I wasn't playing regularly due to my responsibilities in my life but being stucked at same ranks for almost 2.5 years really feels like not normal even if I'm not playing a lot. There are more than one issue. First, I have massive fingerlock problem. I can't fix it sometimes it doesn't happen a lot but sometimes it happens too much. Sometimes I get fingerlock(? Idk if this is true way to say or not but nevermind.) at mid-jumps. And sometimes my fingers basically refuses to move at the beginning of a jump section so I end up missing at least the first note. Second, I'm using tablet for about 3 years now but still having issues with grip, sometimes I can find a comfortable pen position in my hand but I can't hold the pen like that after that day. Third, I can't alternate and don't know how can I learn it. I always played with singletap. But now I can't hit the jumps with singletap above certain BPM. I'm trying to learn alternate but everytime, my fingers gets mixed up(?) I start tapping with both my fingers at the same time, sometimes my fingers refuses to move, sometimes I start singletapping without noticing. Fourth, I can't use tablet without putting mousepad between my tablet's surface and my pen. Using without mousepad feels so slippery but it makes my aim slower. Also it tires my arm. I need an advice for this, is it better to trying to get used to use tablet without mousepad? Is it necessary or not? And finally, my aim is not consistent. Like it's good today but tomorrow, it will be bad. I can't improve my aim generally, doing same mistakes again and again.

I writed a lot but I really need some advice about these things if it's possible. You might be have a trouble with understanding my text since English is not my native language. I had to write in this category with using English because this way more people will see this.

Had the same problem. Only a couple of days ago got somewhat better. Here are some tips that helped me.

First issue: Try to use different hand placement for tapping. Like instead of keeping a pinky mid-air you can bend it to your palm or vice-versa. Also you can try keeping your wrist floating if you plant it in your desk. Heck, you might even change your tapping fingers from index and middle to index and ring finger. Simply, just change the way you hold your hand.

Second issue: try using grip tape for your pen. You can buy it cheaply in sports stores.

Third issue: There are two solutions - play maps that are too fast to singletap so you are forced to alternate, or instead play very easy maps so you can handle the mental fatigue from alternating.

Fourth (not quite) issue: Rafis and couple of other high rank players do the same, so do what makes you the most comfortable.


Fifth issue: Play easier but longer maps and try to keep combo. Also relax your aiming hand as much as possible.

being stucked at same ranks for almost 2.5 years really feels like not normal even if I'm not playing a lot.

I'm sorry, but it's normal. If your osu playtime were instead something like the time you spend trying to improve your running speed, your running speed wouldn't improve consistently either. It takes a time investment. So if you basically stop playing the game for 2.5 years, you'll improve very slowly for 2.5 years. Most of the problems you mentioned would likely resolve just by playing more. You don't have to learn to alternate to improve either, you can always try it again at another time when you're more motivated to play. It's normal to not be able to tap fast enough when you're pushing your skill. If you play the game more and practice it, you should be able to hit the notes singletap after some time.

Storemy wrote:

Had the same problem. Only a couple of days ago got somewhat better. Here are some tips that helped me.

First issue: Try to use different hand placement for tapping. Like instead of keeping a pinky mid-air you can bend it to your palm or vice-versa. Also you can try keeping your wrist floating if you plant it in your desk. Heck, you might even change your tapping fingers from index and middle to index and ring finger. Simply, just change the way you hold your hand.

Second issue: try using grip tape for your pen. You can buy it cheaply in sports stores.

Third issue: There are two solutions - play maps that are too fast to singletap so you are forced to alternate, or instead play very easy maps so you can handle the mental fatigue from alternating.

Fourth (not quite) issue: Rafis and couple of other high rank players do the same, so do what makes you the most comfortable.


Fifth issue: Play easier but longer maps and try to keep combo. Also relax your aiming hand as much as possible.

thanks for advice, I'll change my playstyle a bit as you said.

Happy Satoko wrote:

being stucked at same ranks for almost 2.5 years really feels like not normal even if I'm not playing a lot.

I'm sorry, but it's normal. If your osu playtime were instead something like the time you spend trying to improve your running speed, your running speed wouldn't improve consistently either. It takes a time investment. So if you basically stop playing the game for 2.5 years, you'll improve very slowly for 2.5 years. Most of the problems you mentioned would likely resolve just by playing more. You don't have to learn to alternate to improve either, you can always try it again at another time when you're more motivated to play. It's normal to not be able to tap fast enough when you're pushing your skill. If you play the game more and practice it, you should be able to hit the notes singletap after some time.

so what I must do is keep trying and play more, thanks for advice.

Its not about years its about hours. I created this acc in beginning of 2014 but look at how many hours i played. (Played offline to much it should be +250) now if we look at the year i should be next cookiezi but hour based its still low so it should be normal to have 4.600 pp i guess?

What im trying to say is someone from 2022 can beat me blindfold if the player CONSISTANTLY played for 2 years and put Total of 1.5 k hours.

I want to give an example for this situation. I played LoL more than 5.000+ hours (12 years with short breaks, 1 year max) and after going to military for 6 months i played LoL again when came back. And first 4-5 games was a nightmare. I played bad and even forgot some key aspects or getting slow to react.

Now think a rhythm game filled with abnormal circle and sliders. At the same time you need to read a note and click that but right before you click that note you need to analyze next one and recognize jump-stream pattern. And you doing this with high tempo (or ar8 which is worse). If you play this game continiously without long brakes it should be fine. Otherwise it gets too frustrating for sure.

Fingerlock is almost certainly a technique issue. Start from the bottom, play triples and make sure to really engrain exactly how to play them in your mind.

It's hard to give advice regarding grip issues. Just try to take note of common patterns in your misaims etc (e.g. do I always aim as if I am playing the map rotated slightly counter clockwise?) and work from there.

As for alternating, I feel confident commenting since I've exclusively full alted since I was around your skill level and now I feel extremely comfortable alting almost any map in the game (as long as it's playable for my skill level and isn't like 11 stars of finger control). If you want to learn alting I'd recommend completely committing to it for a few weeks. Never singletap, ever, even if a specific pattern feels impossible to alt. If you accidentally start mashing, dont continue mashing in order to not miss, consciously stop and resume alting (play with NF on maps where this is a persistent problem). I think you should be able to alt at a reasonable proficiency level within a few weeks.

As for aim consistency, you simply haven't played that much within the last few months. You'll have to play more to build aim consistency.

Also, your english is pretty good! I didn't have trouble understanding anything, Next time though try to break up your text into paragraphs so that it's easier to read.