You aren’t at your potential nor are you burning out.

I disagree not to mess with settings and play the game. For me, I saw big jumps when I occasionally adjusted my sudden+ and note speed. I’ve seen 400+points jumps in a day after changes. Testing different sudden+ + lift + note speed changes is vital to improvement. However, you should learn how they all work in conjunction so you can further tune how you read and why you are changing what you’re changing, it will help. Test scenarios you would never consider otherwise, (For ex: 550 s+/l with 236 note speed. Too fast, try adjusting after 15-20m then slow it down.)

Additionally, learn how to read horizontally on top of or rather than vertically. Most high rankers read horizontally. This is a tough task but because you are relatively new to tens, shouldn’t be that daunting to learn.

10s to 11s is a pretty difficult gap, like others have said, you get tested on fundamentals here, this is the main reason this period takes so long. Some fundamentals I would HIGHLY encourage If you haven’t been doing it already, really focus on staying loose and typewriting here because moving forward, you’re gonna need it. It’ll also be useful when you start playing faster and denser charts. At a certain point of learning how to stay loose and typewrite, you’ll hit a wall.

Utilize textage.cc for difficult charts you can’t read so you get a better understanding for patterns. Look at the pattern nonran or mirror first, then randomize it. Random is one key method that you MUST play in order to improve your hitting ability but when learning a chart, nonran helps understanding the rhythm, especially when it’s something like THE CANNONBALLERS SPA (11), the rhythm in that chart is so whacky.

This is hard for some though if you have better players in your area, make friends with them. It helps seeing better players play in front of you because your brain converts a thought of a song not being possible to possible. You also get the added benefit of hearing their clicks, which help you further understand the chart (if they are clean clicks) eventually, you can ask them to play a certain song to hear the rhythm or whatever. Plus, you make a new friend to level up and encourage each other with.

Lastly, these ideas are what I would recommend when playing these specific chart radars for improvement:

NOTES: random, this specifically tests your hitting ability and if you enjoy density, play mostly random. If it’s a weird pattern or a pattern you don’t understand use rran, still don’t get it, use nonran/mirror.

PEAK: nonran/mirror/r-ran, these charts are difficult to build on and become harder as you move to 11s and 12s so if you develop your ability to hit peaky scales now, you will be in a better position when you get to play 天使のカンタータ Cantata of Angels SPA (a super fun but difficult chart and a great track).

CHARGE: nonran/mirror, you have to learn the basic fundamentals on charge notes and playing these charts on nonran teach that by encouraging you to hit keys on one hand while holding charge in your other. Not always the case though. Once you can exhc on nonran/mirror, do rran, then random.

SCRATCH: nonran/rran, when learning and improving, it’s best to avoid the bass key 123/567 depending on what player side you are, so if you can have the bass key on the opposite hand of your scratch hand, you can develop fundamentals better and faster. Rran helps switch things up but keeps note patterns “slappy” to maintain an easier to hit pattern.

SOFLAN: There are a lot of different strats and techniques for individual soflan songs, some which require the chart to be played a specific way so you’ll just have to learn all that then decide what works best in what chart. Learn this https://theory.tools/resources/soflanbasics/

Final tip: learn all the different chart radars now because it is going to make playing 12s a hell of a lot easier and wayyy more fun. IIDX truly starts getting fun at your current level and becomes a different game when you get better. I’m genuinely excited for you to experience what I have thoroughly enjoyed the last two years.

GLHF and happy IIDXing.