How beneficial is it to play through the old maps?

ekkih

Joined March 2020

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ekkih 2024-12-21T19:37:24+00:00

I had the idea to play through the old maps to develop better reading or more comfortable tapping because of the odd pattern of old maps. (2008, 2009 etc.)
They seem harder then they look so my question is, does it pay off to do that? Also is there a site to check how many ranked maps there was per year to track my own progress? Of course i know that there are plenty of them, but I liked they idea to try to finish all maps of 2008, 2007,2009 and 2010 f.e xd

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Voidedosu

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Voidedosu 2024-12-21T22:04:34+00:00

1.) For checking ranked maps, theres this site. It's on my profile, sure, but you can go to the completion tab of any profile and check the maps by year section to see.

That being said, if you want your own to check, I believe you normally have to do so on a discord server (which I don't know cuz I don't use Discord) or have someone do it for you. Or there's a way to on the site itself, I don't remember.

2.) Honestly, I'd say no? yeah, the patterns are definitely odd compared to today, but I personally am not convinced that it's a transferable skill. If you want to play old maps, you're going to learn how to play old maps, not make playing recent maps easier. It's a one-way street when it comes to the skills you learn/use, IMO, but that's not the same as it never being the case.

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Laskerf

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Laskerf 2024-12-21T22:27:18+00:00

Playing those maps definitely helps a lot with developing tapping, fingercontrol and reading.

To keep track of what maps you already played in which year, I suggest you join the osu!alternative discord server... it's pratically built for doing that

Voidedosu

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Voidedosu 2024-12-22T09:30:05+00:00

Laskerf wrote:
Playing those maps definitely helps a lot with developing tapping, fingercontrol and reading.

To keep track of what maps you already played in which year, I suggest you join the osu!alternative discord server... it's pratically built for doing that

Yeah, that one. The site I linked is basically that on a website, I believe.

It's unfortunate I can't mix-n-match the completions stats to, say, see how many 3* 240-299 maps I have, but it's great for a general overview if you don't care about super-specific stats you might just have to track yourself somehow.

(I wonder how much storage it'd take and data it'd have to pull to give a graph of all maps by score from 1M-10M in 1M increments, then 5M to 50, then 10M to 100M, then probly 50M on up or something.)

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Kolmas

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Kolmas 2024-12-22T11:05:57+00:00

they're at least very interesting to play, can 100% recommend