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

[wargasm1]

Originally Posted by garquillex

I was stuck on the transition from VD's to C's for a few months until I started actually being able to read C's. I probably didn't play more than 1500 games during the time though.

I was stuck there a LONG time too. Played over 5000 games during that period of time lol. I started improving when i stopped ffr and restarted 4 months later :P.

I spent quite some time on lv 9s and 10s before i fc all the 11s, i think now im improving alot faster than before cause i know what my weaknesses are (trills) and i work on them.

[PinoySkillz]

I've been a member for 3.13 years. I never played Stepmania or anything before starting FFR and it took me about 10 months to be able to FC VC's. It's been over 2 years later and I've still never FC'd a song harder than VC haha. (sad)

[erndre]

Originally Posted by kmay

BTW dont whore songs over 1000 times. makes you a lot worse at everything. I cant even FC VC's anymore =[ and i have been playing sm for like 3 days straight. not getting any better

So by that I believe you're saying I shouldn't keep playing Fierce Combat over and over again. >_>;; I play other songs- honest!

Well anyway- thanks for all the replies everyone. Some of it's encouraging, some of it's not, but practice makes perfect eh?

Originally Posted by MinaciousGrace

to answer the last question warming up becomes an integral part of higher level play and the reason most people don't see improvement over regular intervals is because they do not warm up properly and are not playing at their full potential(other factors certainly do contribute to this but I feel this is one of the main ones) on most days

So what do you do to warm up?

Originally Posted by albaneenesk8r

i recently went from PA'ing challenging to PA'ing FMO's, i've done alot of reading and studying expanding my brain usage. When i came back to FFR after not playing for about 8 months i was surprisingly better. I can now read everysong. If i only had the speed i could AAA fgo's

Weeird. Yet somehow it makes sense.

[kmay]

alban is lying he just cheats. and yea play song just above your comfort zone and your supposed to get better. hasnt helped me though =/

[Anakinstepwalker]

i would say about 2 to 3 straight months when i 1st started about 4 to 5 months in.. i waz so bad i literally stopped playin for weeks then decided to come bak. and said if every1 else can do it so can i.

i started AAA's on very difficult then got better and started AAA's on challenging along with 1 very challenging AAA

dont give up jus got to keep at it

[MinaciousGrace]

Originally Posted by erndre

So what do you do to warm up?

there's really no super secret or magic to it rofl all my warmup involves is a solid 3 hours of playing and a large amount of soda

then there's like a 2 hour window where I can get good scores before I tire out

yea that's p much it, no finger exercises or weird diets or voodoo magic just a large time investment which is why I rarely play now

[_REDYOSHI_]

I've gone a good month or two without much improvement, but I have OCD so I usually improve quickly. Right now I'm basically at an average right now. I couple new AAA's here and there and a couple lvl. ranks improved. As far as exercises go, I just kind of stretch and clench my hands a few times. I play piano a lot so I have a lot of finger strength from that.

[albaneenesk8r]

2 years

[WTFBrandon]

a year

[zeldazeppelin]

After Playing FFR regularly instead of stepmania for a month I now can barley get A's and AA's on song I use to get FC. It is a sad time for me indeed. I have since begun to play both everyday.

[leonid]

Originally Posted by MinaciousGrace

and on a completely unrelated note it took me about 5 months of playing before I could AAA fgo's
IN YOUR FACE LEONID

wat why me

[5.points]

14 months, going on 15

[TC_Alek]

Simple as this.. longest period of no improvement was 2.8 yrs
/win
One hand sucked until I just pushed my limits.

[alexdestructions]

2 months is my longest

[{Zero}]

I get better every single day, although if I don't play FFR for several days and come back to it I do get significantly better so I suppose it works with FFR.

[erndre]

Originally Posted by TC_Alek

Simple as this.. longest period of no improvement was 2.8 yrs
/win
One hand sucked until I just pushed my limits.

Wait, were you playing with the one-handed style or are you just saying the reflexes in one of your hands was bad?

Either way that sucks. I'm not left-handed so I do have the occasional left-hand trouble.

[TC_Halogen]

Before I learned spread, I was pretty much locked skill-wise to about Cs/VCs, and that was when I was somewhat able to index. I'd say that I was stuck on my old account nearly 2 years, skill-wise. Once I hit spread, limits were pretty much endless.

[erndre]

Originally Posted by TC_Halogen

Before I learned spread, I was pretty much locked skill-wise to about Cs/VCs, and that was when I was somewhat able to index. I'd say that I was stuck on my old account nearly 2 years, skill-wise. Once I hit spread, limits were pretty much endless.

Several users here recommended early on that I turn to spread from one-handed when I was asking advice on how to improve, and I must say though it required some patience getting used to at first, it's totally been way better for me in the long run.

[Mulie]

Ha! If you think you're stuck, you're doing it wrong.
Fortunately for most people, we will always adapt naturally, given time and consistency.

[x After Dawn x]

2 years