how satisfied are you with your playing in general? show percentage pls

[tds]

10-55%

[birba]

Yes, I'm happy if I hit 55%.  But I swear I'm going to get there! 

[perfect_pitch]

about 50%...

I won't be 100% satisfied until I've played Rachmaninoff's 3rd... AND IT'S NOT because people claim it's the hardest piece in the world

It's because the piece is just so full of audacity, emotion and needs stamina that I want to learn it.

[ted]

About 90%, but firstly I am a very placid person and secondly I don't need to work much these days to preserve a level of playing well in excess of that needed for satisfying improvisation. Thirdly, it is possible to be fully aware of one's deficiencies and take pleasure in working toward correcting them without the slightest dissatisfaction. In other words, I could truthfully answer 100% even though I work very hard at many things. Satisfaction with a dynamic process does not imply complete stasis. So I answered 90% lest I be thought merely lazy.

[lostinidlewonder]

Certain pieces which feel mastered like 95%-99% (You can never be totally satisfied or your work will regress), work in progresses like 1% (I tend to be ultra negative in my playing when I am learning a piece, this helps me to pressure myself towards mastery).
When I improvise it is always 100% so such thing as wrong or bad ^__^
Constantly pushing myself to work harder and faster I would be at an even 50% there.

As a % of my work completely for my lifetime I would have to say I need another 70 years (I do plan to live to 100 and still be interested in piano ) to cover everything I want to cover (although new compositions pop up all the time which beg to be looked at). I have only played piano for 26 of my 29 years, so that leaves only around 25% done.

[ted]

It is only over the last couple of years that I have actively and objectively criticised my own improvisation - the many hundreds of recordings of it that is. It isn't something I would advise a beginning improviser, or one unsure of his direction to do at all, and I certainly never do it during the actual playing. I suppose listening regularly to the large body of one's own improvisation might appear morbidly introspective to others. However, considering the amount of time most people my age squander boozing and watching inanities on television, I scarcely think it matters.

If certain bits of musical sound were not in some sense "better" than others, at least to me, then I would be 100% satisfied as long as any sound was produced. I am certainly not so inclined. Obviously there has to be more to it than that; implicit standards do exist in my brain even if I choose to ignore them - a futile course I have tried in the past. The "puzzle", if you like to call it that, is to objectively understand which properties stand out and try to understand why. Then presumably I can guide the overall evolution at a meta-level over whatever time I have left. What amazes me so far is just how ferociously complicated and convoluted this is.   

[Derek]

I can't come up with a percentage. It'd have to be bigger than 50%, though, because I love playing. Sometimes I feel totally dissatisfied with my playing, other times extremely satisfied. The extremely satisfied times outweigh the totally dissatisfied ones, so I'd say maybe 80% satisfied. I always feel a "tension" towards better playing in the future, if I answered 100% I would feel like I was saying I'd hit a plateau that I'd never need to ascend from.