my dominant finger never actually gets tired, its my mouse control hand that hurts like heck cuz my aim involves flexing my arm to not overflick or overtrack in all games that include aim
I feel like there’s absolutely no downfall in learning how to alternate, but if you’ve played for many many months only single-tapping, alternating is extremely harder to learn. One of the main problems people say alternating has is not being able to stay in rhythm, but that’s just the learning curve imo. Maybe it’s just personal preference, but I believe alternating is overall better 👌
Guys is easy to learn the alternating. You just have to play osu taiko with 2 buttons, so you alternate very often and in few hours you get used to the alternating perfectly, that's my experience
I used to drum and I cannot imagine using kick pedals for osu! I was already tired after drumming with it for like 2 hours so I can’t imagine streaming with this lol
I'm one of those people that have been single tapping my way up the Osu difficulty, however I am now stuck because I can't do streams. My plan is to go back to the very beginning and start with easy songs and forcing myself to alternate, to then eventually get back to the level I am at with single tapping.
MeowSaysMe Unfortunately , i have the same issues especially with 200+ bpm I single tapped from 4 years but then when I started playing 5* and higher and those tech maps it’s really difficult to keep up with the bpm with single tapping and it’s really hard to maintain consistency and stamina as it’s really exhausting to do a 4-5 min map with like over 9 AR+ and 200+ bpm some parts are extremely hard to keep up with especially the triples on curves as you really have to start those triples and double bursts with your dominant finger so yeah, in conclusion alternating is a must if you wanna go on high levels of this game , you have to do it all over from 3 star maps up again and it’s gonna take a while.
@Orfan Warrior streaming is obviously hard on a fundamental level, but i don't think it's unreasonable to say that having 2 fingers is obviously easier to do it than with only 1.
That’s what I did. When I started to get to 3*+ songs, I went back from the very beginning and forced myself to alternate. I got used to it very quickly.
I’ve been alternating since i started playing cuz I just thought that was the proper way to play for some reason. No one told me that I just assumed lmao
I singletapped until about 2.1k pp and decided to fully transition to alternating at the same time I switched from mouse to tablet, took me 3 weeks to learn to play with that combo but from experience I'd say you can improve faster by alternating as faster maps become way easier
This is the video that made me decide to start alternating after weeks of single tapping, and after learning how to alternate I improved more than I expected. Thanks man
i started out with clicking using a mouse LMAO never again . anyway im here because singletapping recently has been hurting my dominant finger so i thought alternating could be the solution to that. even if i have to relearn from the start
loool i started playing osu! only alternating and with the time i switched to "hybridalternating"... i dont know it just makes me happy to see that for once i did something right feelsgoodman :,)
hmmm, I always fully alternated, and I don't imagine myself stopping. Because it seems like another effort to know when not to alternate :s I'm not ready for this ! Also, I love to think that my fingers will actually be equally trained. Which is not the case with pseudo alternating. For example, starting a stream with the weak finger is a bit harder for me. I can't imagine for a pseudo alternating person.
elie520 well my fingers are equally trained because I use both to singletap when I need to... so I don't have something like a "stronger" one but yeah it all comes down to preference
Oh okay. I didn't think that pseudo-alterrnating ppl used different finger to single tap :) Seems good then. Because indeed it feels like single tap is more accurate.
I single tap but switch fingers every once in a while on long maps, when I have a split second break. My middle and pointer finger, i'd say have the same dominance in strength and stamina level. Im currently switching over to alternating and I think that since I basically have 2 dom fingers, it will make the switch a lot easier. I've been playing for about 3 months and have 2.4k pp. Played keyboard and tablet since the start, for reference.
Yea they do only on streams, and that’s the only thing we lower level focus on when watching pros, on streams and bursts,not knowing they single tap more than alternating depending on the level
when I learned you could use 2 different keys to tap I just instinctively alternated everything because it was way easier, and felt almost instantly natural to me. I was doing it basically from the start (after the very first couple maps I obviously mouse clicked) I only learned much later that the majority of people don't do this and it kind of floored me. If I tried to single tap I would probably fail every map I try lmao
Only a 3-4* player here, but decided to try alternating rather than single tapping today and I'm so used to doing it single tap I can barely do a 2* lol so if you're going to alternate do it from the start or you'll be like me
At first alternating felt awkward because I was so used to single tapping, but after a few days of practice I managed to get the hang of it, and I'm doing way better than I used to before.
I started out single tapping then got into mania and quit standard. A few months then I decided to play standard again and tried out alternating, and I actually found it way more comfortable than singletapping.
Personally i find it more comfortable too, just i lack the speed to hit some jumps and end up overtapping/undertapping, in the end its all about finger control. I don't have enough of it yet to fully alternate.
to be 100% honest I got bored one day and was like "fuck it, I am shit at standard so let's meme around and learn mania," xd. I am only 19k on mania though ;-;
@@Amesyy but how long did it take to fully learn? do you never accidentally miss patterns with alternating doubles and triples? or doubles and quadruples or weird patterns like that.
@@BattousaiHBr probably as long as it took me to master 3 stars, as I already said I've been full alternating since the utter start so there wasn't really a learning curve for me.
When i started playing osu i thought that everyone is alternating, so i learned this. When i played more i realised that everyone single taps. Lately i wanted to switch from alternating to singletapping, to go from alternating to singletapping is so hard to learn. After this video i'll probably stay on alternating, like i already said it's pretty hard to learn singletapping and it's also pretty frustating.
Same, just today I learned higher skilled players only alternate on streams and bursts and now after learning alternating I have to learn hybrid but I’m willing to try so I can be better
Old thread what ev but for me, single tapping helps me with finger control better. Ofcourse I don’t singletap all the way, i only alternate during burst and streams and that really helps me with finger control
One thing that's rarely mentioned: full alting tech maps is very, very satisfying. It's a feeling that's specific to full alt, quite similar to how you feel when you start properly reading patterns or hitting jumps or streams. Your brain will tingle
I have carpal tunnel with my left hand in which my index finger was most affected, so i started alternating hybrid and singletapping with all my fingers in my left hand.
I played single tapping for about a month, then one of my friends told me to try alternating and now i've pretty much trained myself to alternate with just about everything. The only time i don't alternate is when there is a large gap in time between jumps, otherwise, i alternate. I've become so accustomed to this, i'm not sure if i want to try hybrid alternating.
@@ackerman4421 like if i singletap my fingers just give up and either don't move or i just start alternating unconsciously, however i feel comfortable alternating so i don't really care
Something in this video that I don't think was emphasized enough was recommending whatever works for you. Everybody is different, some people can single tap super fast without much time needed training, some people can naturally alternate without having a dominant finger. Other people will require many hours to do one of or both of these things. Personally I single tap almost all maps, but have little issue full alternating if I feel like doing so. I find it varies heavily depending on the map you're playing.
As a player who played full alt for years and smthing since the beginning, I'll say that trying singletap is good because it makes the way you just tap and way you stream different, so I can now stream just a little. Full alt is still deep in my heart though
In my experience if you're actually used to alternating, accing jumps is just as easy as while singletapping, maybe even easier because it requires practically no stamina no matter what the speed. What's difficult is complex rhythms and stream stamina.
it took me years to master alternating between sequences of doubles and triples, what a fucking demonic pattern. regarding stream stamina, i think that's a problem for all styles.
I learned how to play by alternating, and sometimes if a map does not have an equal amount of k1 and k2 numbers I will keep on trying untill I get it even and balanced, as all things should be...
Alternating is better. Higher skill cap in my opinion when it comes to acc and fcing songs while alternating than single tapping. There are also songs that are pretty much impossible to single tap that are only made possible through alternating and really fast dt maps that require alternating. Single tap fast bpm for rsi 😂
I started 2012 singletap only now im learning to alternate since i can not singletap 260 BPM upwards consistently and its really hard but getting bettter overall is a huge sideeffect! And the satisfaction fcing spaced streams or 300+BPM jumps
I naturally Hybrid Alternate, been that way since I started and I feel super lucky I didn't have to learn it. Probably the reason I became a 4 digit within a year.
When I started I did single tapping but when like 1 week passed I decided to do alternating, then that was when I realised: I cant get back to single tapping, like at all
Dang you guys are weird i started alternating from the start and started to single tap cause thought it was easier to single tap on jumps so basically I can single tap or alternate if i want to willingly
its really all just preference. simple. u can always build consistency, speed, finger control with both techniques after playing with the style more often. play with what ur comfortable with.
I am using K1 for sliders, K2 for singletaps and doubletaps (if they are slow enough) and use both (alternating) for streams and triple+ tapping (if too fast for only K2). Can this be called Hybrid Alternating?
As a second generation alternater (with a holy wacom intuos cth-480 passed down to me by a washed up 4 digit player), it still took a month or so to get it right. Once you get it right though, you will feel a big improvement and your finger control while alternating will skyrocket. Alternating *isnt* about your muscle being accustomed to it or having trained muscles on your secondary finger. It is all in your head, which means once you learn to be able to instinctively alternate, you will be able to alternate with any two fingers on that hand.
commenting 2 years later, i started playing standard more (mainly osu!mania player) and have no problem single tapping and/or alternating. So I think that mania helps, for those that struggle learning it
i was ,,hybrid alternating" form the very beggining (after i stopped clicking mouse) For me it was natural to alternate tho i still singletap some double or triple circle bursts
ive used alternation since day one. the really good thing about it is that you always have one free finger to tap the next circle when the other is busy recovering from the last one
What I have been trying to learn is single tapping but use my middle finger halfway through then when I can, switch to my index finger so I don't continuously miss at the end
Bro... I've been alternating from the begging and im actually trying to learn how to single tap. Here you are telling me alternate is better. I feel like a clown.
I've been full alternating since I started osu, I never really watched osu content until later where I would find out my natural tapping method was hard to learn
Single tapping is useful for starters. But the problem as the map goes harder and faster your single tapping skills is at disadvantage due to either can't catch up anymore. That's the reason alternating should be learned early, same as single tap if you want to train both type of tapping.
Just my own playstyle as a beginner (like 1.3 million rank) I believe the best way to Alternate is to hold down the button you pushed regardless if it is a singletap; therefore, when you need to jump, you just need to alternate to the other finger whilst letting go of the already-pressed finger. This emulates single-tapping on both fingers; however, this style is mostly applicable to low-star beatmaps. When doing bursts, it'll often be easier to mess up due to the shittapping of not building a conscious 2-tap switch or 3-tap switch or even 4-tap switch or even letting go at the end of a burst where you move onto a slider.
As someone who has alternated since the very beginning, I don't know if there's a correlation, but I've always been better at streams than jumps. Although I still deffinitley have one finger get more fatigued than the other.
I started with mouse for like a week max, I don't really remember, then I started Z X and I just *always* alternated , never singletapped, until I tried it today, had misses I never had with alt, and fatigue, didn't hit ez notes sometimes, but mostly not that bad tho, I'm just going to stick with alt A D
I would say as a full alternate player, alternating is also much harder to learn triples and streams. This is because single tappers just keep clicking the rhythm they did before the streams and when streaming they just alternate fingers with the exact same rhythm of their dominant finger, so it is very easy to know how to click twice as fast. However for alternate players we don’t have a finger for speed reference, we just have to click what we think twice as fast alternation would be, which is pretty abstract.
I started playing Osu July of 2018 and I was using mouse only up until around February of 2019. I naturally was only single tapping until I got to bursts and streams but the fatigue was just awful and there were maps where I just couldnt single tap fast enough. I wondered if I should start practicing alternating. By sheer coincidence this video comes up in my recommended box and after watching I decided I should approach this "hybrid alternation" playstyle. It was a serious struggle and it was only up until around August I got alternating down and I could even do long jumps while alternating. Of course naturally id get better over time, but as I was practicing alternating, my skill and accuracy was sky rocketing. In a matter of just a couple of months I was at like 400k and then I hit 200k. Now having this playstyle more polished, Im only 4k from being a 5 digit. So I credit this video to vastly helping my improvement and overall enjoyment of the game. So for that, I must thank you :)
I started the game alternating because I thought that’s how u played the game, I never knew what single tapping was until I started watching videos about osu
Ive been playing Osu for 8 months and ive first started with Singletapping... however I'm starting to regret it because i cant do streams that well and when i try doing Alternate i always end up doing singletapping. So im going to try to restart Osu as an Alternate and hopefully ill improve well.
I am relatively new to the game aswell and after I started playing low three stars I realized that I can't singletap bursts. So I started full alternating, because I thought that's what every top player does. I learned it really fast and now (playing low to mid 4 stars right now) I can only full alternate, which is kinda sad I think.
im a mania player but ive been trying to learn how to be more consistent at alternating in standard for a while now, and something ive noticed is that playing more handstream/generally dense stream maps in mania helps a lot with gaining consistency in tapping in standard, i still normally singletap because i dont have too many issues with finger control or stamina, but i have very bad raw speed so i can only singletap up to 220bpm, so playing trilly mania patterns often helps me a lot with getting accuracy on streams and jumps too fast to singletap
I only have a couple dozen (if maybe) hours on osu! and I started by single-tapping. But idk if I pushed myself too hard or I have bad wrists but quickly, as I progressed to high 3/low 4 stars, my wrists started to develop some problems. That's when I decided to learn alternating. My suggestion to you, if you have the same issue I do, is to alternate. It helps in the future and doesn't strain your wrist as much. Also, try to not tilt your wrist upward 90 degrees, try to do the opposite.
single tappers: "my dominant finger is tired"
alternate and hybrids: no pain
me hybriding after 1 map: "well i guess my both fingers are broken now"
my dominant finger never actually gets tired, its my mouse control hand that hurts like heck cuz my aim involves flexing my arm to not overflick or overtrack in all games that include aim
just start playing 5 minute maps your fingers will build up stamina (preferably stream maps btw)
@@riks8123 my pen slips out of my hand if theres no break in the song
*how can i build up my stamina with this*
@@kamimatsuyama use duct tape or.glue or something
@@kamimatsuyama i learned to time pauses on sliders so that i can wipe my pen and fingers dry
jokes on you buddy, i singletap using 2 fingers
what a madman
A jackhammer player
AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!
woodpecker vs jackhammer
Same that happens then I try to alternate spam
I feel like there’s absolutely no downfall in learning how to alternate, but if you’ve played for many many months only single-tapping, alternating is extremely harder to learn. One of the main problems people say alternating has is not being able to stay in rhythm, but that’s just the learning curve imo. Maybe it’s just personal preference, but I believe alternating is overall better 👌
ive been just singletapping for several months now and my brain just wont let me alternate 👌:okhand:👌
I can both alternate and single.
I agree, I singletap and I regret the fact I singletapped at the beggining of my osu! life
Linkfire Gamma you know faster maps are kinda hard with singletapping
Guys is easy to learn the alternating. You just have to play osu taiko with 2 buttons, so you alternate very often and in few hours you get used to the alternating perfectly, that's my experience
As a drummer I’m already thinking about modifying kick pedals into osu clickers
your gonna get some ripped calves
That.. as a drummer too.... that’s a really good idea.
YESSRI
I used to drum and I cannot imagine using kick pedals for osu! I was already tired after drumming with it for like 2 hours so I can’t imagine streaming with this lol
That’s sounds awesome!
Everyone: Use The keys to be a pro
Me who have been playing for 5 months and using mouse buttons: *S H I T*
bruh
I use the mouse buttons and keys. Can play insane maps and some above that no problems
nice
Me too and I think ima switch to hybrid alternating I think it’s better
dont have money to buy a keyboard? lmao
i have been alternating from the start and i don't have an acc problem on jumps. Jumps are actually my strongest part.
Jason097 It depends on your rank and what jumps you are actually doing
You will be 100 times more precise with singletap
u are right I'm saying this because it helped me to singetap
Hugo Soares Nah. Rank ~500, still find alternating jumps easier.
I'm the opposite. I main single tap except on most sliders but my forte is still streaming by a long shot.
I'm one of those people that have been single tapping my way up the Osu difficulty, however I am now stuck because I can't do streams. My plan is to go back to the very beginning and start with easy songs and forcing myself to alternate, to then eventually get back to the level I am at with single tapping.
MeowSaysMe Unfortunately
, i have the same issues especially with 200+ bpm I single tapped from 4 years but then when I started playing 5* and higher and those tech maps it’s really difficult to keep up with the bpm with single tapping and it’s really hard to maintain consistency and stamina as it’s really exhausting to do a 4-5 min map with like over 9 AR+ and 200+ bpm some parts are extremely hard to keep up with especially the triples on curves as you really have to start those triples and double bursts with your dominant finger so yeah, in conclusion alternating is a must if you wanna go on high levels of this game , you have to do it all over from 3 star maps up again and it’s gonna take a while.
Any progress?
@Orfan Warrior streaming is obviously hard on a fundamental level, but i don't think it's unreasonable to say that having 2 fingers is obviously easier to do it than with only 1.
CheetosWarrior NW my jumps are so bad because I only practice streams even if I’m only 80k, jumps just don’t seem fun.
That’s what I did. When I started to get to 3*+ songs, I went back from the very beginning and forced myself to alternate. I got used to it very quickly.
Woodpecker style for days(except streams) Just because i love the reaction of others when they see you single tap triplets
Icyr3y Lmao
Icyr3y agreed, fucking love that shit.
Icyr3y what is that ? idk :/
Icyr3y single tap 200+bpm triplets?
TheTacxam it's not as difficult as it sounds, gotta jitterclick tho.
Goal: single tap until i become a woodpecker
y e s
Good luck
vaxei mode
I am *wood pecker*
If my jitter clicking speed went into single tapping speed I could single tap a 255 bpm stream(yes I did the math)
@@thememelords9491 bro, please go see a doctor.
oh... i thought i was doing completely wrong thing by “hybrid alternating”
Yeah same! I’ve always alternated so its not something i have to get used to. And singletapping is harder for me
I just randomly started alternative tapping one day... its weird I never learnt it
Same!
what? i used to single tapping for the first month playing
Same.
I’ve been alternating since i started playing cuz I just thought that was the proper way to play for some reason. No one told me that I just assumed lmao
I started week 1 to alternate xD
I singletapped until about 2.1k pp and decided to fully transition to alternating at the same time I switched from mouse to tablet, took me 3 weeks to learn to play with that combo but from experience I'd say you can improve faster by alternating as faster maps become way easier
Perfect time to switch, you had to re train your muscle memory to tap with your aim. Smart decision
couldnt you have improved because of using a tablet, not because of alternating?
KarliXon your such a noob I’m at 21pp
alt is cheat
@@Codyuwu ikr basically halves the bpm
This is the video that made me decide to start alternating after weeks of single tapping, and after learning how to alternate I improved more than I expected. Thanks man
i started out with clicking using a mouse LMAO never again . anyway im here because singletapping recently has been hurting my dominant finger so i thought alternating could be the solution to that. even if i have to relearn from the start
How's the progress?
@Beyer hows the progess?
I alternate and I get burning pains in the center of my hand, I don’t know how much alternating will help with pain unfortunately
Lol I started with trackpad and still use that to play osu!
same lmao
The moment u played Thorugh the fire and flames so often that u instantly recognized the map in the background lmao
loool i started playing osu! only alternating and with the time i switched to "hybridalternating"... i dont know it just makes me happy to see that for once i did something right feelsgoodman :,)
hmmm, I always fully alternated, and I don't imagine myself stopping. Because it seems like another effort to know when not to alternate :s I'm not ready for this ! Also, I love to think that my fingers will actually be equally trained. Which is not the case with pseudo alternating. For example, starting a stream with the weak finger is a bit harder for me. I can't imagine for a pseudo alternating person.
elie520 well my fingers are equally trained because I use both to singletap when I need to... so I don't have something like a "stronger" one but yeah it all comes down to preference
Oh okay. I didn't think that pseudo-alterrnating ppl used different finger to single tap :) Seems good then. Because indeed it feels like single tap is more accurate.
Alexander same here but... im still super shit at the game
Which is kinda sad
I prefer spamming :^)
idk about that, i prefer not clicking strategy, it is better imo
Slad Meh, I use relax cheats, works the best imo
I literally spam buttons on catch the beat
6:05 o_0
Kysabius Empire xdd
Wish I can do the same in school :p
my man caught me offguard with that one dude, literally almost came in my pants, this guy is a prick for not warning before
UwU
@@aitortita6081 bro whut the frick
why is this in my recommendations
i don't even know what usu is
Its osu and its good
@@bigmansulo bud this was a year ago
@@Hikaruu yep and how the fuck do i have 4 likes
@@bigmansulo 6 now ;)
*its rising*
I single tap but switch fingers every once in a while on long maps, when I have a split second break. My middle and pointer finger, i'd say have the same dominance in strength and stamina level. Im currently switching over to alternating and I think that since I basically have 2 dom fingers, it will make the switch a lot easier. I've been playing for about 3 months and have 2.4k pp. Played keyboard and tablet since the start, for reference.
imagine being a single tapping player.
*This post was made by the mouse tapping gang*
wtf i started alternating i thought that’s what everyone started on lmao
Bwahahahahahhaha me too. I do full alternation
Me too my brain was like” well they give you two keys for a reason so this must be it”
dude, i always used alternate tapping and thought everyone played like that too
Yea they do only on streams, and that’s the only thing we lower level focus on when watching pros, on streams and bursts,not knowing they single tap more than alternating depending on the level
when I learned you could use 2 different keys to tap I just instinctively alternated everything because it was way easier, and felt almost instantly natural to me. I was doing it basically from the start (after the very first couple maps I obviously mouse clicked) I only learned much later that the majority of people don't do this and it kind of floored me. If I tried to single tap I would probably fail every map I try lmao
Am I weird I’ve always alternated even when i first started using keyboard for clicking
Same here as well
you guys are weird
Yeah idk why single tapping always felt weird for me
bit late to this but same. my thought process was if i have 2 keys to click the circles why would i not use them both at the same time lol
@@integral2017 same lol
i'm Hybrid alternating from the very beginning because i find it very comfortable and *gUcCi*
StormEX it took me like weeks to get used to it tbh
Its my first way of tapping... without knowing 🤣🤣
Me 2 tbh i started osu with hybrid alternating apparently
same and i didnt notice how important it was until i started playing dt xd
same I started this way too on my old membrane keyboard
I can single tap 500bpm watch:
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500 bpm stream or singletap
wow that's so fast
@@bommy9857 i think you can clearly see he is streaming 500 bpm
@@IbraheemKhazbak kutafix confirmed
What a fucking god
Hybrid alternating is the most comfortable for me
same
this is the best video i've seen explaining tapping methods. thank you for actually showing what the different ones mean
Only a 3-4* player here, but decided to try alternating rather than single tapping today and I'm so used to doing it single tap I can barely do a 2* lol so if you're going to alternate do it from the start or you'll be like me
Thx so much for the vid even though I'm late. I just started playing so I was able to switch before I became to reliant on one finger
At first alternating felt awkward because I was so used to single tapping, but after a few days of practice I managed to get the hang of it, and I'm doing way better than I used to before.
I started out single tapping then got into mania and quit standard. A few months then I decided to play standard again and tried out alternating, and I actually found it way more comfortable than singletapping.
Personally i find it more comfortable too, just i lack the speed to hit some jumps and end up overtapping/undertapping, in the end its all about finger control. I don't have enough of it yet to fully alternate.
Mania is a MASSIVE help in Standard for finger control, TEACH ME SENAPI
to be 100% honest I got bored one day and was like "fuck it, I am shit at standard so let's meme around and learn mania," xd. I am only 19k on mania though ;-;
i like how the instant the video started i immediately recognized you're playing through the fire and flames
god i love that map so much
i dont understand how single tappers can do it, i started with alternate tapping and just stuck with it
I’ve been full alternating since the start lmfao
how long did it take for you to fully master it? by fully master i mean never ever missing a note because your fingers got confused.
@@BattousaiHBr idk my fingers just know, it's like a second nature for me
@@Amesyy but how long did it take to fully learn? do you never accidentally miss patterns with alternating doubles and triples? or doubles and quadruples or weird patterns like that.
@@BattousaiHBr probably as long as it took me to master 3 stars, as I already said I've been full alternating since the utter start so there wasn't really a learning curve for me.
@@Amesyy i think you might be misremembering...
When i play the osu for the first time, I thought that the alternating was common wtf😨
When i started playing osu i thought that everyone is alternating, so i learned this. When i played more i realised that everyone single taps. Lately i wanted to switch from alternating to singletapping, to go from alternating to singletapping is so hard to learn. After this video i'll probably stay on alternating, like i already said it's pretty hard to learn singletapping and it's also pretty frustating.
Same, just today I learned higher skilled players only alternate on streams and bursts and now after learning alternating I have to learn hybrid but I’m willing to try so I can be better
Old thread what ev but for me, single tapping helps me with finger control better. Ofcourse I don’t singletap all the way, i only alternate during burst and streams and that really helps me with finger control
One thing that's rarely mentioned: full alting tech maps is very, very satisfying. It's a feeling that's specific to full alt, quite similar to how you feel when you start properly reading patterns or hitting jumps or streams.
Your brain will tingle
I have carpal tunnel with my left hand in which my index finger was most affected, so i started alternating hybrid and singletapping with all my fingers in my left hand.
Oh wow, I started playing like 2 weeks ago and I found It pretty natural to "alternate"
I played single tapping for about a month, then one of my friends told me to try alternating and now i've pretty much trained myself to alternate with just about everything. The only time i don't alternate is when there is a large gap in time between jumps, otherwise, i alternate. I've become so accustomed to this, i'm not sure if i want to try hybrid alternating.
It took me literally like 2-3 hours to go from singletapping to alternating, and now i cant go back
What do you mean u cant go back? Like ur mind cant understand the one tap?
@@ackerman4421 like if i singletap my fingers just give up and either don't move or i just start alternating unconsciously, however i feel comfortable alternating so i don't really care
Something in this video that I don't think was emphasized enough was recommending whatever works for you. Everybody is different, some people can single tap super fast without much time needed training, some people can naturally alternate without having a dominant finger. Other people will require many hours to do one of or both of these things. Personally I single tap almost all maps, but have little issue full alternating if I feel like doing so. I find it varies heavily depending on the map you're playing.
As a player who played full alt for years and smthing since the beginning, I'll say that trying singletap is good because it makes the way you just tap and way you stream different, so I can now stream just a little. Full alt is still deep in my heart though
Not gonna lie when I turned on osu for the first time I didn't even realize you could single tap so I started off alternating XD
I've always been playing hybrid alternative, it makes more sense to me.
In my experience if you're actually used to alternating, accing jumps is just as easy as while singletapping, maybe even easier because it requires practically no stamina no matter what the speed. What's difficult is complex rhythms and stream stamina.
@MYKOLA NECHYPORUK I had that same problem. Practice on low stars so you don't end up spamming. Work your way up till it comes naturally.
it took me years to master alternating between sequences of doubles and triples, what a fucking demonic pattern.
regarding stream stamina, i think that's a problem for all styles.
Now... Single tap 270bpm jumps!
I learned how to play by alternating, and sometimes if a map does not have an equal amount of k1 and k2 numbers I will keep on trying untill I get it even and balanced, as all things should be...
Alternating is better. Higher skill
cap in my opinion when it comes to acc and fcing songs while alternating than single tapping. There are also songs that are pretty much impossible to single tap that are only made possible through alternating and really fast dt maps that require alternating. Single tap fast bpm for rsi 😂
YSoAggressive well almost everyone in top 50 is a single tapper xD
Shiek lmao. Everyone in top 50 are playing alternate, except Emilia, azerite, fils, hvick and few other players.
John Doe Firebat. Vaxei, Mathi, Cookiezi, Rafis? And more. They just alternate on high bpm Jumps or when they are tired.
Shiek and that proves that they are not only singletap players ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
??? They singletap more than they alternate
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I started 2012 singletap only now im learning to alternate since i can not singletap 260 BPM upwards consistently and its really hard but getting bettter overall is a huge sideeffect! And the satisfaction fcing spaced streams or 300+BPM jumps
I naturally Hybrid Alternate, been that way since I started and I feel super lucky I didn't have to learn it. Probably the reason I became a 4 digit within a year.
I'm glad I was playing full alt since day one. Being a pianist makes osu very easy sometimes
i literally can’t alternate cause my brain gets confused and i just don’t do it when I try
same
I started playing 2 months ago and i always did hybrid alternation without knowing anything about the game haha.
Lucky you
When I started I did single tapping but when like 1 week passed I decided to do alternating, then that was when I realised: I cant get back to single tapping, like at all
Yup it's so hard lmao
Same, though after learning to alternate, I preferred alternating over single tapping.
Actually the most effective method is alternating 4 ways between the keyboard and mouse buttons, get it right.
i’ve been alternating since the second i began playing bc my friend who was a 4 digit at the time told me to single tap and i don’t regret it
Dang you guys are weird i started alternating from the start and started to single tap cause thought it was easier to single tap on jumps so basically I can single tap or alternate if i want to willingly
I naturally do alternating always have it feels weird to do single
OwO updated stream tips plz
its really all just preference. simple. u can always build consistency, speed, finger control with both techniques after playing with the style more often. play with what ur comfortable with.
Other people : "My finger hurt spamming the keys"
Me : My forearm in pain controlling the mouse.
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Weird
for me it's my shoulder since i play with low dpi (arm aimer in csgo)
I am using K1 for sliders, K2 for singletaps and doubletaps (if they are slow enough) and use both (alternating) for streams and triple+ tapping (if too fast for only K2).
Can this be called Hybrid Alternating?
conclusion: just press the damn key
Alternating . Boom were done here.
As a second generation alternater (with a holy wacom intuos cth-480 passed down to me by a washed up 4 digit player), it still took a month or so to get it right. Once you get it right though, you will feel a big improvement and your finger control while alternating will skyrocket. Alternating *isnt* about your muscle being accustomed to it or having trained muscles on your secondary finger. It is all in your head, which means once you learn to be able to instinctively alternate, you will be able to alternate with any two fingers on that hand.
commenting 2 years later, i started playing standard more (mainly osu!mania player) and have no problem single tapping and/or alternating. So I think that mania helps, for those that struggle learning it
i was ,,hybrid alternating" form the very beggining (after i stopped clicking mouse)
For me it was natural to alternate tho i still singletap some double or triple circle bursts
Why did alternating take me like 1 week to adjust lmao, I didn't even have to learn it, but now singletapping is super weird to me
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lucky u
singletapping fast parts and alternating slow parts for me
Siru I do the exact opposite of that lol
jfjdikqkalapncjcofo lmao same
ive used alternation since day one. the really good thing about it is that you always have one free finger to tap the next circle when the other is busy recovering from the last one
What I have been trying to learn is single tapping but use my middle finger halfway through then when I can, switch to my index finger so I don't continuously miss at the end
Bro... I've been alternating from the begging and im actually trying to learn how to single tap. Here you are telling me alternate is better. I feel like a clown.
Just hybrid alternate.
That moment you manage to figure out the beatmap playing in the background just by tapping to the beat POG
I've been full alternating since I started osu, I never really watched osu content until later where I would find out my natural tapping method was hard to learn
Single tapping is useful for starters. But the problem as the map goes harder and faster your single tapping skills is at disadvantage due to either can't catch up anymore. That's the reason alternating should be learned early, same as single tap if you want to train both type of tapping.
Just my own playstyle as a beginner (like 1.3 million rank)
I believe the best way to Alternate is to hold down the button you pushed regardless if it is a singletap; therefore, when you need to jump, you just need to alternate to the other finger whilst letting go of the already-pressed finger. This emulates single-tapping on both fingers; however, this style is mostly applicable to low-star beatmaps. When doing bursts, it'll often be easier to mess up due to the shittapping of not building a conscious 2-tap switch or 3-tap switch or even 4-tap switch or even letting go at the end of a burst where you move onto a slider.
I didn't even know hybrid alternating was a thing, but I have been doing it all the time.
As someone who has alternated since the very beginning, I don't know if there's a correlation, but I've always been better at streams than jumps. Although I still deffinitley have one finger get more fatigued than the other.
Ive been Hybrid alternating and its pretty great
I started off alternating and now I just cant bring myself to do anything else, I don't understand how people are able to single tap anymore.
I started with mouse for like a week max, I don't really remember, then I started Z X and I just *always* alternated , never singletapped, until I tried it today, had misses I never had with alt, and fatigue, didn't hit ez notes sometimes, but mostly not that bad tho, I'm just going to stick with alt A D
I would say as a full alternate player, alternating is also much harder to learn triples and streams.
This is because single tappers just keep clicking the rhythm they did before the streams and when streaming they just alternate fingers with the exact same rhythm of their dominant finger, so it is very easy to know how to click twice as fast.
However for alternate players we don’t have a finger for speed reference, we just have to click what we think twice as fast alternation would be, which is pretty abstract.
True, but I think learning to stream at the proper pace is important anyway for playing maps with variable bpms and tricky maps in general.
Apparently I have been Hyber alternating for years. Not sure why this video came up, but it was fun to look at.
I alternated since 2 star lvls and thought it would be bad ty dude
i started alternating from the beginning bc i thought that was the point of having two buttons/keys
I started playing Osu July of 2018 and I was using mouse only up until around February of 2019. I naturally was only single tapping until I got to bursts and streams but the fatigue was just awful and there were maps where I just couldnt single tap fast enough. I wondered if I should start practicing alternating. By sheer coincidence this video comes up in my recommended box and after watching I decided I should approach this "hybrid alternation" playstyle. It was a serious struggle and it was only up until around August I got alternating down and I could even do long jumps while alternating. Of course naturally id get better over time, but as I was practicing alternating, my skill and accuracy was sky rocketing. In a matter of just a couple of months I was at like 400k and then I hit 200k. Now having this playstyle more polished, Im only 4k from being a 5 digit. So I credit this video to vastly helping my improvement and overall enjoyment of the game. So for that, I must thank you :)
I started the game alternating because I thought that’s how u played the game, I never knew what single tapping was until I started watching videos about osu
Ive been playing Osu for 8 months and ive first started with Singletapping... however I'm starting to regret it because i cant do streams that well and when i try doing Alternate i always end up doing singletapping. So im going to try to restart Osu as an Alternate and hopefully ill improve well.
I am relatively new to the game aswell and after I started playing low three stars I realized that I can't singletap bursts. So I started full alternating, because I thought that's what every top player does. I learned it really fast and now (playing low to mid 4 stars right now) I can only full alternate, which is kinda sad I think.
Good thing I already searched for tips now imma just go with alternating. Wish me luck.
I remember that I started to alt type because my OCD was mad that the number on key 1 was larger than on key 2 when I watched my replays
thanks for the advice i took some tips and ive seen immediate improvment
im a mania player but ive been trying to learn how to be more consistent at alternating in standard for a while now, and something ive noticed is that playing more handstream/generally dense stream maps in mania helps a lot with gaining consistency in tapping in standard, i still normally singletap because i dont have too many issues with finger control or stamina, but i have very bad raw speed so i can only singletap up to 220bpm, so playing trilly mania patterns often helps me a lot with getting accuracy on streams and jumps too fast to singletap
im fricced up 2 years of singletapping... now this explains why i fail at the sixteenth note on streams....
I feel like people coming from things like step mania will definitely find just flat out alternating pretty intuitive.
time to do stream practice maps with single taps only and learning the art of the woodpecker
I only have a couple dozen (if maybe) hours on osu! and I started by single-tapping. But idk if I pushed myself too hard or I have bad wrists but quickly, as I progressed to high 3/low 4 stars, my wrists started to develop some problems. That's when I decided to learn alternating. My suggestion to you, if you have the same issue I do, is to alternate. It helps in the future and doesn't strain your wrist as much. Also, try to not tilt your wrist upward 90 degrees, try to do the opposite.