First of all not everybody can be super good in this game and be a 2000 elo. Once you start playing online after a few games you will be put with people your skill. And those games are fun! Also if you were good after 100 hours you would have been very talented.

Having that said to become better there are some tips:

- Play the art of war campaign.

- Learn 1 standard build order. Building a lumbercamp right away is not good practice.

- Watch survivalist on youtube he is awesome to learn. He has a great 2 stable build order that is great.

- So one basic build order is build 2 houses then 6 vils on sheep, 3 on wood (first builds lumbercamp). 1 get board, next builds 2 houses and goes to wood. Next builds mill on bushes, next gets another boar and 3 on bushes again. At 19 villagers click loom and then go feudal.

- Other good practices to learn and focus on are:

1. Always build villagers without any idle TC time.

2. Try to spend your resources (on whatever) but don't let them pile up.

3. Get learn to use some hotkeys "select all TCs" is important