usually those old maps are just less challenging maps overall and playing them won't help you muchjust "low AR" in itself doesn't make you good. playing [Easy] difficulties with AR3 won't make you improve at all. You need to use low AR on maps in the same difficulty range you usually play.If you want to get good at reading, you need to play maps with:- High OD (OD10 or gtfo, feel free to make an edited version in edit mode)- High Circle:Slider ratio. Examples: http://puu.sh/fxCAF/3cd59fe3df.png = Bad, you won't improve from this, will probably get worse http://puu.sh/fxCEp/9ed4a0d5ef.png = Good, play this every day, you'll improve from this a lot- More tomstars = better, this is easier to explain to people than saying "look for spaced stuff"- Play stuff you get around 85%-90% with assuming you use OD10 and have high circle ratios. Highers % will be good to practice consistency but won't help make you read faster, lower %s are too hard for you and you won't be learning anything probably unless you're just terrible at OD10 in which case go practice it a lot until you fix that.Once you meet all of those conditions, start gradually lowering the ARs on the maps you train with. i.e. if you got 90% on a map with the above settings, create a version with an AR lower until you get 85% on it, then train on it until you get 90%+ on that lower AR version, then lower it again, and so on.This will make you very good at reading patterns and in "normal" (common ranked) AR/OD settings you will pretty much consistently FC stuff on sightread.