What's your style?

Borknagar54 · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject: What's your style?

By style i'm mainly asking towards the ones who use their fingers. How do you guys play? Do you use both hands? Do you use 2-3 fingers on one hand?

I'm mainly asking because there are problems I come across during songs that I don't know how to pass with my fingers because it seems to get crowded. For instance, I can't do songs with much chaos because my fingers get clumped together, and I can't do gallops/chaos that involve both vertical arrows(up and down). So a few simple suggestions and new ways to play would be helpful.

Brooks · Trick Member Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Location: Mantua, N.J.

Most of the time I use both of my index fingers. I don't like it every much. Now and then I use my left index and my right middle and idex. It sometimes helps depending on what song I'm playing.

Hands R' Us · Trick Member Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Location: Mars

I don't use the keyboard. I either play on a dance pad or use a PlayStation 2 Dual Shock controller hooked up to the computer via USB adapter.
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:06 am Post subject:

I use a four finger spread, which is with two hands on the keyboard.
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IamMe · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:16 am Post subject:

Index. Once you get over jumps and get speed, you can become one of the best players out there with this style, and it's certainly more fun than spread to use.

PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:19 am Post subject:

For keyboard play, I use the arrow keys, not the numeric keypad (since my laptop doesn't have one), and I use three fingers. Generally, index finger for Left, middle finger for Up and Down, and ring finger for Right. But there are some exceptions. For fast Up/Down runs, or if I'm holding an Up or Down freeze and need to hit other things, I'll bring my index finger over to take over one of the keys. For Down+Right or Up+Right jumps, I'll shift over & use my index & middle finger.
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Kles · Trick Member Joined: 23 Aug 2005

Four fingers on the numpad.

Assassin Ace · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject:

I usually use the pad. I don't get scores half as decent as I do in the arcade, due to my crappy homemade pad. I guess it's training. But I can still A and AA the songs I usually can (Max 300, PSMO), but I can't AAA them at home like I can in the arcade.

I suck at keying. I made a song that I know is accurate but I can't even pass it.
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GeeForce · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:17 pm Post subject:

3 - finger. Index on left, index and middle on right. Pretty freakin awesome in my opinion, but a lot of the best players I know are either four-fingered or index.
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yagsimit69 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Location: rochester

i use index and four finger so i can take advantages of both of there quality's, index for fast streams, four finger for wierd patterns and jump heavy songs

Borknagar54 · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:35 pm Post subject:

I find that when I try playing with 2 hands, it gets way too clustered and I miss an easy step or jump.

[ES] GARYsurvivor · Trick Member Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Location: Lakewood, CO

I play with both of my index and middle fingers, so I guess I'm a 4 finger stud!

[TCO] Patrick · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 12:37 am Post subject:

On the rare occasion that I do keyboard (which means Im probably on my laptop), I play with my middle, index and ring fingers on a spread setup (one hand on WASD and one hand on the arrows or IJKL).
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patrickstar2o6 · Trick Member Joined: 26 Aug 2005

hahaha, i use both hands and 4 fingers, for my left i use the index finger and the middle finger same as the right hand

DJX · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Location: CA

I use one hand, three fingers when I can (any official DDR or ITG song, and some of the easier originals), but I use two hands, two fingers for hard, keyboard only songs (most of which I can't pass anyway

). I use the basic arrows keys; currently I play on a laptop and my USB keyboard is in storage, which makes it so much harder to do anything remotely difficult.
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