Larto's example is fine since the intersections are complete.

Well, one longer, one shorter, it's created by doing a zig-zag with the red waypoint. If not, it doesn't look clear more because the sliderstyle coder didn't want the slider generation to occupy more CPU than because it is 100% the mapper fault


it's not-so-hard(then some others) to sightread, why? look at the sliderticks, there are less sliderticks in the center and in some point. So... it's almost unplayable if it's fast, but it go left-right-left and start going left-right on the point with more ticks


somewhat difficult, for the fuck there aren't many ticks... after the diagonal part it go down, right (stop slight before the tick), left, up(there is a visible difference in the point it go up),right,down,right, but i could be wrong, because of the less sliderticks than the precedent.

Blue Dragon example are actually readable, because of the curves in the points it chabge direction are really visible. Theyn were good SliderArt too

Ekaru example were hard to sightread and to actually see, they were ugly too for me...

I have no trouble reading them, either. They have a clear sliderpath. In fact, I'd say that they're both rankable under this rule; they have clear slider paths, and...



There's none of that here. They're perfectly rankable, really; don't forget the second part of the clause! Sure, you can't see the slider path where they touch on the first one, but they're not "covered up from being packed in too tightly", they're just touching each other, so they're easy to read and don't fall under this clause. As for the bottom one, it's easy to tell which way you're supposed to go.

EDIT: Remember; this rule has already existed for years (it just wasn't written). They're just trying to express it here in words the best they can, I'm pretty sure.

Female should be fine since the wiggle has very little bearing on gameplay.
Male is bad because the borders impact.

actually there is a visible difference on the borders of the male circle so it is actually readable. ( and the shape do say it is linear )

They can quickly turn into:


It isn't fair to expect players to read crescents/gradients to figure out what a slider does.

If it's very clear and obvious what it does, and difficult to change, then it should be allowed to pass.
That slider breaks the rule, but it can probably be allowed anyway.

And the solution appears!

HakuNoKaemi got it completely wrong.
Luna got it half-right (basically mixed them up)

That example doesn't actually matter since there's only one tick located somewhere in the middle. If you play it like a linear slider, you'll pass.

The same is true for any rule. Border impact is a good judge of readability in most cases.