Some random tetris noob, Chronicles on my journey to (hopefully) being a pro Options

[randomtetrisnoob]

Hi there.
I'm quite new to this game (you might've seen me lurking around in Nullpo's netplay, or in random platinum games on TF, watching how pros play).

I've been planning to post this topic for awhile but never got to it...anyway...

I'm just some random tetris noob, and here in this topic, I will tell my story on how I got into this game and how I am improving, which will hopefully be of some help to some other newbie soul out there.

tl;dr; warning, wall-of-text coming up
Summary: I suck, I'm a noob, and it's probably not worth reading unless you're bored.

Part 1. My induction to tetris

Some backstory... You see, I semi-regularly read the webcomic xkcd, and one day, I saw this comic:
xkcd: Heaven


As per my usual habit, I went to the xkcd forums to read about the current comic.
And I read that it had a counter-part comic, "Hell".

Sadly (or not), the poster did NOT link the comic. If he had, it would've ended there.
So I went to google and searched for it.

And lo and behold, I was greeted with the video: "TGM HOLiC aka Jin8 playing TGM3" (Invisible tetris).


I was dumbfounded.
I immediately did a google search for "TGM HOLiC" (or something similar, I can't recall ).
And then... I found harddrop.com as the first search result.

I went to the homepage, which had the top news as LapSiLap's new WR.
I watched the video, and I was again dumbfounded.

And excited and exhilarated.
Something ticked in my mind... it was saying: "this is a learnable skill!!".

Let me explain... I'm a skill-monger. I collect seemingly "superhuman" skills.
I am a (sorry if some of these don't make sense):
- sub-20 speed cuber (i.e. I can solve a rubik's cube in less than 20 secs)
- I can lightdash on Tekken (i.e. I can do 4-5 crouch dashes per second, and I can regularly perform crazy stunts in TTT like EWGF_ws+2, TGF)
- I can perfect any official DDR song (from 1st mix to supernova only, not yet at the 100% marvelous level though, but quite close... when I quit )
- I play MSP or combofiend on MvC2 (and love stuff like Mag's ROM combo or slide infinite)
- I also play O2JAM. Never made it to uber-pro levels though (like CH.Free's perfect Earthquake run) since they cancelled O2JAM in our country quite a bit after I started playing, but I made it to a level where I can consistently perfect V3 hard ...
- etc. etc.

So seeing a site full of "superhuman" tetris players, I could not resist the desire of being among the ranks of such people. I immediately jump into the fray.

[randomtetrisnoob]

Hi Xael. There's a section in Part 2 about you .
I've played that flash game before... finger frenzy...

I think I spent a whole afternoon trying to get sub-2, can't recall if I ever did it.

EDIT: Keyblox looks interesting.
And now that I think about it, I think I could consistently sub-2, and it was sub-something-else I was aiming for. Not sure, my keyboard right now sucks and I can barely sub 2.5

also interesting learning 2 step finesse before learning how to stack properly.

Yeah, I think it's good if you're starting absolutely from scratch.
Since if you learn stacking first, you can learn bad habits along the way, like rotating only one way, or trying to find a good place just by moving semi-randomly and looking at the ghost.

If you use playing forever, since it dictates where the piece goes, you can focus on learning finesse alone. No bad habits.
Also, since playing forever is a pre-planned tech (similar to tsd-tst openers), it also teaches you to look at the piece previews, another good habit.

[XaeL]

Not sure if you know but ur profile pic is easily fixable.

I spin followed by L's into holes
Alternate solution:

oh yay a story about me.

and you should not follow my advice. It's always wrong according to everyone else.