osu! guides

Guides for osu! players: how-to articles for tracking pp gains, plain-English explainers of osu! mechanics, and a comparison of TrackMyOsu to other tools.

• How to track your osu! pp gains, session by session

  Track osu! pp gains one play session at a time: log in with osu! OAuth, start a session, play, stop. Includes a worked pp-displacement example and a manual-tracking comparison.

• Understanding osu! pp: how performance points are calculated and aggregated

  How osu! performance points work: what sets a single play's pp, the 0.95^(n-1) top-100 weighting curve, bonus pp, and why a new top play adds far less pp than its face value.

• How to read your osu! stats: a beginner's guide to the profile page

  Every number on an osu! profile explained: pp and its weighting curve, global and country rank, weighted accuracy, grade counts, level, score totals and play time.

• TrackMyOsu vs. osu!track: feature comparison

  How TrackMyOsu and osu!track compare for tracking osu! stats: session records with live refresh versus snapshot timelines, graphs, peak-rank history and a public API.

• osu! mods explained: what HD, HR, DT and FL do to your score and pp

  What each osu! mod does: gameplay effect, stable score multiplier, and effect on pp. Covers HD, HR, DT, FL, EZ, HT, NF and SO, stacks like HDHR and HDDT, and which mods void pp.

• osu! star rating explained: how map difficulty is measured

  How osu! star rating is calculated: the aim, speed and reading skills behind the number, how mods change it, why star rating and pp diverge, and where it breaks down.

• How to improve your accuracy in osu!

  How osu! accuracy is calculated, how overall difficulty sets the hit windows, using unstable rate to tell timing spread from offset, plus mods and practice methods.

• osu! rank tiers: what pp you need for each rank band

  Approximate pp needed for each osu! global rank band, measured August 2026, why the curve steepens near the top, what bonus pp contributes, and how to set rank targets.

• osu! bonus pp explained: how play count adds to your total

  How osu! bonus pp works: the 416.6667 x (1 - 0.995^N) formula, the 413.894 pp ceiling reached at 1,000 ranked maps, and why grinding fresh maps for it stops paying off.

• osu! lazer vs stable: what changed for scoring, grades and pp

  osu! lazer vs stable: the ScoreV2-based 1,000,000-point scoring model, lazer's accuracy-based grade cutoffs, which mods award pp, and what carries across between clients.

• osu! pp milestones: what reaching 1k, 2k and 5k pp involves

  What reaching 1,000, 2,000 and 5,000 osu! pp requires: the weighted top-100 arithmetic behind each milestone, how bonus pp fades in importance, and the three ways players plateau.

• Reading your osu! top 100: what your pp curve says about you

  Four common osu! top 100 shapes - flat, steep, single-outlier and mod-concentrated - what each one says about how you play, and the weakness each one tells you to work on next.

• Why your osu! rank drops when you have not played

  Your osu! global rank falls during breaks because rank is a position among active players, not a stored value. How pp works without decay, and how much drift to expect.

• osu! game modes compared: standard, taiko, catch and mania

  How osu!, osu!taiko, osu!catch and osu!mania differ in play, accuracy formulas, grade thresholds and difficulty algorithms, and what changes when you switch modes.

Last updated 2026-08-12.