[devonin]

Some insight from a player whose skill level is smack in the middle of the song in question.

Did Max Forever. Not my best score, I don't play that much so my endurance is pretty shit. Pulled 88% perfects, 1.5% misses and 1.5% boos. Those miss/boo numbers were basically identical, which says to me "Every note I missed, I booed, so I basically -hit- everything, and didn't mash at all, but my timing wasn't excellent"

Then I did the bottom three 9's.

86% 89% and a dismal 74% on {Arabian Assassin}

My miss and boo counts were also either both higher, or I had more boos than misses, which means I was also being more spastic in places and less confident that I knew where my fingers were supposed to be. These songs weren't "Clean except for timing issues" like Max was, these were just "I did worse, because the songs are harder"

Max Forever is an 8. A very high 8, but as someone for whom Fc'ing these songs isn't just a given, I did MUCH better on Max than I did on even a 60 just above it.