I don't think I've ever tried to listen to hitsounds. I just look at the approach circles when I try to acc.
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thanks a lot, this helped me a ton!
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I fully alternate, but for triples sequences I prefer doing XZX XZX XZX.ShadyAngel wrote:
So my advice would be to just try the different variations and see what feels right for you
I sucked at doubles too. Now I try to read them as individual notes, not doubles, so I alternate normally like ZX ZX ZX ZX. It's working so far.
So i just got a Huion H420 today and am allready better with it than i was with mouse. I had some slight aches in my wrist and forearm with mouse and am experiencing them mostly in my wrist with Tab (After a few hours of play). (Possible Carpal tunnel? Don't care. Im addicted to this game.) I have a 1600x900 screen and i run osu fullscreen 1600x900 and i had my tab area set on Screen ratio which makes it 16:9 instad of 4:3. Should i make my Tab area smaller? How small should i go? Is there anything i can do that may help with the aches? Also, i was wondering if i could get your oppinions on my tapstyle. I generally go zxzxzxzxzx to the point i will usually have exactly half and half for z and x.
Oh you will care when the pain starts hindering your everyday activities.SpiduhBMX wrote:
Possible Carpal tunnel? Don't care. Im addicted to this game.
Stretch. Take breaks. Long ones if necessary.SpiduhBMX wrote:
Is there anything i can do that may help with the aches?
Well, ok, i do care, i don't want it to get horribly bad, but i do want to become quite good at osu. /me hopesKaienyuu wrote:
Oh you will care when the pain starts hindering your everyday activities.SpiduhBMX wrote:
Possible Carpal tunnel? Don't care. Im addicted to this game.
Stretch. Take breaks. Long ones if necessary.[/quote]SpiduhBMX wrote:
Is there anything i can do that may help with the aches?
I've done some CT stretches a few days and i usually try to when i go to play Osu!, but i find my wrist actually hurts more after i do it. I think that's just me way overstretching though. My wrists do make an audible click or crack when i bend them back and forth though. But i've had that for a while from BMX.
Been playing for 4 months , i don't play it everday , just a couple of times every week.
my best play has been 48 pp with a stupid normal song , i can't seem to get across that barrier no matter what i try , i've been playing hard-insane maps and i just don't get better, i use mouse and keyboard, i don't instantly fail in those maps but i can't pass them either , even if i do i just can't get over 48 pp ):
my best play has been 48 pp with a stupid normal song , i can't seem to get across that barrier no matter what i try , i've been playing hard-insane maps and i just don't get better, i use mouse and keyboard, i don't instantly fail in those maps but i can't pass them either , even if i do i just can't get over 48 pp ):
Give actual star values; normal an hard is too vague.
Thanks for the guide sir. But I'm bad at following fast sliders. My hands starting to hung up. 
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even if ones everyday activities are osu & osu. feels badKaienyuu wrote:
Oh you will care when the pain starts hindering your everyday activities.SpiduhBMX wrote:
Possible Carpal tunnel? Don't care. Im addicted to this game.Stretch. Take breaks. Long ones if necessary.SpiduhBMX wrote:
Is there anything i can do that may help with the aches?
This is atleast something that helped me- i dimmed the background and got a clearer skin.
I supose my old skin was just...too much, but it helped me concentrate on the beats more and i've been doing better!
I supose my old skin was just...too much, but it helped me concentrate on the beats more and i've been doing better!
senpai
For anyone who has trouble with stamina in general and uses keyboard for inputs:
Try hitting the keys more softly. Don't let the hype of the song, the length/speed of the jumps, or anything else make you mash your keys.
No, really. I've been mashing keys too hard since I started and only noticed when I played without my headphones on. As soon as I tried hitting keys more softly two days ago, the entire osu! standard got easier for me. I used to think something was wrong with me. Even after spending weeks trying to improve my stamina and get through faster streams, it barely improved. I would also get tired in the middle of a map with streams no matter what the BPM was. I thought it was just the beatmap, but it was really me and mashing harder than I had to was the reason why. If you're the mashing type, break the habit. It will help you more than you could possibly imagine.
Try hitting the keys more softly. Don't let the hype of the song, the length/speed of the jumps, or anything else make you mash your keys.
No, really. I've been mashing keys too hard since I started and only noticed when I played without my headphones on. As soon as I tried hitting keys more softly two days ago, the entire osu! standard got easier for me. I used to think something was wrong with me. Even after spending weeks trying to improve my stamina and get through faster streams, it barely improved. I would also get tired in the middle of a map with streams no matter what the BPM was. I thought it was just the beatmap, but it was really me and mashing harder than I had to was the reason why. If you're the mashing type, break the habit. It will help you more than you could possibly imagine.
Can confirm it helped my stream stamina.Shiningbolt wrote:
Try hitting the keys more softly.
Can confirm that it doesn't help my stream stamina and just streaming more does.
My fingers were locking up from tensing too much, but yeah playmore xd
You're supposed to tense your arm not your hand
I know that now but didn't know that back then.Khelly wrote:
You're supposed to tense your arm not your hand
Then you probably don't mash, or if you do, not very hard. Streaming more didn't help me NEARLY as much as hitting keys softly. In fact, because of my habit, it meant I had to take breaks for a few days to recover each time. It didn't work. My habit was just that bad.Khelly wrote:
Can confirm that it doesn't help my stream stamina and just streaming more does.
Yes, you can get better by "playing more", but putting thought into why you have problems, figuring out why, and fixing it as you play is much better.
Another thing is I said this helped with stamina in general, not with streams specifically.
Hitting keys more softly doesnt improve your stamina, it just makes it look like that because you use less force and like that you can stream faster/longer.
ONLY way to improve at streaming, be it accuracy, speed, stamina or whatever is to play more streams. Anyone who says otherwise is just making excuses for wanting to get better without playing.
ONLY way to improve at streaming, be it accuracy, speed, stamina or whatever is to play more streams. Anyone who says otherwise is just making excuses for wanting to get better without playing.
Relax both and notice how much easier streaming gets.Khelly wrote:
You're supposed to tense your arm not your hand
Come back when you try to do that at 270 bpm.
Why would i even want to stream 270?
Because that's what I'm talking about with having to tense your arm.HK_ wrote:
Why would i even want to stream 270?
Or just learn HR and stop worrying about bpm?
I have one HR fc I'm good.HK_ wrote:
Or just learn HR and stop worrying about bpm?
Nuuu Nomod only. (I'm a hypocrite with my "amazing" dt plays)HK_ wrote:
Or just learn HR and stop worrying about bpm?
Can i improve my accuracy without playing taiko?
Cuz i don't have a drum at home and i am bad at alternating in both hands
Cuz i don't have a drum at home and i am bad at alternating in both hands
lol i play taiko,
taiko is hard bye
taiko is hard bye
:^( ur nub patkayPatZar wrote:
lol i play taiko,
taiko is hard bye
Taiko pls
Play more, outside of device-specific issues/techniques nothing changes.
Playing more never seems to work.Endaris wrote:
Play more, outside of device-specific issues/techniques nothing changes.
Edit: 666th post on thread, yay!
Fun = Solution best
6/10 i still suck at streaming
Just a word of advice; Don't bother practising 220BPM if you can last even 5 seconds on 160BPM. Stamina is an amazing thing.
Teach mekingdom5500 wrote:
Just a word of advice; Don't bother practising 220BPM if you can last even 5 seconds on 160BPM. Stamina is an amazing thing.
kingdom5500 wrote:
I never said I could do it ;PCM2 wrote:
Teach me
I can
I can too (barely)
Six years have passed and i am still sucking hard at this game.(even with a bunch of useful improvement tips) There is no way for me to improve. Casual 4ever.
p.s
but anyways kudos for nice thread. i wish there was something like this gem back in 2010.
p.s2
is it normal that approaching circles seems distracting to me and i had to play with hidden all the time? it became kinda easier to play some maps with lots of notes yeah, but such thing never happened to me before.{and i used to play with hidden pretty often) am i going insane?
SilviA syndrome?
p.s
but anyways kudos for nice thread. i wish there was something like this gem back in 2010.
p.s2
is it normal that approaching circles seems distracting to me and i had to play with hidden all the time? it became kinda easier to play some maps with lots of notes yeah, but such thing never happened to me before.{and i used to play with hidden pretty often) am i going insane?
SilviA syndrome?
You hardly ever played from August 2012 to February 2015 so delete 3 years from saying "six"
It's like I'm getting worse and worse at spinning the more I try.
sweet guide thx jessejesus1412 wrote:
added, thanks baby cakes.thelewa wrote:
Add this to accuracy as an easy way to practice: If you have really bad accuracy then just try to really look at the approach circles and really try to get acc that is above 97%, increase this minimum accuracy once you get better at it, capping out at 99%. Going for SS is useless for your general accuracy if you use a billion tries for it, so it's not worth the effort. Eventually something will click into place and accuracy will get easier.
Mostly played offline at the time.(switched to tablet and switched hands as well and was trying to get to the level of skill I achieved with mouse, still struggling with that task lol. probably main reason behind my problem with this game is that I stopped improving since switched to tablet. and zero stamina ofc) And btw 3 years more than enough to become decent player(for most people here) and even more than decent.(but not in my case apparently)Khelly wrote:
You hardly ever played from August 2012 to February 2015 so delete 3 years from saying "six"
Actually the only key to be improve at osu is Practice a lot and challenge yourself. For CtB, only use dash when necessary or even in red fruit you have to control the catcher where he gonna teleport, also learn some usual pattern in ctb and know the mapper style. Spectactor's map your catcher gonna "swing" all over the time and it's full of red fruits, while JBHyperion's is in the other way, you have to be aware of non red fruits jump because you have to deal with a repetitive pattern or square in osu STD mode. Mazzerin's .... yah well just hold your dash until you fc that.
I have one clue if you use left shift button and keep annoy because sticky keys you can change that in Control Panel > Ease of Access > Ease of Access Center > Make the keyboard easier to use. Just turn uncheck the sticky keys. Also sometimes you can change the your key binding to improve your gameplay, also set your graphic in recommended setting.
So if you well enough to play ctb without mod, try one mod, I recommend you to play with Sudden Death mod first, and then the most common mod in CtB (Hard Diff++) is Hidden, and if you feel the song is too slow, use Double time mod. When you get well enough with Hidden or Double Time, try them both. And go try Hard Rock mod I know this one kinda hard because it elevate the Approach Rate, Overall Difficulty, Circle Size(Fruit Size) after that try to combine it with Hidden. The hardest mod in Ctb is Flashlight. Flashlight mode only playable in maximum Approach Rate=8.4 and after that only E.T or Alien can FC with that mod even with HR (True Story).
The last thing that I want to say is have your own skin or find a skin that you feel fit the most. Go stalk some pros in CtB some of them are generous, they share their own skin(Or their mix skin). If you really want to full combo a hard map (In CtB Difficulty) dim the background to 100% or if you just want to play for fun, just make sure the safest dim is in 30% (The lowest one). 0% Dim is not recommend because it very bright(even brighter with shadder) and can make your eyes hurt.
That's all I want to say, thank you for your atenttion
I have one clue if you use left shift button and keep annoy because sticky keys you can change that in Control Panel > Ease of Access > Ease of Access Center > Make the keyboard easier to use. Just turn uncheck the sticky keys. Also sometimes you can change the your key binding to improve your gameplay, also set your graphic in recommended setting.
So if you well enough to play ctb without mod, try one mod, I recommend you to play with Sudden Death mod first, and then the most common mod in CtB (Hard Diff++) is Hidden, and if you feel the song is too slow, use Double time mod. When you get well enough with Hidden or Double Time, try them both. And go try Hard Rock mod I know this one kinda hard because it elevate the Approach Rate, Overall Difficulty, Circle Size(Fruit Size) after that try to combine it with Hidden. The hardest mod in Ctb is Flashlight. Flashlight mode only playable in maximum Approach Rate=8.4 and after that only E.T or Alien can FC with that mod even with HR (True Story).
The last thing that I want to say is have your own skin or find a skin that you feel fit the most. Go stalk some pros in CtB some of them are generous, they share their own skin(Or their mix skin). If you really want to full combo a hard map (In CtB Difficulty) dim the background to 100% or if you just want to play for fun, just make sure the safest dim is in 30% (The lowest one). 0% Dim is not recommend because it very bright(even brighter with shadder) and can make your eyes hurt.
That's all I want to say, thank you for your atenttion
cool but that's wrong tbhwillia02 wrote:
Actually the only key to be improve at osu is Practice a lot and challenge yourself.
I mean you won't improve without any practice but you can learn and discover things that make you better without intensive practice or challenging yourself
I have no idea if this is a good place to ask, but here it goes.
I'm a relatively new player. I started a while back but just because a friend told me to. Then I took a long break and now I'm back because I realized how much I like this game. But I've been having problems with multiple notes before/after a slider (I noticed it playing Pendulum - Vulture on hard difficulty). How do I know how many times I have to press before/after I have to hold the key. It really throws me off. I know the key to everything in Osu! is practice practice practice, but how do I practice something I have no idea how to do. Any sort of help is really appreciated, thank you!
I'm a relatively new player. I started a while back but just because a friend told me to. Then I took a long break and now I'm back because I realized how much I like this game. But I've been having problems with multiple notes before/after a slider (I noticed it playing Pendulum - Vulture on hard difficulty). How do I know how many times I have to press before/after I have to hold the key. It really throws me off. I know the key to everything in Osu! is practice practice practice, but how do I practice something I have no idea how to do. Any sort of help is really appreciated, thank you!
maybe with the clear approach circle (just like doomsday's skin) and bigger combo number can help, but actually you can predict it by feel the rhythm.TildeBeta wrote:
I have no idea if this is a good place to ask, but here it goes.
I'm a relatively new player. I started a while back but just because a friend told me to. Then I took a long break and now I'm back because I realized how much I like this game. But I've been having problems with multiple notes before/after a slider (I noticed it playing Pendulum - Vulture on hard difficulty). How do I know how many times I have to press before/after I have to hold the key. It really throws me off. I know the key to everything in Osu! is practice practice practice, but how do I practice something I have no idea how to do. Any sort of help is really appreciated, thank you!
Yes! I changed some visuals (skin, background dim to black ETC.) to make the game more clear and now I can hit the most of the time! Thanks you :-)willia02 wrote:
maybe with the clear approach circle (just like doomsday's skin) and bigger combo number can help, but actually you can predict it by feel the rhythm.TildeBeta wrote:
I have no idea if this is a good place to ask, but here it goes.
I'm a relatively new player. I started a while back but just because a friend told me to. Then I took a long break and now I'm back because I realized how much I like this game. But I've been having problems with multiple notes before/after a slider (I noticed it playing Pendulum - Vulture on hard difficulty). How do I know how many times I have to press before/after I have to hold the key. It really throws me off. I know the key to everything in Osu! is practice practice practice, but how do I practice something I have no idea how to do. Any sort of help is really appreciated, thank you!
Hello all. Maybe peoples before me asked for the same sort of problems over and over, but I want to find anwsers that fit me.
So... I'm playing osu for 4 month already, and I didn't improve anymore. Things qetting worse again and again...
I can barely pass 5* map and I don't have any solids scores. Maybe I rush too much into this game. Maybe I just want to get better fast, because damn... I love this game and I love try hard it. Playin' mostly offline.
I don't really know if I put my efforts in a wrong direction, playing maps which are maybe too hard for my level.
And I can't have an objective view of my level at this time. So I really need to know, what should I do ?
Thanks for all... And have a good night~
(sorry for my broken english, I'm better in comprehension than production.)
So... I'm playing osu for 4 month already, and I didn't improve anymore. Things qetting worse again and again...
I can barely pass 5* map and I don't have any solids scores. Maybe I rush too much into this game. Maybe I just want to get better fast, because damn... I love this game and I love try hard it. Playin' mostly offline.
I don't really know if I put my efforts in a wrong direction, playing maps which are maybe too hard for my level.
And I can't have an objective view of my level at this time. So I really need to know, what should I do ?
Thanks for all... And have a good night~
(sorry for my broken english, I'm better in comprehension than production.)
that's what i do as wellthelewa wrote:
Well Aqo the trick is to practice accuracy in maps that you are able to FC ie. easier Insanes or just normal Insanes (it's pretty damn boring if you don't like it but it works)
What do you guys recommend for mitigating bad days? Some days I'd start at near peak while other I'd play for couple hours and have trouble getting high combos on familiar songs 
The problem persists in reading, aim and streams.
The problem persists in reading, aim and streams.Try a change of pace. Play with/without different Mods, play much easier/harder difficulties, play some fun maps. Keep switching until you find whatever makes you comfortable at that point.Flamboiement wrote:
What do you guys recommend for mitigating bad days? Some days I'd start at near peak while other I'd play for couple hours and have trouble getting high combos on familiar songs
Xyrusd0t0 wrote:
Try a change of pace. Play with/without different Mods, play much easier/harder difficulties, play some fun maps. Keep switching until you find whatever makes you comfortable at that point.Flamboiement wrote:
What do you guys recommend for mitigating bad days? Some days I'd start at near peak while other I'd play for couple hours and have trouble getting high combos on familiar songs
or cursor dancing with NF :^)
REAL men don't need NF to cursor dance!Grim Rapper wrote:
or cursor dancing with NF :^)
They just fail the map and regret nothing
The correct definition of accuracy is your precision. (Shown in percentage)
wait so, your only concentrating on two notes at a time and ignoring the other 2 notes?
It's really strange but I get better every time I come back from a break in playing the game. Not as good as if I'd been consistently practicing but still not bad overall progression.
I bet this has been asked a lot, but I'm looking for advice specifically for breaking through that 4 star difficulty barrier. Approach circles are shorter and notes show up faster, and the beatmaps feel markedly different from their <4 star counterparts. Sometimes I can get through them with sheer luck, but it's never pretty haha. I know for sure one area of improvement I need to work on: stream (or just groupings of 5+) since my off finger seems to lag behind, but for the most part, I can follow the map with the mouse and my single taps are getting faster.
So tl;dr, best things to work on to break that 4 star barrier into Insane and above. Thanks guys!
So tl;dr, best things to work on to break that 4 star barrier into Insane and above. Thanks guys!
Sounds like your problem is that you haven't adjusted to AR9 yet. If you're fine with AR8, then move up to AR8.5, once you get used to that, it'll be easier to adjust to AR9.Immortality00 wrote:
Approach circles are shorter and notes show up faster, and the beatmaps feel markedly different from their <4 star counterparts.
If you're fine with bursts of 3, then all that's left is to practise more bursts of 5 until you can 300 each note 90% of the time (stick to AR8 or less for this since you can't handle AR9 yet).Immortality00 wrote:
I know for sure one area of improvement I need to work on:stream(or just groupings of 5+) since my off finger seems to lag behind, but for the most part, I can follow the map with the mouse and my single taps are getting faster.
I'll be sure to look at the AR levels and try more beatmaps with 5+ bursts. Thanks so much!Xyrus wrote:
Sounds like your problem is that you haven't adjusted to AR9 yet. If you're fine with AR8, then move up to AR8.5, once you get used to that, it'll be easier to adjust to AR9.
If you're fine with bursts of 3, then all that's left is to practise more bursts of 5 until you can 300 each note 90% of the time (stick to AR8 or less for this since you can't handle AR9 yet).
It's look so detail but i can't understand all ! Need GG trans 
but i can't understand all ! Need GG trans Hello! Well, i kind of have a problem with my progress in Osu! and im not sure what should i do about it.
It's like i have about 200-250 beatmaps collection that i constantly play with F2 button, sometimes sth new but usually nope, and every time i play the map, felt that combo was good, i just dont control myself click that retry and play a map too much. It does start to bother me because it happens much more often with every day. Simply, my mind really wants to, but i cannot break the 5.8-6 star maps wall, im too inconsistent in jumps etc. I've researched my progress in last half of a year (oh and i have a tablet for 9 months now because i was stuck on ~4.5star maps on mouse). About progress - accuracy grows nice from 96% in March-April on 5-5.5 maps there is 98-99% but! there is almost exactly (even slightly worse) situation with high bpm jumps, wide screen jumps, etc these harder jumps. I even found a replay when i am jumping better on godmode in January 2016 (2 weeks after that i got tablet!!). What does it seem? Im reading this and the answer that comes to me is that i reached my limits... Dunno what to do really.
Oh and when i was on the flow in January-March, getting that pp, good scores FC, because tablet helped me, i didnt even thnik about retrying maps 100 times. It comes to me when im stagnant. Stagnation doesnt come because of retrying. You get the algorytm.
Is simply "dont retry, just play random maps and dont retry them, play new maps" might work? It feels that im stagnant in my capability for around 2 years, just tablet pushed the border a little more far.
PS: Oh and i bought supporter, i will try to play 90% time multiplayer, maybe that will help. I will be forced to not-retrying and will be playing new maps often.
Looking for advice, thanks in advance
It's like i have about 200-250 beatmaps collection that i constantly play with F2 button, sometimes sth new but usually nope, and every time i play the map, felt that combo was good, i just dont control myself click that retry and play a map too much. It does start to bother me because it happens much more often with every day. Simply, my mind really wants to, but i cannot break the 5.8-6 star maps wall, im too inconsistent in jumps etc. I've researched my progress in last half of a year (oh and i have a tablet for 9 months now because i was stuck on ~4.5star maps on mouse). About progress - accuracy grows nice from 96% in March-April on 5-5.5 maps there is 98-99% but! there is almost exactly (even slightly worse) situation with high bpm jumps, wide screen jumps, etc these harder jumps. I even found a replay when i am jumping better on godmode in January 2016 (2 weeks after that i got tablet!!). What does it seem? Im reading this and the answer that comes to me is that i reached my limits... Dunno what to do really.
Oh and when i was on the flow in January-March, getting that pp, good scores FC, because tablet helped me, i didnt even thnik about retrying maps 100 times. It comes to me when im stagnant. Stagnation doesnt come because of retrying. You get the algorytm.
Is simply "dont retry, just play random maps and dont retry them, play new maps" might work? It feels that im stagnant in my capability for around 2 years, just tablet pushed the border a little more far.
PS: Oh and i bought supporter, i will try to play 90% time multiplayer, maybe that will help. I will be forced to not-retrying and will be playing new maps often.
Looking for advice, thanks in advance
Remove "Retry" button graphic from your skinDarthSmith wrote:
Hello! Well, i kind of have a problem with my progress in Osu! and im not sure what should i do about it.
every time i play the map, felt that combo was good, i just dont control myself click that retry and play a map too much.
Well i lured and lied there non-intentionally. I dont exactly click the retry button, i click the ESC to stop the map and ~ to reset, deleting graphic won't work. Got anything else on mind?
Close osu!
Go into your osu!folder.
Open the osu!.Username.cfg in the editor.
Press Ctrl+F.
Type quickretry
Change the key after it to a key that doesn't exist on your keyboard or at least you don't know where it is - F13 works for me (my keyboard doesn't have F13 or at least I don't know which key would trigger it).
Voila, you won't trigger retries by habitual keypressing anymore.
If you use a keycode that osu! doesn't like it will just revert to ~ so you might have to try a bit.
You can find a list of keycodes per key here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... .keys.aspx
Go into your osu!folder.
Open the osu!.Username.cfg in the editor.
Press Ctrl+F.
Type quickretry
Change the key after it to a key that doesn't exist on your keyboard or at least you don't know where it is - F13 works for me (my keyboard doesn't have F13 or at least I don't know which key would trigger it).
Voila, you won't trigger retries by habitual keypressing anymore.
If you use a keycode that osu! doesn't like it will just revert to ~ so you might have to try a bit.
You can find a list of keycodes per key here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... .keys.aspx
Thanks for that one more time.
And if i wanted to delete Retry button. Is it possible to do that? Not only graphic? Or i don't know placing it in so random place that i will not click it, like upper left corner of the screen
EDIT: OK i dealt with this problem. If someone would like to do the same thing, just change "pause-retry" buttons to 1x1 px square. U wont hit that
And if i wanted to delete Retry button. Is it possible to do that? Not only graphic? Or i don't know placing it in so random place that i will not click it, like upper left corner of the screen
EDIT: OK i dealt with this problem. If someone would like to do the same thing, just change "pause-retry" buttons to 1x1 px square. U wont hit that
rage less play more
Very helpfull. thanks
This is really useful. Thanks a lot <3
Thanks so much for posting this, I'm getting far better at streams now
I almost got heart attack..............Wishy wrote:
Wrong.
<-- Living example. If you want accuracy do what lewa says.
ill have to disagree4773n0x wrote:
Don't play double time.
play double time, it helps with your aim and tapping speed, but not to the point where it gets cancerous yes.
EDIT: nah it cant get cancerous just dont brag about ur top kek double time passes cus people get triggered, other than that keep practicing and ul be the next vaxei
not even kidding, i know how much double time helped me
Umm about streaming, see, I use a laptop keyboard and the area of it where the palm rests supposedly is hindering me in making my fingers hook, coz of distance (I place my wrists off the laptop btw). Should I just place my wrists on the laptop? Tried it and seems uncomfortable, maybe coz of first time and it's a sort of thing getting used to?
Quick tip for accuracy: Make sure your Universal Offset is set properly using the Offset Wizard created by peppy. I had horrible accuracy, but always felt that I was hitting notes on time, and after checking to see if it was set properly, and readjusting the offset, my accuracy improved immediately. It's a pretty basic tip, but some people might overlook it, and obviously your offset needs to be set properly in order to even start improving your accuracy.
MiSAkd
Just started osu! recently, and reading this guide helped me quite a lot
Ok so there are some points i want to adress. This is my opinion. Everyone has their opnions. Now let‘s get to the first point: Aim.
Aim is heavily reliant on your other skills in osu! You will be aiming better when you have the required speed, stamina and reading abilities for it.
Since you can comfortably click something you can focus more on the aiming part.
The other thing aim relies on is reading.
Reading, unlike, any other skill is difficult to define.
I guess you can say it‘s how well you can follow the rhythm and „understand“ and execute patterns.
For example noone can „understand“ AR0 on a sightread run.
Getting back to the point: Readig is also a lot about consistency and focus. If your reading is good, you will be able to hit jumps more consistently.
When i was around #5k i started this low AR reading practice that i saw on the internet.
A big misconception is that being able to read low AR will make your reading better.
While this may be true, it isn‘t in the way most people think.
When you see people telling you to look at every individual circle it just helps with you focusing on hitting that circle.
This is what lower ARs tend to help with. They require a high amount of consistency and focus.
This is what reading entails. The next part is splitting your reading in two parts.(This is my own opinion) What this means is that you are basically tapping to the rhythm but solely focusing on the aim part or vice-versa. Basically like playing Relax or Autopilot. This is really hard though and i have done it only once or twice as it requires absolute finger control.
As stated before stamina is the foundation of aim (imo). But not only is it the foundation of aim. It generally is the foundation of every other skill. If you don‘t have stamina you dont have !consistent! speed. If you can‘t tap something comfortably you will have to strain yourself and therefore lose focus on the aim or reading department. To improve one‘s stamina i agree with OP‘s advice.
By playing speedy stuff you will improve your stamina and general streaming abilities. Streaming is basically just mechanical strength. The easiest way to gain more „strength“ is by playing continuous straining burst streams.
If you were to play long streams, i.e. Long stream practice maps (really bad, don‘t recommend) you are giving yourself a bigger time window to mess up and cheese your way through the stream.
Playing shorter stuff will give you a lower chance of this happening.
Last point: accuracy. I disagree with OP that you should look at approach circles if you have trouble reading as you will get more used to the timing of the AR than actually listening to the rhythm.
You won‘t be able to hit rhythm changes as consistently as you would if you actually listened.
So if you want to improve your accuracy, you should really just try to listen to the song and you will gradually improve over time as i believe a lot of the accuracy of a player stems from his muscle memory concerning the different BPMs.
A method to help improve your accuracy is playing something like AR8 with Hidden as this will teach you to listen to the song quite forcefully. Maybe even change some songs to AR8.x as you don‘t want to get used to the same AR‘s timing.
Tl;dr.: Practice stamina by playing fast burst stream maps. Aim comes naturally by playing aim heavy stuff. Reading accuracy: Just focus maybe try some lower AR as a method to teach you rhythm.
Not a native English speaker. Good night. 4am over here.
Pm me if you have any more questions and i might make a thread out of this.
Aim is heavily reliant on your other skills in osu! You will be aiming better when you have the required speed, stamina and reading abilities for it.
Since you can comfortably click something you can focus more on the aiming part.
The other thing aim relies on is reading.
Reading, unlike, any other skill is difficult to define.
I guess you can say it‘s how well you can follow the rhythm and „understand“ and execute patterns.
For example noone can „understand“ AR0 on a sightread run.
Getting back to the point: Readig is also a lot about consistency and focus. If your reading is good, you will be able to hit jumps more consistently.
When i was around #5k i started this low AR reading practice that i saw on the internet.
A big misconception is that being able to read low AR will make your reading better.
While this may be true, it isn‘t in the way most people think.
When you see people telling you to look at every individual circle it just helps with you focusing on hitting that circle.
This is what lower ARs tend to help with. They require a high amount of consistency and focus.
This is what reading entails. The next part is splitting your reading in two parts.(This is my own opinion) What this means is that you are basically tapping to the rhythm but solely focusing on the aim part or vice-versa. Basically like playing Relax or Autopilot. This is really hard though and i have done it only once or twice as it requires absolute finger control.
As stated before stamina is the foundation of aim (imo). But not only is it the foundation of aim. It generally is the foundation of every other skill. If you don‘t have stamina you dont have !consistent! speed. If you can‘t tap something comfortably you will have to strain yourself and therefore lose focus on the aim or reading department. To improve one‘s stamina i agree with OP‘s advice.
By playing speedy stuff you will improve your stamina and general streaming abilities. Streaming is basically just mechanical strength. The easiest way to gain more „strength“ is by playing continuous straining burst streams.
If you were to play long streams, i.e. Long stream practice maps (really bad, don‘t recommend) you are giving yourself a bigger time window to mess up and cheese your way through the stream.
Playing shorter stuff will give you a lower chance of this happening.
Last point: accuracy. I disagree with OP that you should look at approach circles if you have trouble reading as you will get more used to the timing of the AR than actually listening to the rhythm.
You won‘t be able to hit rhythm changes as consistently as you would if you actually listened.
So if you want to improve your accuracy, you should really just try to listen to the song and you will gradually improve over time as i believe a lot of the accuracy of a player stems from his muscle memory concerning the different BPMs.
A method to help improve your accuracy is playing something like AR8 with Hidden as this will teach you to listen to the song quite forcefully. Maybe even change some songs to AR8.x as you don‘t want to get used to the same AR‘s timing.
Tl;dr.: Practice stamina by playing fast burst stream maps. Aim comes naturally by playing aim heavy stuff. Reading accuracy: Just focus maybe try some lower AR as a method to teach you rhythm.
Not a native English speaker. Good night. 4am over here.
Pm me if you have any more questions and i might make a thread out of this.