accuracy. After this there are also skills like consistency, stamina and speed, but without the fundamentals, they are almost useless. Okay, i said reading is important, but isn't this a rhythm game? Indeed, it's a rhythm game indeed. And as such, a good rhythm sense is also important. But that does not mean you disregard visual cues, in fact, most rhythm games, if not all, are audiovisual. You should take advantage of both the music and the visual patterns. They complement each other in my opinion. As such, without a good reading, you won't have a good execution either on any aim or tapping patterns.
I probably have more to say, but for now take this. I'll also put a playlist of osu improvement videos which will probably mention things i may not even have considered, let alone know

Oh. Here's the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMVRtx5W-wVWWWqeZ67xQ-v9cw9hXJKFx
There are like a lot of other informative topics i have not mentioned, like improving speed, having a good mindset, and some other things i have nkt mentioned. I will keep gathering videos, and if possible, one day, text posts too

KEEP IN MIND THAT I HAVE YET TO PROPERLY ORGANIZE THE KNOWLEDGE INTRODUCED FROM BEGINNER TO ADVANCED AND FROM MOST IMPORTANT TO ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SO IT PROBABLY HAS THE MOST IMPORTANT ONES FOR YOU BELOW IN THE LIST INSTEAD OF ABOVE