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Nanofranne
I am sort of antithesis in typical six digits, In a way:

1. I improve my acc first (e.g going from 88, 90, 94, 96, 97, 98) before fc with combo
2. I play alt, tech, low AR, EZ, spaced stream, or anything quirky rather than more normal mapping and farms until very recently
3. I dislike jumps, especially with higher bpm (>180)

These sort of playing style got me some trouble, such as:
1. Underaim and understream
2. When I'm doing jumps, I have bad habit to move as fast as I can then just retract to response other circle before hitting it
3. Unsteady flow aim on a linear pattern
4. I combo break much more frequently than fellow players with similar ranking

Do I need to undo these things? I feel like I'm hitting a skill wall. The only thing that ranks me up thanks to jump farm maps and not my usual map I supposed to play
Endaris
If you still want to reach for harder maps by SR, yes they are problems.
I know that very well because I mostly used to enjoy the same things and also just had an abysmal innate stream speed that improved very slowly (as in, I could never deathstream above 125bpm - not being able to grind an eliminate anthem FC due to stamina issues is just a tragedy).

That type of alternating stuff is incredibly fun, it's great practice for flow aim in many cases but the major issue is that it does not practice physical skills.
Ultimately higher star rating boils down to bigger 1/2 jumps and faster/longer streams. That's it. When playing alt maps, you challenge none of these two aspects and if you overcommit on them, your growth in those areas will inevitably start to slow dramatically.

Personally I completely went down that rabbit hole and never really made it out again. Was a fun ride but as an accuracy oriented player, at some point I just got sick and tired of the heavy aim focus in terms of tournament scoring and then kind of figured that I had hard-plateaud in terms of aim and eventually figured I'd probably be better off playing taiko or mania as I appreciate the rhythm+accuracy part much more than aim+stamina. And then real life kind of got in the way and I stopped playing almost completely.
My personal main issue was that the "normal" type of map just wasn't nearly as fun for me so even when I tried to, sitting down to practice hard rock, DT, jump and stream maps, it just sucked the soul out of me.
The main thing that did work for me when I still tried was playing multiplayer. If you join a 5* lobby or whatever, you can be sure that people will almost always pick towards the higher end of 5*. They will mostly not pick farm maps but rather songs/maps they like. They will be more generic but the context of multiplayer means that you just sightread, try your hardest once and then kind of forget about them unless you're religious about sorting stuff into your acc collections (can always do that after if you save the mp link after joining a room).
For me personally that "casually competitive" drive that multiplayer gave me was fun enough to try and push my limits again, simply cause there's no retry button in multiplayer.
Happy Satoko
I was the same as six digit, playing primarily weird maps, finger control, and tech. I had to start playing jump maps, conventional maps and DT regularly to truly break into 5* fwiw. Maybe you won't have to, but those less conventional maps in the 4* range are usually also very dense, so I got used to the density and my aim suffered for it. It seems like it'd be an uphill battle to get used to weird maps in 5* without being used to higher spacing on the simpler maps, bc higher spacing is most of the difference between 4* and 5*. I also have slower tapping speed than others around my rank, and I suspect it's due to avoiding conventional maps and DT in the beginning. Imo your options are either to start practicing those simple maps, or to lean hard into being a high density player and specialize in EZ.
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Nanofranne
Thanks for the reply, both of you! Yea, flicking my pen across the tablet back and forth isn't as fun as playing complicated rhythm and pattern. Though I don't want to be specialised EZ or tech player 24/7, I have to learn jump and speed to catch up with the vast majority of people. It's a bitter pill

I guess playing only edgy types of mapping is also bad at the other extreme end of the spectrum, and it will become detriment later on
Fxjlk

Nanofranne wrote:

Do I need to undo these things? I feel like I'm hitting a skill wall. The only thing that ranks me up thanks to jump farm maps and not my usual map I supposed to play
If you are hitting a wall now you will hit a wall once you finish farming as well.

You don't need to farm if you don't want to, its not going to hold you back.
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Nanofranne

Fxjlk wrote:

If you are hitting a wall now you will hit a wall once you finish farming as well.

You don't need to farm if you don't want to, its not going to hold you back.
I know. But I don't want to be bottlenecked with my ability to play unorthodox maps alone.
scores/osu/4500610111

It may be farm map, but It have aspects that I lack at (higher bpm, sudden streams, triangle jumps)

I decided to continue to learn jumps appropriately in addition to what I can already play
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