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Originally Posted by bmah

I'm actually not quite too sure of this myself, as it's a fairly recent term that was coined not all too long ago.

I believe anchoring patterns are ones in which an arrow repeats for an extended period of time, while you simultaneously deal with other arrows. In other words, one arrow is "anchored" while you hit other arrows in different places. These patterns often feel awkward to play, but are pretty common actually.
Some examples include [34][13][34][23][34] etc. where the up arrow stays in place for the duration of this pattern.

Ok once again, I'm not 100% sure, so someone correct me right away if I'm wrong.

when I first read that, I thought you were just writing a runningman pattern, but then I was like, "o, it's 4:30 in the morning and the "[]"s are moving.. CRAP."