pandaBee wrote:
Were you playing maps where you were sure you would make 0 mistakes in alternating, or did you just play at a bpm where you could notice yourself making mistakes if you were to make them? Or perhaps something else entirely?
I think it's pointless to play a map if you can't notice and understand the mistakes you're making. Mistakes are good, as long as you understand them and learn from them so you can do better next time. Personally I had this singletapping problem at over 180bpm if I remember correctly so I just played a lot of different, slower maps to get used to alternating properly.
Maps like these
https://osu.ppy.sh/s/53547 &
https://osu.ppy.sh/s/43166 were useful for me, but any streamy map is good.
I also found drum&bass songs very nice because they usually contain a lot of triplets and 5 1/4 notes (quintuplet i guess?). At the moment I really like this map
https://osu.ppy.sh/s/212387 (the Extra) for example, I know it's not d&b but it's the mapping style i'm talking about (If this one is too difficult, obviously don't play it and find something easier, like Frey's Another diff, i think it's great too).
What also helped me is playing maps that have 1/4 notes right after sliders, forcing you start with the "wrong" finger and clicking only 2 out of 3 (or 4 out of 5, etc) notes because the sliderend is the first note.
Anything that is slow enough for you to be able to focus on the alternating will do, as long as it contains a good amount of 1/4 notes. Do not play things that force you to resort to zxz zxz because they are too fast if you want to learn full alternating, it won't help.