Tapping/Holding?

[iljain]

I still remember the time I played with Tetris DS with holding left/right to every columns of the field, which was seemingly fast.
   But now in those online games, most with keyboard systems, I only hold to 1/10 columns, the others by tapping. Therefore I bought the joypad to play, which worked, but doesn't feel as good as the NDS D+pad, it could do directions left,right,up,left since the D+pad buttons are connected together(left arrow, upper arrow, right arrow, and down arrow are close.)
    Now is real question: How do those peopel play fast like clearing 40 lines around 30 sec. or so? By holding or tapping? Just wondering.

[Noogy]

i tap; 36.68 here

[Ravendarksky]

I use skill stops... holding for as many columns as I can. I tap only for the middle 5 columns

However I'm terrible
(42seconds Nullpo 40L, 48 seconds TF 40L)

[caffeine]

The fastest skill-stopper, I think, is Blink. However, the sub-25ers appear to all use "hold to the wall" type finesse.

Watch a few videos of fast players, but in slow motion. You can do this in Nullpo with the replay function, too.

[Paul676]

What I (I'm 28.41) and most people who go sub-30 do is tap for all except for the furthest two columns, where they hold to the wall, and the column next to the furthest one, they hold to the wall and the tap back once (unless they know full finesse, which allows for a rotation rather than a tap to go one away from the wall).

[Paradox]

I try as much as possible to use this scheme:

http://harddrop.com/wiki/0G_60_Hz_SRS_Movement_Finesse

My best time using this is 28.54