Keep in mind that all of these tips are meant to be SUPPLEMENTAL to your gameplay and shouldn't be taken as the ONLY way to play the game. These tips all come from my personal experience of trying to objectify the meaning of "playing more" because I hate this tip that everyone says to new players.
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MECHANICS TIPS
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1. DO NOT COPY ANY OTHER PLAYER'S SETTINGS. Find your own tablet area OR sensitivity that is comfortable enough for you to reach the four corners of the play area while also has enough surface area for YOU to control your cursor at a micro level.
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2. TRY YOUR BEST to aim towards the numbers of the circles. The more you try to do that, the more likely you are going to hit it. This even works for streams because your cursor will tend to stay within the stream, or as I like to call it "STAY CENTERED IN YOUR LANE" like staying centered in your lane while driving a car!
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3. Adding on to the previous aim tip, AIM is actually about 90% reading and 10% raw aim. So make sure that you actually SEE the jumps and read them properly before you physically aim at them. Maybe read squares as 1-2s or 1-2-3-1. Maybe make sure that you can read 4 jumps at once instead of hyperfocusing on each note if you want to minimize strain on your brain.
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4. IGNORE THIS TIP IF YOU ARE ALREADY GOOD AT STREAMING, or don't idk. If you want to get good at conserving stamina for tapping streams, ONLY put energy on your fingers to ONLY MOVE THEM DOWN and let your keys go up by themselves. If you can spend time getting comfortable with knowing what your actuation point of your switch is, then DO IT. ONLY PRESS DOWN TO THE ACTUATION POINT (unless you want to actually bottom out to ensure that you get good accuracy).
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5. FLOW AIM MOSTLY COMES FROM PLAYING MORE! The main tip that I can give is to TRY NOT TO OVERAIM! Make sure that your tapping hand is comfortable enough to where it feels AUTOMATIC. There's no point in trying to flow aim streams if you can't even tap it. Anyways, most flow aim mistakes that I see from other players is that they overaim a lot, so maybe use osu!rewind or watch your replays to see where you over aimed! Spaced streams may look fast BUT they still require FLOW aim, which also means they have a certain PACE. Not too fast but not too slow either. The more experience you get from practicing, the more confident you are going to be!
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6. STOP PLAYING IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SHARP PAINS! The pain you want to feel while playing for improvement is like getting sore from working out in the gym lifting weights! KNOW YOUR LIMITS! YOU AIN'T THAT GUY YET!
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7. Don't forget to train your finger control. Having stamina is good but triples and doubles can screw you up pretty hard, so train your reading and finger control!
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8. Not a lot of people talk about this so I'm going to say this here. All monitors have a different base level of gamma. CHANGE YOUR GAMMA TO MAKE YOUR READING BETTER! Press Windows button and type in "gamma", then press the next button 3 times until you see the slider. You can keep it open until you are done.

THIS IS THE MAIN WAY OF HOW PEOPLE READ HIGH (or low) AR. People will probably make fun of you for not knowing how to read AR 10 properly but who the f**k cares? THIS IS YOUR GAME. Higher gamma makes high AR easier to read, and lower gamma makes low AR easy to read. It even works for AR 8 HD! Try it out! (although people will call you a cheater)

Also keep in mind that some skins have BRIGHT circles and some have circles you can barely even see.

Good example

dark circles: aristia/varvalian skin

BRIGHT CIRCLES: Rafis HDDT skin
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9. If you want to get better at full alternating, don't even think about getting good at singletapping with your non-dominant finger. I mean you can try it but from my experience so far, it doesn't help that much because when you are starting consecutive bursts/streams with full-alt, you aren't using your non-dominant finger for two times in a row. Get used to tapping consecutive triples at a low bpm first.

For alternating jumps, have a good rhythm sense/feeling of your tapping and sound of your keyboard. Don't be afraid and trust yourself more as you keep on playing more.

Scared of triples in the middle of jumps? Try your best to only tap based what you SEE, not what you can predict. Don't think much about your raw physical aim. Instead, pay attention to how your cursor moves.

Having trouble with coordinating your aim with your tapping and vice versa? Try to get good at alternating maps first to focus on your cursor control. That way, you can have mindset of seeing every map as an alternating map except that it has more aim control (jumps) and finger control (bursts/streams).
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10. If you can't single tap 200 bpm jumps, you may be using your wrist to singletap, so try using your arm as the base of your tapping instead of your wrist. Your wrist is weaker compared to your arm and it is more prone to RSI or carpal tunnel if you keep focusing on using that for your tapping. Most of your pain/feeling of being sore should come from your forearm. YOUR HANDS ARE IMPORTANT! Please do not injure yourself for this video game!
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MINDSET TIPS
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1. If you miss in the middle of your run, it's a good idea to keep playing through the map because you'll get exposure to ALL parts of the map instead of the part you are retry spamming. If you still get frustrated, then at least be thankful that you got to see the whole map.
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2. DO NOT COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHER PLAYERS. THIS IS A SINGLE PLAYER GAME. If you are going to do that, then ONLY compare with YOURSELF. It is a waste of time to get demotivated by looking at how other people play because YOU HAVE YOUR OWN LIFE and they have theirs.
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3. NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN TERMS OF SKILL, be thankful for what you have obtained compared to how you started playing the game. You don't have to improve fast because ANY IMPROVEMENT is improvement.
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4. IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD! Say stuff like "Hmm I probably can't do that yet" instead of "I CAN NEVER DO THIS MAN IM SO BAD!". Your self-esteem (whether you believe it or not) will tend to be more negative if you keep on saying stuff like that. Negative thoughts can seriously damage your overall health, so feel free to just take a walk outside and touch grass sometimes.
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5. DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR RANK! If you do really care about rank though, the only goal you should have for pushing rank is to be 4 digit. Once you get that or if you can't do that, STOP CARING ABOUT YOUR RANK! It's a waste of time and nobody else really cares about YOUR RANK. Your rank will naturally increase when you get more skill and confidence from playing more. Seriously, nobody truly gives a crap if you are a 3 digit or not.
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6. ACHIEVE SMALL GOALS TO STAY MOTIVATED! Sometimes, it is not best to push for a top play or play stuff that is WAYY too hard for you everyday. It is COMPLETELY FINE to train by playing low 5 star maps. Try to get some medals or improve an old score because ANY IMPROVEMENT is improvement! Maybe try making practice diffs of hardest part of the map so that you can play it for fun!
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7. LET YOUR HANDS AND EYES DO THE WORK FOR YOU! It is a fact that you can't stop nerves. Every top player gets nervous on their FC runs. The nervous system exists to prepare you for an incoming threat, but osu isn't threatening at all! You are more likely scared of the OUTCOME, which distracts you from focusing on the PROCESS. Press SHIFT + TAB to remove the HUD and lock in for the 1v1 between YOU and the MAP. If you still miss even though you tried your best to not be as nervous, then that means that you don't have enough EXPERIENCE yet. Make more practice diffs so that you can become more confident! Another tip is to focus on feeling where your pen nib is dragging to (if you drag).
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8. DON'T BE RESTRICTED TO HAVING ONE SENS/AREA! Feel free to change your sens/area as much as you want! However, you shouldn't blame this for your performance because it redirects your focus and makes you forget that this game relies on HAND AND EYE COORDINATION! Sometimes, you feel like some maps need more precision or speed and that is okay!
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