Global rank

Global rank is your position in osu!'s performance leaderboard, which orders every eligible player by weighted profile pp from highest to lowest. Rank 1 belongs to the player with the most pp in the world. Only players whose weighted pp total is above zero appear at all, and the ranking is calculated separately for each game mode, so a player holds an independent osu!, taiko, catch and mania rank. osu!'s public rankings pages expose the top 10,000 positions, fifty to a page. Because rank is a position relative to everyone else, it moves when other players play, not only when you do.

How the ordering is built

The performance leaderboard sorts players by their weighted pp total, descending. Two conditions decide whether you appear on it: your pp total has to be greater than zero, and your account has to be in good standing. A player with no ranked scores has no global rank at all, rather than a very large one.

Ranks are per game mode. Your osu!standard, taiko, catch and mania ranks are four independent positions computed from four independent pp totals, and osu!mania additionally maintains separate 4K and 7K rankings alongside the combined one. Improving in one mode does nothing for your rank in another.

The browsable rankings cover the top 10,000 players across 200 pages of fifty. Ranks beyond that exist and are shown on individual profiles; they are simply not listed as a page you can page through.

Rank is a position, not a total

Your pp total belongs to you. Your rank is a statement about everyone else. The leaderboard is re-sorted as scores arrive from around the world, so your position drifts continuously even during weeks you do not play — downward while others improve, upward while others stop.

This makes rank a noisier progress metric than pp. A player who gained 30 pp in a month has unambiguously improved. A player who gained 30 pp and still dropped 400 ranks has also improved; the rank movement is mostly a statement about how active the pp range around them happens to be. When the question is whether a session went well, the pp delta is the honest number and the rank delta is the context around it.

How much a rank costs in pp

The pp gap between adjacent ranks varies enormously with depth. At the very top of the leaderboard, individual players are separated by large margins and a single rank can take months of play. Deep in the leaderboard the population is dense enough that large numbers of players sit within a handful of pp of one another, and one good top play can move you thousands of places in an evening.

Both are the same underlying event — the weighted sum went up — filtered through very different local population density. Rank movement is therefore not comparable between players at different depths, which is worth remembering before reading anything into someone else's rank gains against your own.

Inactivity and vanishing ranks

Players who stop submitting ranked scores are eventually hidden from the rankings, which is why the leaderboard reflects the currently active population rather than everyone who has ever played. The osu! wiki does not document an exact inactivity window, so community figures for it should be treated as approximate rather than quoted as fact.

Nothing is lost when it happens. Your pp total, top plays, medals and profile statistics are untouched; only the leaderboard placement is withheld. Submitting a new ranked score restores it. Returning players usually find their rank has moved against them, because the leaderboard kept sorting the whole time they were away.

Tracking rank movement across a session

Every TrackMyOsu snapshot stores your global rank and country rank alongside pp, accuracy, play count and score totals, roughly once a minute while a session is running. The session detail page shows the rank at the start, the rank at the end, and the movement between them.

Because snapshots are permanent, the record accumulates into a genuine rank history rather than a single current figure: any session since you began tracking still shows where you stood that day, next to the plays that changed it. The same figures appear on your public profile at /u/<username>, and session pp gains feed the site's PP-gains leaderboard and Hall of Fame.

Related guides

Longer explainers that use this term: browse all osu! guides, or start with Understanding osu! pp, How to read your osu! stats and Star rating explained.

Sources

Definitions follow the official osu! wiki and the ppy/osu source. Session figures come from TrackMyOsu's own tracked-session database.

By carrot12_. Last updated 2026-08-13.

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