Khelly wrote:
You should really be looking at players like Hvick, Rafis, Axarious, and Kynan if you want to think about speed.
You can safely ignore Taiga, though. He's a bad player whose opinions about speed are useless seeing as he's incapable of playing that way.
[spoiler]Just like I can't talk about acc x^ddddd[/spoiler]
While i completely respect your opinion and think that these would probably be reasonable values for burst streams for regular players, basing speed off the fastest players just doesn't make a lot of sense.
However i do not agree with the point that [Taiga] made either that osu! is becoming a game of whack a mole when it comes to fast maps quite similar to the point that azer has been making . While i fully understand that slow maps are equally as good and important as any others, i don't think fast maps, DT maps and "Tv Size" maps should be thrown aside as bad maps by those who solely believe that "there's no rhythm involved" or "it's just an easy way to get pp that doesn't take skill."
The vast majority of the osu! community play the game for fun and for a lot of people playing high bpm and seeing how fast they can go is fun, for example, i struggle reading ar9, i often over-read ar10, and i do see this as a massive problem, but it has very little to do with the maps i play, i have been over-reading notes since i first started playing the game, but it doesn't mean i'm not following the rhythm.
It's ironic that you made the point of faster maps being like whack-a-mole, when the way i see it they more accurately follow the rhythm of the song than slower maps, which are usually based on the melody of the song.
Sorry for the rant, TL;DR The bpm of a map shouldn't affect the quality
Aaaand back on the original topic of improving Bpm;
In my opinion, the best way to improve your tapping and streaming speed is to play streamy maps and gradually build up your speed and stamina
My recommendations would be:
Rugran - d.m.c [Insane]
https://osu.ppy.sh/b/161787
Hatsune miku - Mythologia's end [Mytho108ia]
https://osu.ppy.sh/s/48979
xi - freedom dive [FOUR DIMENSIONS]
https://osu.ppy.sh/s/39804
(playing maps on DT also helps a lot)
If you can pass freedom dive you'll be good enough to improve by yourself
also, just for my 50 cents on stream speed
Deathstreams:
[<150] - singletap/alternate
[150 - 164] - slow
[165-174] - medium slow
[175-199] - medium
[200-219] - medium high
[220-260] - high
[265-300] - ridiculously high
[300<] - Kynan pls
Burst streams
[<150] - ...not really a burst stream
[150 - 164] - the reason i cant play remote control
[165-174] - slow
[175-199] - medium slow
[200-219] - medium
[220-260] - medium high
[265-300] - high
[300<] - this will murder your stamina
Singletapping
[<150] - very relaxing
[150 - 164] - relaxing
[165 - 179] - medium bpm (often jump maps)
[180 - 209] - medium-high
[210 - 240] - considerably high
[240 - 260] - high
[270<] - Very high/alternate
. It's just the way the thread was going it was suggesting deathstreams XD. My bad.