How long did it take you to play 4* Osu! Taiko maps?



I have been playing Taiko for almost a year and can't seem to improve and stucked playing 3* maps. What should I do in order for me to move up to 4* maps?

yes, 4* is really hard to reach. i don't remember how long it took me but i think also around a year.
my problem was: it felt like there was a wall between ~3.7* and ~4.1*. like the difficulty suddenly increased A LOT.

first of all i hope you have a skin you can play well with. i would recommend one that doesn't have a very bright kiai like the standard skin. to me personally it's way to distracting but that's up to you. if you're happy with it, stick with it and don't try to switch your setup too often unless you feel that's the fault (which it usually isn't)

the hard part in oni is that you have to learn how to do patterns with mixed colors. like ddk, kdd, ddkkd, kdddk or whatever. and that's a lot more variety. and somehow most maps just jump into it that's why in my opinion it's so hard to get there.

what helped me were a few maps that have those patterns but not too many of them. i'll try to remember some of the maps that helped me personally:
https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/110292#taiko/303142 (this is one of the easiest maps i know with mixed patterns. it's very good to start learning them in my opinion)
https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/713086#taiko/1508509 (same pattern difficulty but more stamina and speed)
https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/650733#taiko/1386494 (very hard for that level! it has LOTS of different patterns and a bit slower bpm which you should get used to a bit too.)
https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/533037#taiko/1247899 & https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/482486#taiko/1033930 (these are probably the 'last proper step' i know before 4* which are not yet 4* but very close if you're really nearly there)
some of these are probably really hard for that level so if it's too hard try to go for a (good) pass at least maybe.

of course there were more maps and you should play a lot of different ones but these were, in retrospect, probably the ones that helped me most personally.

i know it's hard but keep going, i'm sure you'll make it. gl

I forgot.

Six or seven months probably until the the first 4* FC, and that was a convert, not a proper taiko map.

Roughly half a year

I'd say I got comfortable playing 4* at around 4-6 months of play. The key is to have muscle memory of the basic 3-note and 5-note patterns.

Took me a week or two of playing full alt to start playing 4* nomod

I just started plauing 4* maps few weeks ago and you can see for yourself on my profile how many plays I have. I dont really remember how long it took since I've been playing taiko on and off for a while but this is the first time I decided to actually learn how to play it and it took me maybe few weeks at most to get there from like 3.5* to over 4. Though I cant play every single 4* yet i can do well on most of them.

dkkdkkd(and the reverse) pattern is still a bitch and I just cant do it well. Once I get that pattern down I will be able to progress even further but this one thing holds me back so much. I'm not very good at this whole hand switching thing and after this long its extremely hard to learn it now. It feels like starting over from scratch. I didnt really knew the proper way to play and man its hard to undo my muscle memory now.