Get Better at BEAT SABER (Beginners Guide)

My top tips to get better at Beat Saber!

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[WSHTM]

the "dont think" one is so true. Trying to think and focus on blocks just makes me fail immediately (on hard levels). Sometimes I shock myself when I'm zoned out because I do stuff that I didn't think was possible for me

[palpaleo]

Flow state is def a big sign of when you get comfortable with the game after a lot of hours. Countless times where a difficult sequence passed by, I said to myself "oh I def must have missed a note or two", looking at the combo and still not being broken :D

[cheller]

When I bought my Quest and started a fitness focused journey into Beat Saber 9 months ago I recall watching one of your videos about getting in the zone and using practice mode. I thought it was so insane that you could sight read expert+ maps and couldn’t have ever imagined getting to that point. Here I am now 9 months later and I can sight read Expert+ and compete online at that level. I’m blown away by how much better I play when I’m mentally fatigued because my muscle memory takes over and I can just relax and enjoy the unwind. Thanks for all of your amazing tips and vids. I was a fan the moment I first saw one of your vids.

[JetScreamer_YT]

I've been playing for a couple years now. I'm a sold Expert, but moving to Expert Plus. If I had to guess, I have between 500, and 700 hours. I've recently moved to online play at Expert. I do well. My main reason I play is fitness, not competition. I have no ego online. I like all of us to do well.

[maxmogavero]

Great advice. And using your wrists is absolutely necessary to get into the expert+ difficulty. However, I think using full arm swings is far better exercise, and the added challenge of big swings can keep lower difficulty levels relevant. I personally play beat saber for fitness, and waving my wrists around is much less fun, and does nothing to my heart rate.

[hief]

I’ve only played beat saber once in my life and am still in love with it till this day. Will definitely rewatch this video when I’m able to get VR!!

[soyeahstuff]

Forget about processing power, reduce debris is a setting I suggest for even the most powerful of systems. When you start getting really good and play faster and denser songs those block pieces can fill your screen so bad you can’t even tell where the blocks are or how you’re supposed to hit them. Honestly, I noticed an improvement in my gameplay instantly on harder songs when I turned that on.

[malcolmgray]

2 year in beat saber now on modded quest. These are all excellent tips. The one that stands out is the stretching. I've twice had to break from beat saber because of injury with it. My wrist and my elbow which took such a long time to heal, I'm still working on it, but back playing. Listen to your body. Don't play through pain, you'll regret it. 2nd once I switched to claw it was a game changer. Feels odd at first, but stick with it. Thamks Naysy.

[Isaac]

This video is excellent!! I’ve searched around for thorough info on these types of things and this hits all of them. Thank you for making it! Your vids are awesome!

[protocrush]

Apart from the great info - serious kudos on how super slick your video quality and editing is! You're a pro at more than Beat Saber!

[matneyshader]

Another really good one is learn to sight read really well. Don't think about the blocks that are right in front of you, look at the page as a whole, the blocks that are down the line and your arms will get ready to play those notes as they come!! If I start to mess up I know it's bc I'm not aight reading enough!! Focusing on what I'm about to hit too much :) hope that helps!

[marcdempsey]

Thank you so much for these tips, been watching your channel now for three years. For the start of beat saber, finally last year got the meta quest headset and now looking to mode it. Daughters enjoy it so much; they so competitive wonder where they get that from BUT it’s the enjoyment of playing and dancing around. It’s your style as we say… lol
The don’t think and zone mode is so true, once there and you are in it you finish the map and wanna start all over again as quick as poss, to stay in zone. Thankyou for you videos over the years and the inspiration it has give us and everyone else around the world. All the very best Marc, Georgia & Alicia

[MARTINCAM]

Great content and delivery! Amazing communication skills. You are so articulate!

[MeatyMan_BS]

I'm having fun by playing fast maps and improving, it is so satisfying to watch how you are becoming better imo
Also few thing i want to mention:
1. NEVER use only wrists or you will injure them if you will be able to play hard maps(hard states for 9+ stars ranked maps) always use arm+wrist so you don't need to fullswing with only wrist
2.Do not change your grip unless you feel uncomfortable with it, if you are feeling comfortable with default grip - stay on default grip
3. To make your settings use easy offset if you are on pc it will save you a lot of time in making good settings, if you are playing on native quest well there is not much to do about it will take A LOT of time to get good settings
4. Always stretch before playing hard maps playing without stretching increases chance of injuring something
5.Use JDfixer it lets you play with jd that is best for you

[jenniferferguson]

I absolutely love beat saber. I'm 45 long time gamer. I'm also a fitness buff. This is a wonderful game and I play it almost every day. I'm up to expert+ on a lot of them but the wrist tips are great! I definitely get a workout. I use beat saber to warm up and get my brain going before my harder workouts

[KingCrocman]

props to the upgrading in editing recently, nice job. it makes things have way more better flow.

[tazyou]

I really appreciate these tips and tricks. I can see myself trying some of them next time I play Beat Saber.

[ruthiewitter]

I love love love this, it’s so helpful, thank you so much

[janettewong]

As a dancer/martial artist and former fencer (foil, not sabre), I play with the wrist band on and loosely holding the controller with a claw grip because it’s actually somewhat similar to the 2-finger + thumb hold on the very standard French grip that most people start on. The way the hand is “open” prevents you from death gripping the controller and cramping up your hand since the handle acts a little like the pommel of a weapon pressing against the inside of your wrist. The plastic ring “propping” up your fingers means you can keep your hand nice and relaxed, just like in fencing. This is definitely more difficult if you have smaller hands but having fairly average hands for a woman, this grip style worked really well for me.

I’m on Oculus 2 and setting the height taller makes sense - if you are not used always being in a slight squat position (martial artists, skaters, etc. would be used to this), setting it higher is absolutely easier on your knees initially. The drawback is that if you have a weak core, you might give yourself a sore lower back

I really never played this game with the intention of a high score (ie. I just wanted to get some cardio in) and I breezed through pretty much every song I set on easy and then with one or two play throughs I was getting A/S on the songs set on normal. Before I hit hour 1, I was getting S on songs set on hard after failing them once or twice and I attribute all of this to all of my other hobbies. You learn very quickly that, like you said, you can’t always keep your elbows up depending on the map. My inclination is to hold weapons defensively in front of me (eg. Anyone who’s ever done double-broadsword forms in wushu/kung fu) but that’s not going to work when some of the choreography is set closer to waist level. At that point, it begins to feel more like actual fencing and fencers always move with their knees bent

Getting flustered the first few times you encounter something that’s a bit too fast for you is normal and I honestly only got through it and quickly because of muscle memory from my other hobbies. I think what’s more important than developing muscle memory, the game lives up to its name and you just follow the beat. I know it’s easy for me to say as a dancer but I once had to learn that too; my teachers reminded us to exhale. It gives you a beat to make up for the one you missed and then hum the beat and hop back on it.

We hold our breath when we are concentrating very hard so if you’re focusing too much on the arrows - exhale. Even if you have the muscle memory, it won’t matter if it kicked in on the wrong beat

[SailingRiverSong]

As a newbie on this i am so happy that i Found your channel. I Realy liked The "claw grip tip" Your channel is so Good that i became a member. ❤️