i need tips for one handed FFR. =/

[HoneyMelonCalibrator]

Re: i need tips for one handed FFR. =/

Just continue to play spread. VBNM sounds like a logical setup, although I personally find myself comfortable when my hands are further apart and not scrunched together. I'm kind of confused on your statement about mental and physical pains lol.. take a break, perhaps? I dunno, I'd give it a week and a half maybe two weeks before you begin becoming comfortable with two handed playing style. Just practice, practice, practice. You'll naturally improve.

[ChiefOlukOneHand]

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To pick songs, since you're new to the game, try to find some songs that you like regardless of the difficulty. FFR has a lot of songs, and soon you'll have some favorites.

Once you know what difficulty you are good at, try something harder. Find a song that's a little easier and try to get a better score. Find a song that's a little harder and try to get a full combo. The fastest way to get better is to challenge yourself.
There are a certain number of good "practice" songs. For now, just play as many songs as you can. Keep track of the ones you like. (For you, I recommend "AIM Anthem" for strength, "Ninja Turtles Theme" for simple rolls, and "Halogen" for jumps and chains.)

Once you start getting good, go back to all the level 1 songs and full combo them. Try to combo as many songs as you can. Eventually you'll reach a point where you can't combo any more, and that will show you a goal for improvement. I have old screenshots of my "best" FCs from two months ago, and now I see how much better I've gotten. (By the way, save screenshots of all your good scores. It will make you feel better.)

After FC'ing for a while, try to AAA those easy songs. Focus on the arrows and not the music. Focus on hitting the arrow exactly when it reaches the target. You are a metronome. The arrows follow a rhythm, the music follows a rhythm, and usually they don't match. You will want to use speedmods at this point--use the highest speed you are comfortable with. (I play 1.5x, and many players use 1.75x, 1.85x (subscribers only), and sometimes 2x)
[[If you're feeling adventurous, download stepmania and some song packs. Stepmania has more judgments and judgment settings, allowing you to practice your timing more. I find stepmania to be a bit confusing, so I barely use it.]] [[You'll have to figure it out on your own; that's part of the "adventure."]]

Exercise! Half the game is skill--reading the notes, learning the patterns, controlling your muscles, holding a rhythm.... The other half is performance--lifting your fingers, striking the keys, enduring for minutes at a time. Flex your muscles every day. If you workout or play a sport, that's even better.

Drum your fingers in tricky patterns from songs, if you remember them. Imagine hitting a jump pattern: upright, updown, leftdown, updown, upright... upright, downright, leftup, leftdown, upright... Practice patterns left-to-right and right-to-left. When your hand learns these patterns, they'll be easier to perform in-game.

If you want to be the best of all time, you need natural talent. If you want to be really good, spread is the way to go. (I find that wider key-settings are more comfortable that tight ones, e.g., using zx./ for spread. When you get really good, you might switch styles in the middle of a song, and that will require your keys to be close together (I remember a "Flight of the Bumblebee" AAA that switched between spread and index)). I like one-handing because it's uncommon. I use unorthodox keys--I encourage you to experiment and find some keys that you're comfortable with.

FFR is a game, first and foremost. Play for fun. When you're tired, take a break. When you're frustrated, take a break.
I've been meaning to write a training guide.
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[DJ moe_bass]

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0.0 wowza it took me about 2 minutes to read that whole article about me getting better. very good composing of those paragraphs man. I hope I improve enough to actually get to a high lvl like you said but I wont make screenshots cuz im lazy lol.
(I need to thought xP)

[aFreakOfNature2332]

Re: i need tips for one handed FFR. =/

I'm good spread. My spread keys are [k], [,], [/], [']. I'm pretty good one-hand. My one hand keys are [j], [i], [o], [;]. I find this one-handed style to be very good and very fun. I've played one-handed for about eight months, and I can FC 90% of all very challenging songs 90% of the time with very minimum boos, and almost never any averages.

Everyone seems to want you to switch to two-handed because they think that it's easier to get better at; or at least that's what I got out of their comments. You're new, right? I wouldn't expect to ever be admired by your skills, so just stick with the FUN one-handed way. And it gets even more fun when you can mult-task( i.e. eating, drinking, changing channels, fapping, scratching your itches, and maybe even playing against yourself).

Also, I don't suggest every doing anything that you can luckily AAA... EVER. Always play songs that challenge you in some way for any amount of time. I also disagree with ChiefOlukOneHand about once you get good, go back and FC easy songs. Don't ever go back. FCing almost never means anything at all, and AAAing is only admirable on very challenging songs and up. The only exception would be if you really like the song itself.

[DJ moe_bass]

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i hate jumps and chains they make my fingers die!
*puts band-aid on finger*

[ice_lazer3]

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i hate jumps and chains they make my fingers die!
*puts band-aid on finger*

Haha I know what you mean, just keep practicing. You'll get used to them as you play more and more.

[Scyze]

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Whoa, I never knew that so many people played spread. I thought most people played 1-hand.. I've been playing on and off for years (only playing enough to be able to do about up to Very Difficult proficiently) using 1-hand. I had no clue. O_O

[x After Dawn x]

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See this?

This is your hand. You have 5 fingers on each hand. You are free to use any combination of them for FFR. Use your most dominant fingers on each hand (aka index and middle fingers).

kthx

[OneHandNow]

Re: i need tips for one handed FFR. =/

See this?

This is your hand. You have 5 fingers on each hand. You are free to use any combination of them for FFR. Use your most dominant fingers on each hand (aka index and middle fingers).

kthx

This was a hands-on (no pun intended) instruction by AD.

[DJ moe_bass]

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ROFL thx for the hands-on tips.
Ya know i play spread now since i got addicted to it? IDK but i just want to do spread for awhile till i get bored of it, then I will go back to one handed.

[Frank Munoz]

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me eitherXD im challenging with one hand(i rate by fc) but now i recently started playing spread and iv'egotten so much betterXD, i sometime play one handed now and then9.9 3 fingers