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naujoks:
I need some serious help with those springs.
I've sifted through all the technical information, scores of scientific data with charts and numbers, but in reality it's no help to me.
I watched many videos. There's a lot of guys there scoring highly by doing the "wait for a long spring" and run thing, but I think they were just lucky. When I do this, 80% of the times it works, but it still means I'm dead long before Level 7.
I also saw some of the masters getting up the ladder on a short spring - how does that even work?
Dean says he's watching the entry arc, with peripheral vision. Even when looking at the springs directly, the difference in the arc is not easily made out. And where do you stop to assess the situation? When I'm even just one step up the ladder and my eyes dart from the right to the left and by the time I found out I need to go back to the safe spot, it's already too late.
I think my reaction time and general skills are good enough to crack this, but right now I'm stuck. Any help greatly appreciated!

Lyriell:
So I'm no expert on the matter, but if you are not in a rush and are willing to follow this advice it will get the job done.

Basically... I'll skip the first part of getting up the ladder and across to the safe zone,  I'll assume you have that part sorted.  If not, let me know....

What you want to do is wait for the longest spring and soon as it goes over your head start running to the right.

As soon as you start running, dart your eyes back over to the left side and watch the incoming spring... if it's short, keep going, if its long like the one you just left on... then hike it back ASAP.

With time you will read this stuff and basically only make mistakes when you are tired. 

You should try a MAME savestate for practice. 

What you should be able to do is walk Mario up the ladder without having to look at him.

naujoks:
Thanks for the reply, I just practiced your suggestion for a bit, but it doesn't work: If I wait at the bottom of the stairs even for a split second, while I'm looking to the springs on the left, there's not enough time to get up the ladder, even if it's a short spring.

Lyriell:
You need to be looking over there from the moment you step away.

You should know your decision before the spring has fallen, the window of opportunity is small though.   Are you playing on your TV?  Or a PC?  Can you get closer to the screen?  If you're on a TV can you switch on game mode or PC mode?

You won't have time to stop and look, you should always be moving either towards and up or running back.  If you have stood still, you are already dead unless you know your stuff.

naujoks:
At the moment I'm playing on MAME on my PC, but my cabinet will arrive next week :)
I'll experiment some more.

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