osu is really just a brain trainer. It teaches you about failure, pressure, jealousy, self-doubt, and self-discipline. I've learned so much about myself by clicking circles.
A big tip I can give people is to not focus on results. Improvement is most of the time slow, and humans are not perfect. If you focus on how bad you are playing one day, it can lead to anger, disappointment, or loss of motivation. If your goal is to only FC or play extremely well every single time you log onto osu, you are overestimating your own skills. Instead you should focus on playing maps that will help you IMPROVE your skillset. When you focus on improvement (not focus on rank, misses, sliderbreaks, or just being bad) you now understand that you CAN improve. You will be a lot less angry at the game because if you focus on improving your aim, tapping, stamina or whatever, then accuracy and misses are just numbers to you. And that’s how osu should be. A fun rhythm game. So don’t be too hard on yourself, and focus on playing maps that will challenge your skillsets (jump aim, flow aim, tapping streams, stamina, speed etc.) If you want to be less angry when playing then don’t be hard on yourself and also don’t bash yourself if you are playing bad some days because it happens.
November 2020 I finally hit 50k and had a peak rank of around 48k. For 1 and a half years I was stuck at the same rank eventually dropping to rank 69k at my lowest (april 2022). Now I am rank 37k and am rising consistantly every day. What helped me overcome this massive wall was multiple things including: Playing longer maps to gain consistency, work on controlling my aim and smoothing it out, playing multis to improve my sight-reading, downloading new maps (ranked, loved, and graveyard) consitently in order to have a wider variety to choose from, playing maps outside of my comfort zone in order to improve at those skills, playing easier maps in order to strengthen my skills in those areas, playing maps in my comfort zone for pp (after widening and improving my skills), and most importantly never giving up while having fun. Whenever I get frustrated with the game I do something else and come back to what I was doing later. Theres no need to force yourself to overcome a wall it just happens naturally and when it does it will feel amazing.
tbh this is exactly what ive been needing and i have been trying to improve my mindset not really knowing where to start so i hope this helps thank you
woah. that lowering your standards to top 100 plays everyday is singlehandedly gonna revive my osu carreer. i love you polars, you're the best osu improvement content out there currently
I recently kinda had that where I felt kinda stuck for a bit, and then had to stop playing for ranks for about 2 weeks because I was close to getting screened of a tourney. Once the screening ended, I literally set a new top 3 and top 1 not even 2h after the screening ended and it felt extremely good, after just practicing random stuff for a while, finally going into maps with a positive mindset let me set some really crazy scores that I never though I'd be able to do before.
This video really did make me realise that I was setting the bar way too high for myself. Always trying to get a top 10 every session, which like said in the video is really not something to be worried about. Really helpful video!
For me, taking a break was really helpful in resetting my mindset. After I came back from the break I started playing longer maps with streams (something I never did before regurarly), and the improvement was really big, even with like 300 plays a month still, I'm getting some really good scores on long maps, almost top play level stuff. (To clarify, around 90% of my top 100 is TV size farm.)
usually the little things are ignored when talking about improvement like how you're feeling, how sleep deprived are you, how hydrated you are and so on, everything plays it's own role.
The high standard one is so true. I only looked to fc maps that would be my new top play and dropping that mindset helped my consistency a TON. Thanks for the video 👍
this video literally gave me the confidence to start playing the maps i would of gained pp on. then about 30 mins into the session i broke a year long curse where i was mindblocked on almost most of the map. not saying the video is magic just saying the video explains very well how to get out of a slump and if not alr in a slump, how to avoid it. thanks man i feel ready af to set some crazy plays
This video made me realize that I've been doing everything in this video subconsciously like the "want to fc" collection. I have a few like that where I have choked scores or just maps I think would be really cool to fc but don't think I can achieve any time soon. Just recently I've been playing longer maps too and I also got my top play on a 5 minute map. Thanks for making this video, it's made me realize how fun this game is to play and know I'm not plateuing and I really can inprove even if it's one top 70 or something score at a time.
nice chill video with good tips, I personally see the same things were the ones that kept me improving. also respect for keeping it real, mentioning all the factors that go into improvement!
this is a really good video, it really emphasizes the importance of mindset and more people have to hear this, really. the fact that mindset is so crucial to your progression is something that i've noticed quite some time ago already, and i can give a simple example. most of the time i suck at stamina, can barely do longer 180bpm streams because my hands are so stiff and slow, but whenever i get warmed up well enough and have a good day i can just feel and believe that i am way better than that in reality. thats really all i need, a good warmup, a good day and a good mindset as a result of those two factors. that allows me to play maps such as cinderella syndrome, with a lot of fast 200bpm bursts and patterns, or chocolate heaven with a bunch of fast 190bpm gameplay with ease, absolutely no problem. i can send replays of those on discord for u guys to see, the thing that made it possible for me to pull off such impressive plays to me was exactly mindset, the topic of this video. its tremendously important to draw peoples attention to the significance of mindset, as its one of the most crucial factors of progression in the game
thank you just thank you, I've needed to hear this video today. I play osu! and a lot more of rocket league and I'm to the point where I keep telling myself that I suck and just disappoint people and myself. playing something like osu! and even more so rocket league, you kind of need to focus and need to have a good mental and this video honestly just help so much, thank you.
I've been plateauing recently and have just started improving ranks again after focusing more on specifics as well as changing my mindset to a more positive one, defo good advice, thanks alot <3
osu is really just a brain trainer. It teaches you about failure, pressure, jealousy, self-doubt, and self-discipline. I've learned so much about myself by clicking circles.
A big tip I can give people is to not focus on results. Improvement is most of the time slow, and humans are not perfect. If you focus on how bad you are playing one day, it can lead to anger, disappointment, or loss of motivation. If your goal is to only FC or play extremely well every single time you log onto osu, you are overestimating your own skills. Instead you should focus on playing maps that will help you IMPROVE your skillset. When you focus on improvement (not focus on rank, misses, sliderbreaks, or just being bad) you now understand that you CAN improve. You will be a lot less angry at the game because if you focus on improving your aim, tapping, stamina or whatever, then accuracy and misses are just numbers to you. And that’s how osu should be. A fun rhythm game. So don’t be too hard on yourself, and focus on playing maps that will challenge your skillsets (jump aim, flow aim, tapping streams, stamina, speed etc.) If you want to be less angry when playing then don’t be hard on yourself and also don’t bash yourself if you are playing bad some days because it happens.
November 2020 I finally hit 50k and had a peak rank of around 48k. For 1 and a half years I was stuck at the same rank eventually dropping to rank 69k at my lowest (april 2022). Now I am rank 37k and am rising consistantly every day. What helped me overcome this massive wall was multiple things including: Playing longer maps to gain consistency, work on controlling my aim and smoothing it out, playing multis to improve my sight-reading, downloading new maps (ranked, loved, and graveyard) consitently in order to have a wider variety to choose from, playing maps outside of my comfort zone in order to improve at those skills, playing easier maps in order to strengthen my skills in those areas, playing maps in my comfort zone for pp (after widening and improving my skills), and most importantly never giving up while having fun. Whenever I get frustrated with the game I do something else and come back to what I was doing later. Theres no need to force yourself to overcome a wall it just happens naturally and when it does it will feel amazing.
tbh this is exactly what ive been needing and i have been trying to improve my mindset not really knowing where to start so i hope this helps thank you
woah. that lowering your standards to top 100 plays everyday is singlehandedly gonna revive my osu carreer. i love you polars, you're the best osu improvement content out there currently
I recently kinda had that where I felt kinda stuck for a bit, and then had to stop playing for ranks for about 2 weeks because I was close to getting screened of a tourney. Once the screening ended, I literally set a new top 3 and top 1 not even 2h after the screening ended and it felt extremely good, after just practicing random stuff for a while, finally going into maps with a positive mindset let me set some really crazy scores that I never though I'd be able to do before.
This video really did make me realise that I was setting the bar way too high for myself. Always trying to get a top 10 every session, which like said in the video is really not something to be worried about. Really helpful video!
For me, taking a break was really helpful in resetting my mindset. After I came back from the break I started playing longer maps with streams (something I never did before regurarly), and the improvement was really big, even with like 300 plays a month still, I'm getting some really good scores on long maps, almost top play level stuff. (To clarify, around 90% of my top 100 is TV size farm.)
very good video
Very interesting
usually the little things are ignored when talking about improvement like how you're feeling, how sleep deprived are you, how hydrated you are and so on, everything plays it's own role.
The high standard one is so true. I only looked to fc maps that would be my new top play and dropping that mindset helped my consistency a TON. Thanks for the video 👍
this video literally gave me the confidence to start playing the maps i would of gained pp on. then about 30 mins into the session i broke a year long curse where i was mindblocked on almost most of the map. not saying the video is magic just saying the video explains very well how to get out of a slump and if not alr in a slump, how to avoid it. thanks man i feel ready af to set some crazy plays
This video made me realize that I've been doing everything in this video subconsciously like the "want to fc" collection. I have a few like that where I have choked scores or just maps I think would be really cool to fc but don't think I can achieve any time soon. Just recently I've been playing longer maps too and I also got my top play on a 5 minute map. Thanks for making this video, it's made me realize how fun this game is to play and know I'm not plateuing and I really can inprove even if it's one top 70 or something score at a time.
Man this helped me a lot, love you
nice chill video with good tips, I personally see the same things were the ones that kept me improving. also respect for keeping it real, mentioning all the factors that go into improvement!
i’ve noticed that i can relate to your advice which shows me that my mindset has changed which is critical for my improvement
this is a really good video, it really emphasizes the importance of mindset and more people have to hear this, really. the fact that mindset is so crucial to your progression is something that i've noticed quite some time ago already, and i can give a simple example. most of the time i suck at stamina, can barely do longer 180bpm streams because my hands are so stiff and slow, but whenever i get warmed up well enough and have a good day i can just feel and believe that i am way better than that in reality. thats really all i need, a good warmup, a good day and a good mindset as a result of those two factors. that allows me to play maps such as cinderella syndrome, with a lot of fast 200bpm bursts and patterns, or chocolate heaven with a bunch of fast 190bpm gameplay with ease, absolutely no problem. i can send replays of those on discord for u guys to see, the thing that made it possible for me to pull off such impressive plays to me was exactly mindset, the topic of this video. its tremendously important to draw peoples attention to the significance of mindset, as its one of the most crucial factors of progression in the game
thank you just thank you, I've needed to hear this video today. I play osu! and a lot more of rocket league and I'm to the point where I keep telling myself that I suck and just disappoint people and myself. playing something like osu! and even more so rocket league, you kind of need to focus and need to have a good mental and this video honestly just help so much, thank you.
I've been plateauing recently and have just started improving ranks again after focusing more on specifics as well as changing my mindset to a more positive one, defo good advice, thanks alot <3