Hellooooo Kovaze! As someone with more than 1000 games on here, most of them being gamemodes that are solely competition based, I decided to make a little guide to each competition and what I did to get better at them! (Notice how I didn't say good honey... even I have my weaknesses.) Flags (RETIRED) Preferred Device: Touchscreen Average Scores: 2000-2500 Good: 3000+ Shoutout my geography nerds! If that's not you, just practice the flags over and over again it's one that gets easier with time. It cycles around the same 42 flags! I knew very few when starting the site and now I know practically all of them. Start slow and rely on your memory! Once you know the flags, it's about increasing your speed while retaining accuracy. Best with a touchscreen. My bestie @melanie made a great guide on how to break 4k when you have a general gist of the flags here: https://kovaze.com/blog/85754 Lucky-drop Preferred Device: Any Good: 2000+ A comp beast's nightmare. This one is very straightforward, as a luck competition should be! Just try to save anywhere 1700+, but 2000 is a good base. Chain-pop Preferred Device: Large Touchscreen Average: 5000-7000 Good: 9000+ This one is straightforward in concept; drag your cursor/finger across balls of the same color and let go to pop them! Here's the trick to scoring high: if you see you have a lot of one color on your board, get rid of all the other colors by making chains out of them (for example, if I have a lot of blue, I will pop red, green, grey chains so I will get more blue chains to fill in after those other ones pop) Then when it's almost filling the entire board, do one BIG chain with that color and it will get a lot of points. Try to do this at least twice if you can within the 90 seconds. If you have an ipad or a touchscreen computer, do it on there! It's awful on phone. It's so small... If you have a device that can zoom in on the browser, I recommend that. Words (RETIRED) Preferred Device: Phone Average: 30000-40000 Good: 50000+ WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE! You'll be given blanks like in hangman, and you use the keyboard provided to figure out the word! The easiest tip is to use two thumbs and use your PHONE like you are texting. Get rid of R S T L N and the vowels, and solve the word like it's wheel of fortune. Another one that gets easier with time, as the words recycle. Sorry if you are not a native English speaker :( Deal Preferred Device: Any Average: 100k+ Good: 130k+ The compbeast's other nightmare. Just like deal or no deal! If your first deal is at least 110k take it 9 times out of 10. If not, try to go until you get more than 130k. If you are playing something like arena and you're farther into the game, don't be afraid to risk a bit to get a deal of $150k+. Also, sometimes it's fun to YOLO and go all the way! Shapes Preferred Device: Any (best on Touchscreen) Average: 250-270 Good: 320+ This one is just about how quickly you can eyeball and count. For me I eyeball and try to cycle through a round every 2 seconds, but I often score like 350+. I can't really give advice because it's not something that can be improved on per se? Sometimes you have good days and sometimes you have bad days. Use your phone though, or a device with a low refresh speed; the shapes will move slower. Starfall Preferred Device: Any (potentially better on PC?) Average: 700-800 Good: 850+ This one is tricky but basically you want to shove the stars in the center and the easiest way to do that is to make a v-like motion with your finger (DO ON PHONE) to make a funnel of sorts so that the stars at the top are spread out but the stars closer to the bottom are funneled in the center (like a v shape)! Look at the image below (inside v, then outside v): https://i.gyazo.com/thumb/244/850949b9e63511490d5b77eda5fd3f82-png.png Another option is to tap on the sides instead of swipe, but I've never been much of a tapper. I got told this competition is charge to win, so keep your battery health high! Codebreaker Preferred Device: Phone Average: 65-70 Good: 75+ This one is just about how good your code is. You will be guessing a 5 digit code 0-9, none of them repeat. Use your phone so you can do it fast. Type 01234 then 56789 so you can figure out which 5 numbers you're using, then guess from there! Try to pay attention to your yellow spots so you don't accidentally put the same number there when guessing new codes! Holey Preferred Device: PC PC PC PC PC Average: 5k Good: 7k+ This one is honestly so hard to get better at, you're essentially maneuvering a ball through holes. It is the most difficult competition to adjust to, as it takes the most amount of practice and hard work. I want you to check out this blog by queen @matcha (who is retired a bit) here: https://kovaze.com/blog/28856 She basically holds the top two buttons down the entire time (using PC) and then uses the bottom two buttons to move the bar left or right. Honestly, the easier (and still effective) way to basically do the same thing is to hold w and o, and then when you reach a hole, have good enough reflexes to either let go of w (to lean the ball left) or o (to lean the ball right) to move past, then hold it again QUICKLY to keep the ball steady and keep the motion upwards; if you're too slow, it'll lean too far left/right and your ball will get dropped. It's all about reflexes. If you moved it too far in one direction, redirect by doing the same thing with the opposite direction. Please do this one on computer lol it is so hard on mobile and glitches if you have an iOS device. MatchThree Preferred Device: Any (best on PC/Mouse) Average: 5.5-6.5k Good: 7k+ My least favorite competition honey. But the easiest to understand! It's basically candy crush. Tap on 2 squares to swap them so you can match 3 (or more)! DOWNLOAD CANDY CRUSH LOWKEY??? It helped me! Some people say to start from the bottom looking for matches to allow for more autofills but I just do whatever. Use a touchscreen! The key is to always be looking for your next match so you don't get stuck as often. See a match? Great! While you're tapping at that match, scan your board for your next match to tap. You'll get quicker with time. Check out my good sis @katheryn 's blog on MatchThree here - https://kovaze.com/blog/52507 that's the queen! THIS JUST IN: I just got told by the match3 gods that it's actually preferrable on PC/Mouse if you want to score consistently high. YOU HEARD IT FROM THEM FOLKS! Guitar (RETIRED) Preferred Device: Phone Average: 7-8k Good: 9.5k+ If you've ever played guitar hero, it's guitar hero. This competition is honestly hit or miss and needs a major revamp, but decide if the music helps or doesn't help first before starting. DO ON A TOUCHSCREEN UNLESS YOU'RE EXPERIENCED WITH USING 1 2 3 4 5 ON PC WITH RHYTHM GAMES! Do it landscape! I use my two index fingers for this one, but thumbs work! Honestly, you're either good at this one or not. Rhythm games aren't for everyone, and this isn't like your typical rhythm game because the music isn't synced with the notes. Two important things to note: KEEP YOUR STREAK! Every 5 notes in a row (until 25 notes in a row), you'll gain a multiplier that will add to your score. Miss a note, or misclick, and your multiplier resets. The multiplier is HUGE and if you constantly miss notes and reset your streak, it will be costly. Secondly, there are notes that are stacked on top of each other. I know, they're stupid. Time your click with those so that you can get them both at the same time, as sometimes you will try to get a stacked double note and you'll miss one because of the GUI. Stacker Preferred Device: PC Average: 1.4k Good: 2k+ This one is my favorite competition! You can do it on a large touchscreen, but I strongly recommend doing on a PC and using spacebar; clicking is okay too. Zoom in to 125% on PC so you can see where you're stacking (without zooming in too close and causing delay), and zoom in as much as you can on mobile. You want to try and stack it perfectly as early on as possible so that you can have a wider base for if you mess up later down the line. You can let the stack bounce back and forth if you'd like, but honestly you're more likely to mess up that way; just go for the stack on the first go. ALWAYS better to be too early than too late, if it moves wildly fast then it's about reaction time. And most of all... concentrate! WaterTank Preferred Device: Any Average: 5k Good: 6k+ WaterTank is the best comp on the site. It's really simple, it's easy, it's quick, and most of all, it's never luck based; only your own skill and perception. My biggest tip for WaterTank for those of you who just want to get out of the 4k abyss; STOP PLAYING IT RISKY! Stop trying to get those 900+ scores and aim for 750-800. If you get 8 rounds of a score of 750+ that already breaks 6k and you're in the A tier for WaterTank. My personal strategy is to use my cursor/finger to follow along after the water goes invisible so I don't go over, with a combination of counting to see how long it takes for it to go invisible (and repeating those increments in my head so I don't get lost). It works 90% of the time! Weightlifting Preferred Device: PC Average: Like 6-7k Good: 10k+ The other fully skill based comp, because it runs the same every single time. This was one of my favorite comps when it was first released, even though I was HORRIBLE at it lol. When you understand weightlifting, your average will slowly get better until you reach a certain point! @Connor made a blog about how to do weightlifting that I think helps, so I'll drop it here: https://kovaze.com/blog/112036 I'll make a video on the gameplay later, but basically you NEED to actively be pressing back and forth to keep the ball in the green starting around the silver bars. When it's bronze, I don't even tap my arrow keys until about 12 seconds in, and even then I only tap like once to twice until it reaches 30 seconds. Basically, the weights gradually need you to tap/press/hold more as the timer goes on until you're basically HOLDING down for dear life. Around silver is when you need to start aggressively tapping to keep it in the green, because you score alot more points when it's in the green, and it's infinitely harder to score points when the bars are gold compared to silver. Once you get to gold you're basically tapping and holding to keep it centered, and it becomes endurance; how long can you last? I'll make a video on the gameplay later. Balloons Preferred: A TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE. Average: 1200 Good: 1400+ Honestly I'm not the best at balloons... I only pop like 400 balloons every round. The biggest advice I can give is to prioritize speed over accuracy because the more sets you go through (unless you're really bad...) the more balloons you'll correctly pop, which correlates to more points. My one thing is, ESPECIALLY if you have specific devices that don't register your taps well? Tap HARD. And AGGRESSIVELY. Because otherwise you might end up popping like 5 small balloons before you realize that big balloon you thought you popped was still there. The lag on Balloons needs to be fixed. TreasureHunt Preferred Device: A TOUCHSCREEN. Average: 650 Good: 900+ Some of yall 'bout to be real mad at me... but it must be said. NO LONGER will we gatekeep TreasureHunt strats. Now if you're @Evan you're going to do some crazy strategy and get like 1300, but if you're the rest of the Kovazian public... you just want something fast and easy. So let me tell you the trick. Pick a corner, any corner. You get a number? Go up/down/left/right (whatever you choose will work) that many spaces. If you hit a corner, turn the corner and continue until you're at the space. Then, tap that space. You get another number - an EVEN number. (Unless you messed up.) NOW. You have to go DIAGONALLY HALF the number you get. I'll upload a picture later that explains what I'm talking about, but here's an example: I start at the bottom right corner. I get the number 5. I go UP 5 spaces. I tap that square. I now get the number 8! I will go DIAGONALLY 4 spaces. In what direction, you may ask? DOWN AND LEFT, because I started on the BOTTOM RIGHT - I have to go the opposite of what side I started and I go in the same directon that I STARTED in. I'll also link a video to this gameplay! I hope this guide helps those who are looking to play the competition based gamemodes like Arena or Race, but don't know how each competition works or what a good score is for each one! And for those who've been on the site for a while, I hope this gives more insight!

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