Author: Chastity White Rose

I have played more Tetris than anyone can imagine. I have previously published posts about the ET Cannon and why it is incredibly powerful for perfect clears and sending damage.

But after much playing and experience I can tell you that even the ET Cannon does not lead to the highest possible score nor the most garbage sent to an opponent in vs mode.

The highest scoring method I have discovered is no doubt the Mechanical T Spin Double. More precisely, it is version 2. To get an idea of how it works, I have some videos here you can watch. Afterwards I will describe the math behind why it scores so high.

The reason that all my highest scores use this method is because of how all modern Tetris games score T spins better than a four line clear.

Tetris(four lines with I piece) = 800
TSD(clearing two lines by spinning T piece in place) = 1200.

Obviously 1200 is more than 800, but wait, since only two lines are cleared, this means that doing it twice would clear 4 lines and score 2400 right? Wrong! You see when you repeatedly do Tetris and/or T spin clears, you get a 50% score bonus. This means that the second T spin double would be 1800 points instead for a total of 1200+1800=3000 with only four lines cleared. This makes it the highest way to score in marathon mode where there are a limited number of lines to clear before the game ends.

However this method also is effective in vs battles. The reason is that the back to back bonus also applies to the garbage sent. T spin doubles send 4 lines of garbage but each one in a row after that will send 6.

There is one downside. Using this loop makes the stack slightly higher each time and there is no way to do only TSDs. This is why in many of my videos you see me place random pieces into the 3 wide hole in the middle. The key is that the pieces must be balanced. 1 of each of the 6 pieces(T,J,L,O,S,Z) must be placed. If they are not all used, there is an imbalance and it becomes impossible to continue the loop.

The I piece is a little bit different. Normally they are stacked on top of each other either on the left or right side of the screen. However because they become taller faster than any other piece, it is possible to have extras which can also go down in the hole. Sometimes this even allows for a Tetris clear. While this is not as good as a TSD, it does maintain the back to back bonus and so it is recommended to try this. A lot of the time it is best to wait until the stack gets very tall so that there is plenty of room to place the 6 pieces I mentioned in the 3 wide well. As long as this rule is followed, it is theoretically possible to play forever. Practically though, it only works until the game speeds up to about level 11 and the pieces drop too fast to place them where you need. At that point all other methods also break down so just freestyle and try to survive as long as you can.

I hope my videos and this post help people learn to use this most effective method in their Tetris games. The only method that could possibly score higher would be ST stacking. However it’s much too difficult for most people to pull off and it would result in getting KOd pretty easily in vs battles.

Update:

There is one thing that is even more high scoring theoretically than a mechanical T Spin Double loop. That would be an infinite T Spin Triple loop. However this would not apply in ultra or blitz mode because setting up a TST loop takes a lot more time and is not as easy to maintain. Still. If time is not a concern, then TST would be the highest score in marathon mode. I have not learned to do it myself but I am interested in the concept and it may be a future challenge. If I succeed there will be videos!

If you’re an experienced Tetris player, you’ve probably heard about openings, which are what you do with the first few bags of pieces to set up your high scores or send garbage to your opponent in vs.

However, in my experience of using my favorite opener, the ET Cannon, I noticed that because it was a 14 line perfect clear and used the first 5 bags, it was possible to repeat the loop of ET cannon or even possibly use a different opening because it’s like the game is starting over with a clear playing field.

And then I made a discovery which will break my previous limits. I found the scoring chart for Tetris mobile, which also probably is the same as the Facebook Tetris.

https://www.tetrismobileapp.com/support/

For convenience I’ll copy and paste the score chart here so you can read it before I explain my next point.

Single Line Clear	100 Points
Double Line Clear	300 Points
Triple Line Clear	500 Points
Tetris™ Line Clear	800 Points

Mini T-Spin	100 Points
Mini T-Spin Single	200 Points
T-Spin	400 Points
T-Spin Double	1200 Points
T-Spin Triple	1600 Points

Single Line Clear All Clear	800 Points
Double Line Clear All Clear	1200 Points
Triple Line Clear All Clear	1800 Points
Tetris Line Clear All Clear	2000
Back-To-Back Tetris Line Clear All Clear	3200 Points

Soft Drop	1 Point/Line Dropped Through
Hard Drop	2 Points/Line Dropped Through

On top of that, you’ll also earn Back-To-Back bonuses if you do Tetris Line Clears or T-Spin Line Clears back-to-back, without clearing any other lines in between. The Back-To-Back bonus will give you an extra 50% of whatever you would have scored from that move in the first place.

This chart showed me that it actually makes a difference score wise which ET cannon solution I use to finish my perfect clears. So I went through the lists at this site.

Here are the perfect clears which can be finished with an I piece for a Tetris clear which is also a perfect clear.

So far those are the only 3 solutions I have found. For this reason they should be preferred unless they are impossible, in which case a different solution from Chastity’s list or Jimothy’s list should be used.

Also worth mentioning is the New DT Cannon which also can perfect clear with a Tetris but it’s not as easy to memorize nor is it 100% possible with all piece orders. However it is a lot faster to build on Mobile Tetris because it uses hard drops and only rarely soft drops. Some Tetris variants have slow softdrop speed while others allow you to customize it so that it is much faster.

I will keep finding new ways to score higher in Tetris and I pay share some videos and screenshots. For now, look at my highest score in Mobile Tetris.

I also did 8 perfect clears in a row in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 before continuing freestyle to 1000 lines!

ST Stacking is the hardest to learn method of playing Tetris but undoubtedly the highest scoring as well. Because it is complex, I am collecting the best resources for my own learning of it.

This first video is a Japanese guy explaining it. There are English subtitles and the visuals speaks for itself as a fine example of how ST Stacking is done.

Shocky wrote a 35 page guide to all the things they learned about ST stacking.

Shocky’s guide: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1oqu0zqANYqorEf3tRpWuoMQ8FIJPWCi13uJSjgjrvbA/mobilebasic

Here is my own personal best record.

And here is a nullpomino video I did of practicing ST stacking with frame by frame precision. That’s how it’s so fast.

The opening is the hardest part for me but I made these pictures of two convenient openings which will work for most first bags.

I will add to this page as I learn more of this technique.

My audiobook of the first 3 parts of my story has been available since 10-21-2021. However people don’t really know much about it because I hadn’t spent the time to advertise it. However I decided to make the first part available completely free on YouTube, Facebook, and a few other platforms.

The idea is that if people can survive the first part, they can then proceed to buy the full audiobook which is 4 hours and 34 minutes and is available here:

https://www.audible.com/pd/Chandlers-Honesty-Audiobook/B09JY2YG27

I very much want people to listen to my story because I think it has the potential to help others who need healing from sexual abuse and/or struggle with gender identity or religious belief. It’s a long listen but I definitely think that it was worth the money to hired Alan Bruun to narrate it.

This book series is the single best way to understand who I am and also help me financially because I am on part time income but I have put everything I have into my story.

As of right now there are a total of 6 parts. 5 are published and 6 is a work in progress. If you’d like to read the books rather than listen, you can also do that on a wide variety of platforms and devices.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YDT2XQG
https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/51261

I cleared 40 lines in 23.30 seconds. Thanks mega shake!

NullpoMino is a Java Tetris program which allows some very good customization features in the gameplay. In the future I may do a detailed explanation of how I cleared 40 lines so fast. But for now keep in mind that this program is the only offline Tetris game that I know of besides the Puyo Puyo Tetris series that can save replays. This allows me to play and then decide later to record a video of the replay.