[Game] Osu! - Page 249

On March 07 2014 08:00 Yorbon wrote:
Hm, personally i dont really like dt much, as it changes the music a lot; it feels somewhat unnatural.

General tips on it: because the music is altered, focus on beat, rather then music. I had some problems with trying to feel songs when playing with dt. After i stopped doing that, it went a lot better.
Some people seem to forget that od gets harder with dt. The room for mistakes is smaller. If you play one song bpm=140 and od=7, with dt, and then a song bpm=210 and od=7, the time interval around a note that gives you a 300 is 1.5 times as small at the dt map, even though the bpm and od are the same. Check this table for reference. It contains the timely intervals giving you 300/100/50/miss. (although i dont really understand what the frames part means...)
So if you want to get better at dt, play songs at 'high' od. I'd recommend editing slow (140 ish bpm) anglehoney maps into the ar you're used to and into the od you really think is challenging (i'd think at least 9). Play them without dt. Focus on ryhtmic correctness, missing a note may be frustrating, but it's not a goal of this exercise. Change circle size if necessary. If you think you got the hang of it, you can do 2 things to make it harder rythmically: make the song od=10 and change the ar into ar7 or even lower. Low ar/high od is a deadly combination. For example: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/23437. I played this map at od10 and ar6. After like 10 tries i had like 90% as best score. And i had to concentrate pretty darn hard to get that TT. While practicing this, also practice the dt maps you want to play themselves.

tldr: slow streams at high od (or also low ar, if you feel like it) as well as speedy maps, where the specifics at speedy maps are not as relevant.

If you want maps to get better at single tapping, i have a few suggestions. I dont really know which bpm range you're looking for, though, so i'll give a few:
220 bpm: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/22182 insane diff. No triples or streams (as far as i can remember). Some jumps, but imo not the biggest deals.
230 bpm: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/44898 collab diff. Some triples, somewhat hard aim, rythmically interesting features. I think getting an A here, gets you very far at 210 bpm dt songs.
240 bpm: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/28893 insane diff. Easier then the 230 song. Aim about as hard, but less triples and a shorter song. Fun to play :D Beware of the last slider, it killed my first try TT
250 bpm: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/25931 Speed diff. Pretty good map, feels very natural. Difficulty here is more being used to fast n circles -> slider patterns then anything else, but it's still good to be able to.
264 bpm: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/21844 Rin diff. Although the map site says otherwise, this map mainly isnt 90 bpm. It's 132 bpm, and you have to single tap the streams for burst fast single tap practice (up to 7 notes or so). Might want to change the ar, though. Also, this map is very good as slow stream practice map.
272 bpm: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/31750 lks diff. Very very hard map with some streamy parts. Aiming is also quite hard. Very useful practice if you're looking to master 270 bpm single tapping.
290 bpm: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/47146 cider diff. Single tap spaced streams. Not much to say here.
300 bpm: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/34469 insane diff with dt: also very, very hard. Nearly no streams, but rythmically very interesting map.

I hope this suggests what you need
Im sure other people can think of better things, but it's a start. (xafnia, you have much better map knowledge then me, i think )

On March 08 2014 04:55 Cyro wrote:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJuJJXIEj78

I really like this map and IMO it is best done entirely with singles. It's not the fastest i've seen/done but it will probably trip you up a lot, especially at the chains such as ~0:54

For an example of what i mean by index finger supported by thumb:



You can use wrist too with index finger straight

Try these maps as well as above one:

http://osu.ppy.sh/b/315835?m=0 - singles, a few triples

http://osu.ppy.sh/b/362072?m=0 - single dominated, sometimes more hits in a burst or small stream

http://osu.ppy.sh/b/197225?m=0 - singles - hard diff, not insane

You can turn off DT for any of them to practice, as well as some others. There's a map called Asgard -something that i play too that was completely beyond me at first, that's mostly singles but sometimes forces you to hit ~4 circles in a row followed by a chain of singles, which is extremely hard to time properly. I can't FC and it's pretty stressful in a number of ways to do it, especially if you change AR from 9 to ~6-7 or 10 and increase OD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUM9hflvTzs

^there, stupid fails at start of the clip

With a map like Asgard, you can play half time, too.

DT is 1.5x speed. HT is 0.75x speed - it's not actually 0.5x speed, or 0.66x like i thought - so it's actually useful to practice stuff like this. It puts a 140bpm singles map at a manageable 105, which is way way less extreme but still worth playing

Edit: Would like to add since it's interesting: I seem to keep muscle memory fine when switching between say 360dpi, 810 and 1800. If i were to switch like 180dpi up/down though it would destroy my 810