Using both mouse and keyboard to click

Jstore

Joined September 2014

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Jstore 2014-12-26T13:56:44+00:00

A friend of mine told me that I'm better off just using the keyboard to click and the mouse to move, the problem is that since I've started playing I've always used both keyboard and mouse.I usually use the mouse to click the single notes and keyboard for sliders and streams.
So for the past 3 days I've been practicing using only keyboard but my performance has suffered drastically from this as I can barely complete maps that I could do before without any problems.
My question for you is should I continue practicing by using only the keyboard to hit notes or should I switch back to my old play style?

Bauxe

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Joined August 2012

Bauxe 2014-12-26T14:03:31+00:00

Use whatever you want. There are good players who click with mouse / stream with keyboard.

Sophia

266 posts

Joined December 2013

Sophia 2014-12-26T14:54:57+00:00

Use what's comfortable for you. And there are people with that playstyle who are quite good.

cheezstik

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Joined October 2013

cheezstik 2014-12-27T00:24:43+00:00

There are people with this playstyle that are good, but there are also people that could be good with touchscreen, or playing with their feet or some ridiculous shit, doesn't mean you should play like that. Play in the way that lets you play at your best. Tap/x, or click/x if on mouse, is a playstyle that grants you ridiculous speed and stamina, at the cost of accuracy / unstable rate. It'd be very hard to master that playstyle, or get to the point where you'd be as accurate if you played regularly z/x, or even mouse only.

You could probably play at your best with z/x + mouse, take a day to get used to it, and you will be better than if you spent the next month playing click/x.

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winber1

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winber1 2014-12-27T00:27:04+00:00

try downgrading to windows 98

my code doesn't work still

chainpullz

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Joined June 2013

chainpullz 2014-12-27T00:31:27+00:00

Salochin made it into the top 1k players using such a style. Hes currently on break from the game after recovering from carpal tunnel to finish his degree but you can find a lot of his videos on youtube.

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ZenithPhantasm

ZenithPhantasm 2014-12-27T03:49:00+00:00

chainpullz wrote:
Salochin made it into the top 1k players using such a style. Hes currently on break from the game after recovering from carpal tunnel to finish his degree but you can find a lot of his videos on youtube.

He destroyed his mouse hand's index finger using this style.

cheezstik

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Joined October 2013

cheezstik 2014-12-27T04:52:02+00:00

Best tap/x player as far as I'm aware is yamemasita, who is #19 at this point, and not just tap/x, but also perfectly full alt tap/x. He's got the #1 and only top 50 DT score on Dream Walker, as well as Prism Magical and Highlander.

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I Give Up

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Joined January 2014

I Give Up 2014-12-27T04:54:38+00:00

KukiMonster wrote:
Mouse click players are more prone to rsi/cts, but if this isn't a problem for you then I see no reason to change. In terms of performance, you will gain nothing by changing your play style.

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Jstore

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Joined September 2014

Topic Starter

Jstore 2014-12-27T14:39:30+00:00

Thanks to everyone for posting!
After reading through all your posts I decided that I'm going to try and switch to tapping with keyboard and moving with the mouse.
I'll still check this thread for a couple more days so if anyone else has anything to add or any advice on how to get used to tapping faster then I'd gladly appreciate it.

chainpullz

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Joined June 2013

chainpullz 2014-12-27T21:05:36+00:00

ZenithPhantasm wrote:
chainpullz wrote:
Salochin made it into the top 1k players using such a style. Hes currently on break from the game after recovering from carpal tunnel to finish his degree but you can find a lot of his videos on youtube.
He destroyed his mouse hand's index finger using this style.

He also averaged 8 hours a day when he played he says. I think it's more related to that than anything else. I'd imagine if you average 8 hours a day with any style you are going to be hard pressed not to get carpal tunnel. That and he played 3k dpi so his grip involved applying lots of downward pressure so that was probably a huge contributing factor too.

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-sev

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Joined February 2014

-sev 2014-12-27T21:10:51+00:00

chainpullz wrote:
I'd imagine if you average 8 hours a day with any style you are going to be hard pressed not to get carpal tunnel

Uh oh.

Deathripi

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Joined January 2014

Deathripi 2014-12-27T23:51:11+00:00

Kaienyuu wrote:
chainpullz wrote:
I'd imagine if you average 8 hours a day with any style you are going to be hard pressed not to get carpal tunnel
Uh oh.

Sigh.
Prepare for the carpal tunnel boiz.

ZenithPhantasm

ZenithPhantasm 2014-12-28T00:54:49+00:00