angie cheng week 1: muscle memory
Angie Cheng
Benedetti
English 11AP
Wed 23 March 2022
Published: 3/23/22 1:39 PM
Muscle Memory
I enjoy rhythm games a bit too much and I’ve downloaded a good amount of them. However, I play on many Japanese servers if the game has not made an english server yet. Though I don’t understand Japanese, my muscle memories from playing Bandori Dream on the english server made me memorize the functions and the buttons I need in order to operate and navigate the game. As rhythm games are usually similar, I was able to play completely different games, as they operated very similarly.
It isn’t just games too, muscle memory can be used for music and playing instruments. Texting too, huh? When we type on keyboards or on our phone, we tend to low key memorize the letters and do not really look down too much at the letters in front of us. (All that typing.com and nitrotype from elementary school really set us up for that).
If anything, all the small things you do tend to be muscle memory. The more you find yourself doing something, that more easier it gets. It’s like memorizing a recipe and you are able to scale everything off your own memories. How to dance, how to play card games, or just video games in general. Super Smash Bros is so fun, but my goodness, it takes so much concentration with button smashing and literal thinking…What muscle memories do you guys have??
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Comments
Congrats on your full combo! I feel like muscle memory and learning a language are pretty similar, maybe because they are both forms of memory. I watch a lot of videos in Korean, so sometimes, I can have a general idea of what they are saying if the video does not have subtitles. I also have muscle memory for ballet. I can remember how to do most of the basic steps and I remember the choreography I made 3 years ago. A type of muscle memory I want to improve this year is my typing muscle memory. I currently type with three fingers, which puts too much strain of those fingers, so I want to learn to type normally. It is currently hard for me to do, because I am used to typing like this, but I hope I will be able to gain muscle memory for the new position soon.
I have a love-hate relationship with muscle memory; specifically when it comes to piano. I have been playing piano since practically all my life, but I can not, for the life of me, remember a piece without the use of muscle memory. Every piece I play without the notes in front of me is based on what position I’m in on the piano feel right and not the actual notes. If you asked me what notes my Romantic piece last year started with, I’d have to go to the piano and figure it out from there and I could not tell you immediately. It may seem nice to be able to just feel out a piece from muscle memory, but it does not come in handy when the muscle memory inevitably fails you (I’ve had some interesting experiences when this happens). You kind of just become lost and don't know what comes next, it’s pretty tragic.
-Angel Susantin
I rely on muscle memory way too much, especially in video games. One of my favorite games is called “Friday Night Funkin.’” It’s essentially a rhythm game; at first, it’s not so bad, but as you progress the levels, the arrows get so fast that you can barely even see them on the highest difficulty. At that point, you can resort to one of two methods: remembering the timing of the arrows or replaying the same level over and over again so you get muscle memory. I usually resort to the second method as my memory is horrible. I’m so glad that I’m not the only one who uses this method when playing rhythm games.
How may you do on this fine evening. Anyways, your blog reminds me of my dance teacher, not because she plays video games smh, but because she always tells us to practice our dance pieces until we can do then off of muscle memory. She also has this idea where if she wakes us up in the night, we should be able to perform it perfectly. I don’t play video games that much or at all (even though someone is telling me to but I refuse) and this is because I have a toxic trait in that I have to be perfect in all the levels. For example, if the game consists of getting coins and other stuff, then I have to get EVERY SINGLE coin, or I don’t accept it. HEH whoops, I’m not the best person to play Minecraft with LOL.
Sincerely,
Mrinmayee Sama
Muscle memory is really that backup you have when you really need it. Like after 2 years of stopping swimming, I literally forgot how to breathe in water or basically swim. Thankfully, the long swim practices in the past really paid off and the much needed techniques, I was able to recover pretty fast and get ready for tryouts. Typing as you mentioned is something like a common skill and helps you transfer something from a written paper fast. The reason I brought that up is my dad needed help from me on typing something he wrote. I could say I finished it up pretty fast while putting full concentration on the paper and not the keyboard. While I did make mistakes, constant mistakes made on the keyboard helped me remember and note that I indeed made one and it was much quicker going back and fixing it.
I remember finding the cutest games only to be disappointed they’re in Korean or Japanese. Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out the games and now I just play games in English. It’s really cool how you can remember all the buttons and controls for those games, I wish I could do that. Muscle memory is so helpful though, especially when it comes to typing. I’m glad I’m not like my parents who have to actually look for the word they’re trying to type, which takes forever. I don’t blame them though, they didn’t have the chance to go through typing training in computer class for elementary school. I also have muscle memory when it comes to walking. I often end up daydreaming when I walk, yet I don’t trip and remember to turn at the right places to get home. It’s honestly both scary and amazing.
Sincerely,
Faith Tong