A Week ago I was Level 64 (Another week later and i'm Level 78)
 

I am now Level 72 (99%) Not a single score in my top 15 remains. in the past 4 days every single score has been toppled. This has been a great Week 1 of the OT. I feel like i could improve on a lot of these score, but some of the are absolutely fucking nuts. Lets go on a trip of my top 15. Each score will be better than the last.

A week later and i'm Level 78 (6%)


This crazy week all started off with score currently worth 0. After getting a 7-0-0-0 on bang and feeling good about it i decided to try out the D5 song, and got this on my sight read. my streaming has never been amazing and jumpstreams have always felt like a good way to drop a lot of goods.



To start off the top 15 with number 15. A 6 minute lvl 90 song. This is one of those scores that i could DEFINITELY get a better score on if i just concentrated a bit more and was a bit more consistent. The rainbow streams can easily drop a good or two add in some of those hard sections and my ability to randomly get goods on the easiest shit and you get a 59g score. I could potentially easily FC this song (or atleast drop 3+ misses). Despite only dropping 1 miss on the 32nd OHTs i've somehow find myself able to AAA them on different runs. I think a PB in the next week is easily possible but this is still a nice score.



This next song has always been a favorite. The chart is fun and might have even been in my old top 15. The opening stream is just so good and the jacks throughout the song just feel so good and consistent. The big issue in this song is going to be the streams. If i can get more consistent on them i can easily see myself getting a sub 20g and maybe even close to SDG score on this. But with how long this song is who knows if i can do that in the near future. Its nice to have a favorite chart be the one that officially put me into D5



Honestly this is the first time i've ever played this song and i dont remember much about it. Its a sight read and honestly i wish i didn't have that extra miss at the end. I could improve on this score but i dont think the grind will be worth it.



I remember when this file came out for the OT originally. I could NOT play it at all. My jacking ability was nowhere near good enough. i could barely play the minijacks never mind the rest of the song. Now that i'm better the jacks are fun and easy. But this is nearing the edge of my jacking skill. The mini jacks are easy enough, but those jump jacks can be pretty brutal. If i can manage to get just a LITTLE better at those long jacks i could easily SDG this.



This is another one of those scores on a song i just kind of played. i dont remember much but this was one of the first scores in my rise to escape from D4.



Another S.S.H. chart another beloved chart i got a PB on. This song just makes good charts and the FFR one is no different. The jacks are easy and consistent. The big opponent i have to fight is the 24th streams and polyrhythms. The polyrhythms usually sort themselves out but a good or two can easily be dropped on them. Most of the 24th streams are easy enough for me, but there are just so many of them that many goods will be dropped making this a pretty good run. If i can get better at those 24th streams this is another potential sub 20g score but i dont know that a SDG would be realistic.



God this is such a good bad score. i KNOW i can do better. The streams aren't horrible and my acc at the beginning has gotten so good. However the ending jumpstreams aren't exactly patterned easily and can lead to many goods. What truly frustrates me is just how many goods i dropped at the end. if i had even a remotely clean ending this would've been a great score. I know i can improve this score. its all just a matter of when.



Now we're getting into the really juicy stuff. Two years ago i had an amazing run on this file. I got a 15-0-2-4 This was AMAZING The streams in this file are just SO fast and my accuracy on streams was abysmal. two years later and i PB on it again. Its possible i could SDG this file, Its already so close and the miss at the end is just heartbreaking. That said i dont know that i'll be in the right acc and consistency to achieve it without a hard grind, and right now i'll probably focus on grinding OT songs that aren't bang. Getting a PB on this file was special as it was the last standing score in my top 15 that wasn't achieved this week.



Another score another "i wish i was better at streaming". The streams on this song are just SO FAST Its hard to keep up with them with my fingers and mind. Its one of those files where i just dont know how i hit things. To say i could read the streams in this map would honestly be lying. I just hit keys and perfects pop out. The big problem becomes when i do try reading. My brain just says "NOPE" and i start missing. I have the theoretical skill to AAA the entire song, but in order to get a good score i need to be fully warmed up. And then i just have to let my fingers do their thing and hope i get a good score. This isn't the type of file i can grind and get a good score. i just have to play it while i'm doing good and hope i dont fuck up. a PB could be coming, but who knows when. And now i want five guys....



I think this is one of the first truly amazing scores on this list. The fact that i have an SDG on a song this long just blows my mind. If you told me a year ago i'd have an SDG on this file i'd just straight up call you a liar. to call this an easy song with a consistent rhythm would be a complete lie. The song goes through so many different tempos and random 12ths throw into 8th streams anyone without a good grasp on the song will have trouble. This run was a truly godly run that i dont think i can replicate. My inconsistency and ability to drop random goods for no reason decided to take a vacation and i got this amazing score... well... except for that ONE GOOD on the slow ending rolls. unless i become a AAA god i dont see myself ever improving this score.



I like to cal this score "Jump gluts are easy Feat. some jump streams" There really isn't much to this score. it feels like it looks better than it actually is. This was a good run on an easy file that happens to fall nearly perfectly in line with my skillset. I could potentially achieve a good PB if i grinded the song. But i did have a pretty good run and got this great score. i just wish i didn't have that stupid miss.



This song is one of the newest scores in my old top 10. The song has always been almost too hard and it shows in the scores. the long jacks can easily rack up a good count and almost instantly ruin a good run. the worst thing to watch for is the two hand long jumpjacks in the song. getting my hands to sync up just seems impossible sometimes. Getting a PB on this map always feels good and horrible at the same time. i KNOW i can do better, but at the same time i've done so good. This was also the first score i got a 70+ AAA eq on.



This was one of the first files i started playing after the start of the OT. Another song i remember from a previous OT and a song i'd played a little bit earlier and knew i was good at it. Then this week i just started getting good scores on it. Lots of easy jacks and some fun bursts. the trickiest thing is not flubbing the burst jumpstreams and nailing the offbeat 8th jacks. But a lot of things went right and i've been getting really good acc on this song.



This song is mostly just fast bursty streams similar to many i'd already played and gotten good scores on. This would be more impressive to me if i hadn't already nailed things like the slashmaid intro. Its still a good score on a difficulty song. A grind could lead to easy improvements if i'm in the right mindest and would be easy levels :)



This is the score that put me on the map. People looked at this and KNEW i was here and ready to rock D4. This song is hard. its got fast bursts, horrible [14][24] jump trills. and to top it all off the map ends with two long 240 bpm jump streams full of enough goods for a balanced breakfast.


Send me your best warriors D4. Send them to DIE! If you want to get rid of me its going to have to be a team effort.

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

Damn dude you've made some serious gains, congrats man!

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

Yikes, you're as good as me at my peak, and im D5. Also level 72
D4 doesnt stand a chance :P


Edit apparently im 73, no idea when that happened. 72.99 is close enough

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

damn dude, very nice improvement gz :D

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

that Super Final score is so absolutely ridiculous dude, congrats on the major boosting!

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

Damn nice improvement man.

If you don't mind me asking, what's your best on Holy Orders?
When I was climbing through that difficulty range it's a file I played a lot because it has only one "hard part" (the trills) that can be kinda bullshitted and the rest of it is super fun.
Maybe give it a shot? (But maybe also don't play it as much as I did so you don't wind up hopelessly mindblocked on it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lol)

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

Congrats on winning the OT.

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

This is the type of attitude you hate to see. Be sportsmanlike and appreciate another competitors journey to improvement; wouldn't you want the same treatment?

Storn, you deserve the appreciation for working hard to get to this point, and I encourage you take this opportunity to grasp onto it and run with it as far as you can. It would be incredible to see you close or surpass 80 by the end of the OT.

Divine Suicide, Pussy Pump, and Fried Eggs are the scariest scores out of the dump imo. 6 clean on Divine is nuts given duration at that skill range is something you aren't necessarily meant to build (stamina + consistency) but might possess, and it clearly shows that you did.

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

I think this monologue is pretty cute and that's a good skillboost, damn lol.. by the end of the official tourney ur gonna be d6 i bet.

This boost reminds me of the last official tourney when I started in D3, got to D4 during the first round, and was like mid D5 by the end

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

if you get to stay in d4 you're gonna win

proud of you storn :)

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

I really enjoy seeing skillboosts during tournaments. Solid scores!!

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

I tried holy orders once, maybe i wasn't warmed up enough but i remember thinking it wasn't going to be a song that get a good enough acc on to get it in my top 15. it was probably the trills though. long trills are just asking for me to drop goods and OHTs are just horrible, and part of the reason i've never been good at streams. I might give it another shot when i'm warmed up and maybe i'll get a good score on it, but we'll see.

I dont realistically see myself getting D6 this tournament. (i gotta get my D5 OT participation badge first :) ) I'd need another massive skill boost to get me there and i dont see that happening unless by some magic someone gives me a mechanical keyboard, and that somehow triggers another major skill boost. I think getting to level 76-78 is practically guaranteed at this point, But if i'm to get 80+ scores on songs, i'm going to need to get a lot better at 90s and i dont know that i can gain the speed and control necessary in 2 only months.


EDIT: Got a really good improvement on intersect thunderbolt. i honestly have no idea how those two misses happened but its still a massive improvement.

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

Keep doing what you're doing and maybe you'll take home 1st, don't be afraid of ghosting d5 and 6 to see what you're capable of.

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64
 

You're extrapolating a lot of words into my mouth here, so I'll fill in the blanks.

It's amazing to see storn not only playing (I heard he does that occasionally, but I hadn't seen it for myself), but also achieving insane improvement from the uptick. I had a feeling he was due for an unlock of potential (it's always a bad sign when I pass someone up with my molasses-speed improvement) and here's the results, bigger than fiction.

Conceding 1st is a matter of practicality.

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64 (Another week later and i'm Level 78)
 

about a week later and now i'm level 78. Only 2 scores remain. Not surprisingly the first one is My fxxkin desire for you. I had a pretty good run on the song (1-0-1-0 going into the jumpstream) but got destroyed on the JS. The other is Pussypump which is almost out of my top 15. A lot of these are improved scores so this is mostly just an image dump.


I feel like i could've done without the averages and misses, and i can probably improve, but getting a good consistent run like this can be a bit challenging


speaking of nice long consistent runs. could probably do better with a long enough grind but its still a nice score


The first improved score on the list. and like i thought, i was able to SDG.


Really happy with this score. Got it pretty quick after first playing the file. I've been trying to improve and get an SDG but the file is pretty tricky and its easy for me to just mess up on this file and drop 8 goods in a row.


This is one of those files i think should be easy, and is easy, but then drop like 20g on. SDG is easily possible if i can consistency.


hey look! more S.S.H. Honestly, this song has some nasty patterns in it. A lot of them happen to be some sort of trill, But its a really fun chart. I want to get an SDG on this chart but i dont see it happening in the near future. I can totally do it though.


I dont really remember this file. it was a quick "find file, get levels" sort of deal.


This file is right up my ally. It was recommended to me after getting a score on a certain file you'll see later. and you know what, i had a good time :) I know i can totally get a 5g score on this file though. i know i can do it but i haven't done it yet.... guess i need more grinding for a good run.


"how in the world is this file a 92?! oh, oh......" yea. i sure wasn't expecting those 24th stream, but somehow i came out ontop with this score. went into them with an SDG soi could potentially improve the score, but its still pretty damn good.


This is a really fun file. like seriously fun. Its also another case of "if i get lucky on the fast streams" the long 16th JS in this file really put my acc and stamina to the test. the fact that there are two separate long JS though really makes the file tough.


I had a pretty good SDG on this file in the last update, and i quickly improved it.


This is the first of two scores "better" than my old #1 and the first of two scores that i feel i can do WAY better on. I think the fact that i am almost dissapinted that i haven't done better says alot about how i feel on this file. Sometimes the 12th streams feel harder than the 12th jumpgluts. but seriously fuck those 48th bursts.


Easy song easy levels. the long jacks at the end though.... Honestly near the peak of my jacking speed though.

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64 (Another week later and i'm Level 78)
 

You have been absolutely working your ass off and continuously improving. Keep up the great work.

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64 (Another week later and i'm Level 78)
 

I love seeing people improve so much. Its like when you feel like youve put in the work and working making progress and then all of a sudden all your hard work pays off and you feel so good about it. Keep on improving and you give me motivation to do better as well :).

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64 (Another week later and i'm Level 78)
 

I love that most of the songs I improved on were also ones you got too.

For a few things if you're good at jacks, DRAGONLADY's definitely for you. They're still pretty stereotypical jack-y in nature, but it throws a couple new things: Namely those jumpjack "trills".

12 Bar Bloops is one of those hard songs that I somehow beasted on, should definitely try that one in the future.

Blue Rose is one you can try if you want, that's one of my "hey let's try this cuz someone dared me to" scores and happens to be my top score rn.

3020 is a fun one if you're also looking for jacks and slight jumpstream bursts.

Breaka Railway is good if you like REALLY REALLY fast streams. Like, SUPER fast.

Magnum is another good one if you like dubstep, jacks, and more technical patterns.

No Purpose Flour is another example of that; if you like technical charts this one's definitely for you. Watch out for the huge roll in the middle of the song, though, around note 900.

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64 (Another week later and i'm Level 78)
 

Holy shit Storn! Those are some sick ass scores, dude.

Re: A Week ago I was Level 64 (Another week later and i'm Level 78)
 

really epic stuff : )