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Here's how it works: Open a few beers and set them nearby. Go into the "Hard" rooms online (so that everyone is lower rank than you) and then chug a beer between each song. See how many songs you can get through before you don't get first place.

Report back here. I think my limit is about 3 or 4.

Ideas for future versions (I do not want credit or compensation for any of these ideas, please just implement them whenever possible):
1) Emergency score backup: if you lose your connection or the game freezes, then you can quit, restart, and it will reload the game at the screen after the last song played. If you were playing online, it takes you back to the room and submits your final score (if connection was dropped) or last available score (if the game froze).
2) Unpause readiness: You can go ahead and put your fingers down before resuming if a tapper or hold is in the tapping zone and it will be counted as if you tapped/were holding. Shakes in the tap zone should be forgiven when resuming.
3) Revenge mode forgiveness: Basically, you can charge revenge mode while in revenge mode, at, say, half the speed you would normally charge it. Then, if you make a mistake (or, more often, you don't make a mistake but the game mistakenly thinks you did) and the re-revenge mode is already charged, you can immediately reactivate it in the usual manner. If you make a mistake before the re-revenge mode is charged, then all bars get reset as usual.
4) Benefit-of-the-doubt boundaries: The border zones between tap regions (red/green and green/blue) should count toward whichever of the two makes the most sense given the current state of the game. E.g., if tapping "red" would end a streak or break a hold, but tapping "green" does neither, and in fact would give full credit, then it counts for "green."
5) Rotatable controller: You can set the orientation of the game. That way it takes longer to wear out the touchscreen from vigorous tapping in any particular part of the screen.
6) Default skin adjustment: Move the horizon point higher on the screen so that more future taps can be seen in advance.
7) Speed control: Optimally, this would be a large slider at the top of the in-game screen that would let you change the speed/separation of approaching tappers/arrows. However, being able to select a speed immediately before the game starts would be sufficient.
8) Six/eight finger games. Landscape orientation obviously and no shaking required (since it would have to sit on a table). Playing 2 player mode by myself is getting boring (because one hand just sort of mirrors the other) and is hell on my wrists.
9) Online play room chats/status messages: Little text bubbles appear in some extra space above people's icons each update cycle.
10) Adjustment of online game rooms: Mainly the player name text needs to be made smaller or moved left, because if someone has a long name and they are also your friend, the little heart will cover up their score and rank change. Actually, it would be sufficient to use a different method of indicating friendship, like a little heart picture on their avatar.
11) Extended online profiles: Tap someone in a game room and learn more about them. Their ASL, interests, and some status message. (i'm assuming this is on its way given the message that appears when you tap someone's icon in the chat rooms, but be sure it's linked in to the game rooms as well.)
12) Some way to find friends from the game in the chat rooms.
13) Revised rank formula: From what I can tell, if I borrowed my friend's Iphone, I could easily game the system using two accounts, by using the lower-rank one to beat lots of high rank opponents (thereby dropping their scores without affecting mine), and when its rank gets high, just set it up in a game room and beat it for awhile with my regular account until it gets back to low rank again. Not that I would ever cheat like this, but I can't say someone else wouldn't or isn't already. There has to be a way to give ranks a longer memory. Perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to cap the amount of rank a person can lose on a single song.
14) Watching other players play: This would constitute the ability to select a person in a game room and then everything that happens on their screen happens on yours. Sending success ratings of every tap and shake would necessarily require more bandwidth, but since you only have to send the moves of players who are currently being watched, it won't be too bad.
If bandwidth is not a problem, then it could be cool to have a picture-in-picture in online mode where you can watch the person who is ahead of you (or just behind you if you're in first place) and get all excited when they make mistakes.

Hmm, that's all for now, but I'll probably keep coming up with more as I continue to play. Thanks for a great free game!