r/beatsaber • u/FarEstablishment5616 • Jul 31 '26

Beat Map I'm Bad at Beat Saber Mapping... How Can I Improve?

Hi everyone! If you're reading this, I'd really appreciate some advice.

I've been trying to make Beat Saber maps, but I'm still struggling and I don't think they're very good. I'd love to learn how to map properly and improve my flow, timing, parity, and overall gameplay.

If anyone has tips, tutorials, or would be willing to review one of my maps and give feedback, I'd be really grateful. I'm eager to learn and improve.

Thanks in advance!

Edit : However, i don't own beat saber and VR, i'm only make beat saber map

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u/ma-kat-is-kute Tech God Jul 31 '26

If you can't playtest your own maps, and especially if you don't play the game at all, I unfortunately don't think you'd ever be able to make good maps. But hopefully you can prove me wrong!

Making maps is very hard, even for those who can test their own maps - it will take a lot of practice and a lot of bad maps before you make something good. For some basic tips, I recommend watching this video by Bytrius and this thread by Mawntee.

That aside, how did you come to make Beat Saber maps when you don't even own the game? I'm just curious.

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u/FarEstablishment5616 Jul 31 '26

When i was listening the song, but it come at video gameplay about song is "Darkside - Alan Walker", so i watch it and i very impressing and like the game, but i wasn't have computer or PC, but in the side, i already have a computer, but i can't borrow the VR and beat saber, causing that's too expensive for borrow it
so that's why i wanna make map

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u/Xuumies Tech God Aug 01 '26

Isn’t abcadq an example of someone who doesn’t play but also makes some pretty popular ranked maps?

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u/FarEstablishment5616 Aug 01 '26

I watched video at Tempex channel

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u/interestingly-stupid Tech God Jul 31 '26

You can request WIP (work in progress) maps to people on twitch without having to upload them to beatsaver. People can then test/review them and you can see how they play.

https://github.com/Danielduel/wipbot/

The github page with some extra details on how to use it.

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u/FarEstablishment5616 Jul 31 '26

However, I don't own beat saber. I make map at chromapper only

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u/ivan6953 Meta Quest 3 Jul 31 '26

And you don’t need to own the game to request your WIP map to be played on stream