broazny wrote:
The most basic tip that I can give myself is to play more maps, but I feel like I have trouble finding songs within my level. I've tried tillerino, which helps with reading and pp gain but not for improving on higher difficulties. Streams are especially the most frustrating thing since they kill my health leading to a fail. Should I be using HD/DT on maps I can play to hone my skills?
From how i see the game i would say at your rank you have 2 really good choices (Improvment)
1. Delete ALL your maps. Go to a multi room 2-3-4* and play all what the people chose and have fun with it.
Don't replay/retry a lot the same map unless you're trying to learn really really something specific from it.
This is horrible to win skill.
104 plays - Yasuda Rei - Passcode 4854 -TV edit- [Insane]
If you replay it trying to win consistence and Aim that's probably one of the worst ways possible.
If what you want it's work on consistence and aim so you can enjoy the maps:
2. Play all the fucking 1* "boring" maps from 1* to 4*. Trying to S/SS them as long as you can. 1.00, 1.01, 1.0.2 ... Try to focus on aim perfectly those easy maps it's what going to make you be able to play hardest ones later without have to much problem.
Dosn't matter they are easy for you.
Isn't that much. You could already be at 2.00* instead losing the time spamming 100 times the same map.
You don't have to rush them in a row. You can today play 10 maps. Tomorrow other 10... As you wish. Better play a lot in a row doing it well to get stamina from it.
A friend of mine reach 3 stars in 4 days playing this way. At the 7° day he fc his first 4* with 99% acc at 2° try. He had worst rank than you when he start doing it. More maps = more time, easier and better muscle memory and reading.
The skill to stream should come alone as long as you're playing new and new maps and improving on anything else, isn't something i think you should not focus much on, they are just more circles like all the other you has played. Stream for me it's 85% reading 1% fingers... Don't try to smash the keyboard working on a 1% when you can work on 85% playing new maps what even don't have "streams".
For sure you can spam streams and play them for fun, trying to set best scores or whatever but not to get really better at them that way.
Even yourself know you need to play more maps instead the sames. That's the most important thing. That includes from 1* to 10*. But since you can't even watch 10* you should put a limit for example at 4'3* right now and don't pass from there until you can consistenly read well tons of 1*-4'3* maps. So you don't lose time improving moving the mouse around circles instead read them.
About mods you "should" play them on maps what you already have FC and high acc.
The acc what it's high for you depends on you and on what you're playing and what you think what acc you should get there.
About coordination since my reading follow music, my tap follow músic, and my aim follow music, they match 100% on every single circle. So yeah. Learn to follow music with all of these 3 skills 1by1 and they will match, or together If you can focus on more than one thing at same time xD
You can start find some walls to Full Combo 2*/high acc. Find why to improve. Don't be worried to do what ever you find usefull to improve there. Even using Half time, relax, auto, autopilot, replays... If that helps you to find a better way to understand and play the map.
You can make a collection and add the maps what you learned more from them. You can replay them after a while to remember something when you're stucked with something easy at higher diffs.
Or to edit those maps making them hardest to learn those skills at different AR, CS, OD, etc.
I learned to "stream" a lot from a 2* map what needs tons of finger control, reading, and due to low AR needs to listen well the music too. So it's easily for me play streams even without read them, just by listening the music thank's of some easy/normal "boring" maps.
I also replayed tons of times same maps, some of them more than 200 times in a row without feel any good improvment for a really long time, so i can tell you retry/replay without a real reasson it's lose 99% of the time improving.
Just remember you, I'm talking about a good way to improve what i know 100% works. Not the best way for you (could be this one or another one). Also isn't the BEST way to have fun (you can totally enjoy those maps, i did) and have fun it's related to Improvment. So you need to find your own way to have fun and improve more than 100% follow guides, copy hardware, trainings or whatever.
Some people have fun going for pass hard maps even getting C scores, others like more never miss and hold the combos, others don't care about miss If they hold 99% acc... Some like jumps, some others like streams, others old maps, other love farm maps, others only rhythm maps, short maps, long maps... So, stop play only what tillerino says xD
I think you understand what i'm trying to say^^