Rapid trigger is a crutch that this keyboard depends on.
The weight of the keys (60g, I know 45g ones exists I'll probably get them at some point) causes the bounceback time (i.e. how long it takes for a key to unpress after you let it go) to be quite slow.
Without rapid trigger, it feels really quite strange to play because of it, and you may find yourself dropping inputs on fast stuff (especially if your actuation point is very high).

With rapid trigger on, the almost instant feedback you get by letting go of a key, is really awesome to feel for the first time, and I'd say it does help with LN just a tiny bit.
Unfortunately, to get the insanely good feedback, you need to have the sensitivity extremely high (<0.4mm), which in my experience causes major consistency issues.
When I first played with rapid trigger on a high sensitivity, I was dropping LNs like crazy, and even on rice I was double tapping a ton.

A good way to test if your sensitivity is too high, is to hold an LN on [1], and jack as fast as you can on [2].
If you drop the LN, then you need to decrease the sensitivity.

My current settings with the Wooting are:
Actuation point: 0.4mm
Downstroke sensitivity: 0.75mm
Upstroke sensitivity: 0.85mm
Continuous rapid trigger: Off

Overall, after 1 month my consistency still feels a little worse than it was with the Razor Huntsman, but it may be that I still need to get used to some things, or tweak the settings even more.
I'd say that compared to the Razor Huntsman, the change in my skill is net zero, very slightly better LN, very slightly worse consistency, yet I would still recommend this keyboard.

The reason why I would recommend this is durability, which was one of the main reasons I actually wanted to get a Wooting in the first place.
At 1 month of playing, I've been using the same keybinds the entire time and they show almost zero sign of damage, on top of that, the keyswitches themselves are hot-swappable, and available for a relatively low price (£0.75-£0.51 per switch depending on how many you buy).

So at the end of the day, if you were already willing to spend upwards of £120 for a good keyboard, then the Wooting sitting at £180, might be a good investment.
But please for the love of god, do NOT buy this keyboard thinking its going to magically turn you into a top player.

Old Keyboard: Razor Huntsman, TKL, mechanical, wired, 8000Hz polling rate?, Linear Optical Switches
Older Keyboard: Ducky One Two, 65%, mechanical, wired, 1000Hz polling rate (1000Hz helps so much wtf)
Olderest Keyboard: Seenda super-slim (knock-off Apple), membrane, wireless, no numpad, 125Hz polling rate (acc is pain)

I used to play close spread (e.g. 'hjkl'). I did this because 1. I started really young, so my fingies were small back then (and they actually still are), and 2. My first rhythm game was Piano Tiles 2, so when I started playing SDVB (SDVX Roblox clone) and FFR, I instinctively set my binds to a close spread setup to replicate how I played Piano Tiles.

Luminal for 2 years lol

skipping luminal 1.05 and tachyon v3 moment

So glad I never have to play this again.

skipped 9th

11th too hard

so much harder than it was to progress in 4k Dans

"Man their acc is so bad even though they FC'ed" - Eliminate looking at the Purple Palace leaderboards (not me) without realising that I also FC'ed because my acc was so bad that I got an even lower rank.

Decided to pp farm for some reason
Top 18 plays all set in one day, + the top play is an FC for extra cool points.
Genuinely though pp farming is pretty fun. I used to hate it because jumptrills and vibro, but as I'm recently getting more into LN, and the meta is also shifting towards it, the pp farm ranked maps are mostly just really fast hybrids, which is fun.

This is 38 minutes of dense 255bpm jumpstream and handstream

This was without a doubt the most stamina intensive score I have ever set
I'm pretty sure Nate almost seriously injured his hand from this too

I think this tournament has genuinely been my favourite tournament ever, the maps were incredibly high quality, fully custom, and the song choices were absolute bangers, not to mention the amazing close matches throughout the tournament, and yet another incredible Grand Finals TB custom from Sydosys- plus a custom song from T11, freaking T11!!!!!

But honestly, what made this tournament so special for me was the people- I had so much fun competing against MiniEgg and Dragon throughout the whole tournament- without them I would have never played 2k as much, and never would have gotten to the skill level that I am now.

But as the cherry on top of all that- I got to go see both MiniEgg and Dragon in person, the very day before my Grand Finals match against MiniEgg!
Like how insane is that? Literally the day before the Grand Finals of this tournament that we've been talking to each other about non-stop for the last month, we end up going to an arcade and playing rhythm games together for 6 hours, getting to joke about our upcoming match all throughout the day (and giving miniegg the opportunity to bribe me, twice lol).

And it doesn't stop there, right from the beginning of the tournament, we all joked saying that maybe we could get the top 4 of the tournament to be entirely UK. And we actually almost freaking did it lmao.
The bracket was absolutely perfectly in our favour, and we managed to get the top 3 to be all UK players, with Dragon placing top 6, just barely missing out on 4th with a 6-1 loss against Basil (who beat me 5-0 earlier in the tournament).


Oh you thought we were done? No no no, there's still much more that made me love this tournament so much.
First of all, the very concept of the 2-key playstyle is something that I have adored and wished was given more spotlight for years now. (I have been trilling jacks for almost as long as I have been playing rhythm games, so for gods sake please stop calling it the "Jakads method" I beg you)
So the fact that I got to actually apply all my years of pointless practice, and have the technique get more exposure? It was simply amazing.

And I mentioned the people briefly earlier, but there were so many more that made the tournament fun for me, and I want to share my appreciation for these ones in particular:
Basil for being an amazing player, friendly competitor, and entertaining streamer- and for having such a fun, comfy community (I am eternally lurking in all your channels...)
Eliminate and Teezel, as my fellow UK citizens and former 1KWC teammates.
Maddy, as a fellow Vivid/Stasis enjoyer, generally wholesome person, and one of the very few players who actually learned to alternate :3
And of course, Sparxe, [LS]Ham, Iron, Nivrad, and the rest of the staff team that made this entire tournament possible- thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving me such a wonderful experience, you can be sure that I'll remember this tournament for the rest of my life.




Oh you thought we're done now? Nope.
First off, the mad geniuses managed to get the first ever 2-key tournament badged.
Giving me, my first ever badge with it.
After 7 years of playing, I can finally say proudly to the world, that I am a huge rhythm game nerd, who is officially recognised by osu for being good at the game.

Secondly, the staff team continues to bring me joy even after the conclusion of the tournament with the announcement of their next projects.
Not only did my favourite playstyle finally get to see a sliver of the light of day because of this tournament, but they now plan to move up in the world, to 3k- but no, not the boring 3k that's just worse 4k, the type of 3k that has four unique playstyles- yes, that's right, including fingerswitch (my beloved).

This is by far the best shot I may ever have at being able to play fingerswitch in a tournament- and by god do I believe that they are the ones best suited for the task.
So I'll see you all in Sydosys' Three Key Event (name pending), where I (hopefully :3) claim my next tournament badge!

epic team banner i cant get to display properly:

I am a university student! Wow!
In all seriousness it wasn't nearly as big as a change to my life as I thought it would be, I still just sit on the computer for most of the day, going to lessons (now replaced with lectures) and studying when necessary.
There's a lot I could say about my course so far- but I'll refrain and just summarise by saying 'its alright'.

Playing rhythm games in my dorm doesn't seem to be an issue, I asked one of my flatmates and she said that they never heard any noise from my room, so that's good.

I honestly have arguably even more free time than I did in college (usually at least), but the addition of things like actually needing to make food for myself, socialise, and just in general make sure I have the things I need to live- takes up a surprising amount of time.
Not to mention the insane amount of procrastination I'm doing on my course (like I said, there is a lot I could say about it, but I've already wrote over 3000 words of feedback so I will refrain).

Honestly I'm not really enjoying my course right now, for a multitude of reasons, but its not terrible.
I'm just assuming that it will get better over time, if it doesn't then this is gonna be a rough 5 years- the course leaders have already addressed a lot of my feedback though, so that is a good sign.

Anyway, this is an Osu profile so I should talk about Osu.
If you read this far, I've been getting into mapping recently, so if you have any tips on how the heck to get things ranked (preferably with minimal social interaction)- it would be cool if you let me know.
Likewise if you have an interesting map, I'd love to review it if you want (dm me on Osu or Discord @zoobin4).
I don't really know why, but loads of people have been coming to me to review charts recently, but hey I like doing it so its cool.

In terms of actual gameplay, I have been playing semi-actively, just kinda whenever I feel like it.
My LNs are even worse than they were before, so I really want to work on that, but my acc is still pretty much at its peak, and physically I'm just rusty (but can fully de-rust in like a week).
I really need to stop playing so many tournaments though, even if I'm not taking them too seriously they still take so much time out of my weekend- I want to go visit this super cool person I met recently who made a custom PIU pad, but I can't because of too many tournaments!