Wow people actually replied
Purple wrote:
Never retrying is damn stupid. The bandwagon mentality in these forums will never to impress me.
If you want to really improve consistency then learning low AR, playing technical maps and marathons on hidden AKA what WWW does is the way to go.
Examples of technical maps are maps like Scarlet Rose, Kirby MIXes, The Big Black.. anything that forces you to move your cursor in jerky ways. They will help you learn to keep your cursor steady, make straight lines between circles and to never skip any hit objects.. provided you play them right and not mash through them.
That's some really neat advice, thanks. I'll try that.
I think that everyone in this thread is saying something that holds a little truth, you guys are just looking at it too one-sidedly. I think consistency can be broken down into three things;
Aim consistency
Tapping consistency, and
Reading consistency
Now, each of those three needs to be up on a certain level to be able to FC a map (besides the necessary skill required). In my case, my main issues are with aim and reading, since my tapping is only ever inconsistent when I can't keep up with the map, which doesn't really relate to consistency as much as skill. Over the past few days, I've found that my
aim is inconsistent partially due to my reading (which is the big problem really), and partially due to how I aim, I think. I hold the stylus pretty low down (like where you'd hold a normal pen) and rest my pinkie on the tablet. I use full area though, and I have tiny hands/wrists so I need to move around quite a bit, and I think that this is the problem. My table doesn't provide much friction so it's easy for my wrist to slip a little bit, which at cs4 isn't that drastic but when playing HR it's awful, and causes for those stupid misses that I shouldn't have made. In a simple example, when playing Remote Control, I'll consistently FC the fullscreen jumps but miss at the easy parts.
Which brings me to my next issue. My
reading is reaaally inconsistent, and I have no clue how to train it. I play more EZ and FL than almost everyone else on my friends list, so it's not like I don't practice reading, and really, I
can read, but I lose focus reaaally often. And I have no clue how to keep that focus. Most of the time when I'm playing my thoughts will be in Oompa Loompa Land and when I snap back to my senses and realize I'm doing a good play I panic and miss. I tried focusing for the duration of an entire map but I can't do it. I'll focus for 10 seconds and drift off again. The only thing I can focus on consistently is tapping (when I'm paying attention to my accuracy) but doing that still doesn't do much for my aiming. So, basically, I need to either not realize that I'm doing a good play (which happened with both my #1 and #2 performances), or be lucky enough to be able to play through the panic.
Whenever I'm FCing something good and come close to the end I get super nervous and with every circle I click my focus deteriorates up to a point where I'm barely aware of what's going on in the playfield. It feels like playing FL except the shit is right there, it just doesn't register or something. Really annoying. I tried playing more FL to deal with the nervosity but I always panic when I hit 200 combo and the area becomes super tiny, just like when I'm nearing the end of any impressive FC.
So yeah all of the "play a map once" stuff sounds nice and all but it doesn't really help much, and I'm sort of stumped on what else I could do. I'm still gonna try to fix up the aim shit but when it comes to staying focused I don't know what I could do to practice that. I'm gonna try out Purple's "Marathons with HD" suggestion, I think that trying to FC marathons with HD might help improve my focus a little. Nothing to lose, anyway.
Thanks for all the advice so far though, I really appreciate it.
Also buny your "play more" posts are getting more original by the day, it's awesome
Keep up the good work