DDR Lingo

peejay · Basic Member Joined: 03 Nov 2006

Hey DDR Gamers,

I am a plebe at the United States Military Academy and I am writing an essay on the physical benefits of playing DDR. The essay is in argument form and my audience is 20 members of the DDR "discourse community." I am supposed to use exclusive words, phrases, terms, etc. that only a DDR player would be able to relate to. This is where I need your help.

I thought this site would be a great representation of the DDR community so if you guys could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.

Respectfully,

CDT PVT Rome
USMA 2010

Flameboat · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject:

This might be a good place to start

Good luck.

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peejay · Basic Member Joined: 03 Nov 2006

That will definitely help. Thank you.

peejay · Basic Member Joined: 03 Nov 2006

"I've been playing since 2001, but partly because I'm too young to drive (started at age 10; now 14) and don't have a home version I don't play as frequently as I should. My lackluster technical scores show that (no AAAs, only a few Heavy AAs with lots of Greats, no 11s passed yet in ITG). "

I just read this in someone's post. Could anyone explain to me what he's saying that's in parenthesis. Some of those terms (AAA and AA) aren't in the dictionary. Thanks.

AA Bob · Trick Member Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Alllll right!

AAA is the highest grade in DDR - you have to get a Perfect on every step and OK's on all freeze arrows.

AA is the second highest grade. The scoring system for a AA is not the same across all DDR mixes, but usually, it means getting mostly Perfects.
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Emptyeye wrote:

So um, is it bad that awhile ago I was watching Family Guy, and when Quagmire came on, I thought something to the effect of "Whoa, It's AA Bob!" (I don't remember if the exact thought was "It's AA Bob" or "It's AA Bob's avatar", but I don't think it matters in this case)?

GotACoolName · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject:

They're grades on how well you played (E, D, C, B, A, AA, AAA). AA is a 95% or better on SuperNOVA and a 93% or better on mixes before SuperNOVA (anyone care to confirm this?), while AAA is a perfect score (100%; all Perfects on steps and OKs on freeze arrows).

They are most commonly pronounced as "double A" and "triple A", rather than "A-A" and "A-A-A"
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AA Bob · Trick Member Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Alllll right!

GotACoolName · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject:

All right, then.

I was just looking at the DDR Freak dictionary, and WTF at this definition:

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AA Bob · Trick Member Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Alllll right!