Quote from: Anubis on July 19, 2020, 11:00 PMQuality post, very good points.
Back in the days of xSpeed and MagicSpeed or whatever it was called you could either slow down or speed up the rope. I quite liked the speedy (1.5x speed) and played a bit on that for a while and when going back normal speed felt like slow motion and it improved myself, it certainly makes you react faster because you have to. The physics would be the same, the game just ran faster. Another interesting thing about ever changing (slight) settings is this fact: You actually become better if you constantly change your input slightly.
https://cochranemusic.com/guitar-muscle-memory-speed
We basically have a cognitive phase, an associative phase and an autonomous phase. When you "master" the rope you are only working in the autonomous phase, you don't learn anything anymore and just do what you learned. During my "career" I often switched keyboards, modding of keys, how to tap, made entire aliases that focus on one aspect of roping. I basically always returned to the associative phase and autonomous phase back and forth. Hell I even entered the cognitive phase by altering the actual game engine. In my opinion all this fiddling was strengthening my skills, you get worse for a while but come back stronger. You don't forget your old skill sets, you also never "unlearn" how to walk, run or ride a bike. You just don't. I stopped playing basketball for 5 years, and when I started I could still shoot 3 pointers just fine, a bit rusty but returned to normal just fine. So in my opinion the true key to master something is to always challenge yourself, mix it up. You are good with your right hand? Now stop using it and use your left etc. I remember in my starting days of fingerroll I would try to beat my own fingerroll on left vs. right hands. Like with these old tapping meters that measured your speed. I would have like 200 taps on left hand and then try to beat it on right hand and so on.
yes sure, repetition will and can get you closer to a goal (like beating a time) you will get more consistent and consistency alone can (will) improve you,... but the true road to overcoming your limits is to think outside the box and challenge your mind and brain ever so slightly that it has to adapt, and learn and discover new skill sets that you can integrate in what you have already learned.
And to answer the thread, yes I would.
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