I'm an all-rounder player. I have at least 500+ points in every skillset besides Memory on osuskills.com
^ This will never fully represent what you're capable of, but it at least gives you an idea of what a player is capable of.
When it comes to generally improving at osu! (And just life in general) you want to focus on your weak points while maintaining your skillset in other areas of osu. Osu is a complicated game, when it comes to just clicking circles: There's a lot of ways you could do that. It branches off into technical maps, streams, jumps, reading-patterns, memory, that's not even considering the mods that can be applied to make the game different. It has such a large learning curve because there's a lot that goes into that, that's what separates it from other rhythm games, though: It consistently pushes you to be better.
If I'm gonna give an example: A HR player's good with HR, but they're bad with DT. They decide they're focus specifically on DT from that point on until they're satisfied with where they're at. Well, the issue now is he's good at DT, but he hasn't been improving in HR: if anything, they've gotten worse with it. So they change their focus from purely DT, to maybe DT + cs5, ar8.5+DT (AR8.5 with DT is AR10, just like how HR makes most maps AR10) or they might play a HR map every other DT map they play so as to tell their brain "This is still an essential skillset, don't forget this"
Do you see the point, though? They're building off of the skillsets they have to get to where they wanna be. Rather than changing from one type of player to another, they simply gained: they became better.
Most players who start to play DT "switch over" rather than build off of what they had before. Because of that, they can somehow be better with DT than nomod, when nomod was what everybody on osu! started out with.
Those are just my bits on how you could improve, it's very broad because it can be applied to anything: streams, mods, tournaments, life, school, you name it.
Be creative with how you go about things, osu!'s a lot of fun because it offers you a consistent challenge.
^ This will never fully represent what you're capable of, but it at least gives you an idea of what a player is capable of.
When it comes to generally improving at osu! (And just life in general) you want to focus on your weak points while maintaining your skillset in other areas of osu. Osu is a complicated game, when it comes to just clicking circles: There's a lot of ways you could do that. It branches off into technical maps, streams, jumps, reading-patterns, memory, that's not even considering the mods that can be applied to make the game different. It has such a large learning curve because there's a lot that goes into that, that's what separates it from other rhythm games, though: It consistently pushes you to be better.
If I'm gonna give an example: A HR player's good with HR, but they're bad with DT. They decide they're focus specifically on DT from that point on until they're satisfied with where they're at. Well, the issue now is he's good at DT, but he hasn't been improving in HR: if anything, they've gotten worse with it. So they change their focus from purely DT, to maybe DT + cs5, ar8.5+DT (AR8.5 with DT is AR10, just like how HR makes most maps AR10) or they might play a HR map every other DT map they play so as to tell their brain "This is still an essential skillset, don't forget this"
Do you see the point, though? They're building off of the skillsets they have to get to where they wanna be. Rather than changing from one type of player to another, they simply gained: they became better.
Most players who start to play DT "switch over" rather than build off of what they had before. Because of that, they can somehow be better with DT than nomod, when nomod was what everybody on osu! started out with.
Those are just my bits on how you could improve, it's very broad because it can be applied to anything: streams, mods, tournaments, life, school, you name it.
Be creative with how you go about things, osu!'s a lot of fun because it offers you a consistent challenge.