-EXCELLENT and EXCELLENT- What does the - stand for?

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I'm guessing it's suppose to tell you that your step is early or late, but I don't know for sure.
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Loogaroo · Trick Member Joined: 06 Feb 2002 Location: Glendale, CA

That's precisely what it means.

The dash in front of an Excellent, Great, Decent or Way Off step indicates on which side of the beat you were on when you stepped. If the dash is on the left, you stepped early; if it's to the right, you stepped late.
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Brick Tamland(LoveRevenG) · Trick Member Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Location: NC

Is this in ITG2 or something, cause I've never noticed a thing.
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Kyrandian · Trick Member Joined: 24 Mar 2002 Location: Portland, OR

Yeah. Also, Way Offs are now displayed as "Way Early" or "Way Late".

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cfusionpm · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: San Diego, CA

its so rediculously, unbelievably useful.
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:46 pm Post subject:

WAY EARLY means you were quite early to step, duh.
WAY LATE means you were quite late to step, duh.

-BLAHBLAHBLAH means that you were too early. If you hit it later, you would of got a fantastic/better rating.

BLAHBLAHBLAH- means that you were too late. If you hit it earlier, you would of got a fantastic/better rating.

Yeah, and it's totally useless in my opinion too. I just notice that a lot of my excellents are early and my greats are late.

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'Ivan · Trick Member Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Location: Thailand

I either don't notice or ignore the dashes...I don't have the time to concentrate on that sort of thing (yet) when you've got a 16th run flying at you at 174 BPM.

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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject:

I'm usually looking at the stationary arrows up top or the rating/combo area. I'm usually looking at the latter more.

However, it still doesn't help at all.
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cfusionpm · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: San Diego, CA

the - marks help me get things like this, sight reading songs i have never seen or heard before
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J. S. Mill · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:30 pm Post subject:

PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:41 pm Post subject:

Does the direction that the judgement tilts mean anything? When I noticed on ITG1 that all the non-Fantastic judgements were tilted either clockwise or counterclockwise by various amounts, I just assumed that one direction was early and the other direction was late, with the amount of tilt telling you how early or late... but that was just as guess. Was I wrong?
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:50 pm Post subject:

I think it was just a gimmick for aesthetic purposes like how the MISS thing tilts if you get off the pad.
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Kyrandian · Trick Member Joined: 24 Mar 2002 Location: Portland, OR

The - grading isn't something I can constantly pay attention to, but it gives me a better idea of whether the song is early or late, so yes it's helpful.