Medal
A medal in osu!, previously known as an achievement, is a badge on a player's profile marking a specific goal that has been accomplished. The osu! wiki documents 352 medals across eight categories: Beatmap Packs, Skill, Dedication, Mod Introduction, Hush-Hush, Beatmap Spotlights, Seasonal Spotlights and Beatmap Challenge Packs. Medals attach to the account rather than to a single game mode, each one unlocks only once, and none of them carry pp or ranking weight. A medal list is a record of what a player has done, not of where they place.
The eight categories
The osu! wiki groups every medal into one of eight categories, each with its own unlock mechanism:
| Category | What unlocks it |
|---|---|
| Beatmap Packs | Clearing every beatmap in a Theme, Project Loved or Artist/Album pack all the way through at least once. In osu! mode, difficulty-modifying mods and Spun Out are permitted. |
| Skill | Combo milestones, positions on the global performance leaderboard, or a clear or full combo on a Qualified, Ranked or Approved beatmap within a given star-rating band. |
| Dedication | Play count milestones in osu!, or total hit count milestones in the other game modes. |
| Mod Introduction | Clearing a ranked or approved beatmap with the corresponding mod. Using several mods at once disqualifies the attempt. |
| Hush-Hush | Secret feats with no published instructions. The medal name, description and hover text are the only clues. |
| Beatmap Spotlights / Seasonal Spotlights | Tied to osu!'s spotlight rotations; the wiki's unlock-requirement pages list these individually. |
| Beatmap Challenge Packs | The wiki's unlock-requirement pages list these individually. |
The total moves over time as new medals are introduced, so treat any published count as a snapshot.
Real unlock thresholds
Dedication medals in osu! are pure play count gates at 5,000, 15,000, 25,000 and 50,000 plays. The other rulesets swap play count for hit totals over the same four-step, roughly tenfold pattern:
- osu!taiko — 30,000 / 300,000 / 3,000,000 / 30,000,000 drum hits
- osu!catch — 20,000 / 200,000 / 2,000,000 / 20,000,000 fruits caught
- osu!mania — 40,000 / 400,000 / 4,000,000 / 40,000,000 keys hit
Skill medals include combo milestones at 500, 750, 1,000 and 2,000, plus two parallel series banded by star rating. The clear series runs from “Rising Star” (1.00★–1.99★) up to “Phantasm” (10.00★–10.99★); the full-combo series covers the same bands from “Totality” to “Unfathomable”.
Medals sit on the account, not on a mode
osu!'s API keeps medals in a user achievements list on the user object, separate from the per-mode statistics block that carries pp, play count, level and the score totals. Switching ruleset does not reset or fork the collection; there is one medal list per account.
Individual medals can still be mode-specific in how they are earned. The wiki notes that Mod Introduction medals may be unlocked in any game mode unless otherwise specified, that Beatmap Pack medals expect osu! unless otherwise specified, and that Dedication splits its requirements per ruleset as above. Each entry in the list carries the medal's achievement id and the timestamp at which it was achieved.
Common misconceptions
- Medals are not the badges shown on an osu! profile. Those badges are awarded through a separate process, chiefly for tournament results, and are a different thing entirely from the achievement set described here.
- Medals do not move your ranking. No medal grants pp or shifts global rank. A player who never earns one is not penalised.
- A medal cannot be earned twice. The profile keeps the first unlock and its date; repeating the feat changes nothing.
- A missing Hush-Hush medal is not a skill gap. Those medals carry no published instructions by design, so they usually go unearned simply because the specific thing was never attempted.
How TrackMyOsu records medals during a session
When a session starts, TrackMyOsu stores the full list of your current achievement ids as a baseline. Every 60-second refresh compares the live list against that baseline and appends anything new, keeping both the achievement id and the achieved-at timestamp reported by osu!.
Medals earned during a session are detected and recorded against that session. Anything found is written into the session record permanently, so your history shows which sitting produced which medal rather than only a date sitting on your osu! profile. TrackMyOsu's own profile badges are a separate TrackMyOsu feature and are unrelated to osu! medals.
See also
- Play count — The number of plays you have submitted, failed attempts included.
- Combo — A streak of consecutive hits without a break; max combo is the longest streak.
- Grades (SS, S, A, B, C, D) — Letter grades D to SS awarded per play; thresholds differ by mode and by client.
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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