People PM me and ask me to help them sparring a lot, and while the little blog I made gives very technical advice, there is nothing anyone can say to you to immediately make you a better player.
If you are sparring using a PC, all I can summarize with is:
- Set your Flash quality to the lowest possible so that you are not skipping frames
- Use a very lightweight browser
- Decide between IJKL and the arrow keys, and keep in mind that many keyboards have arrow keys that "ghost" (meaning that when you press 3 keys at once, only two are processed, which won't allow you to strafe)
- Study how movement works in Graal, because you'll notice there are a lot of weird things (pressing down+left makes you face down, pressing down+right makes you face right)
- Learn to use blink effectively
- Watch a lot of spars and try to replicate what the better sparrers do