Lecture Notes: Enhancing Aim and Avoiding Injury in OSU

Introduction

• Greetings to new and returning viewers.
• Topic: How changing tablet area improved aim skills in OSU.
• Personal experience with hand injury impacting gameplay.

Personal Journey

• Injury Impact: Hand injury in 2018 from overplaying.
  • Fear of re-injury led to changing pen grip to reduce thumb stress.
• Experimented with grip and tablet area to improve aim.

Tablet Area Adjustment

• Initial Problem: Old tablet area wasn't effective anymore.
• Adjustments:
  • Reduced area from 83 mm to 76 mm initially.
  • Further reduced to 65 mm for better results.
• Research:
  • Compared with other players’ setups (e.g., Em’s setup).
  • Discovered Em doesn’t lock the aspect ratio, which was uncomfortable.

Muscle Memory and Improvement

• Challenges: Initial discomfort due to muscle memory.
• Outcome: New area improved ability to hit patterns previously missed.

Personal Background

• Obsession with improving aim since starting OSU.
• Insight into hand pain from tension and strategies to avoid it.
  • Advice: Avoid tensing up, take breaks.
  • Humorous note on self-injury from gaming.

Perspective on OSU Improvement

• Change in Perspective:
  • With age, learned to improve despite feeling plateaued.
• Learning from Others:
  • Observed top players (e.g., Emre) for techniques.
  • Eye-tracking streams provide insights into reading patterns.

Community and Game Evolution

• Community Growth:
  • Players continually push skill barriers (e.g., 11 star 340 BPM jumps).
  • Historical milestone: "The Big Black" vs. today’s advanced plays.

Strategies for Improvement

• Steps to Enhance Aim:
  1. Change tablet area for optimal reach.
  2. Warm-up with nine-star maps without DT.
  3. Use DT and play at 200 BPM or higher.
  4. Play for multiple hours if pain-free.
• Customizing Practice:
  • Focus on different tapping methods (e.g., single tapping, alternating).
  • Consistently push boundaries with practice.

Conclusion

• Encouragement to focus on personal gameplay improvement.
• Final thanks to viewers for their support.
• Sign-off with well wishes.