well...most the people i play with are girls. I recently got one of my friends (girl) to buy DDR and start playing. It's actually rarer to find a guy that does DDR here. Only guys i know that do it ...
What i like to do (especially for Paranoia) is to go to the Training mode and take the song slow, get all the steps, then gradually over time increase the speed. Try to memorize the hard parts as wel ...