09-26-2008, 03:23 PM | #1 |
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Hand posture
How do you position your hands on the keyboard? Not your finger placements, but your hand as a whole. I heard in another thread about fingernails affecting gameplay, so I'm curious of what you all chose since my nails don't even touch the keys.
My left hand suffers from chronic pain, so I have it relaxed as much as possible. The wrist-rest really helps. And my right hand goes a bit more vertical to get a better angle to push faster.
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09-26-2008, 04:07 PM | #2 |
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Re: Hand posture
Took this a while back. I quit FFR/SM but this is how I, along with others, played.
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09-26-2008, 04:55 PM | #3 |
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Re: Hand posture
This is how I used to play, up until a week ago or so:
However, my up arrow key broke (which I have shown in the next picture), so using the external FFR key remapper, I now play like this: Sorry if there is page stretch, I downsized the images quite a bit, and my image uploader doesn't show image sizes properly. Yes, my mom's camera sucks (the second picture is very blurry, I know). No, I am not that white (I don't know how to turn off flash on her camera). ~Bynary Fission
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09-27-2008, 11:26 AM | #4 |
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Re: Hand posture
Sorry but I hate this keyboard... I had the same one (Stock Dell right?) and the keys were hard to press and did lots of noise. Seriously, after I changed it for a new one, my FFR skills really went up. Get a better keyboard first.
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09-27-2008, 11:30 AM | #5 |
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Re: Hand posture
My hand posture is similar to Bynary Fission's when playing easier songs, just not quite as curved (except I play spread, not one-handed). It's not the fingernails that touch the keyboard, just the very edge of my fingers. If my fingernails grow too long, they interfere. On harder songs, my hand posture is crazy; my hands will not maintain a good posture. Sometimes my left pinky or right pinky sticks sideways into the air; I have little control over that.
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Re: Hand posture
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My fingernails only interfere if it's my middle - then it causes my finger to get stuck under the up key more often than normal. ~Bynary Fission
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09-27-2008, 12:23 PM | #7 |
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Re: Hand posture
i use the dfjk keys for ffr, and I have my wrists resting on the table. My question is should I keep my wrists resting on the table, or should I have them in the air?
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09-27-2008, 06:18 PM | #8 |
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I'd rest them on the table, Omega; playing FFR with your wrists in the air would be very tiring. Anyways, how are you supposed to jack quickly like that?
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09-27-2008, 10:25 PM | #9 |
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Re: Hand posture
I jack with my wrists off the table otherwise they are always on. I kinda pinch with my thumb to the finger I am jacking with.
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09-27-2008, 11:10 PM | #10 |
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Re: Hand posture
I can't see how you manage to keep your strength going on long songs like that, Awein. But I also use the thumb pinching habit you described when I try to jack extremely quickly.
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09-27-2008, 11:15 PM | #11 |
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Re: Hand posture
i do the thumb thing when i vibrate but not when i wrist jack...why does that happen :>
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09-27-2008, 11:21 PM | #12 |
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Re: Hand posture
What's the difference between wrist jacking and vibrating? Is the difference that muscle tension is only used in vibrating? I generally use the thumb squeezing habit whenever I do jacks of any sort, unless they're ridiculously slow.
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09-27-2008, 11:24 PM | #13 |
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Re: Hand posture
wrist jacking - you physically lift your hand up and down as a motion from your wrist
vibrating - minimum possible movement of finger/hand in order to hit the key as fast as possible |
09-27-2008, 11:34 PM | #14 |
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Re: Hand posture
I keep my nails VERY short because i found for me it's more painful to play with them so i cut them say once or twice a week. I play Index just using middles instead and use a typical typing posture. I'll throw some pics in when i'm not in PJs.
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