Mental Block on FFR?

[rauchster]

Recently I've been playing and slowly but surely getting better, and working on my Perfect to Good ratios. Last week I was consistently getting strings of 150-200 perfects in a row, and had some SDG's on medium difficulty songs, which for me was really good.

Then for the tourney I got a 595-5-0-0-0 on Hyperactivity and posted that, thinking that I could do better.

Right after I posted that, I have started playing crappy. Truly crappy.
Whereas I used to get 1-2 Goods in a string of 300 notes on songs, I'm now getting between 25-30 goods on those same songs. Songs I've easily FC'ed and SDG'ed before I'm now missing bunches of notes, and I can't even hold together a string of 50 perfects.

What's happening?
Last week I had some nice plays and was happy.
This week, I've played worse than I have in over a year, and I can't stop. Standard and Tricky songs that I've played for fun because they were easy FC for a long time I now get scores like 298-65-3-7-9.

I'm thoroughly confused, and getting very frustrated.

[Psychotik]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

Just keep whoring the song. Or you rest for while and go back to it later.

[LLaMaSaUceYup]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

I have extreme mental blocks on the song silence.
And I <3 jumpstream, it's just some patterns...


I normally start getting mental blocks when I do whore songs.
Which is why I don't.

[reptile3141]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

This exact same thing has happened to me before, bro. I suggest not whoring songs at this point (you'll only get more frustrated) and don't play as much. In about two to three days, you should be back to normal.

[arrekusuof93]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

Just keep whoring the song. Or you rest for while and go back to it later.

Don't do this. Ever. I would recommend you do the opposite. Take a break from the game, one or two days. I'm not saying don't play the game AT ALL for one or two days, just cut down. I took a 3 month long break from FFR after getting bored, and when I came back I was miraculously better than before. I also started improving again.

EDIT: Reptile ninja'd me, more or less.

[bluguerrilla]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

Yeah, taking a break almost always worked for me. Except on that damn pylons song.

I finally got a 4 on it though.

Also, I suggest playing songs harder than the one you're trying to better.

[rushyrulz]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

Maybe you're having a bad week, I usually take a break from FFR for a couple hours when I'm suckin then when I come back, I do better.

[reptile3141]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

Reptile ninja'd me, more or less.

P.S. SIG'D!

[who_cares973]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

this happened to me yesterday i was so pissed i wanted to throw my laptop out also could be because of lack of sleep which im guessing is my problem x.x

[HighAndr0id]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

mirror mode helps. also you can stop playing for a while and come back in a day or two so your subconscious forgets the mistakes. or try increasing your speed mod, or try screen shrink.

[Cats_Go_Meow]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

You're in a slump.

Stop thinking you're bad, and you won't be bad. The way I play, FFR is like 1/4 confidence.

[dean_machine]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

Just play so many other songs afterwards that you won't remember the notes very well when you get back to the one song you want to play again. You don't need to wait a day or more.

[Izzy]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

I dont know why i get mental blocks on ffr but not stepmania. But i think its because 2x is to slow and actually forces me to read the notes.

[championanwar]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

I only get mental blocks if I've played too long... Sleep normally does it for me

[Silver_Brian]

Re: Mental Block on FFR?

Play other songs for a bit.