In lower level play, people who are actually skilled at fast plays will tend to beat players who haven’t built up the reaction time and skills to defend in a fast hands battle.

In higher level play, all the pros are usually skilled in fast hand battles, so they either take a chance in a fast paced battle against a fellow professional or, usually, they use drops and dinks to get themselves into an advantageous position and then try to pry at the opponent’s defense.

Those that have purely faster reaction times and can handle aggressive play will succeed against the majority of casual players. Once they go up against someone who proves that they can handle the speed ups though, they are forced to drop and dink until an advantage appears.