Where do You Look at the Screen?

[DossarLX ODI]

Re: Where do You Look at the Screen?

I mean when a denser part comes I look down a little lower but it's still pretty high. To me it's better to read a slower speed and process what's going on at the time.

[Jerry DB]

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I read about where roy reads haha. I think it's a habit I got from screencutting 1x back in the day. I had to look right at the receptor because you had to be precise

[BethanyBangs]

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I look at the top.

[bmah]

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As I've said to some players, it's important to take advantage of reading the arrows at different places relative to the distance from the receptors. Playing casually, I'll look at where I'm normally comfortable at without thinking. However, when there's a song or section of a song in which I want to maintain accuracy, I'll stare closer to the receptors, like around where Dossar reads it. This helps ensure that I'm hitting the arrows as they come up towards the receptor, regardless of how well these arrows correlate to the music. Some examples of areas that I may do this includes a tricky to hit pattern or patterns that are susceptible to splitting (e.g. [13][24][13][24]).

By looking closer towards the receptor, your mind is really "screencutting" the game for you. If you played Stepmania with xmods, screencutting or looking close to the receptors would greatly help accuracy in songs with slow scrolling. This is no different than screencutting in other rhythm games. Players of the beatmania community used to screencut via a towel hanging from the top of their screens, which forces them to look closer at the note receptors (now the series have screencutting options/sudden modes).

So to answer the OP's question, I look at the screen in various places, but generally three quarters to the receptors (fairly close). Look even closer if you want to help ensure PA.

[supermousie]

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When I'm playing a file that doesn't really require too much concentration, I usually look at the middle of the screen, or a little lower.
I tend to follow the arrows when I'm playing something difficult.

[MracY]

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My arrow reading ability improved dramatically when I learned how to look at the entire screen at the same time. It requires a ridiculous amount of concentration, though, so I don't really bother when I'm playing anything lower than VC.

When I'm doing easy songs, I generally look right between the 2 spots in your picture.

[EzExZeRo7497]

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I look at the middle of the screen, at the judgement usually. Stepmania thing, like what Alex said.

I read at the bottom if it's Distant, but since this is FFR I look at the middle, or higher.

[icontrolyourworld]

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I look at most of the area where the arrows go by, I don't really concentrate on a single area unless it's an fgo (in which case I don't use the top half as much, mostly just the bottom half)

[Ziergdsx18]

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I typically stare at the higher spot that you have on that pic, but when it's anything super dense I tend to look lower. It almost buys me a little time to process the patterns, maybe.

^This.

[MinaciousGrace]

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i track every 4th note for exactly 723 ms

if the file does not have 4th notes then i ragequit and smash my monitor into the wall

[Trogdor!!!!]

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I look at most of the area where the arrows go by, I don't really concentrate on a single area unless it's an fgo (in which case I don't use the top half as much, mostly just the bottom half)

Lmfao I ****ing love you.

Also, I look in the middle of the screen no matter what song I'm playing regardless of whether it's Stepmania or FFR.

[MikeShinoda12345]

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I look at my PA count and the percent

for some reason I have some odd fascination with the 25% in terms of time checkpoint of a song and how it relates to the 25% in terms of notes.

n_n

yeah but most of the time the higher point, other than the percent and PA count my spot never really alters at all

[Poison-]

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I've always looked here. I have no idea why though.

[Emithith]

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^this

since it gives me the access to see the Judgement timer (Great! Perfect!! etc.) out of my peripheral view
edit: nvm a bit lower since that IS the place for the Judgement

[iironiic]

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I don't realize these things. I just play the game.