Fastest way to move pieces across?

Question

Is it better/faster to:

hold the ← or → key, until the piece hits the wall, and then tap the ← or → keys to move back away from the wall to the required position,
or tap the ← or → key to get the piece to the required spot?

Obviously if the required position is against the wall the former is better, but for say one or two blocks off the wall is it still faster or is it simply better to tap?

Note: I'm playing on Nullpomino

nabulator · Answer

It depends.
In Tetris, when you hold a single direction, the piece moves that direction automatically. This is known as Delayed Auto Shift (DAS).

There are different rulesets in Nullpomino which change both the DAS and the move delay, the amount of delay for a single tap. Additionally, there are multitude of checkboxes which subtly influence it's behavior (more of an issue in DAS charge games like TGM) Nullpomino allows instant tap and instant DASing, which will cause a piece to jump to either ends of the well. If your DAS delay is shorter than the tap delay multiplied by the number of taps needed to get to wall, then DAS is faster.
There's much more discussion of DAS in the Harddrop community wiki from which I have taken this GIF from and the Harddrop forums. This mechanic is somewhat central to all types of Tetris and other falling block bames.

Fastest way to move pieces across?

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It depends.

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