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You should try changing something small, either more or less of something, a different kind of something, just find a way to spice things up and see if you get better or worse. If you get better keep doing that thing, but if you get worse think about why what you do made you worse and do the opposite of what you just did to see if that makes it better. Finding ways to improve takes a lot of trial and error.

There's 4 stages of learning, unaware incompetence, aware incompetence, unaware competence, and aware competence. When you get good enough to realize HOW you need to improve, you can often feel at a state of stagnation, or like you're getting worse. In reality, you've gotten good enough to be more self critical. Keep going! You ARE getting better!

yeah sometimes practicing in the same way every time can make me feel stagnant, and little changes in things like my warmup routine, my sensitivity, etc can help me break out of that. i’ve actually heard it recommended to change your sensitivity a little bit every now and then for this reason, though i’m bad at remembering to do that so i can’t really vouch for it ^^;

there isnt a lot you can do by just putting in more effort. you might not even know what to put in more effort into or what that even is. if its just “winning” that isnt going to go well. when youre just trying to win there is a lot of different things you have to focus on but if you only focus on 1 thing at a time and break it down into smaller things it becomes a lot less overwhelming and stressful to learn

@ThestralZ @sevenleaf Yeah, fair points. Sometimes this helps but often when I change something there's no immediate difference (or sometimes it's slightly worse because New Thing Unfamiliarity) but I figure it's fine, I'll give it a bit, so I do, and there's still little difference, and I don't know how many "bits" is a fair chance to give something before trying something else?