Play a good mix out of everything. That's all I can say. Don't focus on only one ability (like streaming/jumping) and play as much different beatmaps as possible. The more experience, the more ways you can deal with new patterns.
This. I usually play old maps with small circles and high AR's to practice my accuracy/aim and just DT hards or play insanes for speed.Mamoru Senpai wrote:
Play a good mix out of everything..
SS is meaningless as it is natural to get random misses, if you ever think of SSing something, aim for 99%, it's equally as good.MaTr1x17 wrote:
Thanks for the tips so far! I really appreciate it.
seems like Ill have to train my acc quite some and then some more. The point is Im already quite fast and can keep up with some insane songs. But as pointed out my acc is honestly shit. Even on easier maps I have a hard time to get a no-misses, let alone SS.
This describes best, what Im doing right now. Another problem is, that I dont like maps that are too slow. I usually move away from a song as soon as I reach an A or better, since to me its not challenging anymore.Myke B wrote:
for the first 5-8k plays or so (hard to remember exactly) when I was trying to go from normals to insanes, I honestly just played maps that I enjoyed playing and couldn't really beat all the way through. 5x5x5 rubiks cube is one of those maps, and how do you do jericho's rave? I played how do you do literally 100+ times (my most played map) just getting a little bit farther each time until I finally beat it. I always had the focus of getting better, but when I looked at cookiezi at the time, I thought that this shit is ridiculously easy compared to that, so imma just keep playing np. eventually I got to the level that I am at now (not extremely high, but higher than the average I guess) and now I focus on specific things I want to fix (aim, acc, speed, streams, etc.). Most people have google docs that have tons of maps for exactly what you are looking for sorted by bpm. You need just play the game up until you can do any of those maps on that google doc first. Getting up to insane level is the easiest part of the game imo, and where everyone has to start before actually trying to get decent.
I believe I have this problem now I've got this thing for doing insane which are impossible for me and I end up button mashing ( I can't alternate well because of this)kT fizik wrote:
If you only play spam maps where you end up at about 70-80% max,you shouldn't do that. I did that too and I felt like I improved rapidly at first,but looking back all I did was develop bad habits (button mashingz) and thus shouldn't have done it. Oh yeah,and I got bad accuracy now. You want to slowly improve but surely since got basic skills are worth pursuing in the end.
e:/ what almost said
Almost wrote:
That's the best way to improve speed and aim but playing easier maps is best for training accuracy.
The fact that you had an understanding of rhythm helped you with that, JAKACHANJAKACHAN wrote:
That is not correct for everyone. I started out playing maps I could barely pass and had no problems whatsoever. As long as you aren't just spamming and are actually trying to hit everything this is one of the better ways in my opinion to improve.kT fizik wrote:
If you only play spam maps where you end up at about 70-80% max,you shouldn't do that. I did that too and I felt like I improved rapidly at first,but looking back all I did was develop bad habits (button mashingz) and thus shouldn't have done it. Oh yeah,and I got bad accuracy now. You want to slowly improve but surely since got basic skills are worth pursuing in the end.
e:/ what almost said
With that logic does it make it smarter to play the insanely hard songs (like 0108) with HT instead of NF if you can't keep up with the speed? Just to keep a habit of hitting all the notes.Ikki wrote:
First of all, why do you find certain maps hard to pass? It's either because you can't properly read the patterns or you don't have required physical abilities. Playing them makes you play incorrectly (because you are not capable of doing it correctly yet), which eventually leads into bad habits. That's why many say that using NF is a bad way to practice and I completely agree with that. If you want a good practice, a quite efficient way is to work on your accuracy. Focus on playing maps on which you can get at least 85% and work up from there. This will slowly improve skills required for those maps and will make you a better player in general. Most important is not to rush things, I made big mistake playing only AR10 and NF from early days, which came with a lot of bad habits which I have to work on now. It's much more efficient to do things correctly from the begging than to learn the wrong way and have to unlearn the bad habits you got from it. Keep that in mind and good luck.
As long as it's neither too easy and neither too hard, trying to get better accuracy will make you improve. You need to find maps which require good amount of focus for you to play.Plaatinum wrote:
With that logic does it make it smarter to play the insanely hard songs (like 0108) with HT instead of NF if you can't keep up with the speed? Just to keep a habit of hitting all the notes.