Build your foundation.
Start with your setup, learn the fundamentals, and get comfortable in every fight.
Find your next small win.
Setup
Set yourself up for the next fight.
Mouse Settings
Finding a good mouse sensitivity is important to setting up your game.
Lunar Client
Lunar Client is a verified minecraft client that merges essential mods, important bug fixes, and performance boosts into easily downloadable client.
In Game Settings
Set up your video settings, huds, and preferences in lunar client and optifine (required mods).
Fundamentals
A few ideas to try in your next game.
Aiming
Getting the first hit is essential in order to win a fight. Learning how to properly aim will help you as a better aim means more reach.
CPS + Clicking Methods
Most players should generally aim to reach around 9 - 10 clicks per second in order to get hits at around the 2.8 block range.
W Tapping
W-Tapping, and other methods used to reset sprint, are essential skills to master to deal more knockback and hold combos.
Practice
A few ideas to try in your next game.
Strafing
At a low level, strafing doesn't make much of a difference. However, later at higher levels being able to comfortably strafe and randomly change directions without thinking about it can be the difference between good players and leaderboard players.
Blockhitting
Blockhitting happens when you right click while holding a sword (requires versions 1.8.9). When you block your sword, you receive about 40% less damage from the front.
Review
Review of important things from section and also some extra do's and don'ts.
One idea. One game. Then another.
Try a technique until it feels natural. Your lessons are marked as read automatically when you reach the end.