Your skill level in games (are you relevant in your favorite game circle?)

[mZuzek]

SegaHeart said:

mZuzek said:

I feel like I can always be somewhere close to the top level players on any game I play, but never get quite good enough to be notable or actually be able to compete with the best. I've tried to get into many competitive games over my life and it's frustrating how I can never really get past that barrier.

~Guitar Hero when I was a teenager,
~Then came Smash,
~I got into speedrunning Ori,
~And now it's Splatoon.

tl;dr trying to get far in a competitive game is a fruitless effort, don't do it

You're amazing in those games I also tried all the games you listed, In Splatoon I get destroyed most of the time I'm very bad at shooting games being top 3 world wide in Ori is a great feat. And Smash bros you beat everybody in VGchartz very easily. I'm Very bad in Smash Bros all the versions including Melee :(

Thanks. I know I'm better than most people at them, I think that's natural given how much time and effort I put into them. It's just that last barrier I can't seem to break through, from being a good player, to actually being a top player. At my age now it feels like a barrier I won't ever really get past, I don't have as much patience to improve enough at these games and get frustrated more easily. Though I suppose Ori was the closest I made it to the top and the only one where I maybe feel like I could potentially get to the top if I really gave it my best. But then again, maybe not.

edit: anyway for further context on Ori, while that 3rd place looks better than it should due to the small community as I said before, it's also helped by Main Quest Order not being the main speedrunning category. When looking through all the categories and seeing what all the best players can do, it's pretty clear there's at least 10 who are better than me, and would be above me if they ran Main Quest Order. I guess it's still decent that only 10 players in the world would be better than me, but again, it's a really small community. Less than 200 people have submitted a speedrun in any category, and most of these people only tried once or twice for the heck of it.

Last edited by mZuzek - on 03 November 2022