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Well, then, I'm a bit confused about your level. So the only advice I can give is don't do something too difficult for your own good, find something in the middle, and stick with that because you don't want to overwork yourself. This could be the Chopin Ballade, the Polonaises I mentioned earlier, or even something easier. Just find what works - something that challenges you, but that you can get down eventually.

So in this comment, I'll try to defend myself a bit and also inform you about the pieces and the Polonaises that you chose:
The way I chose pieces is not a good way of being aware of the difficulty of a piece itself. So here's how it goes:
1. I listen to recordings of people playing random pieces of a composer (usually Chopin)
2. If I absolutely love the piece, I will then search for the sheet music and have a play.
3. If I find it fun to play and I like how it sounds, I start to have a go at learning it.
This is maybe a normal way of picking a piece, but here's the catch: While I am learning a piece that I really like, if I listen to another recording of another, different piece that I absolutely love, then the same thing happens as listed above. "But what happens to the last piece that I was learning?" You may ask. Well, then the last piece usually starts to require more and more practice once I start enjoying more and more of the other piece that I'm learning. This was happening again and again until I finally got a piano teacher to teach me. Now I am determined to learn the Rachmaninov Prelude in C sharp minor and have at least one piece that I can fully play.

Ok, now to the pieces that you suggested earlier. With most of the pieces that you gave me to be able to play, most of them I can sight read (with mistakes, of course). The Mozart piece that you suggested is a good example. But the Grande Valse Brilliante (Op. 18) by Chopin is a good suggestion for me, and I actually had a go at trying to learn the piece, but my previous teacher stopped me from learning it because it was too fast, and he wanted me to play a slower waltz, the "Farewell" Waltz by Chopin (Op. 69, No. 1), so he could teach me my counting (I barely count while I'm playing on the piano; I only count when there is a metronome on). Maybe I'll give it a go again in the coming months. Also, to be a little technical about the Op. 40 Polonaises that you suggested, only the Military Polonaise is easy (I still really like both of them, the first one more, though ). The other one is quite difficult when you compare it with the others. The reason is that the second one has repeated double notes, a complex ascending scale, complex rhythms, and lastly, some hard places that need extreme care to bring out the voices. So yeah, I don't think you checked the score before typing it.