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How beneficial is it to play through the old maps?

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ekkih
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Joined March 2020
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ekkih
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
3,170 posts
Joined June 2016
Voidedosu
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.
Laskerf
105 posts
Joined March 2021
Laskerf
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
3,170 posts
Joined June 2016
Voidedosu

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.)
Kolmas
564 posts
Joined March 2020
Kolmas
they're at least very interesting to play, can 100% recommend
ekkih
3 posts
Joined March 2020
Topic Starter
ekkih
Thanks for your answers! I will try the site and the discord. But do you think I can see a list like x maps/ x maps (2007 ranked f.e) completed?
Pikku Masa
154 posts
Joined January 2015
Pikku Masa
Go for it, theyre better anyway
Voidedosu
3,170 posts
Joined June 2016
Voidedosu

ekkih wrote:

Thanks for your answers! I will try the site and the discord. But do you think I can see a list like x maps/ x maps (2007 ranked f.e) completed?
Like I said, the website will show you once your data's pulled in the completion tab.
xch00F
256 posts
Joined October 2012
xch00F

Voidedosu wrote:

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.
disagree w/ this, imo for any rhythm game (especially ones with custom user created content), I would say it could be very beneficial. being able to hit awkward stuff definitely transfers into raw gameplay skill particularly when it comes to sightreads and dum tech shit, but there are also benefits to understanding what didn't "work" in old charts and what did ie what kinds of patterning old and new charts have in common

tho don't feel obligated to burn through a bunch of old charts unless you actually want to. idk what osu standard mapping meta looked like in 2007 since I was in stepmanialand, but any rhythm game with "official" charts that go back that far will have some very wonky stuff, honestly it's fun to gawk at the old dumb stuff lol
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