A Speed Session, A Moon in Shanghai

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This is a recap of the session I had on the 22nd of February, 2015.

Had a really good session that started with the realisation that I've been unconsciously doing this technique that was increasing my stream speed gradually. I started using that technique, and my speed improved quite a bit.

Firstly, warmup


8% improvement


lmao bad, but first AA


Very clean, substantial improvement but still improvable


Wanted to keep doing speed stuff for a while, then I saw Ormix and Fanta post things like this in the chat:


I thought to myself eh, maybe I'll do it at the end of the session. I'm not very good at Shanghai Moon, my best is only 93%. I'll try other stuff for now anyway.

I remember Mina trying this out and told me that we'll be racing for this. You lose, nerd


Next three scores will be accompanied with videos, since not many people play these files.

Lots of ~255 BPM jumpstream littered with holds and minijacks. Think Paranoia Evil's holdstream section but on 1.1 and considerably longer. The cleanliness of the score is probably the best part of the score, but also the worst because it costed my AA.
Video: http://www.twitch.tv/prismaticeffect/c/6174763


340 BPM jumpstream for long periods of time, patterns pretty similar to The Others.
Video: http://www.twitch.tv/prismaticeffect/c/6174793


After that, my shoulders were hurting because I've played a little too much, but then I told myself that I should try Shanghai Moon. I've tried it on osu!mania some time ago and I found out why I wasn't doing too well, so maybe I can improve my score now.

I warmed up with a couple of jacking files, but this is the only one that's probably postworthy.

Tons and tons of 170 BPM jumpjacks with occasional 32nd jacks which drain life substantially.

Video: http://www.twitch.tv/prismaticeffect/c/6174798

I twisted my hands a little bit, I groaned, went to Shanghai Moon, filled my mods accordingly and fiddled around with my keyboard. The moon was a little clearer than usual today, so it was fitting.






























...Maybe that's probably what helped me.

Video: http://www.twitch.tv/prismaticeffect/c/6174799

The craziest thing about this is that this score is still improvable. Maybe this is SDCB'able in the near future? FC'able? Who knows. Whatever it is, it's probably one of the best scores I've gotten in a while.

Can't wait to try out Stepmania again 2 days from now.

And that, was my speed session that day.