Don't worry about it, everyone starts somewhere. I needed multiple continues to beat PCB (my first game) on Normal when I was starting out, and 1CCing Easy was a challenge. It took me about a year to get to the point where I felt like a Lunatic 1CC was within my reach.
I can say with confidence that every single person here used to be at your skill level or worse. The only thing that separates us is time spent practicing. Keep at it. You'll be amazed by what you can achieve before long.
I'd like to quote this for emphasis.
I think I couldn't even clear a Touhou game on Normal
with continues when I first started. I don't recall IN Easy taking me too long to 1cc, but the others I tried took anywhere from a few days to several weeks. It took me four months to get a Normal 1cc, and about a year after that for a Lunatic 1cc.
So to all the players going for Normal mode or clearing Extras (or anything below the crazy accomplishments that the lunatics around here are achieving, which seem to dominate the accomplishment threads), just keep practicing, see what you can learn from others' replays, and don't be afraid to ask for help on whatever you have trouble with.
Anyway, I didn't post any goals of my own here earlier, might as well post a few now:
- 80m LLS Extra
- 100m LLS Normal
- 110m ("B" score) LLS anything
- 125m MS Normal
- 150m MS Hard
- 190m MS Extra
- SA Normal 1-death run (effectively no-death run since the death is a suicide for power at the start)
- 1b SA Extra
- 1.5b UFO anything
- 4b IN Lunatic
- 2b in at least two games that aren't IN (1st is probably SA Lunatic, 2nd is very far away right now but it is a goal)
- reach 1b MoF Lunatic with all characters
- MoF Lunatic no-death run with a non-MarisaB character
- Hold on to some Royalflare DDC records (or, failing that, 2nd/3rd place scores) for as long as I reasonably can, both now and when the full game is released
- Learn the EoSD and GFW scoring systems, since although I know how they work I'm not that good at them myself
- "Perfect" at least one Touhou game on Normal
- 1cc PoDD Lunatic
- 1cc MS Lunatic with all characters
- Improve my Lunatic survival in general, since it's not as good as I'd like
- Succeed in at least one Lunatic no-bombs 1cc and at least one Lunatic 91fps 1cc
Wait, that's not a few. I think I got carried away. Here's one more though:
- Balance my Touhou playing so it isn't using up so much of my time. I thought I had it balanced earlier this year, but then the DDC demo came out...