some theory questions from a veteran, per se

[MonkeyMan00]

i've been a member for almost four and a half years, playing over 6k games on and off just every now and then

i don't really have the drive to whore songs and work on my PA, i mostly just try to combo combo combo the fastest songs et cetera but even then i usually get bored and often times never bother to try again for the FC. i'm sure if i cared enough i would be able to fc most songs around silence's level maybe higher

i came back to check on the new songs that were updated, and i saw setsujou hyakka whatnot at the bottom of dance2; let me say that i really enjoyed the stepfile and it was a good run, the new lawn wake as well

this got me thinking, and i don't know if this is common knowledge or whatnot as i've never really been on the forums or done any sort of research on ffr or rhythm games, but i'm just wondering if anyone can see where i'm coming from; this might be hard to understand due to my wording and high fever, but bare with me

i played index for a long time, and i mostly read the arrows in patterns or sections as they scrolled on the screen, once i had processed the falling arrow pattern i would try to move my eyes back to where the arrows appear (this would be the top of the screen for me since i play reverse) to read the next section of arrows and translate it into what my fingers had to do next. of course i would most often lose my track and get confused when i couldn't process the pattern fast enough into what my fingers had to do i.e. up left up right up left up right, which is a huge bitch on index if i remember correctly. on the other hand, sometimes i just spaced out and stared and the middle of the screen and just trusted my peripherals to do the pattern recognition and more or less i was at the same skill level. before i lose my train of thought, here is my first question: where do you guys look in the screen as you play?

after i switched to spread i realized that since the problems i had with my fingers getting caught up in each other from tough patterns was essentially diminished, and it was a matter of speed with each finger because i found myself able to read things that my muscles couldn't keep up with (very frustrating back in the day). so my second question is, for spread players, is there a noticeable difference between reading patterns in sections for your fingers to act upon, or somehow just leaving each finger as a mutually exclusive unit in the sense that one separate entity is in charge for each arrow direction? is that even possible? honestly please ask me to clarify anything that i've said because i'm sure i lacked coherence somewhere in here, and if you care to respond to find some sort of shared enlightenment, it would be appreciated...
i am also at a fever temperature of 39.8 degrees celsius