Ranking up and hitting higher difficulty level patterns

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This is the best part of rhythm games: you will hit walls no matter what, but overcoming those walls and breaking them is the best feeling in the world.

If your looking for PA/MA consistency, play slightly easier songs with simpler patterns and try really hard to keep on beat, especially during long streams.

If you want to increase your ability to read and hit harder patterns, then start pushing towards jumpstream. Jumpstream is the biggest initial wall to climb over, but once you can start to do it you will see your ability skyrocket.

Be sure to try all kinds of files too... get used to doing jacks, because jumpstream is literally jacks with stream in between, so make sure to push yourself and try jack files.

Lastly, when you get to doing shit like dump files, you can hit it like a jump trill but your speed will improve drastically if you practice hitting it like stream.

There are so many songs out there that will help push you in the right direction, but the most important thing to do is to have fun! As cliche as it sounds, that is vital to improvement. Good luck to you man, even the best still suck at Stepmania (relatively lol).