8/6/2023 0 Comments Tetris battle strategies![]() Elite Tetris player, Sam Finch comments, “I’m a hypertapper, I like it. The main problem with hypertapping is the strain it puts on your hands. This has allowed a few players to play on the kill screen with some success. Players like Joseph are capable of pressing the right or left buttons over 12 times per second. Unlike DAS, hypertapping has no speed limit. Most notably, a 16 year old hypertapper named Joseph Salee defeated seven time CTWC champion, Jonas Neubauer in the 2018 CTWC finals. This makes it a popular play style for new players looking to get into Tetris. Joseph Salee playing Tetris using hypertapping pressing the right or left buttons as fast as possible. Over the past few years, hypertappers have made up more and more of the CTWC finalists. ![]() As the name might indicate, it involves pressing the right or left buttons over and over again as fast as possible. Another strategy known as hypertapping has recently become popular among younger players. This is pretty fast, but on the kill screen, where you have just a third of a second, it’s not fast enough. DAS moves a piece over one block every 6 frames (or 10 blocks per second). DAS involves holding down right or left to make the pieces move quickly. One is known as DAS (Delayed Auto Shift). Level 29 is often referred to as the “kill screen.” For 36 years, level 29 was the limit.įor nearly all of its history, NES Tetris has been split between two playstyles. The problem for top players was not deciding where the pieces needed to go, it was physically pressing the right or left buttons fast enough to get the pieces where they needed to go. For a long time, this speed is where even the best of the best players just gave up. A piece on level 29 falls from the top of the screen to the bottom in just a third of a second! For comparison, the average human reaction time is about a quarter of a second. That’s twice the speed as the previous levels. Once players hit level 29, the game reaches it’s highest possible speed: 1 block per 1 frame. Top players are typically okay with this speed, but they have to be on their feet at all times and stay prepared for any misdrops or to correct any mistakes. Despite being a difference of only one frame, this is a 50% increase in speed. It takes 1 second (or 60 frames) for the piece to fall from the top of the screen to the bottom.įrom levels 19-28, the pieces speed up and move at a rate of 1 block per 2 frames (two-thirds of a second for a piece to fall from the top of the screen to the bottom). On this level, the pieces move down at a rate of 1 block per 3 frames. Competition matches start on level 18 instead of level 1. As the level increases, the frames between block movements decreases. Pieces fall one block every certain number of frames. ![]() For top players, this is almost second nature. Most players have a hard time deciding where the pieces should go. In CTWC (Classic Tetris World Championship), players go head to head in NES Tetris and compete to see who can get the highest score before topping out. ![]() A single misdrop can be the difference between a win and a loss. Players need to be ready in case they make a mistake. NES Tetris has a new game-breaking strategy: rolling. ![]()
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