Total score
Total score is the sum of every score you have submitted to osu!, including failed attempts, every repeat of a map you have already played, and plays on unranked beatmaps. Unlike ranked score, which keeps only the best result per difficulty, total score adds each new result on top of the last, so it moves in any session in which you play at all. It is tracked separately per game mode, and it is the sole input to your osu! level: reaching level 100 requires a cumulative 26,931,190,827 total score, and every level beyond 100 costs a further 99,999,999,999.
What counts toward total score
The osu! wiki puts it plainly: total score is the total sum of all scores on all beatmaps, including failed attempts. If a score reaches the server, it is added.
That covers more than ranked play. Beatmaps in the Graveyard, Work in Progress and Pending categories contribute to both total score and play count, which was not always the case. Loved and qualified maps contribute as well. The one thing that never contributes is a map that does not exist online — nothing is submitted, so nothing is counted.
Total score is what sets your level
Your level is derived from total score and nothing else — not pp, not rank, not accuracy. The osu! client works from a table of per-level score requirements, and the cumulative totals look like this:
| Level | Cumulative total score required |
|---|---|
| 2 | 30,000 |
| 10 | 6,150,000 |
| 30 | 175,450,000 |
| 50 | 820,750,000 |
| 70 | 2,262,050,445 |
| 90 | 4,876,246,449 |
| 100 | 26,931,190,827 |
The curve is brutal at the top. Level 99 to level 100 alone costs 9,225,761,479 — more than the whole climb from level 1 to level 90 — and every level after 100 costs a flat 99,999,999,999.
Why total score dwarfs ranked score
The two statistics answer different questions, and the gap between them widens the more you replay maps. Ranked score keeps one number per difficulty; total score keeps all of them.
Take a difficulty on which you consistently score around 5,000,000. Play it twenty times and total score gains roughly 100,000,000. Ranked score gains only the difference between your first best and your final best — perhaps a few hundred thousand, perhaps nothing. Add failed attempts, which contribute their partial score to total score and nothing at all to ranked score, plus every play on a graveyarded or loved map, and the ratio between the two figures becomes a rough fingerprint of how a player plays: grinders sit far apart, catalogue-clearers sit closer together.
What total score does not tell you
Total score is a volume measure, not a skill measure. It contributes nothing to pp, nothing to global rank, and nothing to your profile accuracy. Twenty hours of comfortable maps will add far more total score than one session in which you set a career-best top play.
It is also worth knowing which scoring system produced the number. osu!(stable) records ScoreV1 values, which scale with combo and map length and can reach tens of millions on a long map. osu!(lazer) plays are recorded under standardised scoring, but they are converted to a classic-style value before being added to your profile totals, so the figure on your profile is not a mixture of two incompatible scales. Scores removed by the server — for instance when a beatmap leaves the Loved category — are reverted from your totals rather than left behind.
Total score in a TrackMyOsu session
Every TrackMyOsu snapshot stores total score next to ranked score, pp, rank and play count, and your public profile page shows the current figure. Because total score responds to failed attempts and to unranked maps, it is the statistic that best captures what a session actually contained. A three-hour session that produced no new top plays shows no pp movement and a large total-score movement.
TrackMyOsu refreshes your stats every 60 seconds while a session is running and records play count in each snapshot alongside pp, rank and the score totals. Session history is permanent, so those series stay comparable across months.
See also
- Ranked score — Sum of your best passing score on every ranked, approved and loved beatmap.
- Level — A cosmetic milestone derived entirely from total score, with no effect on pp or rank.
- Play count — The number of plays you have submitted, failed attempts included.
- PP (performance points) — osu!'s skill rating: a decaying weighted sum of your best score on each ranked beatmap.
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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