In need of tips in drumrolling using keyboard

[DescriptiCringe]

is there a way to input larger amounts of drum rolls using keyboard? I kept getting sandbagged by players who rolls 3x faster than me

[Sayo]

Same problem here, I'm losing like 90% of the matches just because of this. Really wondering what I'm doing wrong :/

[qbicfeet]

It's a fundamental flaw with how online matches work, even disregarding things like cheats/macros you can't beat controller players by virtue of the keyboard controls only mapping the drums to 4 keys compared to 12 buttons on a controller (4 face buttons + 4 dpad directions + 2 bumpers + 2 triggers). Any controller player will be able to out-drumroll a keyboard or tatacon player by rolling their thumbs over the face buttons/dpad and mashing the shoulder buttons.

It would be more fair if you could map up to 12 separate keyboard keys, that way you could at least mash using all of your fingers, but I suspect Bamco will do ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about it so if you don't have a controller your best bet is to look into external key mapping software.

Having the winner be determined by who can mash buttons the fastest and not who has the best sense of rhythm has been a problem in all modern Taiko installments. It gets a bit more tolerable once you reach A- rank and start playing on hard, since the timing thresholds are much more tighter there and you are less likely to have both players clear the song with perfect accuracy.

[Dramacyde5]

If u have a keyboard that can change key assignments, you can use as many keys as possible to hit the drumrolls. Right now I use wasd and the numb pad 4568 but its still not as fast sometimes lol.