I used to be the #1 CounterStrike player back in the 0.7 days (when it was just a great mod for Half-Life and ranking was tracked via a 3rd party website that I can’t remember). It only lasted like two months but it was such a fun time in my life… I used to travel around New England crushing everyone at LAN parties.

That was a long time ago.

Now I’m the #1 Beat Saber player at the ripe old age of 47! Don’t believe me?

https://beatleader.com/ranking/1?sortBy=playCount 🤣

I’ve never paused. Not once!

I also have a… special skill that only about 3-4 other Beat Saber players have (in the whole world!). You can see it demonstrated in this masterpiece of a replay:

https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=20010657

…but here’s my highest-PP play:

https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=17128036

Second highest is a bit more impressive though, IMHO:

https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=27221909

(Take into account that I never pause while watching that)

Just finished Silksong act 3. At nearly 50 years old I felt pretty badasses for being able to complete it without cheating or mods.

That was a while ago, but at some point I was “quite good” on my main champion (Leona) on League of Legends. I would usually be able to make a few plays per game, and sometimes win a few team fights.

Obviously, I was probably mostly playing with other very low level players, but it was still nice.

Clair Obscur has a tendency to make me alternate between feeling like a god and feeling like a total scrub.

I used to be really good at Minesweeper back in the day.

It was on MK Wii back in 2016. Faced off against 2 Japanese players and managed to beat them only by one point in battle mode. Was the highlight of my life basically. Never been the same since.

I recently got into Masters with Cammy in Street Fighter 6. It made me think I was pretty good until I started playing other Masters players, and then I realized I am trash at this game LOL

Finished Lies of P without parrying, I suck at parrying

Quake 3 arena

Silksong, end of act I boss. I watched footage of that boss several times to learn their moves until the whole fight was so legible that it ended before I even got “in the zone”. It forced me to pay more close attention to enemy animations and sounds, and it made me a better player. I’m still a bit of a scrub, but I’ve developed a better eye for my own shortcomings and how to deal with those.

A couple of days ago on Cube2:Sauerbraten FPS.

Twitch guess shots that hit, through tree-cover guess shots that are on, and being slippery during flagruns to confuse opponents(or use up their mousepad space) before tagging them.

[ Did you like UT or Q3 back in the day? Then give it a go, an excellent FOSS FPS]

Street Fighter EX in the arcade. A stranger challenged me, and I beat him 12 times in a row until he rage quit.

Dance Dance Revolution I attracted a small crowd watching me.

Tetris on Gameboy when I completed it for the first time.

I was getting pretty decent at Deadlock last year. Not enough to mix with the top ranked players but enough to be in the rightward slope of the bell curve. When I was playing with friends or acquaintances I’d made in the game I’d consistently be one of the top performers of the team, and I would regularly carry games both with performance but also shot calling over mic.

Unfortunately the hyperfixation abated and I haven’t touched the game since like January.

Elden Ring: Nightreign. I play Ironeye because he’s medium-ranged and has an extra dodge that can go right through enemies. When I time every dodge just right and the boss can’t hit me at all, I feel like a ninja.

Then I’ll choke and faceplant into a one-shot in the next run.

Dungeons of Eternity, with friends, I only use bows because they actually require skill. (I dont recommend the game, however.)

I’ve been in VR for 7 years. Many archery games have honed my skill. Being able to use that skill in this game puts me above the average player.

I can fire arrows fast and accurate. I dont tire out too fast. I hold my own In a team where one uses a greatsword and the other often uses a gravity staff.

I currently use bows with Ice Damage + Slowing. Ice is OP and frozen enemies die in 1 hit. Slowing is effective on Ice elementals, as well as slowing enemies until I get an ice arrow.

The ultimate bow in the game, for my play style, would probably be Ice + Slowing + Elite Damage + Elemental Damage.

But I dont recommend the game because every dungeon run is the same. Same enemies, same rooms, same game loop. Also, the way you get items is stupid. You “unlock” them by opening chests, then you have to “craft” them at the lobby, which costs in-game money for some reason. You also cant trade weapons with friends.

Furthermore, only 1 potion effect can be active at a time (we’ve lost runs because we were invisible and stepped in another potion). This goes for enemies as well. If I freeze an enemy, then hit them with a Slowing arrow, they become unfrozen and slowed. And thats another thing:

When a weapon claims to have 2 elements, its not 2 elements on the same arrow, no, it randomly applies one of the elements to SOME of the arrows. So I pull an arrow, 50% of th e time its a normal arrow. The other 50% it could be 1 of those 2 elements, you never know.

The game infuriates me by their design choices. Im only playing because we dont have multiplayer VR Skyrim yet, or something like it, like Blade&Sorcery. Im only playing because thats what my friends are playing.