Consistency
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:33 am
Obviously when people play Countdown, we all have our bad moments and days. Everyone has at least some degree on inconsistency.
I however, had an extremely bad past 3 days on Apterous. I have lost nearly 200 ratings points throughout those 3 days. The final day I wasn't as bad but I was being beaten by almost everyone (some close games I admit). I am also worried that I may be overplaying. I realized today that I have played 20 games in one day after looking at my archives. I had no idea that I played that many games. Other days in the month I have played about 10 games and others about 15. I shouldn't be playing that much, I get so carried away sometimes. Even though I still enjoying playing the game, is my brain (not my heart) getting fed of this and needs a break to refresh? I sometimes feel like I'm getting worse or not better. I know it goes in cycles but I feel like I go into very steep cycles compared to the majority of the other apterites. Last time I had a two or three days off Apterous (though I was playing a bit on the iPhone App), I was very rusty so I'm worried that may happen again. I shouldn't be playing more than 10 games a day, I just always give in to temptation to play more haha!
I have also noticed that other people of Apterous that are on a similar standard to me have also before had extremely large rating decreases when they were quite close to reaching 1000. I was on around 930 earlier in the week but now I have shot down to about 740 in 3 days. Is it really hard for the weaker players to get into the middle or higher standard or can your ratings fluctuate rapidly whatever standard you're at? I was heading towards the 1000 mark but now I wouldn't be surprised if it took me another half year to do that now and stay up there. My lowest ever rating on Apterous I think was about 600 and I have been on Apterous for 4 months.
Sometimes I miss out on easy words which I could have been able to get if I was on form. With learning words, I only ever seem to pick up two or three words a week maybe, sometimes more, but not very many words anyway (even the ones I know). I sometimes always can only spot the more basic suffixes and prefixes like ER, IEST, RE etc.
So how do I work on becoming more consistent? I know Countdown goes in cycles but the level the cycles I go into is so deep. My numbers is overly strong though I do sometimes mess up, my letters and conundrums are my main weak and inconsistent point. I got told a few that I'm improving when I'm on form, but other times I feel like I was at the standard near to when I first started Apterous.
I however, had an extremely bad past 3 days on Apterous. I have lost nearly 200 ratings points throughout those 3 days. The final day I wasn't as bad but I was being beaten by almost everyone (some close games I admit). I am also worried that I may be overplaying. I realized today that I have played 20 games in one day after looking at my archives. I had no idea that I played that many games. Other days in the month I have played about 10 games and others about 15. I shouldn't be playing that much, I get so carried away sometimes. Even though I still enjoying playing the game, is my brain (not my heart) getting fed of this and needs a break to refresh? I sometimes feel like I'm getting worse or not better. I know it goes in cycles but I feel like I go into very steep cycles compared to the majority of the other apterites. Last time I had a two or three days off Apterous (though I was playing a bit on the iPhone App), I was very rusty so I'm worried that may happen again. I shouldn't be playing more than 10 games a day, I just always give in to temptation to play more haha!
I have also noticed that other people of Apterous that are on a similar standard to me have also before had extremely large rating decreases when they were quite close to reaching 1000. I was on around 930 earlier in the week but now I have shot down to about 740 in 3 days. Is it really hard for the weaker players to get into the middle or higher standard or can your ratings fluctuate rapidly whatever standard you're at? I was heading towards the 1000 mark but now I wouldn't be surprised if it took me another half year to do that now and stay up there. My lowest ever rating on Apterous I think was about 600 and I have been on Apterous for 4 months.
Sometimes I miss out on easy words which I could have been able to get if I was on form. With learning words, I only ever seem to pick up two or three words a week maybe, sometimes more, but not very many words anyway (even the ones I know). I sometimes always can only spot the more basic suffixes and prefixes like ER, IEST, RE etc.
So how do I work on becoming more consistent? I know Countdown goes in cycles but the level the cycles I go into is so deep. My numbers is overly strong though I do sometimes mess up, my letters and conundrums are my main weak and inconsistent point. I got told a few that I'm improving when I'm on form, but other times I feel like I was at the standard near to when I first started Apterous.