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Should I be trying to read AR9.8 yet?

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Vuelo Eluko

Noobsicle wrote:

what would your definition of sight reading be? i thought sight reading meant passing/fcing the map for the first time S:
i can do ar9.6 easily (well the maps themselves weren't really that difficult but yeah), ar10 just kills me
My DT run on PonPonPon which was like 133 pp or something was a complete first try sightread with no retries, thats when i realized i could sightread 9.6
Loves

Riince wrote:

Noobsicle wrote:

what would your definition of sight reading be? i thought sight reading meant passing/fcing the map for the first time S:
i can do ar9.6 easily (well the maps themselves weren't really that difficult but yeah), ar10 just kills me
My DT run on PonPonPon which was like 133 pp or something was a complete first try sightread with no retries, thats when i realized i could sightread 9.6
ikr niqqas on this thread postin' like sightreading AR 10 be like tryna get on the Forbes list smh
Tari
Honestly, if you can HR AR 7 , you have potential to DT AR 7.
nrl

Loves wrote:

Why doesnt DT count? Are we talking about aim or AR, I'm quite confused.
We're talking about AR (aim? what?), and DT doesn't count because it isn't AR10. 9.6 is substantially slower than 10.

Loves wrote:

ikr niqqas on this thread postin' like sightreading AR 10 be like tryna get on the Forbes list smh
Sight reading complex maps on AR10 isn't rocket science, but it isn't something most players can do either.
Loves

NarrillNezzurh wrote:

Loves wrote:

Why doesnt DT count? Are we talking about aim or AR, I'm quite confused.
We're talking about AR (aim? what?), and DT doesn't count because it isn't AR10. 9.6 is substantially slower than 10.

Loves wrote:

ikr niqqas on this thread postin' like sightreading AR 10 be like tryna get on the Forbes list smh
Sight reading complex maps on AR10 isn't rocket science, but it isn't something most players can do either.
IMO 9.68AR and 10AR is pretty much the same. I'm pretty sure most better players will agree that AR10 on complex maps makes everything easier because of less circles on the screen and more time to react to a couple of circles instead of reacting to 4-5.

AR10.3 is a different story all together.
Vuelo Eluko

Loves wrote:

IMO 9.68AR and 10AR is pretty much the same.
not even close for me.
B1rd

Riince wrote:

Loves wrote:

IMO 9.68AR and 10AR is pretty much the same.
not even close for me.
it's like the difference between AR10 and AR10.33

i think the actual difficulty of the map has a lot to do with the difficulty of reading the AR. Most 20K players could probably FC some AR8 hards+HR with enough tries, bu they'd flounder on insanes.
Loves
The difference between AR10 and AR10.3 is actually quite a bit bigger than AR9.68- to AR10.
B1rd
I said 'like the difference'. But thanks for stating an obvious fact anyway.
ZenithPhantasm

Loves wrote:

The difference between AR10 and AR10.3 is actually quite a bit bigger than AR9.68- to AR10.
Its the same...

AR9.68: 500ms-> AR10: 450ms-> AR10.3: 400ms

50ms difference
I Give Up
It only feels different because of the way perception works, the brain struggles to make sense of sudden changes in visual stimuli, and so increasing the speed incrementally at high AR creates this "ohgahd that is not ar10.6 that is ar9000" sensation.

Should I be trying to read AR9.8 yet?
Well first, you can "see" AR9.8, anyone can see AR9.8, because the eyes are just that sensitive. Second, what you should be worrying about is developing muscle memory so you can respond to patterns and tap with good accuracy. I believe that is what reading is all about.
Loves

ZenithPhantasm wrote:

Loves wrote:

The difference between AR10 and AR10.3 is actually quite a bit bigger than AR9.68- to AR10.
Its the same...

AR9.68: 500ms-> AR10: 450ms-> AR10.3: 400ms

50ms difference
Literally yes, but the feel of 10.3 is much quicker than 10 thus why maybe only a couple of hundred of players can actually effecctively read ar10.33.

I also suspect the marginal gap between (ms) AR9.67 to 11 decreases at an exponential. Not sure though
nrl

Loves wrote:

IMO 9.68AR and 10AR is pretty much the same. I'm pretty sure most better players will agree that AR10 on complex maps makes everything easier because of less circles on the screen and more time to react to a couple of circles instead of reacting to 4-5.
As you've pointed out, AR10 is generally easier on exceptionally complex maps once you've gotten used to it, but the two are not the same or even fairly similar, especially for sight-reading, and most players simply cannot sight-read complex maps on AR10. And let's not forget that all the same arguments can be applied to 10/10.3; the change is more drastic due to the fact that 50ms is larger relative to 450ms than to 500ms, but a player who's got the reflexes and practice to read 10.3 will find it easier on more complex maps than 10.

Most of the difficulty associated with AR changes isn't actually due to the AR change. 9.6 to 10 usually comes with an increase in CS and a drastic change in map style, and 10 to 10.3 usually comes with a massive tempo boost, which is why it seems like such an insurmountable hurdle when it really isn't.
B1rd
I think it's probably better to look at high AR reading as a requirement rather than a skill in itself. So you should start with ar10 once insanes are too easy aim and accuracy wise, and learn AR10.33 once the majority of AR8+DT maps are too slow for you. If you're rank 20K there's not much benefit from being able to read AR10.
nrl
Agree.
Loves
Honestly how many players can you name read 10.3? There must be a reason to why 10 is the limit for the majority of better players
RaneFire

Loves wrote:

Literally yes, but the feel of 10.3 is much quicker than 10 thus why maybe only a couple of hundred of players can actually effecctively read ar10.33.
Subjective. I feel that the gap between 9.6 and 10 is quite huge. However the gap between 10 and 10.3 feels about the same (hugeness), so I can only play 10 on easier-to-read maps, and 10.3 on easier-to-read-and-slower maps, which means map complexity plays an important part, as Goldenwolf mentioned earlier.

The reason 10.3 feels so much harder is because of the maps which use AR9 already. Most of them become way too fast to read, let alone tap to, and can carry an OD just as high or higher than HR sometimes, while there are plenty of slower and easier AR8 insanes to slap HR onto.

B1rd wrote:

I think it's probably better to look at high AR reading as a requirement rather than a skill in itself. So you should start with ar10 once insanes are too easy aim and accuracy wise, and learn AR10.33 once the majority of AR8+DT maps are too slow for you. If you're rank 20K there's not much benefit from being able to read AR10.
You should start doing it when you're getting 99% on your typical insanes (excluding physical challenges such as maximising finger-speed, aim-speed or stamina). So IMO, your ability to read and be accurate is foremost important before you move onto playing AR10. If you don't "master" both of these, on ultimately easier settings, you'll quite likely lose your ability to play low AR, since - in speculation - you'll attach your accuracy to your reaction time, instead of reading patterns in advance to determine their timing.

Loves wrote:

Honestly how many players can you name read 10.3? There must be a reason to why 10 is the limit for the majority of better players
I don't even know why people think this is a statistical game based on map settings. To use myself as an example (since I'm slow), the slowest AR10.3 I've even come close to FC'ing is Vidro Moyou (DT). The rest are too fast for my fingers and for my reading. I can't say I can read 10.3, because there are practically no maps I can actually play with it. The majority of players are also slow too... FYI.
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ZenithPhantasm
The reason why not alot of people can do AR10.3 is because it requires double time. Not everyone has a jackhammer for a finger ._.
nrl

Loves wrote:

Honestly how many players can you name read 10.3? There must be a reason to why 10 is the limit for the majority of better players
What makes you think 10 is the limit? You don't see a whole lot of 10.3 FCs, but that's because DTing AR9 insanes is really tough, not necessarily because people can't read 10.3.
Loves

NarrillNezzurh wrote:

Loves wrote:

Honestly how many players can you name read 10.3? There must be a reason to why 10 is the limit for the majority of better players
What makes you think 10 is the limit? You don't see a whole lot of 10.3 FCs, but that's because DTing AR9 insanes is really tough, not necessarily because people can't read 10.3.
Thats the same as saying 10.3 is hard to read because I'm pretty sure there's no correlation between map difficulty and AR (at least up until 9). Most hards and insanes hang around 8-9.

I personally believe 10.3 is hard to read because purely, it's just faster. After my first good AR10.3 FC last night, I'm more inclined to say 10.3 is harder than 10 period. It's not so much as reading as reaction/reflex. If you blink at the wrong time, you could miss 2-3 notes easily.
nrl
Okay, but for that logic to work you have to be able to extend it back to 9.6/10. Is 10 harder than 9.6, period? Or is it only harder if you don't have the reflexes for it?

When you get right down to it, there just aren't that many AR9 maps that are both easy and slow, but there are plenty of AR8 maps that are. Yeah, you can bliink at the wrong time and miss 2-3 notes easy, but you can do (and I have done) the same thing at 9.6 if you don't know when and how quickly to blink. AR10.3 is difficult because of the map selection in the same way no-mod AR10 is.
Vuelo Eluko
i actually find ar10 harder when the maps are lower bpm which includes hard rock on typical easy insanes because it's so nerve wracking to pretty much only have one or two notes on the screen at once at any time. there's just no flow it's like snap pause snap pause snap pause wheres the fun? ar10 doesnt even become comfortably flowable until like 220 bpm
nrl
I was with you until you said 220. You might be doing it wrong.
Vuelo Eluko
well thats more the point where ar9 doesnt feel sufficient than where ar10 starts i guess
Loves

NarrillNezzurh wrote:

Okay, but for that logic to work you have to be able to extend it back to 9.6/10. Is 10 harder than 9.6, period? Or is it only harder if you don't have the reflexes for it?

When you get right down to it, there just aren't that many AR9 maps that are both easy and slow, but there are plenty of AR8 maps that are. Yeah, you can bliink at the wrong time and miss 2-3 notes easy, but you can do (and I have done) the same thing at 9.6 if you don't know when and how quickly to blink. AR10.3 is difficult because of the map selection in the same way no-mod AR10 is.
Idk how many maps you have but I have at least 50 or so ar10.3 which arent too hard to fc all around 4.5-5.25 stars. Tom also said ar10.3 isnt implemented in the star difficulty so there you go..
Bauxe

Loves wrote:

NarrillNezzurh wrote:

Okay, but for that logic to work you have to be able to extend it back to 9.6/10. Is 10 harder than 9.6, period? Or is it only harder if you don't have the reflexes for it?

When you get right down to it, there just aren't that many AR9 maps that are both easy and slow, but there are plenty of AR8 maps that are. Yeah, you can bliink at the wrong time and miss 2-3 notes easy, but you can do (and I have done) the same thing at 9.6 if you don't know when and how quickly to blink. AR10.3 is difficult because of the map selection in the same way no-mod AR10 is.
Idk how many maps you have but I have at least 50 or so ar10.3 which arent too hard to fc all around 4.5-5.25 stars. Tom also said ar10.3 isnt implemented in the star difficulty so there you go..
Lots of players can read 10.3ar.
nrl

Loves wrote:

Idk how many maps you have but I have at least 50 or so ar10.3 which arent too hard to fc all around 4.5-5.25 stars. Tom also said ar10.3 isnt implemented in the star difficulty so there you go..
I have at least 500 or so ar9.6 that aren't hard to FC, and it isn't about the AR, it's about the AR combined with the tempo. I learned both AR9.6 and AR10 around 160 bpm, but unless you want to spam a handful of maps you have to learn 10.3 at a much higher tempo. Even without considering the actual difficulty of the maps it's difficult a difficult map set to break into.
B1rd

Riince wrote:

i actually find ar10 harder when the maps are lower bpm which includes hard rock on typical easy insanes because it's so nerve wracking to pretty much only have one or two notes on the screen at once at any time. there's just no flow it's like snap pause snap pause snap pause wheres the fun? ar10 doesnt even become comfortably flowable until like 220 bpm
this is why I don't like ar9 till at least 160bpm.
Rewben2

Loves wrote:

Tom also said ar10.3 isnt implemented in the star difficulty so there you go..
It affects pp though, it just doesn't work on a star difficulty level
Loves

Rewben2 wrote:

Loves wrote:

Tom also said ar10.3 isnt implemented in the star difficulty so there you go..
It affects pp though, it just doesn't work on a star difficulty level
Yeah exactly, this means that higher AR is harder to play. Suppose the same 5 star map was changed into AR9 or 10, much easier to play rather than 10.3
nrl
No it doesn't, you can't work backwards like that. That's not how logic works.
Nameless
Not really.
I can read some AR10, but not much.
Loves

NarrillNezzurh wrote:

No it doesn't, you can't work backwards like that. That's not how logic works.
Logic:

Same map, lets say it's worth 5.0 stars. AR9 version gives 160pp SS, AR10 version gives 180pp SS. That's basically what Tom meant by saying he hasn't implemented AR into the difficulty rating yet, it's all done at the PP-level which means high/very low (?) AR gives more PP because.. well it's harder than 8-9AR.

So basically, that same 5.0 map with AR9 is technically something like 5.2 stars etc with AR10 or AR6 (not sure about low AR), but it just doesn't show yet, kind of like HD atm where it isn't incorporated into the star difficulty but it's actually harder and DOES give more PP.
nrl
First, 8-10 is the normal range; you don't get extra pp for AR until you break 10. Second, you can't claim that 10.3 is harder because it gives more pp. That's what's backwards about what you're saying; it gives more pp because Tom assumes it's harder, and it isn't necessary for the implementation that this assumption be true.
Loves

NarrillNezzurh wrote:

First, 8-10 is the normal range; you don't get extra pp for AR until you break 10. Second, you can't claim that 10.3 is harder because it gives more pp. That's what's backwards about what you're saying; it gives more pp because Tom assumes it's harder, and it isn't necessary for the implementation that this assumption be true.
Not many AR10 maps out there bro. Thats my first point.

Second point, I'm lost. It gives more pp because high AR is harder to play. This isn't an assumption, it's a fact. The human brain can only do so much.
nrl

Loves wrote:

Not many AR10 maps out there bro. Thats my first point.
I dunno why this is relevant. Are you trying to say that because there are so few AR10 maps because AR10 is inherently harder than AR9/9.6? HR essentially turns 90% of your library into AR10, so that can't be right.

Loves wrote:

Second point, I'm lost. It gives more pp because high AR is harder to play. This isn't an assumption, it's a fact. The human brain can only do so much.
The fact that it gives more pp is a non sequitur, Tom has total control over the difficulty calculations. You've claimed that the jump from 10 to 10.3 is not only harder than the jump from 9.6 to 10, but that it's for some reason even harder than a proportional loss in reaction time would be.

I'll explain that last bit, because it's complicated.

You lose 50ms going from 9.6 to 10. I don't have the numbers on hand, but that 50ms is some percent of the total approach time at 9.6. You also lose 50ms going from 10 to 10.3, but because you started at a lower approach time that 50ms represents a larger percent than it did in the previous jump. So right off the bat, 10 to 10.3 is harder than 9.6 to 10, but you've taken it a step further and argued that for the vast majority of players AR10 is the absolute limit, and that these players will have no hope of ever playing 10.3 because reasons.

You've yet to give any reasons.
Vuelo Eluko
very below average reaction times
Loves

NarrillNezzurh wrote:

Loves wrote:

Not many AR10 maps out there bro. Thats my first point.
I dunno why this is relevant. Are you trying to say that because there are so few AR10 maps because AR10 is inherently harder than AR9/9.6? HR essentially turns 90% of your library into AR10, so that can't be right.

Loves wrote:

Second point, I'm lost. It gives more pp because high AR is harder to play. This isn't an assumption, it's a fact. The human brain can only do so much.
The fact that it gives more pp is a non sequitur, Tom has total control over the difficulty calculations. You've claimed that the jump from 10 to 10.3 is not only harder than the jump from 9.6 to 10, but that it's for some reason even harder than a proportional loss in reaction time would be.

I'll explain that last bit, because it's complicated.

You lose 50ms going from 9.6 to 10. I don't have the numbers on hand, but that 50ms is some percent of the total approach time at 9.6. You also lose 50ms going from 10 to 10.3, but because you started at a lower approach time that 50ms represents a larger percent than it did in the previous jump. So right off the bat, 10 to 10.3 is harder than 9.6 to 10, but you've taken it a step further and argued that for the vast majority of players AR10 is the absolute limit, and that these players will have no hope of ever playing 10.3 because reasons.


You've yet to give any reasons.

When did I ever say the said "ar10" players could never play 10.3 (stop putting words in my mouth)? The vast majority of players view AR10 as their limit, not because they can't go further but because maybe they can't be bothered because a), it's proportionally harder to read as AR goes up and b) you can still be pro at this game by not reading 10.3. Limit doesn't equate to "omg AR10.3 is my absolute limit, I cannot and will not ever play AR10.3".


And for your first point, yes HR turns (not 90%) around 60% of all maps into AR10 which is why it's called "hard rock". Because there are so few base AR10 maps, it's sensible to conclude that AR10 isn't targeted towards every player, such as AR 8 or 9. Playing HR is a choice, a choice to make a map harder so I don't understand what you're trying to say.

What you're basically telling everyone is that AR10 is easy or no? I'm really lost. You mentioned that HR turns 90% of maps into AR10 but what has that got to do with AR10 being hard or not? That's just like saying FL or DT will make a map hard.... well no s7it?
nrl
I don't know how you've managed to confuse yourself so hard. You stated that 10 -> 10.3 is substantially more difficult than 9.6 -> 10, and now you have to prove it. The rest is me attempting to follow the various things you've said in an attempt to do so.
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