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

  Step-by-step guide to tracking your osu! pp gains over a single play session: log in via OAuth, start a session, play, stop. Includes a worked example and a comparison to manual tracking.

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

  Plain-English explainer of osu! pp: how each play's pp is calculated from accuracy, difficulty, and mods; how your profile pp is a weighted sum of your top 100 plays; why you have to push old top plays out to gain pp.

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

  What every number on your osu! profile page means: pp, global rank, country rank, accuracy, ranked score, total score, play count, play time, level, and grade counts. Worked examples included.

• TrackMyOsu vs. osu!track: feature comparison

  Side-by-side comparison of TrackMyOsu and osu!track for tracking osu! stats. Both tools snapshot your stats and show changes over time; the main difference is that TrackMyOsu organizes everything around play sessions while osu!track works on date ranges.

Last updated 2026-05-08.