Practice routine in writing

Solid routine, i used to do a similar thing. as you said best way to get better is by battling and analyzing others styles. 2 battles a week is good.. posting opens is a cool way to test your general bars, not enough people send bars to others randomly but most (including me) respond to everything that gets sent to them so that's another way of seeing how you match up. And as far as how to analyze others verses try to catch how everyone varies in style, from type of bars, to how the actual verse is structured, grammar punctuation the overall tone etc.. because it def impact how smooth a verse flows together

Best of luck on LB tho

Solid routine, i used to do a similar thing. as you said best way to get better is by battling and analyzing others styles. 2 battles a week is good.. posting opens is a cool way to test your general bars, not enough people send bars to others randomly but most (including me) respond to everything that gets sent to them so that's another way of seeing how you match up. And as far as how to analyze others verses try to catch how everyone varies in style, from type of bars, to how the actual verse is structured, grammar punctuation the overall tone etc.. because it def impact how smooth a verse flows together

Best of luck on LB tho