What's the longest you've spent playing without seeing improvement?

[Gigispackles]

The longest time I didn't see improvement was about 2 to 3 months. My skill stayed the same, if not just ever so slightly rose, for awhile. But one night I got a huge skill boost. Even though I sucked (the skill boost was able to FC level 8 songs without any troubles), I still felt amazing.

Leaving FFR and then coming back can help, but not often does that happen. I left FFR for about 2 months, came back, and I was waaay better. This was without the help of StepMania.

I don't do any exercises. Just start playing. I prefer to start on songs semi-outside of my comfort zone or start with index, then moving into spread.

Learning to play index insanely helped for me. My speed, reading, stamina, and accuracy improved once I could FC up to a level 8 song without mashing.

Like others have said, I suggest you not whore a song for, like, an hour or longer. I can't play a song more than 5 times in a row without getting some kind of frustration that messes me up. When I started to get better, I stuck with songs that I could barely FC, and a certain 10 to 30 different songs every day and not play any of those more than three in that day.