Sweaty hands affecting my pen grip‬ · forum‬

Cyan Yoshi

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Cyan Yoshi 2015-02-11T01:57:30+00:00

I really want to play osu competitively and get good scores on maps but I have this major problem. Ever since I was a kid I've had extremely sweaty hands for no reason at all. They would get sweaty in school, during taekwondo class, and when gaming. Ultimately it would happen whenever I was doing exciting activities and even thinking about my hands getting sweaty would trigger it. Anyway I started playing osu a year ago on mouse and the sweat had no effect. As soon as I got a tablet during the end of last year I started getting pretty good at the game. But recently my hands have been so sweaty that I find it impossible to play a song longer than 1 minuet without the pen slipping out of my normal grip and into a super low position that makes me fail instantly. I've tried washing my hands with warm and cold water. I've tried wearing a glove while playing but it changed my aim completely and I would rather not have to put it on before hopping on osu every day. I've put a fan blowing on my pen while I play but my hands are just wayyyy too sweaty!! I'm sorry if this is a weird question but if any of you have ever experienced something this could you give me any tips you have?

Thank you osu community.
Sincerely,
~Cyan~

Bauxe

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Bauxe 2015-02-11T02:17:30+00:00

You have a few options.

1) Hold your pen lighter.
2) Wash your hands thoroughly every ~30minutes.
3) Wrap some paper tower or something around the pen, and grip over that.

All of these seem to work.

Cyan Yoshi

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Cyan Yoshi 2015-02-11T02:32:10+00:00

Thanks for the tips. For tip 2 would you recommend using cold or warm water?

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DeletedUser_4041880 2015-02-11T02:38:15+00:00

Probably warm water would be better than cold (unless you like having cold hands).

Green Platinum

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Green Platinum 2015-02-11T02:59:16+00:00

Frostei wrote:
Probably warm water would be better than cold (unless you like having cold hands).

Salts dissolve more readily in warm water but really it shouldn't matter.

ZenithPhantasm

ZenithPhantasm 2015-02-11T07:13:51+00:00

Spray antiprespirants on your hands.

Green Platinum

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Green Platinum 2015-02-11T07:15:34+00:00

ZenithPhantasm wrote:
Spray antiprespirants on your hands.

Perhaps also dehydrate yourself so much your body doesn't have the resources to sweat

leepdesu

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leepdesu 2015-02-11T07:45:07+00:00

~~go back to mouse~~

I guess one way not stated here is to pause during a reasonably long slider and wipe your hands before continuing. (unless there's a break every 1 minute)

Gumpy

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Gumpy 2015-02-11T07:58:34+00:00

You could try holding it differently

Cyan Yoshi

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Cyan Yoshi 2015-02-11T08:41:30+00:00

ZenithPhantasm wrote:
Spray antiprespirants on your hands.

Hmmm never thought of that. I doubt that it will work considering how bad my sweaty hands are but I'll give it a shot xD

Cyan Yoshi

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Cyan Yoshi 2015-02-11T08:42:07+00:00

Gumpyyy wrote:
You could try holding it differently

I've tried many different grips and they still all result in my losing grip of the pen eventually :/

cheezstik

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cheezstik 2015-02-11T09:20:16+00:00

Try turning a fan or some A/C on, you shouldn't be sweating if your room's cold.

^How you know a thread is about to be locked.

Green Platinum

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Green Platinum 2015-02-11T09:47:57+00:00

cheezstik wrote:
Try turning a fan or some A/C on, you shouldn't be sweating if your room's cold.

Then we have this problem t/281379

-sev

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-sev 2015-02-11T09:53:47+00:00

-LeeP- wrote:
~~go back to mouse~~

I know this is meant as a joke, but playing with mouse when you have sweaty palms is hell. I've been having this problem for a week now and I'm forced to stop and wipe my hands during breaks. Otherwise I lose my grip.

buny

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buny 2015-02-11T10:06:48+00:00

his palms are sweaty

leepdesu

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leepdesu 2015-02-11T13:13:07+00:00

Kaienyuu wrote:
I know this is meant as a joke, but playing with mouse when you have sweaty palms is hell. I've been having this problem for a week now and I'm forced to stop and wipe my hands during breaks. Otherwise I lose my grip.

That's very sad. :C

bigfeh

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bigfeh 2015-02-11T19:37:37+00:00

Yeah, you probably have hyperhidrosis. I do too, and it sucks
(EDIT: just for clarification, yeah, it's genetic. So it's not like we can do anything about it)

There is, however, treatment available. I've been taking oxybutynin for the past few months and for the first time after I started I was able to walk barefoot and write on a piece of paper without wetting it (huge bump in quality of life etc. etc.)

Bottom line is go see your doctor! I know it isn't gonna get any better if you wash your hands or play holding paper, though I found that playing with a towel on my lap turned out to be very useful.

Saphirshroom

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Saphirshroom 2015-02-11T19:41:53+00:00

Green Platinum wrote:
Perhaps also dehydrate yourself so much your body doesn't have the resources to sweat

Fucking brilliant.

Whenever I have sweaty hands I ignore them.

thelewa wrote:
Sweat is just a feeling, you can get used to it.

...or something similar to that anyway.

Yuudachi-kun

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Yuudachi-kun 2015-02-11T19:46:42+00:00

What if you used deodorant on your hands?

sayonara_sekai

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sayonara_sekai 2015-02-11T19:53:05+00:00

deodorants dont prevent sweating.

rubbing a strong antiperspirant on your palm might work, give it a shot. - dr phil

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Obese, diseased, down on her knees
she gave birth on the toilet seat.

Yuudachi-kun

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Yuudachi-kun 2015-02-11T19:58:48+00:00

I thiught deodorants had anti persperents by default.

bigfeh

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bigfeh 2015-02-11T20:03:09+00:00

Kheldragar wrote:
I thiught deodorants had anti persperents by default.

Yeah, some of them do. Aluminium salts play that role, but in that intensity, you need a whole lot more than what you can get in a "normal" deodorant (if there's even any antiperspirant in it). There are some other options with high(er) concentrations of antiperspirants, but they're not as common - contact dermatitis, for instance, is commonly caused by these.

sayonara_sekai

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sayonara_sekai 2015-02-11T20:03:50+00:00

some stick deodorants might have a very small amount of it but if sweating is a serious issue to you it really isnt enough to prevent anything.

sprays have no sweat preventing qualities whatsoever for obvious reasons (its scented air)

#deaodorantchat

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Never knew what was growing within.
Obese, diseased, down on her knees
she gave birth on the toilet seat.

Cyan Yoshi

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Cyan Yoshi 2015-02-11T20:05:21+00:00

bigfeh wrote:
Yeah, you probably have hyperhidrosis. I do too, and it sucks
(EDIT: just for clarification, yeah, it's genetic. So it's not like we can do anything about it)

There is, however, treatment available. I've been taking oxybutynin for the past few months and for the first time after I started I was able to walk barefoot and write on a piece of paper without wetting it (huge bump in quality of life etc. etc.)

Bottom line is go see your doctor! I know it isn't gonna get any better if you wash your hands or play holding paper, though I found that playing with a towel on my lap turned out to be very useful.

I've thought about doing this before but I wasn't sure if it was big enough of an issue. I just tried wrapping a paper towel around my pen and it helped drastically. Although it got soaked after an hour of playing I fell like this was the solution I was looking for. I'll bring it up next time I go see the doctors though, so thanks for the suggestion.

bigfeh

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bigfeh 2015-02-11T21:15:41+00:00

Cyan Yoshi wrote:
bigfeh wrote:
Yeah, you probably have hyperhidrosis. I do too, and it sucks
(EDIT: just for clarification, yeah, it's genetic. So it's not like we can do anything about it)

There is, however, treatment available. I've been taking oxybutynin for the past few months and for the first time after I started I was able to walk barefoot and write on a piece of paper without wetting it (huge bump in quality of life etc. etc.)

Bottom line is go see your doctor! I know it isn't gonna get any better if you wash your hands or play holding paper, though I found that playing with a towel on my lap turned out to be very useful.
I've thought about doing this before but I wasn't sure if it was big enough of an issue. I just tried wrapping a paper towel around my pen and it helped drastically. Although it got soaked after an hour of playing I fell like this was the solution I was looking for. I'll bring it up next time I go see the doctors though, so thanks for the suggestion.

This goes beyond osu!. It was, for me, a huge improvement to overall life quality. But in the mean time, a paper towel might be able to help - make sure to play with an actual towel too, as that helps a lot.

B1rd

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B1rd 2015-02-11T21:18:14+00:00

maybe you can get something permanent to put on your pen that will not be affected by sweat. For example you could wrap some sort of cloth around the pen

Dumii

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Dumii 2015-02-12T02:30:52+00:00

If your problem is your palms sweating, blowing it with a fan probably isn't going to help much.
Personally, I'd recommend simply doing what Bauxe / Rika have suggested, and putting a cloth over your pen whilst using it.
Granted, it will be more work to clean the cloth every now and then, and may slightly affect your aim, but will probably be most effective in solidifying your grip on your tablet pen

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ZenithPhantasm

ZenithPhantasm 2015-02-12T03:21:54+00:00

This.

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Lucanite

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Lucanite 2018-03-19T20:56:02+00:00

His knees weak, moms spaghetti

kai99

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kai99 2018-03-20T01:58:44+00:00

i remember when i saw this thread like a year ago i was like wtf but now i have the same problem

Piefayth

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Piefayth 2018-03-20T16:04:14+00:00

Those of you who are suggesting deodorant, just get an anti-antiperspirant hand lotion. I bought one to try that arrived today, and uh, my consistency is out of control. We slip free now, bois

Edit: Just got my second best play ever
Double edit: And another top 5 play. This is great