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Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by helix278 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:51AM (#38843732)
What is hypertapping and tapping?
Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by xerox13ster on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @12:06PM (#38843943)
These are shown and explained in the video.

tapping/hypertapping: what you do to your mouse trying to get your click speed above 10 CPS

rolling: the same but tapping each finger on the bottom of the controller while pressing the buttons to feather tap the switch state extremely fast. like fiddling a mechanical keyboard key over the actuation point. The equivalent of putting sharpied electrical tape on your mouse and rubbing it.

DAS: the thing we did as kids to hold the piece up by holding down a horizontal direction.

Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by refulgentis on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @02:10PM (#38845653)
Gently teasing :) - I definitely got _more_ confused, these are interesting examples.

> what you do to your mouse trying to get your click speed above 10 CPS.

?!

> The equivalent of putting sharpied electrical tape on your mouse and rubbing it.

?!?

Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by jameshart on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @04:44PM (#38847514)
You know, like when you use bacon grease in your USB ports. Or flip the monitor to face away from you when you’re pressing backspace. Just the regular things normal technomancers learn to do to avoid the wrath of the Basilisk.
Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by akoboldfrying on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:12PM (#38849459)
Kids these days don't realise the sheer dexterity that was needed to flip a CRT monitor to face away from you while pressing backspace.

I'll grant you that the modern way of having a dedicated "Shift" key on the keyboard is more convenient, especially if you need to type a lot of lower-case letters in a row. But we got by alright.

Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by charcircuit on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @04:49PM (#38847566)
How is it surprising? Do you think people should just cheat with autoclickers instead?
Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by AndrewKemendo on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @05:12PM (#38847797)
You’re trying to give a specific kind of input to a controller (l, r, a, b etc….) at a speed higher than the controller was designed to input

So if you can vibrate the controller on a way that your input rate increases it doesn’t matter how you make it do that

Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by jameshart on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:58PM (#38849770)
This thread is a fantastic example of a failure for people inside a hobby to even begin to imagine how to explain it to someone outside the domain who expresses a casual interest in a nuance of the field. The poor person who asked for a definition of 'hypertapping' was given:

> tapping/hypertapping: what you do to your mouse trying to get your click speed above 10 CPS

Now imagine for a second that you have, as someone not engaged in the higher levels of professional competitive video gaming, never considered measuring click speed in 'CPS', nor considered how one might get it above 10. You would have no idea what you do to a mouse to accomplish such a thing, so you're none-the-wiser what 'tapping' or 'hyper tapping' actually are (or what the nuanced distinction between them might be).

Can you see how they might be confused?

Then they were told that 'rolling' is

> The equivalent of putting sharpied electrical tape on your mouse and rubbing it.

Again, not having ever considered sharpieing electrical tap, nor what effect it might have if one were to put it on a mouse and rub it (static buildup and a loud squeak possibly?) what is our poor non-elite-gamer to make of this explanation?

Now you're telling them that it doesn't matter how this input rate speed is accomplished. And yet it seems apparent that tapping, hyper tapping and rolling are all nuanced and distinct ways to accomplish this.

This is why people learn not to take an interest in other people's hobbies.

Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by AndrewKemendo on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @10:12PM (#38850234)
I really appreciate this! I enjoyed reading it for sure and totally agree!

In an effort to be accessible it’s often lands as hard to read cause so much is assumed.

You nailed the point though, so communication happened if maybe more circuitous than optimal

Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by shrikant on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:46AM (#38851434)
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?
Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by AndrewKemendo on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:28AM (#38867378)
Genuinely

Didn’t everyone memorize Deleuze? (Joking)

Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by pests on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:30PM (#38848598)
People hold their fingers against the buttons of the NES controller. They then tap the back of the controller to push the buttons into their fingers.
Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by Dwedit on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:02PM (#38849387)
If you have a touchpad, you can alternate between two fingers and effectively double your click speed. 12 clicks per second isn't too hard.
Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by subtra3t on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @10:27AM (#38855158)
> you do to your mouse trying to get your click speed above 10 CPS

There are multiple ways to do this. Jitter clicking and butterfly clicking are the most common ways to do this which don't make use of a particular defect in some mice (double clicking).

Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by abcd_f on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:57AM (#38843809)
Wouldn't hurt to explain other voodoo words, e.g. DAS and rolling.
Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by Aissen on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @12:08PM (#38843968)
Both of those terms are explained quickly in the video, and have a dedicated explanation video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE

Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] by kosievdmerwe on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:47AM (#38851170)
This is where I learnt about hypertapping and rolling: https://youtu.be/n-BZ5-Q48lE

Though this is a different video of the same author as the original video in the OP