How come when you are playing at 1.25x or 1.5x of speed , you play better?

[MrRubix]

Sorry, that was a typo Xiao. I meant 1.5 and 1.75 in the last paragraph. Fixed.

[TopherYohh]

Your reflex.

[PlaceboFX]

All I know is that if I even try to play without a speed mod, it is like epic fail. I can't process all of the notes when they are so close together moving so slowly.

[bballa48]

Originally Posted by Xiaounlimited

Pseudo-speedmods (i.e. screencutting) serve no real purpose compared to actual speedmods other than bragging rights. Seeing fewer arrows at once emulates the idea of speedmods, but does not actually spread them out]. The functionality really, is questionable when you have real modifiers available; but I suppose I can't be one to question traditionalists.

I have tried screencutting, and yes, it does help when playing on 1x. But once you start playing songs with compressed notes (songs like FN, Ketsarku, Nanairov2, ERx8v2 etc) it becomes a garbled mess very very few people will be able to read, and fewer still able to hit properly.

To be frank, I don't know any extremely skilled players who screencut. Find me one who can SDG FMOs or FGOs, and I will take my word back against screencutting. Otherwise, I do not recommend it.

I am pretty sure Tass screencuts, and I would consider him a very good player. Back when I screencutted I AAA'd NWE.. and now I don't think I could do it again. In fact, I think I was better screencutting than I am now with 1.75x.