Preferred Difficulty Names?

What do you call each level? What is your preferred name for each difficulty? Here is a list:

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Beginner (most of DDR)
Novice (ITG)
Very Easy
Easy (Mario Mix)


Basic (old, and new DDR)
Light ( Max - Extreme)
Easy (ITG)
Normal(Mario Mix)



Difficult (SN - DDR2013)
Standard (Max - Extreme)
Trick (older mixes)
Another (older mixes)
Medium (ITG)
Normal


Expert (currently)
Heavy (Max - Extreme)
Maniac (older mixes)
SSR (3rd Mix)
Hard (ITG)
Very Hard (Mario)


Challenge (most mixes)
Oni (some mixes)
Expert (ITG)
S-Maniac(older mixes)
Super Hard (Mario Mix)

I tend to say Beginner, Light, Standard, Heavy, Challenge

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I've always referred to them as follows:
Beginner
Basic
Difficult
Expert
Challenge

Purely because I only started playing shortly before X3 was released, and that was on an SN1 cab. Even now, I only play SN2. It's just what I'm used to

I have no preference on difficulty names.

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No
Light
Standard
Heavy
Challenge/Oni

I guess im just used to the Max-Extreme names for the most part

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"Beginner"
"Light no wait Basic"
"Standard no wait Difficult"
"Heavy... er, Expert. You know, it used to be called Maniac but I guess they didn't want to refer to nerds as crazy."
"Challenge"

In the sense that whenever I use the old terminology, I often try to correct myself afterward. But I guess I still refer to as Heavy the most often. If it clears anything up, I started playing on an Extreme like a year or two before SN and my first console game was Konamix.

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I don't think has ever been labeled Normal, on Mario Mix it is called Hard. is called Standard on some European mixes, and has never been called Oni (That's just the literal translation of the kanji in the symbol) or S-Maniac (The misnomer that formed from 4thMIX PLUS replacing some Maniac charts with harder charts and keeping the original charts as Edit charts called Maniac-S on Single, and Maniac-D on Double). But is called SuperManiac on DancingStage featuring DREAMS COME TRUE. That said...

I just go with the current name set; Beginner/Basic/Difficult/Expert/Challenge. Though I find myself still using the MAX~EXTREME names; Beginner/Light/Standard/Heavy/Challenge.

For me its
Beginner Mode
Light Mode
Standard Mode
Heavy Mode
Oni Challenge

yep I'm strict on the Max-Extreme naming though for me is interchangeable for Oni or Challenge

I wouldn't count the difficulties for Mario Mix as they were not on par with the normal difficulties of the main DDR series. Super Hard is not equivelent , but it is more equivelent to

I've always used Light, Standard, Heavy, and Challenge because that's what I've grown up on and everything else just seems weird. Also when I say "Expert" I'm talking about ITG Expert 99% of the time.

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BEG/BAS/DIF/EXP/CHA

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My favorite mistranslation was players at the first western DDRMAX 2 location referring to the new Nonstop mode as "Hell Mode", not because it had anything to do with demons, but because they had to play through 5 identical-sounding Paranoia songs, in a row, on 1x speed for 8 hours, in order to unlock all the songs on the machine.

- Beginner
- Easy
- Difficult
- Hard
- Challenge

For me, anyway

Stop putting your feet in the middle, I swear to god
Basic
Standard
Expert
Oni

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fix'd (This is literally everyone at my arcade lol)

Since I play ITG mostly I just use those names so yeah.

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^^ this.

But for a long time (because of Dancing Stage EuroMIX 1+2) our Standard was your Light/Basic, sp everything was very confusing.

Isn't it called Oni in the DDR EXTREME modifier selection menu?

Anyways, much like many other people, I tend to call them by their MAX-EXTREME difficulties, though occasionally I will call Expert. Most of the time I call Challenge, but sometimes (mostly on songs from EXTREME) I will call it oni.

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noob
not so noob
a'ight i guess
das cool
fuack

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I refer to them however they are labeled in whichever installment I'm playing.

This is true.

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Beginner
Basic
Difficult
Expert
Challenge

right.

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It is, probably because that's the only word that would fit in the space left between Heavy and the end of the screen.



It's a technicality though, right up there with the 6thMIX announcer calling the difficulties Roku/Yo/Geki (sic?). Everywhere else, it's called Challenge.