WhiteCat spitting facts

I just woke up one day and forgot how to aim. It took me many months to recover. To some degree perhaps I even got it back. But then at the beginning of last year it happened again but for real this time. And even after one year and 3 months I couldn't get my aim back. After all this madness I am just feeling exhausted. I play osu everyday but now my hope is broken. Mostly my Heart is broken. My younger self who started osu! Thinking one day I will be playing 10 star maps couldn't even FC a 4 star map after 3 years. The only reason I still play is I see my younger self and It hurts me to break his heart. He thought of something big without realising that He can never reach there. If not for him I would just delete this game from my life. But that is something holding me from that. And I really think that It is impossible for everyone to reach where they want to reach. I am not enough strong to wait for years so I could get my aim back to start learning where I left that will take God knows how many years more. I am done now. It's really not for me. Sorry younger me. I really can't.

My pen grip that ive been using for around half a year now is becoming less comfortable, so im in the middle of experimenting grips to find a more comfortable one for me

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Challenging yourself improves you, yes that is sometimes true, sometimes not. But most of the time it does improve you. But that doesn't mean challenging yourself is the only way to improve, you can keep doing the same thing and you will be good at it eventually. Or just doing it for fun just because you like it, it can also improve yourself.

osu! players deconstructing a whitecat tweet to find the most efficient way to improve fast

good video. gonna send this to my friend who just started osu and needs help. thank you habib <3



just gonna say that i love your content and voice, its so relaxing to listen you talk! keep it up king❤️

What I found: you suck at a skillset, you wanna practice that skillset, you find it boring to practice => Solution: try something to find what you're practicing fun to keep your motivation

everytime hypno's video are getting wider and wider and wider.. STRETCHED RES POGGERS

yesterday i played a map after a break and fced it like it was nothing to me but my friends said wtf how

This is very true in my experience. I started back in 2021 (created account in 2020) around June or July and now in 2022 already playing low or mid 6 star maps and FCing a 5 star Goodbye Moonmen and ALMOST FCing Eyes half closed 5 star one time.

I started off playing with a smaller tablet area (I already owned one prior to playing OSU and was used to it) and started with single tapping, not knowing how to alternate. I might've already had a head start because I watched a lot of OSU plays but the biggest impact I had on my gameplay and improvemnt was me trying to improve my accuracy to a B to atleast an A on Lagtrain for a whole month. I took a break for a month and was exposed to 4 stars when playing my brother. 2 months after, I start playing 4 stars and a slowly increasing my star level out of 'boredom' because I wanted a challange.

I used to, unconsciously, spam on stream maps like sound chimera and, for whatever reason, Sukisukisukisuki. I was then told to stop playing 5 star streams and started to learn to read individual hitcircles while playing and I started to snap aim because of this.

Im starting to learn to read AR 10 because Im able to read ar 9.5-9.7 and Ar 9.8 with HD enabled. I think my take away is that, OSU is a game. Its meant to be fun. And having fun playing OSU and not out of spite or because you dont want to is going to impact the gameplay a bit or a lot depending on the player. Mrekk improved because he felt confident and he didnt feel pressured to play. It all comes down to the intention and the fun you gain out of OSU

for the average player: try to pass very hard maps, try to low miss/high acc hard maps, but also remember to fc stuff; try to get 2-5k plays/month (based on fast improving players)

for a complete no life with tendons of adamantium: try hard maps, retry spam infinitely, average 6k or more plays/month (based on the fastest improving player)

A bit unrelated to the topic but I just wanted to ask, how do I stop fingerlocking? Like I can do a 220 bpm stream comfortably, but fingerlock on a 180 bpm burst, do I need to play maps lower than the bpm I'm comfortable at? Or is there a different way to fix this?

i expected an april fools joke but got amazing advice instead

What makes me improve is pushing myself to the limit and just repeat that everyday lol

I really agree with the pen grip thing, I've improved my streaming a lot but my aim is forever fucked by my shit grip.

It hurts and cramps my hands but isn't stable at all, I feel like I never have a comfortable grip.

i pretty much agree on getting better to play desired maps, there are many maps i still cant play, but i'm eager to play them in the future

The thing you were talking about pen grip and trying to find a new grip but it not working is actually something I have but with tapping. My index finger isn’t as consistent as my middle and at times it doesn’t click at all either because I’m not pressing hard enough or I’m not lifting it up high enough. I’ve tried different tapping techniques and nothing has really worked. I started pushing my thumb against my keypad whenever there is a stream/burst and I noticed I’m able to stream longer and higher bpm.

overanalyzing circle clicking improvement

epic

yeah, luck is important...
for example if you try switching from mouse to tablet and you get a tablet with a lot of HW smoothing it will mess you up...
it will introduce a skillcap that is very difficult to overcome - naturally your aim hand will learn to aim with it, but it will make you quite inconsistent.
same thing with tapping with too much force - on slow maps its no problem and it can even help with your acc, but as you get better, it will get in your way...
i stagnated for about a year and after overcomming the anti smoothing filter my hand was automatically doing and finally learning to relax my fingers really pushed my skill.
its also the maps you decide to play - sometimes you just need a good map to ascend from an old playstyle to a better one - but if you play the wrong map and you really like it, it can easily introduce bad habits... so there is A LOT of luck involved

My case is a specific one of "My intuition is fucked up" and as result I haven't got better in a long time. I will make my story as short as possible.

Basically I started playing OSU in July 2021, I literally had it all wrong. I played with a 2011 skin, I used a cheap mouse with something like 1000 DPI and 1.8 sens (I play on 1366x768 and on a laptop) , i didn't even had a mousepad in the beginning so I used a notebook as one lol and i also played with the laptop unplugged and therefore I had dropped frames but "I got used to it" , and also I played 5 star maps right off the bat and i couldn't even FC 3 stars at the time , so a terrible decision and i played maps too difficult to me with no fail all the time and always with C ranks and B ranks and i only single tapped and i couldn't alternate (didn't even know that was a thing lol) , I kept playing like this until a month ago when i realized how scuffed my setup was. Now I've lowered my DPI to something reasonable (500-600) , i got a new mousepad, i play with the laptop plugged in , and i try to FC 3 and 4 stars maps which is something that I struggle despite having 10 days of playtime (ridiculous I know) and I'm getting better but I'm not as much fun though.

My pen grip is the downfall of me, 90% of my time playing is thinking about my grip. 50days played btw

yeah i especially agree with the grip thing ive kinda been hardstuck on skill due to my grip being completely garbage for 6+ months

I have problems with my grip ;w;

I couldn't agree more. I'm 18k and have 1000+ hours and I've hit a skillwall that I couldn't get out for like 3 years. Because of that I've grown more and more frustrated.
Only recently my (mouse) grip is no longer an issue cause I can get a natural grip pretty consistently. Also I decided to get a goal of hitting 3k monthly playcount, as in play more. This change + 2 month break + finding a player I want to beat (more motivation) made me play more and have a blast every time I boot up osu.
A few days back I was at my peak. I was having the most fun of my life playing osu.

That talk about finding the proper grip was really relatable, I've been at the same skill level for around 2 years now because my grip became super uncomfortable and was hurting my hand. Any time I hopped on I'd just find myself trying to minmax the way I held my pen for the entire hour, two hour session, failing, then calling it a day.

But like a month ago I finally got settled with one that let my hand relax and I'm finally pogging off

Breaks really do help a ton, playing 2 days, then 1 days break feels better than my previous schedule.

this is sort of related to the video but sort of not but like if I figure out my grip isn't the best grip for my skillset I'll just find a better skillset I am good at with this grip or just practice the skillset with my current grip because eventually I believe my grip would be just as good as other people my rank who use the better grip for that skillset. Basically, what I am saying is that if you start the game using a bad grip or a bad idea of how to improve it might slow down your improvement but eventually you will get better at the game and maybe become a top player.

wide meta

decided to watch a video about osu,
ended up learning more about myself and life in general instead.

although i didnt improve as fast as whitecat or mrekk (around 42k in 14days playtime) i still agree with whitecat a lot, when i started i didnt really know why i was improving. However, now i understand i was actually quite lucky and didnt have to deal with tablet and grip issues at all and i intuitively knew how to improve without much frustration and not playing too much and resting well

Personally I started osu because I wanted to play songs I liked in rhythm games but no other rhythm game has these songs.
So seven months ago I started. I was hit with the realisation that lots of my favourite songs were 6 or 7 star maps. But I have been playing the game a lot over these seven months just to improve enough to be able to play my favourite songs on osu. I can’t play them all but a lot of them I can play. The top dif of dreadnought; the top dif of anima; the one of the versions of image material which to be fair does have a version in another rhythm game. To be honest I have a very low FC count because my improvement and goals don’t have to do with FCs they have to do with playing these hard maps. The other side effect is that I can play a lot of tech maps and my reading has gotten really good to the point where I can play whatever map I want most of the time. What kept me going on this osu train has simply been listening to these songs and wanting to play them, kinda like a pianist but with circle clicking

being very young. that's literally it

is this an april fools joke

I feel like not knowing how you improved might sometimes be a bad thing because you may not be able to replicate/improve on it. A few weeks ago, I had a few really good mania sessions where I was able to stream 200+ bpm with good accuracy, hit like 10 second 15+ nps bursts, baby's first chordjacks (80-90 bpm), more LN's than I was used to, generally better acc, etc. I don't know how I was able to do it and I can't replicate the scores I got in those sessions or get scores similar to those ones. All I did was change my scroll speed from 26 to 28. It's a bit frustrating and I wish I knew how I was able to do it so I can improve further because I do really want to get good at mania.

EDIT:
Since no one asked, I realized that 28 scroll speed was too fast so I went back to 26 and that I should use my wrists more, especially for chordjacks.

hard agree with the cat here. playing for fun and playing maps to set scores that push your limits is the best way to improve, ironically every time I ignore pp and don't consciously push certain skills I find that my rank goes up and all my skillsets are far more consistent.

Man I'm rn having that problem with the grip... I can't get use to one, every time i play a map it slips and then y lose the sense of what was my actual grip, at least i already figured out one way to grab my pen and stick with it. But with the grip it's a real issue, don't know what to do tbh (can use tape cuz i also use that tablet to draw)

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I haven’t improved in a year lol

Its time I quit (which I did, thank god)

I can't watch your videos anymore. This is from next to next, worses and worses. It didn't help. You smashing everyone with thousand videos but these all videos are stupid at the end. Because it's too trashed with money short videos.

I think you're the real one spitting facts

when you started talking about the pen grip issue i was so glad… i cannot express how relatable everything you said about starting with a “bad” grip was

Truest video ever.

I really like your content. Keep it up.

this is easily one of the greatest osu advice videos ive ever seen

I think it's helpful to think of the circles as a zone on your screen that your cursor has to be in rather than a target

Can confirm. All I did is try to have fun and in the matter of a month and a half I managed to get to 5 star maps.

My problem at the moment is actually mental. I cannot play 4star maps anymore without panicking. I know i can fc them really easily but my heartrate goes up like crazy. I even nearly fc-ed a 6star map but 4star is my nemesis

i agree on ryan's statement that the right way of doing things, is to do it the way you started, not a tablet player but i started playing osu using claw grip but as time goes on, it becomes less and less "efficient" so instead i opted for a claw-palm grip it worked until i hitted some kind of skill wall where i just cant hit odd sliders and jumps because my new grip trades quick and easy motion with more stability and just less mouse drift so i tried using claw again and in my surprise it fixed most of it, mouse drift will always be there but at least on those times that i used the hybrid claw it gave me some ideas how to mitigate it. currently i no longer fear jumps as i could easily hit them (as long as its not vaxei or whitecat levels of jumps)

It's obviously genetics.