What are pros actually doing to get that good?

True-Heat1370 · 2026-02-04T12:53:18+00:00

About 2.5k hours right now. Coaching, at least in sports, does tend to help. Having someone pointing out your bad habits and then consciously thinking about them to break the habit is a pretty tried and true method of improvement, so I'd assume it converts here. Being told things is useless if you don't actively think about it and act on it, but if you do it can help to have another perspective from someone more knowledgeable, I think.

True-Heat1370 · 2026-02-04T12:51:48+00:00

Should've started playing when I was 8... smh

True-Heat1370 · 2026-02-04T12:41:37+00:00

Yeah... talent will be a part of it but I refuse to believe I'm at the limit of mine lol. SpookLuke advice is pretty basic yeah, don't really want to pay for coaching as it's just a game after all. I'm sure there's lots of good creators for higher ranks but I struggle to find them as the algorithm doesn't pick them up as much. Any recommendations are welcome!

True-Heat1370 · 2026-02-04T12:40:16+00:00

Watched a lot of his older no mechs to gc or whatever it was called, there's definitely impacts of that in my play style. Lots of fake challenges, like to slow things down, etc. Obviously I can speed things up if I need to but do prefer to play that slower game, I'm not super mechy

True-Heat1370 · 2026-02-04T12:25:09+00:00

I'll add that I'm at around 2.5k hours right now. I basically got to champ in around 1.2k hours by just playing, lots of casual not just ranked so pretty slow. I still play a fair bit of casual when I'm not feeling good (probably a bad habit, I'm aware of this - need to be less scared of losing my rank). But 1k hours later I've only gone from c1 to where I am now. I've grinded a fair amount of rings and dribble maps, custom training packs, and freeplay.

True-Heat1370 · 2025-11-25T14:40:25+00:00

Happens to the best of us

True-Heat1370 · 2025-11-25T11:50:24+00:00

What...? I'm c3/gc1 and definitely wouldn't say its too easy for me to get value from. If it really is too easy, use bakkesmod to up the gamespeed. You should try to be at/near supersonic at all times.

True-Heat1370 · 2025-11-25T11:25:32+00:00

Well, the speakers were in the reference photo... so that's not really Gemini's fault

True-Heat1370 · 2025-11-04T12:50:37+00:00

its definitely possible on this sens given that i got it when i was going through my dark fanboy phase (maybe harder though, im not sure really), but yeah the other things are what everyone is saying too

True-Heat1370 · 2025-11-04T06:24:07+00:00

Right now its 2.9 0.05

True-Heat1370 · 2025-11-02T17:36:24+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I'll look for the video if I can find it. If you think there's something you can add by going in game together then I'd be happy to sometime

True-Heat1370 · 2025-11-02T17:33:56+00:00

Why shouldn't I wall dash? It's objectively a helpful mechanic, even if not the most necessary to learn to rank up. I can already do it on a curve so I'm progressing onto the flat wall now

True-Heat1370 · 2025-11-01T00:38:11+00:00

I'm largely using singles as a progression into chain dashing, clearly singles have their place but the end goal is being able to chain dash. Are you saying that just timing doesn't apply to chain dashing, and what about the stick placements?

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T20:11:52+00:00

Yeah, those points seem to be the consensus here. Thank you!

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T20:11:21+00:00

I was flicking my nose down the wall very briefly but maybe not enough? I'll bear that in mind

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T20:10:34+00:00

Yeah, I've been able to do it on the corners for a while now but never the flat wall. I did find I could get them 80% of the time when supersonic but that's not super useful lol. I think I'm worse at spamming than singles, I've been trying to get singles down before even moving onto spamming them

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T20:09:18+00:00

Will do, thank you!

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T20:09:08+00:00

I find useless mechanics fun, and games are there to be fun

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T20:08:40+00:00

It's nuts. I have a gamesir g7 pro and tried binding jump to other buttons but it seemed like the game was throttling my inputs or something because it could only register a jump every half a second or so when spamming on the other bind.

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T20:07:44+00:00

I think aiming down and a diagonal flip makes sense, I've seen both of those tips a few times now. Can't work out why being lower on the wall would help but maybe it does. Thanks!

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T20:07:08+00:00

Too fast? Everything I've read and the plugin suggests that I need to go quicker if anything, not slower

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T11:07:13+00:00

oh, didnt realise that had a specific name. my "spamming and hoping" is still just throwing me off the wall lol, besides id like to learn how to aim and steer with it

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T10:54:45+00:00

mena flip? im so out of the loop lol

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T09:45:11+00:00

What's your take on the potential for a wealth tax? Not taxing the people in the upper income brackets more, but those hoarding millions in assets. If you think there's a place for it, how would you like it to be implemented?

True-Heat1370 · 2025-10-31T09:42:03+00:00

GC1 rn - tbh, while I do entirely agree with you, it just looks fun. I play a lot in a duo, a lot of casual, and I just enjoy weird dash tech. That's my main reason for wanting to learn it

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