Just had my shot of rum.
Time to go hunt for those 700 lp so I can end today being a fraud platinum scrub.
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7139 lp, 8 victories in a row, 4 against 2 plat players. And this poor Ed was totally robbed in the last round.
I can do this. I can get plat tonight.
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232 ms reaction time on Humanbenchmark. Too lazy to grab the pic…
They got old.
I know I don’t have time like I used to. And forums aren’t what the younglings are into.
Also, I’m pretty sure I suck at SFV. I kind a bulldozed my way up to about 3000 last night (this is day 3) but I just feels like the game is balanced on a knife edge at all times.
I’m working on Urien a bit on the side but I’ve never really played a charge character before so it’s not going fast.
Yeah man, I hear that and I can understand how you feel. 
SFIV era SRK was the best.
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I pretty much have the same exact experience. I was in a group of 5 and we all lived near each other at the time when SF4 came out. We’d get together to play a lot back then. Before SFV even came out everyone started moving away. And when SFV did come out, I was the only one who liked it enough to stick to it. Everyone else dropped it after a while.
It’s too bad because one of those guys was a good friend who always kicked my ass in SF4 and pushed me to try and improve. But he doesn’t like SFV and I would feel no satisfaction beating him if we were to play right now.
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Twin really is getting a lot better in our sets.
I wish this game had voice chat. I kept yelling out “Stop trying to shake my hand, Niggah!” every time he whiffed Kolin’s parry 
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Hop on discord. Apparently he is amenable to shit talking there. 
Got a few hours for SFV’n. If anyone is in the mood for a lounge just hit me up.
I’m on now if you want to send me an invite
That’s literally one of SFV’s original design goals. They wanted it so that moderately skilled players could pick up rounds off high skilled players.
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Sure. Sending now.
This is absolute gold.
These drops 
Of course. I do not deny that. Nor do these reaction tests directly relate to in-game reactions anyway, because clicking a mouse while waiting for a single specific change is itself different from pressing a button or d-pad or moving a stick while waiting for any number of different changes in an ever changing environment.
But there is, at the heart, an actual physical difference between people that cannot be overcome with any amount of training or knowledge. Some tasks that some people can perform are simply going to be beyond what others can perform. Some people physically cannot perform certain true hit confirms that others can perform, the person with the slower reactions can only fake it by guessing or reading their opponent. Some reaction-based tasks that some people deem to be trivial will remain at best a matter of chance for some other people, no matter how much they train.
That tends to get overlooked with the fighting game “git gud” mentality.
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Although the maths is true, I doubt I’d be faster than any of the younger blokes and Mocha said he was about 300 (I’d guess I’d be about 290). Mocha can whiff punish like Bruce Lee and I can one hit confirm a medium.
Ironically it’s the reacting that’s holding the blokes back, thinking about what you are doing is a much more effective way of reacting.
I doubt many players are doing the preparation and are just trying react Raw.
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But i always go raw
Hue hue hue
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This!
I think there is a huge misconception about “reactions”
If you don’t have the muscle memory, your reaction time doesn’t mean shit
If you’re not ready with the correct reaction… again your reaction time doesn’t mean shit
“reactions” in street fighter are 90 percent muscle memory and situational awareness and 10 percent (or even less) your raw ability to react
It boils down to how much mental energy you have and where you want to allocate it
Unless you’re some kind of 60+ year old, I don’t wanna hear excuses about having low reaction time. And even by the time you’re 60, you’re reaction time should only be slower by about 20 ms than what you had as a young buck.
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I’m getting 315 or so on my tablet. I should be around 240-280 on my monitor. The real thing is basically this:
Once you get to about 245 you are average. Get into the low 30’s and you are above average, low 20’s you are higher end. Low 10’s are very good and people that are in the 190’s and below tend to be on the world class threshold.
The good news is that if you are smart enough, you can even put in work at around 290-300 (in sf4) but over 300 and I noticed a huge dip in effective skill. These are guys that would have trouble breaking 1000pp in sf4 or getting past upper bronze or lower silver.
But my “evidence” is anecdotal. There are always outliers like people with strong reactions that still suck (usually an experience thing though) and there are a good amount of players with bad reactions that are still pretty decent (can make plat/diamond level strength becaus they have a strong flowchart or great autopilot patterns)
Etc
I’m actually at 342 ms lmfao.
Started at 450 ish. worked my way up. Another example of muscle memory and pattern recognition
I’m also doing the benchmark test somewhat sleepy after eating
There’s a ton of factors at play
Get exercise, don’t play distracted, don’t play in a bad mood, eat well, sleep well. Grind the muscle memory and situational awareness fellas
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You are obviously playing on tablet/some heavy lag device.
If your reactions are as bad as you say they are (they aren’t) then you should be the teaching guru par excellence becaus even it means you’ve trained yourself to examine and see a multitude of stimuli that many others have not. When I learn something reactive on this game, it literally takes me no more than a day of practice for the hardest things I’ve learned, but usually takes me about less than 10 tries for the easier things. Like I KD someone with Urien, it took me about 5 tries to eyeball my opponents wakeup on reaction and be able to meaty it with 90% efficiency if im concentrating on focus, there’s nothing else to concentrate on on the opponents wakeup so, yeah. But cancel confirms on delay cancel moves? I’ve probabky gotten a couple frames faster than when I started out, but it still feels like I’m about 5 frames to slow.
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