Comment trouver la moyenne des différences des N dernières lectures d'une colonne PHP MySQL

SELECT AVG(difference)
FROM (
    SELECT @next_reading - reading AS difference, @next_reading := reading
    FROM (SELECT reading
          FROM level_records
          ORDER BY date DESC
          LIMIT 20) AS recent20
    CROSS JOIN (SELECT @next_reading := NULL) AS var
    ) AS recent_diffs

DEMO