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Originally Posted by Untimely Friction

Be happy your songs not crowdpleaser and take the time to get used to the patterns, Im pretty shocked to hear how inconsistent d7 thinks it is, you should all be able to play puncture half well or Id say d7's border is wrong, Don't get me wrong sustain and ack wise its p hardcore, but Im in d6 and think I can figure it out, d7 should not be hating life over it.

it's not the kind of file you can just "figure out" though. It's being not physically fit enough to hit the long jacks.
I'd say that I'm objectively better overall right now, but in 2011, punkture definitely would have been an easy low sdg or AAA for me. Jacks are a completely different skill than anything else in this game. If I were to exclusively play jumpstream files, I'd improve at essentially every skill, except jacks. If I were to exclusively play jack files, I'd get good at jacks and be fucking ass at everything else.

tl;dr Being good does not mean you'll be good at jacks.