Props to all 4-finger players

[chickendude]

ok...trills and speed are giving me problems right now with the askl setup, trills are obvious (LD and UR 99.9 percent of the time), but the speed I guess just because the setup is new to me, my middle fingers arent used to being used full time...

any songs (preferably slower) for FFR or SM that I can used to practice these (for now) shortcomings of mine?

on FFR:
Delirium has some trills
molto has one right at the beginning and a bunch of them , but they're kind of fast
I put some gay trills into fantranstic
for FFR has those like jumptrill things with a slew of arrows. Those are kind of what you're looking for.
Molto has those too now that I think of it
yeah

[masterhickle]

what about in songs for SM?

[super-smashman]

Left index: Left Arrow
Left middle: Down Arrow
Right index: Numpad 8
Right middle: Numpad 6

Maybe I'm just weird.


Icemage

The only way to be able to do this effectively would be to put the left side of the keyboard under your left arm and hold it like a guitar.

Sorta...

[female]

Not really. When some people play DDr on a playstation they use that up and right button on the right side, at least the buttons corresponding to those buttons, and then down and left with the arrows. It's not all that odd, just split.

[chickendude]

no, you see

icemage had his left hand upside down or something

his left index was on left
left middle was on down

that's like contortedness^5

[Icemage]

LOL. Nah, I posted that when I had just woken up from a nap. :P

Left Arrow - left middle finger
Down Arrow - left index finger



Sorry for the confusion.


(though come to think of it, you could probably do it with the keyboard laying in front of you long-ways... assuming the length doesn't bother you, it'd be a pretty comfortable position to play in IMO).

And sadly, I'm *not* very good at FFR or SM. Timing just isn't good enough to hit Perfect/Marvelous every time, always end up with about 5-10% good/greats. Enough to FC most intermediate songs, but not enough to AAA anything harder than Standard difficulty most of the time.

I just enjoy playing - I don't have any aspirations to be a DDR/FFR/SM God.


Icemage

[Sapade]

I'm an all 4 finger player

Ring finger on left arrow
middle finger on down

middle finger on 8
ring finger on 6

works very well for me, I'm Dual handed, hard for me to use just 1

[Suzuru]

I use same style as Icemage, due my arrow keys not registering quads but when I use left arrow, down arrow, 8numpad, 6numpad. I can do quads np. Besides it's a lot better than playing with 4 fingers on arrows only, my finger used to bump into each other and my fingers are pretty slim after switching to aforementioned setup, let's call it "spread hybrid" I improved by a lot in ffr.

Also I play spread in SM with "zx" "./" setup.

[Lain_Iwakura]

Where's the love for the 4 finger arrow key or WASD players?

[staroceanfreakx]

Right here :P

Left middle on left
Left index on down
Right middle on up
Right ring on right

[Moogy]

I use QWOP. Spread is the only style worth playing.

[Snapps]

If you turn the keyboad on a negative slope, then my style works perfectly

[masterhickle]

ASKL =P

getting better with the setup, I can AA most of the songs I have that -don't- have 16th runs or jump streams...working at passing those songs now (black dragon, etc)

still having a good bit of trouble with the UR combinations -_-

[masterhickle]

not letting my post go until I can get some replies for this:
Are there any songs for SM that anyone can list for me to practice my LD UR trills and increase my speed on the ASKL setup?
Right now I can do 16th runs at about Quasar speed with little difficulty, if that helps the list any

=P

[Chromer]

Left Index - Left Arrow

Right Index - Down Arrow

Right Middle - Up Arrow

Right Ring - Right Arrow

This is standard for me as I also play Index with my middle fingers.