Summary of discussion, some things to think about that weren't in the video! - Doing daily threshold runs CAN burn you out the same way as goals if you set thresholds that are too high. - A flaw with daily thresholds is that they don't take into account your day to day performance (some days are just bad! what if I can't hit my threshold?). Thresholds are intended to give a measure for your level of focus/effort that you're putting in your practice-- the ideal is to be able to know your own brain and hands well enough that you just know the proper amount to put in without getting burnt out. Lots more of practice theory to think about though! probably beyond the scope of this video. - Following the above, you shouldn't chain yourself to your routine, and be ok with having a few bad days. Falling off the wagon is bad of course, but falling off and never getting back on is worse. Make sure to re-evaluate every so often and ensure that you're not doing anything unhealthy or misaligned with your actual goals. - Overall though, people who have practiced in this way think it's a solid method :)

The best way to improve is to have fun while playing. It will make you play just for fun and you'll get good by accident

I've struggled a lot in the past with grinding singleplayer because I would set inappropriate thresholds. Some thresholds were too difficult per day, like sub 26 second sprint per day was difficult for me for a while, which led to me stopping grinding for a few weeks. Other thresholds were too easy, so I'd often get the threshold within 20 minutes per day, and that would lead to not enough time grinding per day. Recently, like a month ago, I've started being pretty careful to set goals that are right at the edge of my current ability per day, so I'm pretty much guaranteed to spend hours per day playing. It can be pretty stressful getting later on in the day and not reaching the goal however, since I spilt my tetris time to last throughout the day, but I haven't really had a day that I couldn't achieve my sprint, ultra, and cheese goals (for cheese, I grind time) of the day, even if they were achieved at 10 pm in the night. The way how I've set my threshold per day is that if I've gotten a higher score like 4-5 days in a row, I would set my new threshold to that score. For example, I lowered my cheese threshold from sub 1:50 to sub 1:45 per day yesterday because I've gotten at least 1 sub 1:45 per day for a bunch of days now. Does take a good bit of grinding to get those scores per day though, and I'm not sure what would happen if life work ramps up yet. Anyways, the reason I've set up my goals like this is that I want to be able to maintain a baseline level of efficiency while being able to grind speed effectively, which I find versus is much worse at doing than single player modes. Higher scores in ultra and lower times in cheese inherently require higher pps, and that's something I find very valuable. I'll see if my speed really does increase as I continue practicing this way for the coming months. Leonid's method is interesting but it probably won't do much for me since I already spam runs so often. Sometimes I look at my leaderboard and get surprised at how low my top 200s are because of my heavy singleplayer grinding habits. Then again, I'm probably the person who needs the least help grinding singleplayer, which is the complete opposite of this video's demographic lol. Maybe Leonid's method is much more useful to others.

Recently I have been going for a pb in ultra but my main focus has been just getting more 80k runs. While not nearly as realistic of a goal as what you talked about I think its really cool to see this video cause of that. Definitely going to set some goals that are a bit lower cause of what you've talked about. thinking maybe all top 200 60k+ ? will have to see where I actually am at now. I get the caveats you talked about but I think that plateau is aways away this mentality will get me feeling good. awesome video as always !

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Can I have like general guideline about the practice routine to get better in versus? For example like sprint, cheese race and ultra?

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you are too *FRUMPLE*.