Why humans are suddenly getting better at Tetris

I remember playing some version of Tetris made by Microsoft for Windows 3.11 and later Windows 95. Didn’t really get into it.

Then a couple of years later I played Tetris DS and got hooked. Turns out they’ve changed the rules a bunch and it is basically a different game. Pieces don’t lock into place immediately, you get a longer next piece queue and you can swap the falling piece for one that you store until later.

Tetris Effect is also very good and uses this new ruleset.