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1. What do the "elite" players keep their settings at for Gravity, G-Max, Lock Delay, DAS? Mine are 110, 500, 11, and 6 respectively.

I would say DAS = 5, gravity = 0 (a piece hard dropped 1 row is worth 2 points), lock delay = 30 (manual locking a piece with hard drop), but I am no expert.

2. Is 72k in 2 minutes fr Ultra actually any good? lol

Yes, that's good. That's more than I can do. As far as I know nobody got over 100k with just freestyle Tetris + T-Spin. Record with special techniques (e.g. ST stacking, infinite TST) is 114k. It's very important to T-Spin almost every T piece or one can't score that high ( a T-Spin Single scores as many points as a Tetris ). Are you a ST / ZT stacker?

3. Why are there two left-right rotate options in your keyboard options?

As far as I know, no decent guideline player uses 2 buttons with the same function. I would rather use 180 rotation than a second button of the same function (but I don't use 180 rotation in games with hold).

In official games, there are 2 clockwise rotation buttons: Up arrow and X. NullpoMino spawned from the TGM series, which has 2 counter-clockwise rotation buttons (A & C). This has the advantages when players use only 2 buttons, they can decide if clockwise rotation is the left button (B & C) or the right button (A & B, people are usually used to this, e.g. modern games, Game Boy, NES, SNES). TGM also has entry delay and some players use A & C simultaneously to rotate a piece quickly by 180 degrees.

4. Do people actually play Ultra? Or is Sprint generally what people try to improve on more often?

Sprint is the much more played mode. However, people should improve their Tetris skill more quickly by playing Ultra (at least when freestyling).

@Master, I thought I was, but just looking at this forum... I've got a hell of a lot to catch up on.

@Okey_Dokey
1. Didn't know that about Gravity. Thanks. I'll see about lowering mine.
2. Took me a while to figure out what ST/ZT was. Lol. Yes I'm a ZT stacker. So someone actually got over 114k just ZT stacking with double t-spins? Wtf... I can't imagine going much faster than I'm going now.
3. And I think I got it. I use the 180 rotate (assigned to l-shift key for me). People sometimes just use the 2 left-right rotation buttons together instead of using the 180 rotate? I never thought of even doing that. Maybe I should...

Now you did mention that all my T pieces should be used for spinning. How is that possible? I find that after a while, I need to use 2 additional T pieces on the left side of my grid to keep up my tspinning.otherwise, the right side slowly gets higher than left side and I can't properly tspin? Does that make sense? O.o

So I've been playing nullpomino on my laptop for about 3 years, but I never really looked into getting outside help before. I mainly play Ultra and have a personal record of a little over 72k in 2 minutes. However, I've hit a wall and I figure it's time to look into getting some help. I just have a few questions:

1. What do the "elite" players keep their settings at for Gravity, G-Max, Lock Delay, DAS? Mine are 110, 500, 11, and 6 respectively.

2. Is 72k in 2 minutes fr Ultra actually any good? lol

3. Why are there two left-right rotate options in your keyboard options?

4. Do people actually play Ultra? Or is Sprint generally what people try to improve on more often?

EDIT: So apparently I joined this site over 5 years ago... I guess I've been playing a lot longer than 3 years.