I am trying to improve my tapping but practicing stream maps and tapping maps is too draining to just focus on that and i get tired after only 30-45 minutes of playing.

You don't run 20 km without stopping on your first day of running. You have to run 500 m first without stopping, then when you can run 500 m comfortably you start running 600 m without stopping, and then 700, and then 800, and then 900, and then 1 km... The same applies to osu!. You can't FC freedom dive on your first day, nor will retry-spamming The Deceit until you FC it work. Progress takes time.

I'd suggest trying to focus on longer maps to build consistency, since pretty much your entire top 100 is tv size maps.

Also, maybe tone down the difficulty of the maps you play. Most of what you're playing you're getting B ranks on, which generally isn't ideal for improvement. Try to aim for at least an A.

1.) Stop playing [Insane] or [Extra] maps (basically anything above 4*). You barely get any decent acc on those maps and that doesn't help your ability to grow. You're likely better off playing in the 2* range (maybe low 3*) as that's where you have the best acc average. You want to usually shoot for 95% acc on a consistent basis--that is, you could randomly select any map from that 2.3-3* range and get 95% on 9/10 maps picked this way. That's usually a good enough sign that you can move up to a higher difficulty.

2.) Play longer maps (at minimum over 3 minutes, like Yellowbadbeast suggested. Being able to play through longer maps (not to mention being able to get good acc on them) will help with both consistency and stamina.

3.) Maintain a relatively high playcount. Only 800 (recorded) plays this month isn't going to provide you a lot of improvement. You don't have to tryhard and go for, like, 3K+, but try to remain relatively close to 2K plays a month. 1.5-2.3K.

4.) IF you can't maintain that due to real life obligations (which ALWAYS COME FIRST unless you stream Osu as your primary income, and even then they should still take priority), try to make what little time you do have count. It might be better for you to condense your play down so that instead of spreading out 1K plays over an entire month, try putting in a couple hours and 300-400 plays into one or two days, especially focusing on a specific aspect of play.

5.) Seriously, stop playing higher SR maps when you can't normally do better than B-rank 80%-ish on them.

Voidedosu wrote:

3.) Maintain a relatively high playcount. Only 800 (recorded) plays this month isn't going to provide you a lot of improvement. You don't have to tryhard and go for, like, 3K+, but try to remain relatively close to 2K plays a month. 1.5-2.3K.

3.A) I currently have an rsi and possibly carpal tunnel so i think my playcount it def gonna stay low if not 0 for a week or 2. i do agree though, every time i saw my playcount i thought "thats nowhere near where i want it"

Voidedosu wrote:

1.) You're likely better off playing in the 2* range (maybe low 3*) as that's where you have the best acc average. You want to usually shoot for 95% acc on a consistent basis--that is, you could randomly select any map from that 2.3-3* range and get 95% on 9/10 maps picked this way. That's usually a good enough sign that you can move up to a higher difficulty.

2.) Play longer maps (at minimum over 3 minutes, like Yellowbadbeast suggested. Being able to play through longer maps (not to mention being able to get good acc on them) will help with both consistency and stamina.

1.A) I have always been told that playing 85-90% acc plays will be the best for improving, the same way that doing the same weight in a workout when you can rep it for 30 is less efficient for gains than doing heavier for sets of 8.

2.A) I have been trying to play longer maps, even though you cant really see it in the top plays.

1.) I don't think that really fits, though I can't pinpoint that exactly. Essentially, this is a rhythm game, and to do well you need to play at a high accuracy. 85-90% accuracy indicates that you don't have much care for your accuracy and are just missing or getting lots of 50s/100s, mainly because you just don't have the speed, stamina or aim to make it.

Unlike with weight reps, you don't really get better by trying to hit the same jump you can't quite hit over and over like that. Sure, eventually you might hit it, but that will be ten to hundreds to thousands of attempts later, and while this isn't something I can prove it's very likely you don't actually get anything out of it, either. In Osu, practicing lower-difficulty jumps you can hit semi-consistently until you can hit those consistently, then slowly expanding out the length or difficulty of those jumps as you go will get you more results. It's more analogous to, say, a speedrunner practicing strats over and over to get them down pat (or at least to some level of manageable consistency) before even attempting live runs.

(as an semi-related note, workouts for your fingers or arms aren't bad, either, mind you. That will help with stamina and general strength and speed to play higher-speed plays.)

2.) Don't worry. With how generally poor your acc is on those high-SR plays, once you start hitting high 2*/low 3* maps you'll start seeing them show up and thus fix your profile acc. in this game it's click or be clicked you will be far more rewarded in pp and acc and general accomplishment with high-acc low-SR plays than you will low-acc high-SR plays, in part because misses and high 100/50 counts are very punishing (IMO rightly so). As an example, your #11 play on Granat [Spiz's Extra] is about 48pp on a 4.95* map with about 31 100s, 1 50 and 8 misses. Compare it to this score of mine on a longer map. It's nearly 2* lower, but on an SS you'd get more pp from it than your play with basically horrible acc. Hell, even if I copy-paste your 100/50/miss counts onto that map, while you'd have lower pp (not even enough to get onto your top plays) you'd still beat your Granat acc. by almost 10%. Under the assumption you'd slash most of that by over 70% just by virtue of it being a far easier map to play (so about 10 100, no 50s and 3 misses, you'd have over 97% acc and a 30pp play.

Trust me, great acc will get you far, and is also kinda the point of the game anyways. by the time acc is generally considered less significant you're at, like, 8*+ maps that are so insanely difficult that even the best players like Mrekk or Whitecat or Accolibed don't consistently even get B-Ranks (well, more on the 9-10* side than 8*, but still).

3.) If you have rsi and carpal definitely don't push it that far, but I would still recommend keeping it above 1K and trying to be more condensed in your play. certainly not a lot in one day, but I think that 100-200 (or 300) a day would be good.