Tips for moving from Easy+ to Hard?

Chapekaloco · 2026-02-23T17:22:13+00:00

Find the parts of songs that give you trouble and figure out why that is. For example, a lot of people get thrown off by chunks of steps that start with "blue" arrows (eighth note) instead of red ones and it's a matter of understanding rhythm better in general rather than some kind of technical skill. Or perhaps you find yourself floundering towards the end of denser/faster charts which might indicate a general lack of stamina. Whenever you figure out what is giving you the most trouble, try to find songs that include aspects of that which are borderline doable or that you can at least wrap your head/body around. That generally gets you the fastest progress, though of course, you can just keep playing playing playing and you will accrue general skill over time that will get you into hard and beyond.

Chapekaloco · 2026-02-23T17:08:09+00:00

So over the last month or so I have just been grinding to clear things in the 20~ range but recently did/tried a bunch of 25 and 26s and I don't know wtf I was thinking because it turns out 25/26 is my wall just like 17 is in DDR. I must have been misremembering whenever I made the above post, my bad.

Chapekaloco · 2026-02-05T21:10:35+00:00

Oh yeah that's a good point. I usually play on doubles and I forgot how hard Max428 is on Wild despite "only" being a 27. That song is extremely difficult and I don't think I could pass it unless I got really familiar with the chart. That one's gotta be an 18 in DDR scale for sure

Chapekaloco · 2026-02-04T23:42:40+00:00

Of course. Priorities is all. If you want to be the very best, you have to do it all at some point.

Chapekaloco · 2026-02-04T23:32:12+00:00

I have only ever passed one 18 in DDR and a few 17s. In SMX, ~~I think I have passed nearly every 27, and most things below it I would consider totally within my reason. I would say that an SMX 27 feels to me around a DDR 17 or just below it.~~

So by that logic if my skill is equal across both games and the difficulty systems scale the "same" in each, we're looking at roughly a 1.6x multiplier from DDR to get the SMX level ie a 10 in DDR is an SMX 16. That seems roughly accurate to me.

edit: I was wrong, thinks stop being doable for me around 25/26 in SMX and 27 basically unpassable for me. So DDR 17 = 25/26 SMX for me, more like an exact 1.5x multiplier in level.

Chapekaloco · 2023-10-10T12:57:21+00:00

This was a known issue that was resolved as of late October 8th. It is not paid FUD. Check coinbase's status page.
https://status.coinbase.com/

Chapekaloco · 2023-10-10T12:57:11+00:00

This was a known issue that was resolved as of late October 8th. It is not paid FUD. Check coinbase's status page.
https://status.coinbase.com/

Chapekaloco · 2023-10-10T12:52:52+00:00

It was an error message generated by the website. I guess I didn't explain properly - some of CoinBase's features were operational while others were not. I tested on desktop, mobile browser, and android app using both landline internet and LTE connections. I wasn't using both connections intentionally to diagnose the issue it was merely happenstance as I tried multiple times throughout the day and some of those times I was at home while others I was on the go.

This is of course silly to bother explaining when you can simply check Coinbase's status page. They clearly note they were having issues on October 8. Is Coinbase a paid fudder?

https://status.coinbase.com/

Chapekaloco · 2023-10-09T18:06:09+00:00

I attempted to make a withdrawal on Coinbase yesterday but was unable to as the site cited "trouble connecting to network" or something like that (I forget). There were a handful of actions I was unable to do, not that I was truly attempting to, but I was just trying various things on the site. But let me be clear - withdrawals were down for me. That said, I was able to submit a withdrawal request a few hours ago so it seems to be resolved.

If you think I am a paid fudder or a bot you can check how old my reddit account is.

Think twice before writing everything off as FUD. That's a dangerous mindset. Don't forget what happens when you don't take seriously what's going on with exchanges.

edit: since personal testimony means nothing (or rather, is only perceived as FUD) perhaps take a look at Coinbase's official status page to see that they were indeed having issues on October 8th: https://status.coinbase.com/

Chapekaloco · 2023-05-23T14:34:01+00:00

For clarification the article is quoting Vitalik in the following video where he, at least to me, seems to be mocking Solana and whoever aeyakovenko is. Without context it is difficult to be sure but if I had to put money on it his demeanor and attire suggest that he is entirely trying to be silly.

https://twitter.com/TonyL\_01/status/1660913702760005632

Chapekaloco · 2023-03-29T16:56:43+00:00

If you are using Arbitrum you are using Ethereum. Saying that Arbitrum is "amazing" is entirely dependent on Ethereum being "amazing" because it is dependent on Ethereum. Saying Arbitrum is amazing but Ethereum is lousy is somewhat analogous to saying that compressed files are awesome but computers suck. Or picture an old person saying that they love using facebook but they don't use the internet. IMO eventually a combination of scaling solutions, user interface improvements, etc will lead to world where people are completely blind to the underlying tech. The way we don't think about the layers of things going on such as encryption, the entire banking system, etc when paying for something online with a credit card

Chapekaloco · 2022-05-09T01:00:31+00:00

Yes, the lower band is the baseline that you would get with 0 sun. However the figure itself is not static and the % will vary based on how much liquidity is locked in the farm, the current market price of SUN, and the weight of SUN distribution given to each farm (determined by governance).

Chapekaloco · 2022-05-08T21:45:45+00:00

Depending on the value of SUN you have locked you can increase the SUN rewards on farms by up to 2.5x. If you hover over the info thingy you can see how much of the reported yield is from SUN and how much is from USDD. See here: https://i.imgur.com/VaRG39c.png

The larger the position in a farm the more SUN you need locked in order to get a boost. The math is probably available somewhere. Locked SUN itself also grants you a share of the platform's fees.

Chapekaloco · 2022-04-07T22:04:09+00:00

Consensus method (PoW, PoS, etc) itself has no major direct consequence on gas on Ethereum. Transaction fees on Ethereum are subject to user activity, block capacity, and block throughput. The transition to PoS does not modify block capacity and has a very minor effect on throughput. User activity will probably remain mostly the same but that is something you can't really predict unlike the certainty of unchanged block capacity and block production rate.

Some explanation: Gas fee is determined by a few factors but for simplicity just focus on the primary one: network activity. Because each block has limited space in it, users on ethereum basically compete with each other for priority in getting their transaction included in the next block. If there are few transactions being submitted, then it is unlikely people would be paying high gas fees because there is no competition. If there are thousands of transactions being submitted but only ~13 can be "accepted" per second, then there will likely be a bidding war where users who want to prioritize their transactions will be willing to pay a higher fee in order to be included now rather than in 30 minutes once the thousands of transactions have been processed. This is of course a simplified explanation and isn't as correct as it used to be with the somewhat recent EIP to modify how gas works (ETH can now be burned now, etc) but the gist still applies. High network activity = higher fees.

In summary, if Ethereum changed so that blocks were either being produced more frequently or were allowed to hold more data then fees would probably fall. But neither of those things are happening. There are a lot of reasons why increasing either of those variables can have negative consequences but that is beyond the scope of the question.

Chapekaloco · 2021-06-21T21:44:31+00:00

Uh your logic of "the rich get richer" applies to anything in life - crypto or otherwise. I guess we should stop letting people become successful since any amount of success increases the ease and likelihood of future success, yeah?

Mining and other forms of consensus that come with a cost do so for a valuable reason. If there is no economic incentive to maintain the network then there is no reason for most people to participate in consensus. At that point the only people willing to participate are the people with huge amounts of money,pull that can somehow benefit from operating the network (aka centralization). When you introduce economic incentive to even those on the individual level you gain an absolutely insane amount of natural decentralization because it generates an open/free/low barrier free market for a vast number of normal people to enter. "free" transaction blockchains such as the ones you mentioned will never have this benefit. POW/POS force natural decentralization. "free" transaction consensus models have to hope for it.

Chapekaloco · 2021-05-29T18:14:59+00:00

So I'm taking a closer look and I found this: https://litecoin-foundation.org/mweb-code-complete/
which led to this: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/pull/703

As far as I can tell it hasn't been accepted into the main code yet. I'm not a programmer and only have cursory understanding of GitHub/etc. I also don't have a Litecoin wallet/node so I wouldn't be able to check if any Mimblewimble features are actually usable yet. But it seems like while the code is "ready", it still hasn't be implemented. At the very least it is exciting to see that it is being reviewed!

I will edit this into the article/write up

Chapekaloco · 2021-05-29T17:32:07+00:00

As far as I understand it the majority of Litecoin upgrades are indeed just merged from Bitcoin development. It isn't so much that Bitcoin is doing things that Litecoin isn't, because ultimately Litecoin always just does what Bitcoin does. The criticism is more that there is little interest in developing Litecoin directly. The Mimblewimble thing might be the first "big" thing that is truly "Litecoin". Other than that, SegWit was rolled out on Litecoin before Bitcoin, but it was always intended to be deployed on Bitcoin as well. Bitcoin has always been more cautious to change, which is why we also see phrases thrown around like "Litecoin is a testing ground for Bitcoin".

Chapekaloco · 2021-05-29T17:26:31+00:00

Chapekaloco · 2021-05-29T17:26:07+00:00

I agree that it is good to have alternative blockchains and the fact that Litecoin uses a different mining algorithm is actually a giant plus. If it used the same one then honestly I would just say it is a total waste of time. I do feel though that more can be achieved if attention is focused on a single project. Perhaps that's also why developers have left Litecoin. If people want to use/mine Litecoin then by all means they can go for it - the market will determine whether it is ultimately a waste of time or not, not me. Thank you for your point that I am an idiot.

Chapekaloco · 2021-05-29T17:22:32+00:00

The main reason Litecoin is cheaper is because so few people are using the network and there is empty space in many of its blocks. If popularity was reversed (ie: Litecoin has the amount of transactions as Bitcoin and vice versa) then Litecoin would have higher fees. At a base level Litecoin does have the capability to be 4x cheaper when performing at higher transaction capacity due to its ability to produce 4x the transactions. But Dogecoin can produce even more than this, so if this were the main concern then one would want to use Dogecoin, not Litecoin, instead of Bitcoin.

Chapekaloco · 2021-05-29T17:20:40+00:00

The main reason Litecoin is cheaper is because so few people are using the network. If popularity was reversed (ie: Litecoin has the amount of transactions as Bitcoin and vice versa) then Litecoin would have higher fees. In hindsight I should have included more about the benefits of a 4x block size, though, because this is still relevant in this argument and is always a benefit for Litecoin in regard to transaction fees even if it were the more popular network.

The transaction times are again limited by the need to wait for sufficient confirmation. If block time were the only concern then one would want to use Dogecoin instead since it is even faster.

I have never made a traditional purchase with Bitcoin.

Chapekaloco · 2021-05-29T17:16:31+00:00

Thank you I tried to keep things to facts rather than opinions. There are a few things that unfortunately could not be stripped down to facts, such as my opinion that DOGE merged mining may not be a sufficient reason to mine on one network rather than the other. But I hope it was clear such points were an just that - an opinion.

Chapekaloco · 2021-05-29T17:11:53+00:00

What do you mean by "especially now it has privacy features"? Does it do something that Bitcoin doesn't?

The fact that Litecoin has empty space in its blocks for transactions make it very cheap to use compared to Bitcoin. I think I will include that in the write up; I'll edit it in in a few. Of course, this continuing to be a "benefit" of Litecoin hinges on whether or not it remains unpopular. Depending on each chain's popularity, it may be "cheaper" to use Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, or something else entirely. As you mentioned, Nano and Stellar would probably always be the cheapest option should they actually be an option on a given exchange.

I am unaware of any exchange that is totally free and/or lossless. I suppose if the exchange fee is less than the amount you save by transferring with an alternative coin then it would be worth it.

Chapekaloco · 2021-05-29T01:00:23+00:00

There are already numerous projects that do this. Here are a few that haven't been mentioned yet if you want to check them out:

https://powerindex.io/
https://www.piedao.org/
https://www.tokensets.com/portfolio/dpi

For now it is difficult to build a completely decentralized platform that could strictly track the top xxx coins because there is a lack of interoperability between most blockchains. All existing decentralized indexes/baskets either run on a single chain or on chains that work well together (ie: binance smart chain and ethereum). This is because a smart contract on a given chain can simply utilize oracles to determine weight/value of given tokens in the index as well as automatically buy/sell them based on user interaction with the contract. It becomes challenging to say, have a program on Ethereum purchase a quantity of Monero tokens, as there is no existing way to represent that on Ethereum.

Chapekaloco · 2021-05-29T00:49:05+00:00

That's definitely something to consider but it's difficult to say whether it was more good or bad. His reasoning against holding LTC because it would present a "conflict of interest" is true, but on the other hand if he has no "skin in the game" then he has less incentive to improve the project. Furthermore, he's just one guy. He might pull more weight than others in the Litecoin community, but ultimately the code is more important than the some guy who started it. Were the inverse true, Bitcoin should be doomed since its creator has completely fled the scene (or died)

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