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WOW !!!!??? What ??

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Just finding this now, but not even a little bit impressed.  First of all, he's 4 fingering.  That's almost considered cheating amongst players who are way way way better than he is, myself included.  Second, 211 bpm is only like 60% of what top tier Stepmania / FFR players do.....but with 2 fingers only, and that's been the speed standard for like 15 years of actual top tier players.  I'm not sure who this guy knew at Alienware to get a sponsored video like this, but it was clearly someone who was unaware of the very niche scene and how competitive it actually got at one point.  I'm 40 years old and clear songs with 2 fingers at 410 bpm even still today and do it on stream.  I can't even find a USB operated camera that can keep up....and I'm nowhere near the best.  There are a few people who smoke me and can do 610bpm on 2 fingers.  The cross mod also isn't the challenge you think it is.  Once you hit a certain level (which is well before what he's at), you don't actually read the arrows anymore.  You read the columns, and you're reading the center of the screen, not the actual spot the notes end, so it's actually NO more difficult than playing it on normal.  You could turn them into blue blobs or make them permanently face the wrong way, it doesn't matter, our brains just see the column and color hitting the column and we associate a hit with the timing vs our + or - cmod speed.  For him to have done this impressively with 4 fingers, he would have needed to hit at least 4,100 notes playing this wayin the same amount of time he did to be as fast as a competitive 2 fingerer, just to put it in perspective.  He's intermediate in the competitive scene 10 years ago.