How to Improve Your Gaming Skills

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This has been helped by several factors. The rise in smartphone use has meant that almost everyone now carries a gaming machine in their pocket with access to around a million different titles. The ease of creating mobile games has allowed developers to come up with entirely new genres, many of which fit into the 'casual' and 'hyper-casual' categories, meaning there is almost certainly at least one game that will appeal to everyone on the planet.

The ever growing number of free titles across almost every platform has also helped to make gaming more popular. Some of the most popular options include Fortnite, Candy Crush, Call of Duty: Mobile, and League of Legends, all of which attract millions of players each month. Online casinos also offer many free games to play through their websites and apps, including classic options like blackjack and roulette, as well as many modern video slots.

But if you're new to the gaming scene, you might be wondering what you can boost your skills for when you're playing others online. Thankfully, there are some simple tricks and techniques you can deploy to level yourself up.

Learn New Techniques

Gaming is just like any other skill. You need to learn the basic underlying principles of what makes a good player and then try to implement them.

There are plenty of sources for learning these principles, including books, online guides, and videos. For traditional games like poker and chess, you'll find thousands of different publications from experienced players that cover everything from the basic rules and mechanics to the most intricate and difficult of techniques.

For video games, there are fewer printed publications available, but you'll still find thousands of hours of video guides on sites like YouTube and page after page of written tutorials on gaming websites.

Watch Others Play

After learning the theoretical side, you can build on this knowledge by watching skilled and experienced players. Sites like Twitch are filled with thousands of live streams from people playing just about every game you could imagine, including GTA V and Minecraft all of which can be watched for free.

Often, the streamers on these platforms are professional gamers with thousands of hours of playing behind them. This makes them the ideal people to study and learn from since they have spent a long time honing their approach.

For example, you will notice that skilled players of first person shooters will often 'bunny hop' and continually move around, making it much more difficult for their opponents to attack them. In contrast, beginners tend to do the exact opposite, so by watching these streamers, you can see how they put this into practice and replicate it yourself.

Practice

Like with anything else in life, you will only improve as a gamer if you practice. As you play, you'll find yourself naturally improving, but you can speed this process up if you try to consciously implement the techniques that you have learned about in the previous two steps.

If you're looking to become a better gamer, then it's probably because you enjoy playing. Therefore, practising is unlikely to feel like a chore so you won't struggle finding the motivation to do it.

That said, it is still important that you make time to do it if you are serious about improving.

Kareem Winters

Update 29 November 2021