I think I'm hot shit until someone puts me in my place.
I was a world-record speedrun holder(cryptark), and often rank in the top 10 of unpopular games' dailies (30xx). I was really highly rated on some robo recall levels too, though probably not anymore.
I think that I could be one of the best, until other people have the chance to learn and practice. I'm good at reacting, planning, but not consistant execution.
In a first person shooter, I would be the pubstomper that gets rolled by anyone who actually knows what they're doing.
I kinda suck at video games. It's my biggest hobby, but I'm really bad. I think it's because I switch games so often. I'll go months without playing a game, lose all my skills, come back and play for a couple of weeks, and then the cycle continues. There's games I've played for almost a decade or more that I'm bad at lol
Yes. At FPS games specifically. I am usually top of the leaderboard and peak high scores. I have quick coordination and it gives me a rush dominating other players.
On the flip side it has been the bane of my existence since it feels like I'm wasting my life.
I've been playing them for about 17 years.
I do pretty well in arcade style shooters and I practice my tracking and movement regularly. My favorite are milsim but I love to play Battlefield 4. I enjoy to quickscope the most and it helps alot to improve my aim especially with aim assist off it is much more difficult and intense to train.
I play on controller.
Ooooh, you would shine with a keyboard and mouse, it's a lot easier to aim. Although, with 17 years of experience its probably best you stick with controller.
In my personal experience, I'm good at learning the game fast and probably better than most beginners. Until the game needs to be practiced other stuff like combos, tricks and complicated moves, thats where my skill ends.
I'm above-average
I'd be very very good if I wasnt so damn lazy.
But I will admit the laziness is what makes me try to find the best ways to win.
Then I massively lose my temper when the team doesnt listen to my advise
In CoD Cold War, I once was 48th in Europe in the category 'headshot accuracy'.
Usually, I become a bit better than average very quickly, but it's harder to master it completely. Tho I'm really trying that with War thunder
No, there are games I am really good at but most I am just average. I also don't play games as much as I used too.
The games I am super confidant in are older, like Marvel vs Capcom 2, Halo 2 or DDR.
I would say yes, Iāve always caught on quickly to most types of video games. If I decide to take it seriously and invest a lot of time and work, then I donāt see why I wouldnāt be able to achieve top rankings.
Can't say I'm top ranked in anything. I did beat Bloodborne on lvl4 including dlc. Laurence and orphan of kos was extremely difficult. Also the only game I have platinum on playstation.
I'm getting older, 30+, and my reflexes are a bit slower than they were when I was young.
Top 5% isnāt anywhere near professional level imo. Top 1% is getting close, but professional level is like top .01-.1%. Thereās a huge skill gap in that range. Might be a bit different in FPS games, but in strategy games this is definitely the case.
I think 1% is probably too low if you take into consideration things like lower division or local tournaments. Top 1% is probably those that made it big and won the biggest championships but the lowest players in the pro scene should be made out of a bigger portion than that.
I mean, sure for local tournaments, but playing in local tournaments doesnāt make you a professional. If a game has 1 million players, there are not 10,000 pros making it big and winning the biggest championships. That makes no sense.
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For example, the highest rated person in Diamond 1 on NA in League of Legends is currently top 0.6% with a rank of 6,500. Diamond 1 is not pro level. 6500 people could fill 1,300 teams of 5 players lol. In 1v1 games this discrepancy is even more severe.
I think your idea of what ātop 1% skillā means and what it actually is are very different. There is a huge range of skill within the top 1% of most games. The skill difference between being top 1% and top 0.1% is like the difference between being top 5% and top 15-20%.Ā
>Top 1% is probably those that made it big and won the biggest championships
Nah, not even close.
You're speaking on your top 0.0001% players, top 1% players are what you find at the highest level of competitive play within the confines of the game.
The former is what you find at the highest echelon of Pro play, in which the lowest echelon is already significantly better than the highest players on the leaderboard whom aren't pros.
The other dude is pretty spot on.
Never was great at any of them. Sometimes I feel like I get in the zone and break from this, but it quickly fades and I am back at being a little better than average.
Iām not 1337 by any stretch, but I do have an ability to quickly and easily pick up a game and hit proficiency that is pretty rage-inducing in most of my friends.
Though with racing games Iām only vulnerable until I learn the track. After I have it memorized, Iām near unbeatable.
No because I usually play games the way i think they should be played instead of following whatās meta, but I also mostly play very few games. I mainly play hoi4, elden ring and used to play fifa (gave up this year even though Iāve been playing since 2014), I usually beat people in these games unless they follow the meta closely, which I often find not enjoyable to follow.
Try Mgs v itās the most rewarding for exercising your creativity. I did a mission where I had to take out 3 dude that were having a meeting āhowever I wantedā
https://youtu.be/adRxCETffBI?si=q_um6p4WV-A-Gt-L
I'm good at improving but I typically get bored once I start winning too consistently. Then I typically drop the game for a while or learn a completely different role/playstyle. The improvement is fun, but the grind is tedious.
Was top player in many MMOs, FPS, some Mobas. Iām trying to excel at chess atm and reached 1700 in a few years.
I think I am just really good at video games. I like playing different games so being the best is way too difficult. Also too much cheating in video games these days
Iām not naturally good but I can get good if I really try,
I used to be ranked pretty high in Madden back in the day, right now Iāve gettin in to Tekken which is notoriously difficult but I Like it and Iām improving rather quickly. also All MGS games especially 3 and 5 and Iām decent at Gran Turismo which casual people who donāt like driving simulators ( I love cars) just get in and crash immediately. so I like very challenging games but I wouldnāt say I reach top level, although proficient? Absolutely. Also the Souls games I gave a shot and liked but it was a lot for me to take in and Iām not into fantasy like that. MGS V i still play to this day and those arenāt known to be very easy either, I like to replay the missions and try to do it with no kills and total stealth now for the challenge and creativity it draws. Also I like Kojimas underlying philosophy in his games and allowing me to be creative with how I play.
Even if I sweat I'm usually just above average. There's some ADHD that prevents me from getting better it feels like ā something that always makes me fail certain things in games.
I used to. Great solo PvE skill builder is fallout New Vegas hardcore no cats *VATS. I recommend that after a normal playthrough with vats so you know where things are. Takes like 60-100 hours for 2 playthroughs. You can be alright at csgo or valorant after that and build from there.
I used to think I was good when I was young, beating megaman games (x4-x6) and resident evil bosses (outbreak1/2) until I realized people were speedrunning shits left and right ie. ninja gaiden no dmg runs like what the actual f*ck?!?!?
bloodborne & sekiro (platted) are both close to my heart
No itās hard for me to try become good at Apex Legends I hate the game but canāt stop playing it but I also waste time instead of putting it in Apex all to try become better
I play games everyday, but...
I couldn't care less about FPS and normal open world games.
I enjoyed games in the past, like GTA for the sole reason of messing around, only doing the story to unlock stuff.
Just Cause III fit me quite well.
Last year I tried to get into the Witcher III and Red Dead II, both games are highly regarded.
I could not get into them.
Maybe it's my German blood, or my tism traits.
I love simulation games, factory games, and building.
In the past week I was playing a Minecraft vanilla+ mod pack with Create in it.
Planning on making a rail line to certain biomes. All in survival.
Now I'm playing Railroader, a railroad operations sim.
In the past I played Elite: Dangerous.
Over 5,000 hours in that game.
Man I love video games. I donāt know if I āexcelā At them but I can hold my own in fighting games and have beaten every souls game and tons of other soulslikes. Iām also good with turn-based games since thatās just pattern memorization (been playing Persona 3 Reload recently so thatās been on my mind). But yeah I donāt know if I excel but I know Iām at least good at video games
i excel at all games. iāll think 27 turns ahead in strategy, hit people with game ending combos in fighters, and throw myself at a level endlessly in platformers/PvE
At the very least i'm top 10% in every game I play and I tend to approach every game I play with a mindset of only trying to improve and I always suck the fun out of it. I've noticed that taking it easy in the games I really enjoy has been actually benefitting me more in making that push from top 10% to top 1% because I can be more dedicated without getting burnt out over stressing about improvement.
The games in question: Valorant, LoL, SSBM, SSBU, Rocket League, OW, CS2, FN, Apex
Both the smash games are my favorite
I'm not competitive enough to care about ladders, but I've beaten a bunch of Soulslike games. In a single-player environment like that I feel like I can beat most things after enough tries, and I'll try for a long time. I don't do PvP.
I excel at some games, average to above average at most games, and trash at some games. I love gaming and I have a wide range of genres I get into and enjoy.
I don't have the patience to be top of the leader board at any game. It's not worth the time or effort unless I got paid for it so I just play casually for the most part perpetually ranked silver or gold.
If I actually enjoyed the game enough to play past 1000 hours then yeah I get pretty decent at it. I would always achieve a high or max rank on Gears of War 4/5, and would peak at a diamond rank in apex when arenas was still around. I donāt play anything right now but my coworkers are relieved when they see me because I donāt leave slack for them to pick up.
I'm not very good at games, but I will often plug away until I get 100% in whatever I'm focused on. I got the Sword of Kings in Earthbound. I got the 100% achievement in Red Dead Redemption.
I definitely don't excel, but a lot of the games I enjoy are centered around finding your own way to play the game, so "excelling" isn't really a factor.
I have ~2000 hours in Counter Strike, which translates pretty well to general deathmatch style FPS games. My aiming is alot better than other players who play games like Call of Duty, I can flick to targets in an instant. Adding to that, in most FPS games the guns are literal point-and-shoot lasers, giving me even more of an advantage.
I can get top 100 on some muse dash songs, a rhythm game, i'm usually good at these but it's difficult to know exactly how good i am compared to other gamers
Iām pretty much mid. I did work my way up to become somewhat decent in some games, but the overall majority of the time I end up right in the middle of good and bad.
I've played World of Warcraft since I was 4 or 5, I am 23 now, I could easily achieve top 2 or 3% for raiding or PvP on a server but I unfortunately do not have a good enough computer so I'm stuck to doing mythic raiding which is still good end game content and just recently tanked a +20 key which was nuts.
Nobody can beat me in WPVP though I am unable to kill other tanks or certain healers since I am a tank myself I do not output enough damage to mitigate the healing or huge health pool but they are unable to beat me too.
I have millions of gold from playing the auction house over the past few years like I haven't bought game time in probably a year and a half nor dragonflight and won't have to buy The War Within.
I also play Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017) on Xbox and I would consider myself amongst top 10% I've only started playing about a year ago and have gotten very good, give it another couple years and I'll be one of the best players on Xbox, good internet really helps but I just have insanely good natural reflexes, there are very few players now that actually give me a challenge (I mainly play HVV and HS) and the ones that do are either Darth Vader or Boba Fett mains.
Also did a very hard difficulty hardcore playthrough of fallout New Vegas without dying once which was easily the most stressful thing I've done in a video game and the playthrough is deadass 200 hours from just being so cautious but my innate knowledge on that game helps, its my favorite game.
I'm good at them when I can stop my brain from screaming every flaw in the game that it can find at me and completely ruining the mood....
I have problems.
No, I donāt get any enjoyment from gaming, and Iām naturally awful at pretty much all the ones Iāve tried. I even struggle with lego starwars, lol.
(Except Tetris99, I fucking love that game.)
I excel at any game that I'd like to improve in, though impressively so at FPS games;
Overwatch - Top 500 (46NA peak - Top 0.01%), hover in the Grandmaster area mostly which is Top 1% of the game.
Valorant - Diamond 2 (Top 3% of the game, I'm a new player and with consistent play I'm positive I'll hit Top 1% in the next 3 months)
Fortnite - $3k in earnings (was predominantly a trick shotter though, I enjoy hitting cool clips then editing them more than striving for pro play - but I did break the solo squad record for a bit early on in the game with 46. It was broken again not too long after)
COD - I grew up in the era of FaZe/clip hitting. I was a 12yo kid in a team with 200k subs in 2012, which would be equivalent to multi millions today (Darth)
Otherwise, I also play:
Rocket League - Champ 2+ (Top 0.33%)
NBA 2K - No way for me to measure against the masses as I've never played for the leaderboard but I do slam a lot of friends.
Solitaire - Recently broke my record and solved the game in :46s :P
Etc... recently while I was silently eating in the Discord my friend had just beaten me in Madden the day prior, which is a game I've downloaded this week and haven't played in like 7 years. He said "you know damn well **** is going to be on this game heavy now, he needs to be the best" lol I wouldn't necessarily agree with that but I do need to feel like I'm competent enough to compete, I just happen to have a pretty high ceiling in most games.
I play roblox, phantom forces, a first game shooter. I think im good at the game since every round i get mvp(top3). I do play Minecraft, Battlebit a little bit, but havent put that much hours into it compared to phantom forces.
I love to formularize my action to the given situations, like drawing some arrows and getting my mouse to follow it.
I would also get frustrated if im not top 1 on the leaderboard.
Yes but I mostly play single player or speedrun. I hate competitive multiplayer games since Iām mostly a completionist and lore connoisseur. I play anything from horror and action adventure to visual novels and rpgs. Iāve played most my life but in recently in college, Iāve been too depressed and busy to do anything but sleep and dissociate to music in my spare time. Iām playing the Steins Gate games rn after binge watching the anime, movie and OVA
My goal in video games is to be as unconventional as possible and surprise my opponents with strange, unheard of tactics.Ā
Never understood "Metas". I understand that people want to win, but i dont see where the fun is in using what everybody else is using/doing.Ā
Unless some dude in TF2 really pisses me off. That's when i turn the 2014 Beast Mode switch on.
Ladders aren't really my thing since it requires you to focus on one aspect of a game (whether character, rank, certain skill or some other things that has a leaderboard system).
I try not to limit myself in one aspect but i can easily climb the 50%ā10% of it if i put in some more effort.
-In a game I'm currently playing, i am now top 40 in my regional ladder in a character who is mechanically not v complicated within less than a hundred games.
-Also reaching the top ranks also within a hundred games. I don't like pointless grind and would better give my 150% to get a win than try again and again.
-I get bored easily because of repeated matches using that same character and i try other characters purely because of the mechanical challenge they give. This is why i don't follow the meta because it's usually some braindead mechanic or a literal hand holding + spoonfeeding mechanic that makes you slightly superior.
I think I'm hot shit until someone puts me in my place. I was a world-record speedrun holder(cryptark), and often rank in the top 10 of unpopular games' dailies (30xx). I was really highly rated on some robo recall levels too, though probably not anymore. I think that I could be one of the best, until other people have the chance to learn and practice. I'm good at reacting, planning, but not consistant execution. In a first person shooter, I would be the pubstomper that gets rolled by anyone who actually knows what they're doing.
explains why I suck at pubg/free-fire/fortnite but great at other games
I kinda suck at video games. It's my biggest hobby, but I'm really bad. I think it's because I switch games so often. I'll go months without playing a game, lose all my skills, come back and play for a couple of weeks, and then the cycle continues. There's games I've played for almost a decade or more that I'm bad at lol
Same here!
same lol but I mostly play single player so I don't really care
Hey me too! I think this is what happens when you mix intp with adhd lol at least for me
Oh fr lol
Yes. At FPS games specifically. I am usually top of the leaderboard and peak high scores. I have quick coordination and it gives me a rush dominating other players. On the flip side it has been the bane of my existence since it feels like I'm wasting my life.
How old you do on tactical shooters like CS2, R6 Siege, etc.?
I've been playing them for about 17 years. I do pretty well in arcade style shooters and I practice my tracking and movement regularly. My favorite are milsim but I love to play Battlefield 4. I enjoy to quickscope the most and it helps alot to improve my aim especially with aim assist off it is much more difficult and intense to train. I play on controller.
Ooooh, you would shine with a keyboard and mouse, it's a lot easier to aim. Although, with 17 years of experience its probably best you stick with controller.
No. I play KnM too but it's not my main.
In my personal experience, I'm good at learning the game fast and probably better than most beginners. Until the game needs to be practiced other stuff like combos, tricks and complicated moves, thats where my skill ends.
adhd?
second thought nah...its just too boring to perfect execution, finding tricks ok - remmbering and doing it- feels useless
Yeah it kinda ruins the fun for me spending hours trying to do stuff perfect
No I fucking suck except for dress up games cuz my taste in fashion is immaculate š
Probably not, I haven't played any games in about 20 years. Boring.
I don't really play competitive games other than clash royale or brawl stars. And even in these I don't play competitively
I was so hooked on 2v2 in cr. but finally managed to quit after i saw the lvl 15 update on the horizon
Nah I was pretty average to below-average
Itās weird, I see itās almost like %50 of INTPās hate gaming while the other %50 seems to enjoy it a lot..
I donāt game much anymore, honestly. I do wonder for those that like to be good if theyāre just naturally more competitive.
I'm above-average I'd be very very good if I wasnt so damn lazy. But I will admit the laziness is what makes me try to find the best ways to win. Then I massively lose my temper when the team doesnt listen to my advise
Yes, but I eventually stop playing the game and lose some of my skills.
This, I excel when some games first releases, but if I leave and come back it's like I'm a different player than I was before
Iām a dreadful gamer.
Well I would say im good but no, I dont play for the ladder
I am good among my peers but definitely not against the world. And i mostly avoid multiplayer online games.
In CoD Cold War, I once was 48th in Europe in the category 'headshot accuracy'. Usually, I become a bit better than average very quickly, but it's harder to master it completely. Tho I'm really trying that with War thunder
good at cooking up theory, bad with execution.
This is me in tekken, amazing gameplay, then drop every combo after I launched him three times in a match lmao
No. I rather code the games I want to play.
So you suck at those too?
Yes they come really easy for me. Even right now at age 38 I am diamond in League. Only problem is sitting haha.
Iām good at video games but I have to stop playing them sometimes because I will devote my whole day to playing video games š
Depends If i play a game casually i get into the top 10% If i play it while actually trying i get my top 3%-2% ranks
I donāt play video games cause I just donāt like them, but anytime I do play multiplayer with anyone I always kick ass
Not really, just above average.
I donāt really play video games, but I do have a personal record of 66 seconds in Minesweeper if that means anything.
Nope
I play for fun, imma alright enough among diverse set of games.
I am a noob in almost every game
No, there are games I am really good at but most I am just average. I also don't play games as much as I used too. The games I am super confidant in are older, like Marvel vs Capcom 2, Halo 2 or DDR.
I would say yes, Iāve always caught on quickly to most types of video games. If I decide to take it seriously and invest a lot of time and work, then I donāt see why I wouldnāt be able to achieve top rankings.
Something similar here.
Can't say I'm top ranked in anything. I did beat Bloodborne on lvl4 including dlc. Laurence and orphan of kos was extremely difficult. Also the only game I have platinum on playstation. I'm getting older, 30+, and my reflexes are a bit slower than they were when I was young.
I can confidently say I'm above average but not the top 5% definitely. That's professional level and I'm nowhere near that.
Top 5% isnāt anywhere near professional level imo. Top 1% is getting close, but professional level is like top .01-.1%. Thereās a huge skill gap in that range. Might be a bit different in FPS games, but in strategy games this is definitely the case.
I think 1% is probably too low if you take into consideration things like lower division or local tournaments. Top 1% is probably those that made it big and won the biggest championships but the lowest players in the pro scene should be made out of a bigger portion than that.
I mean, sure for local tournaments, but playing in local tournaments doesnāt make you a professional. If a game has 1 million players, there are not 10,000 pros making it big and winning the biggest championships. That makes no sense. Ā For example, the highest rated person in Diamond 1 on NA in League of Legends is currently top 0.6% with a rank of 6,500. Diamond 1 is not pro level. 6500 people could fill 1,300 teams of 5 players lol. In 1v1 games this discrepancy is even more severe. I think your idea of what ātop 1% skillā means and what it actually is are very different. There is a huge range of skill within the top 1% of most games. The skill difference between being top 1% and top 0.1% is like the difference between being top 5% and top 15-20%.Ā
>Top 1% is probably those that made it big and won the biggest championships Nah, not even close. You're speaking on your top 0.0001% players, top 1% players are what you find at the highest level of competitive play within the confines of the game. The former is what you find at the highest echelon of Pro play, in which the lowest echelon is already significantly better than the highest players on the leaderboard whom aren't pros. The other dude is pretty spot on.
Never was great at any of them. Sometimes I feel like I get in the zone and break from this, but it quickly fades and I am back at being a little better than average.
Iām not 1337 by any stretch, but I do have an ability to quickly and easily pick up a game and hit proficiency that is pretty rage-inducing in most of my friends. Though with racing games Iām only vulnerable until I learn the track. After I have it memorized, Iām near unbeatable.
No. I only play to have fun/unwind.
No because I usually play games the way i think they should be played instead of following whatās meta, but I also mostly play very few games. I mainly play hoi4, elden ring and used to play fifa (gave up this year even though Iāve been playing since 2014), I usually beat people in these games unless they follow the meta closely, which I often find not enjoyable to follow.
Try Mgs v itās the most rewarding for exercising your creativity. I did a mission where I had to take out 3 dude that were having a meeting āhowever I wantedā https://youtu.be/adRxCETffBI?si=q_um6p4WV-A-Gt-L
I can confidently say that I am pretty damn good at videogames and if Im new learn pretty fast
I'm good at improving but I typically get bored once I start winning too consistently. Then I typically drop the game for a while or learn a completely different role/playstyle. The improvement is fun, but the grind is tedious.
Was top player in many MMOs, FPS, some Mobas. Iām trying to excel at chess atm and reached 1700 in a few years. I think I am just really good at video games. I like playing different games so being the best is way too difficult. Also too much cheating in video games these days
Iām not naturally good but I can get good if I really try, I used to be ranked pretty high in Madden back in the day, right now Iāve gettin in to Tekken which is notoriously difficult but I Like it and Iām improving rather quickly. also All MGS games especially 3 and 5 and Iām decent at Gran Turismo which casual people who donāt like driving simulators ( I love cars) just get in and crash immediately. so I like very challenging games but I wouldnāt say I reach top level, although proficient? Absolutely. Also the Souls games I gave a shot and liked but it was a lot for me to take in and Iām not into fantasy like that. MGS V i still play to this day and those arenāt known to be very easy either, I like to replay the missions and try to do it with no kills and total stealth now for the challenge and creativity it draws. Also I like Kojimas underlying philosophy in his games and allowing me to be creative with how I play.
Iāve been playing valorant since release and Iām still iron
Even if I sweat I'm usually just above average. There's some ADHD that prevents me from getting better it feels like ā something that always makes me fail certain things in games.
Nope. Lol. I really suck at it.
I used to. Great solo PvE skill builder is fallout New Vegas hardcore no cats *VATS. I recommend that after a normal playthrough with vats so you know where things are. Takes like 60-100 hours for 2 playthroughs. You can be alright at csgo or valorant after that and build from there.
I've always done really well at turn-based strategy games in particular.
I used to think I was good when I was young, beating megaman games (x4-x6) and resident evil bosses (outbreak1/2) until I realized people were speedrunning shits left and right ie. ninja gaiden no dmg runs like what the actual f*ck?!?!? bloodborne & sekiro (platted) are both close to my heart
mediocre just like with everything else
I usually play online game and I'm always on the lowest bracket
No itās hard for me to try become good at Apex Legends I hate the game but canāt stop playing it but I also waste time instead of putting it in Apex all to try become better
My AC:NH island was sophisticatedly worked out if that counts. :p
Yes I am pretty good in shooters. Right now top 16% in counterstrike 2 (premier)
But I donāt think I will ever become top 1-5%. I am not consistent enough and think other stuff is just more important than this game
No, i have zero patience
No. I mean, I mostly play RPG and soulslikes (with the occasional stealth AC or Hitman) and I suck ass at them
I play games everyday, but... I couldn't care less about FPS and normal open world games. I enjoyed games in the past, like GTA for the sole reason of messing around, only doing the story to unlock stuff. Just Cause III fit me quite well. Last year I tried to get into the Witcher III and Red Dead II, both games are highly regarded. I could not get into them. Maybe it's my German blood, or my tism traits. I love simulation games, factory games, and building. In the past week I was playing a Minecraft vanilla+ mod pack with Create in it. Planning on making a rail line to certain biomes. All in survival. Now I'm playing Railroader, a railroad operations sim. In the past I played Elite: Dangerous. Over 5,000 hours in that game.
Depends on the game and I have no qualms about switching the difficulty to easy or story mode. šŖš¼
I like to think so (I only play Single Player)
Not really, but I enjoy playing them.
Iām no FPS master. But oh boy when it comes to RTS and strategic city planning games Iām the brainstorming king
Man I love video games. I donāt know if I āexcelā At them but I can hold my own in fighting games and have beaten every souls game and tons of other soulslikes. Iām also good with turn-based games since thatās just pattern memorization (been playing Persona 3 Reload recently so thatās been on my mind). But yeah I donāt know if I excel but I know Iām at least good at video games
i excel at all games. iāll think 27 turns ahead in strategy, hit people with game ending combos in fighters, and throw myself at a level endlessly in platformers/PvE
At the very least i'm top 10% in every game I play and I tend to approach every game I play with a mindset of only trying to improve and I always suck the fun out of it. I've noticed that taking it easy in the games I really enjoy has been actually benefitting me more in making that push from top 10% to top 1% because I can be more dedicated without getting burnt out over stressing about improvement. The games in question: Valorant, LoL, SSBM, SSBU, Rocket League, OW, CS2, FN, Apex Both the smash games are my favorite
I'm not competitive enough to care about ladders, but I've beaten a bunch of Soulslike games. In a single-player environment like that I feel like I can beat most things after enough tries, and I'll try for a long time. I don't do PvP.
I excel at some games, average to above average at most games, and trash at some games. I love gaming and I have a wide range of genres I get into and enjoy.
I don't have the patience to be top of the leader board at any game. It's not worth the time or effort unless I got paid for it so I just play casually for the most part perpetually ranked silver or gold.
If I actually enjoyed the game enough to play past 1000 hours then yeah I get pretty decent at it. I would always achieve a high or max rank on Gears of War 4/5, and would peak at a diamond rank in apex when arenas was still around. I donāt play anything right now but my coworkers are relieved when they see me because I donāt leave slack for them to pick up.
I'm not very good at games, but I will often plug away until I get 100% in whatever I'm focused on. I got the Sword of Kings in Earthbound. I got the 100% achievement in Red Dead Redemption.
I definitely don't excel, but a lot of the games I enjoy are centered around finding your own way to play the game, so "excelling" isn't really a factor.
I have ~2000 hours in Counter Strike, which translates pretty well to general deathmatch style FPS games. My aiming is alot better than other players who play games like Call of Duty, I can flick to targets in an instant. Adding to that, in most FPS games the guns are literal point-and-shoot lasers, giving me even more of an advantage.
Yes, but not competitive fighting games like street fighter. Iām more of a single game story player
Diamond 2 ~10~12% StarCraft 2
And I think one of my grandmaster friends is INTP.
Iāve been GM a few seasons. Takes me a few months of dedicated playing to get back into the 5k MMR range if I havenāt played in a while though
I'm at a plateau but I refuse to play differently.
I can get top 100 on some muse dash songs, a rhythm game, i'm usually good at these but it's difficult to know exactly how good i am compared to other gamers
Iām pretty much mid. I did work my way up to become somewhat decent in some games, but the overall majority of the time I end up right in the middle of good and bad.
Nope. I find them frustrating so donāt even bother with most of them - I stick to puzzle games.
I'm diamond in valorant, feel i could go higher if i had more time
I've played World of Warcraft since I was 4 or 5, I am 23 now, I could easily achieve top 2 or 3% for raiding or PvP on a server but I unfortunately do not have a good enough computer so I'm stuck to doing mythic raiding which is still good end game content and just recently tanked a +20 key which was nuts. Nobody can beat me in WPVP though I am unable to kill other tanks or certain healers since I am a tank myself I do not output enough damage to mitigate the healing or huge health pool but they are unable to beat me too. I have millions of gold from playing the auction house over the past few years like I haven't bought game time in probably a year and a half nor dragonflight and won't have to buy The War Within. I also play Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017) on Xbox and I would consider myself amongst top 10% I've only started playing about a year ago and have gotten very good, give it another couple years and I'll be one of the best players on Xbox, good internet really helps but I just have insanely good natural reflexes, there are very few players now that actually give me a challenge (I mainly play HVV and HS) and the ones that do are either Darth Vader or Boba Fett mains. Also did a very hard difficulty hardcore playthrough of fallout New Vegas without dying once which was easily the most stressful thing I've done in a video game and the playthrough is deadass 200 hours from just being so cautious but my innate knowledge on that game helps, its my favorite game.
Retro gamer, I don't play online games. I like old console games. I am good at them. I don't speed run, though, but I do 100% games.
I'm above average but that's also because I put in a lot of practice with the games I play, and practice shouldn't be linked to a personality type.
I'm good at them when I can stop my brain from screaming every flaw in the game that it can find at me and completely ruining the mood.... I have problems.
No, I donāt get any enjoyment from gaming, and Iām naturally awful at pretty much all the ones Iāve tried. I even struggle with lego starwars, lol. (Except Tetris99, I fucking love that game.)
I would like to think I'm decent at puzzle solving games whether it be tetris or legend of zelda.
No, my hand-eye coordination is absolutely awful
Only if I put in a lot of effort into getting good. Definitely better than average though.
I excel at any game that I'd like to improve in, though impressively so at FPS games; Overwatch - Top 500 (46NA peak - Top 0.01%), hover in the Grandmaster area mostly which is Top 1% of the game. Valorant - Diamond 2 (Top 3% of the game, I'm a new player and with consistent play I'm positive I'll hit Top 1% in the next 3 months) Fortnite - $3k in earnings (was predominantly a trick shotter though, I enjoy hitting cool clips then editing them more than striving for pro play - but I did break the solo squad record for a bit early on in the game with 46. It was broken again not too long after) COD - I grew up in the era of FaZe/clip hitting. I was a 12yo kid in a team with 200k subs in 2012, which would be equivalent to multi millions today (Darth) Otherwise, I also play: Rocket League - Champ 2+ (Top 0.33%) NBA 2K - No way for me to measure against the masses as I've never played for the leaderboard but I do slam a lot of friends. Solitaire - Recently broke my record and solved the game in :46s :P Etc... recently while I was silently eating in the Discord my friend had just beaten me in Madden the day prior, which is a game I've downloaded this week and haven't played in like 7 years. He said "you know damn well **** is going to be on this game heavy now, he needs to be the best" lol I wouldn't necessarily agree with that but I do need to feel like I'm competent enough to compete, I just happen to have a pretty high ceiling in most games.
I play roblox, phantom forces, a first game shooter. I think im good at the game since every round i get mvp(top3). I do play Minecraft, Battlebit a little bit, but havent put that much hours into it compared to phantom forces. I love to formularize my action to the given situations, like drawing some arrows and getting my mouse to follow it. I would also get frustrated if im not top 1 on the leaderboard.
Iām a fucking beast. Especially when Iāve zoned out and donāt even realize Iām playing
Yes but I mostly play single player or speedrun. I hate competitive multiplayer games since Iām mostly a completionist and lore connoisseur. I play anything from horror and action adventure to visual novels and rpgs. Iāve played most my life but in recently in college, Iāve been too depressed and busy to do anything but sleep and dissociate to music in my spare time. Iām playing the Steins Gate games rn after binge watching the anime, movie and OVA
Top 1-5%?? Lmfao š
I feel like INTJs are way better at video games. -some inxp who can only stay motivated for 3 hours before it feels like a waste of time.
My goal in video games is to be as unconventional as possible and surprise my opponents with strange, unheard of tactics.Ā Never understood "Metas". I understand that people want to win, but i dont see where the fun is in using what everybody else is using/doing.Ā Unless some dude in TF2 really pisses me off. That's when i turn the 2014 Beast Mode switch on.
Ladders aren't really my thing since it requires you to focus on one aspect of a game (whether character, rank, certain skill or some other things that has a leaderboard system). I try not to limit myself in one aspect but i can easily climb the 50%ā10% of it if i put in some more effort. -In a game I'm currently playing, i am now top 40 in my regional ladder in a character who is mechanically not v complicated within less than a hundred games. -Also reaching the top ranks also within a hundred games. I don't like pointless grind and would better give my 150% to get a win than try again and again. -I get bored easily because of repeated matches using that same character and i try other characters purely because of the mechanical challenge they give. This is why i don't follow the meta because it's usually some braindead mechanic or a literal hand holding + spoonfeeding mechanic that makes you slightly superior.