Edit: I will sort songs by artist and go from lowest to highest diff I’m semi-comfortable with mechanically in the song instead of sorting by difficulty and starting back at 1*. This way I can still improve while setting scores and I have to put less concentrated effort into grinding scores themselves/not balance this with playing maps on the edge of my comfort zone simultaneously. |
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I've still been improving, even if it's slower than I would like to. I'm at 3.7* maps still and will probably be for a while longer. I've decided to become something similar to a score farmer, I'm going to FC every map I have starting from 1 star with at least 99% accuracy (maybe 97% for some stupid 2007 maps), considering I have about 4000 maps to go through just to get up to where I currently am, this will take a while, I'll still play some maps at my skill range of high 3 star, but I'll mainly focus on grinding out scores for now. Realistically I'm only going to be able to get a maximum of 50 scores set per day (even that's probably over-estimating), so this is going to take a while (80 days, probably more like 120ish). The main reason I'm doing this is to stop my near paranoia about having skipped over or not strained properly certain skillsets and difficulties earlier on and just because I hate the fact that I have so many maps that look interesting to play and I haven't played them and probably never would have otherwise. I got a crazy score on basically a tech version of My Love today [https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/1388906#osu/2868385], so that's cool (#19 on LB).
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Haven’t been playing much recently due to having a lot of schoolwork to do. When I was playing though, I decided to try and push myself to play a lot further outside my comfort zone than I usually do, in the 4.7 star range. I’ve decided not to push myself this far out as it goes against how I want to improve, even if it would allow me to reach a higher star rating in less time, I believe that it would seperate my fundamentals from my skill cap too much and just create more problems for the sake of ‘improving’ faster. To just play for A and B ranks outside my current mechanical and reading abilities until those improve to S ranks and eventually high accuracy S ranks seems just as tedious, if not more-so than slowly expanding my comfort zone without neglecting any parts of gameplay. It seems like I’d need a bit of luck to reach such a level using a method such as going for B ranks far outside my comfort zone.
So, I’ll continue with my current practice method of slowly grinding up the star ratings and moving on when I can get a high accuracy S rank on a 0.1* increment before moving to the next. I’ve been thinking about how long it takes me to improve is not entirely within my control, there exist hurdles to overcome in certain star ratings that may take longer than others regardless of how efficient my practice becomes. Anyway, I’ll be sure to train next week and hopefully I will have improved all the scores in my collections. |
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I think I'm still improving, but my consistency has gone down because of retry spamming too much. I'm going to start only playing maps the whole way through, even if I miss at the very start or get a 100 on the first note. I think it's also a problem with my mindset that I retry too much, perhaps it's something subconscious that wants to perform at what is the best I can do on each map instead of striving for consistent performance overall. I think this has also contributed to another problem I've been having which is missing because my mind starts wandering or I just lose focus. It could also be that the maps I'm playing are too hard on me mechanically, but I think it's more-so a reading/mindset thing. Apart from that, and that I need to not get nervous and finger-lock at the end of maps, I'm progressing smoothly or as much as can be expected. I think I'll make my play-sessions shorter and go for (full-length) retries on maps at the start of them so it's easier to be focused and not play mindlessly.
Decent scores:
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