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The best "Ding" technique?

Wed, May 22 2013 6:20 AM (25 replies)
  • gerryniswonger
    1,890 Posts
    Wed, May 8 2013 6:16 AM

    For those of you that "Ding" the majority of your shots please give me some suggestions. Do you watch the meter moving toward the "Ding" and guess when to click? Do you find a specific spot on the meter and click at that specific point? Do you do some kind of silent count while the meter is in motion?

    What works best for you?

  • mnshiner
    1,382 Posts
    Wed, May 8 2013 6:22 AM

    I think it all depends on your eyes and your reflexes. What I have found with my vision and my old age reflexes having my monitor placed at just the right position makes a big difference.

    Also if you are playing Uneven Lies you can throw the "Ding" factor out the window, putting excluded.

  • BeachedMulligan
    1,238 Posts
    Wed, May 8 2013 7:34 AM

    One thing that might help. Take a look at BolloxinBruges profile and you will see a video of his. You notice he is always moving his mouse upwards after he fills his power meter which gives him a sense of timing. 

    Also Genorb has posted a video of his own on his profile and you see he also has a technique of how he moves his mouse preparing for ding. 

    To each their own, but you could try something like that. 

    BM

  • YankeeJim
    25,827 Posts
    Wed, May 8 2013 7:39 AM
  • hpurey
    11,505 Posts
    Wed, May 8 2013 8:27 AM

    YankeeJim:

    Exactly.   Why post the exact same thing two minutes apart?? lol

  • Soggyblogger
    224 Posts
    Wed, May 8 2013 9:40 AM

    What works best for me is getting into a zen state and watching the meter in two places at one time. I watch the meter as it is moving while keeping an eye on the place I want to hit - whether that is the ding spot or hooking or slicing.

  • TarheelsRule
    5,566 Posts
    Wed, May 8 2013 10:13 AM

    This is an interesting topic..............can someone tell me what the ding is?  I've only been around 5 years and I haven't heard it yet.

    Is it like the mythical Unicorn or the also mythical G-Spot?  

    Is it as rare as Obama asking for a tax decrease and a cut in spending.

     

  • mnshiner
    1,382 Posts
    Wed, May 8 2013 10:22 AM

    I'm done. Please vote for the last answer as the best one yet in the forum. Great response TarHeeels.!!!!!!

  • salamii
    1,058 Posts
    Wed, May 8 2013 12:12 PM

    Here's how I approach it, 

    1.   When I aim to miss with or against the wind I will ding 100% of the time.

    2.   When I aim to ding with or against the wind I will miss 100% of the time.

    My own little personal vem Buddy.

    Hope that helps.

    Sal.

     

  • bubbadork
    984 Posts
    Wed, May 8 2013 12:44 PM

    You can't "hit the ding." The nature of the system is that the meter is laid down several pixels at a time, probably ranging from 8 to 32. Therefore there is no "point,", merely a range.

    Further, WGT does not know when the mouse was clicked. The click is detected by the system, then placed into a queue for the program that the system presumes that the click was intended for.

    The program in question services all the events that are in its queue. These can be mouse events, keyboard events, timer, and a plethora of others. There is certainly no guarantee of how soon the ding click will be processed.

    The playability of the game is based upon probably getting a click event when one is within a certain number of pixels before or after the "ding point." 

    I'm betting that you have seen this, yourself. You click a little early or a little late, you still get a ding. You click what you think is pretty close, and you don't get a ding.

    Just do the best you can.

    My personal technique is to drag toward the upper left until I get the strength that I want. I then release and let it go. I don't move my mouse after the release. I just watch the meter and click (wherever the mouse is) when I think the time is right.

    I ding 50% to 75% of the time, depending upon whether I'm having a good day or a bad day.

    A ding is better than a missed ding, but not by much if the missed ding is close.

    My personal preference is to adjust shots by moving the triangle. I never intentionally miss the ding except on shot shaping.

    All this stuff is personal preference and predicated on what you think you can do or not do.

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