the challenge yourself one is definitely the most important for me. i was stuck on the expert mode version of a level for a good three days so i decided to practice the expert plus mode for a few hours. and after getting about 1/4 of the way through the expert plus i went back to the expert mode and to my surprise i beat it in 2 tries. i always have been trying to do a few stupidly hard songs just so my brain can rev up and feel those fast nots a bit.
3:01 Turning on No Fail was the one thing that helped me most. I was stuck on an expert song, failing about a third of the way in, so I decided to turn on No Fail and just have fun, not caring how many blocks I hit. To my surprise at the end I had 9 out of 10 good cuts (still would have failed in normal mode as many were in sequence). Every time after that I reduced my number of bad cuts on no fail mode by around 5 each time. The next day I could turn off no fail mode and a couple of days later I did a Full Combo! Now it's still less than a week and I'm disappointed if I DON'T get a Full Combo! So No Fail mode was the key, although I still prefer to keep the speed at 100% because it helps your timing.
Everybody else is talking about how they just started hard mode... I got my oculus yesterday and I started on hard, I have a feeling those few thousand hours on osu are finally rubbing off...
Wanna hear something funny... hard used to be fast for me ... I remembered failing ghost several times on hard.. I’ve lost ten pounds playing this game oldly enough and have a lot more endurance. Now hard is really slow and expert is starting to get slow after beating spin eternally. I’m still on cammila album but expert plus is close! I almost passed 20 dollar bills on my first try on expert plus... but I figure I need to be more comfortable with expert Camila .. so yeah for some reason guitar hero didn’t help me as much as I think osu helped you or maybe VR was just weird to me.
I just got my oculus on Christmas and I’m already playing songs on hard and expert! I honestly love beat saber and I can’t wait to incorporate these tips next time I play! Hopefully I’ll be at Expert + by next week!
you want a good tip? Learn to not tense up and use less energy for fast levels and don't swing hard as hell like a bulldozer as its not hardness, its angle that is calculated. JK LALALA,L
another trick that helped me is : no fail mode and only hitting one color. I found that practicing the right hand and left hand separately made it easier to learn some counter-intuitive mappings
"Get custom sabers" - Best Trick! I had to play with the normal sabers for 2 days because my mods were broken. It sucks! With my thin and longer sabers I am much much muuuch better.
I can do expert songs but i mostly play on hard. I'm 41 years old and have a bad back and playing beatsaber really helps loosen me up. My personal goal are getting SS on hard on as many maps as i can. I will start trying some of the songs i find too easy on expert soon though.
Another 40 year old here! Just got a Quest 2 for Christmas for the family and although I’ve tried BS on a friend’s unit a couple of times over the years, I’ve loved these last couple of weeks and am obsessed. Can’t see myself every getting to Expert+ (maybe Expert on a couple of tracks) but I’m also aiming for SS on as many Hard tracks I can do. It’s addictive!
Yeah I've since mastered some expert songs and gotten the expert achievements. But I still most play song on hard. It's a bit to stressful on expert to enjoy the game for long periods.
I'm not at expert+ yet and still struggling with expert but when I warm up I play songs I know on a easier mode like normal and turn the speed to 200%. That brings you into a speed rush when you try to actually hit every block and makes it seem slow when you play a harder mode on normal speed so you actually have more time to think as your brain still is used to the high speed
This is what I've been doing with Ghost on hard. I have been struggling to beat it on Expert even though I can beat most other songs (most other NON-camellia songs lol) on Expert or Expert+ but I just can't quite get through Ghost on Expert. But I know it on hard so well that when I turned the speed up on hard I could see a notable progression on my Expert run of the song.
@@ralsei1140 Yep! About a month and a half or so ago! Not on Expert+ though, not very interested in trying to learn that terrible mapping. I'm working on Crystalized E+ right now!
bonus tips turn off debris turn off note spawn effect turn on static lights and if your reaction times are lacking turn note spawn offset to close or closer so when you go back to default or stay the same you will notice i big difference in reaction time im currently at close for note spawn offset its best for me because right when the note spawns i can swing and it will hit also if the blocks are spawning to high then go in player settings and for the height dont stand strait or stand lower and click the meter stick then the blocks will spawn lower and if they spawn to low then stand as strait as you can or stand on something (MAKE SURE ITS STABLE AND YOU WONT FALL) then click the meter stick and if you play beat saber with other people on the same headset or your fine with the note spawn height then put it on automatic measurement or whatever its called well those are some bonus tips from me.
I'm a non-gamer who is into hobbies such as software development and fountain pens/handwriting, I'm also overweight. So I'm pretty much the last person who would get into VR. I just got a Quest 2 and beat saber. I've never been able to get into most games, but this seems to be the one. I failed on easy when I got the headset and game last week. But thanks in part to your video, I've managed to pass a hard stage. I was absolutely thrilled when I passed. It just feels so good, not only to play, but also my body is thanking me for actually working up a sweat for once. Thank you for the tips, they've been very helpful.
the colours i tend to use are bright lime green and a similar purple to what he did, u tend to keep dark colours on the right and bright colours on the left. if the colours are very different and u trained your mind to know what is what it does make it a lot easier to not get them confused. the colours tip was guddd
I've always associated warms colors with my right and cold colors with my left. Idk why, probably sinks? Beat Saber has it the opposite way by default. Switching the colors made a such a huge difference for me
I just started beat saber and I had the highest score until my mom wanted to try 😒 then she got a higher score and now I’m going crazy imma beat her lol any way yes I came here to find out how to get better hehehee
My brain is odd in the sense that it processes the blocks without even having to fully look at them, and sometimes I will blank for a couple of seconds and do sections of the song perfectly but can’t recreate it later, and then whatever songs I don’t beat one day, one - two days later the song is tossed into memory and I can do that section well.
i know for a fact, trying incredibly hard levels to adapt really helps. i came back to beat saber after almost a year and had pretty much no experience that got me further than Expert on some levels. when i got halfway through the campaign, i decided to take Devourer Of Gods out for a spin let me just say, my arms and shoulders absolutely hate me for making that decision, but after trying it a few hours a day for 2 days, i actally managed to get all te way to 5 minutes, 48 seconds into the song, about half way, and now many official levels feel actually doable now, even a good amount of the expert+ ones the fact that i improved so quickly could have something to do with year old muscle memory being dug up from the catacombs of my brain, but i know for sure, challenging yourself early on does work
the wrist thing is def important. after like 3 or 4 days of playing I noticed that wrist motion is 100% needed. that's how I got to expert levels in a week. it's been like half a year and I'm still playing expert levels 😢also I can't really change my grip bc I use psvr.
Changing colors was a big help to me. It just so happens that my right hand is the color of Baja Blast, and the my left hand is the color of Sangrita Blast. I may love Mountain Dew, but I didn't plan it like that lol
Great video! I find it amusing that I naturally use my wrists; as, this seems very akin to playing the drums. The best advice in here is the play at higher speeds then slow it down to “normal”. As a tetris player that’s how I practice to get faster.
I hate the "Grips for Beat Saber" table, because it doesn't account for how an individual likes to hold their controller. Let me elaborate. The "default" grip says, "lack of wrist swing angle". If you use default grip with your thumbs on top, then yes, you have less wrist movement from side to side, than you do compared to "curling" your wrist. HOWEVER, if you turn your wrists 90 degrees, with your thumbs on the "inside" (thumbnails facing each other), then you start using wrist curling for wrist movement instead of the limiting side to side movement.
do you mind sharing which sabers you use? i’ve been getting more into modding lately and wanted some good recommendations for new savers and liked yours quite a bit.
...shame i already know all this stuff, but i remember when i was struggling to play any expert songs, i got the monstercat pack and saw overkill. died on the first wave of lotsa blocks and bc i liked the song i strived to full combo it and refused to play any other songs until then. when, just about three days later, i finally *beat* it (not full combo) i was happy! consistently practiced it until i finally full combo'd it, and then played a camellia map for shits and giggles and actually beat it first try. now, many months later, i have a 1148(?) combo on expert final boss chan (which has just about 1160 blocks iirc) and god that hurts. i wanna beat it so bad but i cant get that far anymore no matter how hard i try, and i just need some tips on how to stop fumbling. ive tried adjusting my controllers since i occasionally swing too early, but it just made my score worse. i cant do other grips bc theyre all uncomfortable. i use every part of my arm in these damed songs and my colors are distinct, my accuracy is fine but i just. mess up. and i dont know why.
This is my favorite of all the games. I use my youngest son's headset and I hit it at least once a day, but am getting my order son one an Oculus as soon as possible , but am hoping thr Oculus 3 will be out soon and want to weigh up the price on both for what you get. I'm not weany any means , so want to get the most for my money ? But was thinking of getting myself on too if the price is right. Even when the 3rd gen comes out I believe there is still a hell of a lot of life in the 2nd. It's just awesome technology from ground up. In my opinion ! 👌
I got myself a quest 2 for my birthday, so ive had it for a month now, i only play actively in the weekends and the rest im mostly on my pc watching videos. I'm already at hardmode for most songs and expert on some, what i did was just challenge myself by playing songs a difficulty where i fail most of the time and just grind through untill i make it, after that i grind untill i can get S rank. i use the "normal" grip mode which is the only one i can hold on for longer than 10 minutes before my hand starts to cramp up.
after playing for three years, i still can't get claw grip to work right for me. i now play 11 and 12 star maps but still use default. i really did try but i think my hands are just too small 😭
oops deleted this comment so im remaking the same comment lol i use the default grip and im fine with my rist i beat light it up in expert+ and got an s rank so why am i watching this video if i can do that well i want to beat ghost in expert+ so just use whats the best for you but if your wrist movement is bad then you should change your grip.
If I'm struggling to keep up with the song, I turn it up slightly, if I need to learn the pattern better, I slow it down. I literally can't play with standard grip anymore, I'm so used to claw lol
My go to challenge yourself song is ov sacrament and sincest whenever I open the game I give the song a few attempts and I can now go about halfway through the song and have been able to beat songs I never thought I would be able to beat
...actually that cosmetic one makes a lot of sense. Sure red and blue are different colors. But white + dark color is an even bigger difference which helps distinguish the blocks. I'm gonna try this
My problem right now is that expert mode on the first three albums(?) are super slow. But the other ones like spin eternally are still hard for me on expert mode. And yet I can do country rounds on expert plus and get an A... How do I break through this barrier?
I just started a few days ago and I’ve mastered ghost but I have trouble with light up and expert levels so I just turn the speed on ghost to 145 & disappearing arrows and when I go back to a level I struggle on its a lot easier to do. Doing this also increased my wrist stength and capability because 145 is hella fast
@TZA Luke yeah since i said that i've been able to complete expert light up and im starting to be able to do all parts of expert ghost except 1 part that really bothers me now when i go back to hard ghost its sooo slow so 145 speed is something you should consider if u still have a hard time with some faster and or harder levels
i can second that changing grip helps A LOT, i used to hold as default but now i use the claw method, it’s easier to swing and gives better accuracy for sure!! so thanks sm
Yes I just changed to the claw grip a couple of days ago and I'm scoring 115 points on my cuts a lot more often. I've invented a slight variation though, I have wide wrist straps which allow me to hold the Rift controllers nearer my wrists so only the tips of my fingers are over the ring which is a lot more comfortable than the standard claw grip.
@@alwaxxys6705 Hi, I discovered that the regular design of controller straps which use a rubber loop can be converted to wrist straps. Normally the rubber loop goes round the controller button area or the controller ring but if you put the rubber loop over where the 2nd strap attaches to the base of the controller then both straps will go around your wrist to make a perfect wrist strap. Sorry, hard to explain without photos!
I just started playing 5 weeks ago, and I'm almost full combo-ing a lot of expert plus levels. In my case the best thing that I did was just playing expert plus levels until I beat them. I got really good at expert first then I only played expert plus for a few days and eventually all expert plus levels were way easier.
I'm all fine for some extra speed, currently I have hard mastered, transitioning to expert, but when songs become crazy to the point where you cant even get good swings in, I just dont enjoy it. I'm mainly using it for fitness, which needs good arm and body movement, not broken wrists lmao.
@@Ladybug-ek3ti I guess try to use practice mode more on a song by song basis and practice the part where you just keep messing up. Once you figure out the best patters for your arms to swing, itll be easier. Sometimes i try it repeatedly on fast, then when you go back to normal, it seems really slow because you're used to fast. That'll help you figure the patterns out.
When I first started I thought this game would be easy. At first I failed on normal. Never did easy as I am use to rhythm games.k moved up to hard and now in less than a month I'm on expert. Currently mastering 360 mode as it is really fun to be able to play that many lanes especially when notes Crosse from one lane to the next where you're playing two or three lanes at once.
Wrong don't do many of these, practice camellia songs on expert+, camellia is a menace to society and does good practice songs that also break your fingers in any rhythm games
Another tip you forgot to add: do reduce debris because it flinging all over and you need it off to control your eyes or they would probably get irritated
