I can't do EHHS, help! :(

[Goldenwind]

2,073 12 Revolutionary Etude 662,365
2,121 10 Hungarian Dance #7 343,395
2,126 10 Nova Pulser 494,125
2,137 12 Crowdpleaser 777,820
2,179 11 Silence 838,585
2,243 11 Turkish March 374,270
2,261 12 One Minute Waltz 429,855
2,278 9 Chrono Trigger - Boss Theme 446,170
2,477 11 Vertex BETA 743,325
2,515 10 For FFR 680,910
2,550 11 Flight of the Bumblebee 437,520
2,675 12 Molto Vivace 483,320
2,801 12 Grand Gallop Chromatique 511,940
4,676 11 Exciting Hyper Highspeed Star 461,850
Average: 809.88122605364

I'm shaping my average into a nice, fit number... but I just can't do EHHS for my life. I pass it every time, but I can never hold a combo higher than 62 or 91 or whatever it was. I've tried mashing, just to get a lucky score... tried spread, tried index, I just can't get a decent rank on that POS stepfile >.<

Advice?

[Evascythe]

use a speedmod between 1.50 and 2.0 to make the arrows more readable

[Goldenwind]

Originally Posted by Evascythe

use a speedmod between 1.50 and 2.0 to make the arrows more readable

I just went up 405 ranks by mashing. XD

[Evascythe]

or you could go the way of lumphoboextreme and hope for the best <.<

[Goldenwind]

Originally Posted by Evascythe

or you could go the way of lumphoboextreme and hope for the best <.<

Another successful mash. Rank up to 3233 now XD
Thanks for the advice though. I can read it fine, but I just simple can't hit that. When it goes into 12th notes and such, even that's fine... but it's the damned jumps I can't hit.

[Xiaounlimited]

Spread makes the world go round.

Classical songs =/= index friendly.

[Goldenwind]

Originally Posted by Xiaounlimited

Spread makes the world go round.

Classical songs =/= index friendly.

EHHS =/= Classical

[Xiaounlimited]

Nonetheless, it's still a spread song IIRC, haven't played it in awhile.

Shash is cool like that.

[Pobeli]

Just get better.

[simulater10]

Buttom mash for you life like I did. I'm rank 300 or 400 in it. XD

[Goldenwind]

1,939 11 Exciting Hyper Highspeed Star 655,920
Thanks for the advice guys!
Mashing FTW =P

[Pobeli]

If you can't get at least a 300+ combo and under 50 or 100 goods you probably shouldn't be playing EHHS.

Just play easier stuff until you're good enough.

[Goldenwind]

Originally Posted by Pobeli

If you can't get at least a 300+ combo and under 50 or 100 goods you probably shouldn't be playing EHHS.

Just play easier stuff until you're good enough.

I'm improving my average, and a big fat 4.6k rank doesn't really help. EHHS is my most hated song in this entire game. I avoid it all I can, but when it's inflating my average like that, it needs to be smacked down.

[brothaice]

Originally Posted by Goldenwind

I just went up 405 ranks by mashing. XD

sorry but mashing is fail.

[Kotarouchan]

If I can non-mash a 400 combo, you can non-mash a 400 combo...

[Goldenwind]

Originally Posted by brothaice

sorry but mashing is fail.

And that's why I don't like EHHS
I don't like mashing at all, and not mashing is what earned me a mere 4.6k rank. Are you telling me that I'm getting ranks in the 300s+ on 10-difficulty songs, and yet suddenly 3300 other people can beat me at EHHS? You can't tell me that an overwhelming majority of those 3300 weren't mashing. Fair play as far as I'm concerned.

[xXTranceXx]

Mashing won't get you better in any way. Someday, if you do get better, you'll have to play it normally (non-mashing) and then you'll have some real trouble. Just stop playing it and get better...then go for the FC.

[Pobeli]

Originally Posted by Goldenwind

And that's why I don't like EHHS
I don't like mashing at all, and not mashing is what earned me a mere 4.6k rank. Are you telling me that I'm getting ranks in the 300s+ on 10-difficulty songs, and yet suddenly 3300 other people can beat me at EHHS? You can't tell me that an overwhelming majority of those 3300 weren't mashing. Fair play as far as I'm concerned.

It doesn't matter if it's "fair play" or not. The point is that it's useless.

EHHS has been AAA'd by three people. The top ten scores on it are, I believe, all SDG's. I've got 3 goods and that's only rank 6. There's no way you're going to get a remotely good score from mashing. It's also counterproductive, because you learn bad reading habits, and you're wasting your playing time not getting better but getting worse.

Patience.

EDIT: Also, my average rank is 18693.xx. I don't really see how average rank matters.

[Goldenwind]

Originally Posted by xXTranceXx

Mashing won't get you better in any way. Someday, if you do get better, you'll have to play it normally (non-mashing) and then you'll have some real trouble. Just stop playing it and get better...then go for the FC.

Go FC Vertex beta vrofl.
You can't.

There's a point at which physical limitations stop you. For me, my skills aren't deveopled enough to "400 combo" EHHS. Big deal. As I said before, I hate mashing, however I am attempting to improve my average rank, and I would bet many many credits that a good chunk of those with better EHHS ranks than me were mashers. Fair play.

Since people continually miss my point, I'll outline them again, in clear, brief statements.
- I play this game to have fun, not to AAA everything
- One of my personal goals right now is to improve my average rank
- I hate mashing
- I hate EHHS because, at my current skill, it requires mashing to get anywhere. However, since it's not my life's purpose to always increase my skill (Although it happens naturally), it doesn't bother me that I'm using dead luck to get whatever rank I got.
- Many of the people in the top 4.6k were mashers, and I would bet thousands of credits on this fact. If mashing is not legit, then I'm simply playing by their rules, to get to the rank I would've been in the first place, had all these mashers not played the song.

If you have a problem with it, then don't do it. This is a game, the purpose of which is to have fun, and that's exactly how I'm playing it.

Deal with it.

[Goldenwind]

It doesn't matter if it's "fair play" or not. The point is that it's useless.

My "use" was to improve my rank. I went from 4.6k to 1.9k. I think it worked.

EHHS has been AAA'd by three people.

It's not my goal to AAA it.

The top ten scores on it are, I believe, all SDG's. I've got 3 goods and that's only rank 6. There's no way you're going to get a remotely good score from mashing.

"Good" is relative. I'm quite happy with the results.

It's also counterproductive, because you learn bad reading habits, and you're wasting your playing time not getting better but getting worse.

Take a moment to think about what you're saying. Yeah, you're probably better than me... and so are a lot of the people reading this thread, but if you think about it, you, and myself, are probably some of the best in the world at this kind of game.

There are billions of people on this planet. A majority don't play.
Of those who do play, most of them are casuals, or play every now and then, and couldn't even pass a Difficult song.

Now we're looking at EHHS, which besides Vertex vrofl, is probably the, or one of the, hardest songs in the game.

And you're bitching at me 'cause I can't get a 400 combo on a jumpstream with a faster-than-average BPM, and you're scolding me for how I'm playing, because it'll "disprove my reading skill" or "make me worse".

I play this game to have fun. Out of the people who play FFR/SM, you and I are probably within the top 1-3% of players.

When is good enough for you?