List of notable people
This is a compilation of various personalities of note from the osu! community, both current and retired. Please exercise judgement when putting in new entries.
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Andrea[1] (osuplayer111) is an Italian mapper and tablet/keyboard player who joined in Aug 2008. He has the highest BAT score (with 3153 (724 ranked)) of all time and is the second user, first Italian and first BAT to get over 100 ranked songs.
Various information can be found at his userpage.
Current status: Active
C
Cookiezi[2] is a 17 year old from South Korea who started playing osu! Standard in 2009. He is regarded as the best player ever. Cookiezi uses a Wacom Tablet and a mechanical keyboard (cherry red) and is praised for his unbeatable aim, stamina and speed. In 2012, Cookiezi took a 6 month break from osu! (Starcraft II), came back for OWC #3 and wins the final against Japan again (See OWC#2).
His favorite mods include DT/HR/HD and some of his most notable achievements are Team Nekokan - Can't Defeat Airman (Blue Dragon) with 100% accuracy and xi - FREEDOM DiVE (Nakagawa-Kanon) with just one Katu without any mod. FREEDOM DiVE is infamously regarded by many as impossible due to the amount of continuous streams and the 222BPM of the beatmap.
Cookiezi currently plays casually, not as heavily as most osu! players and logs on a few times a week, though he usually plays in 3 hour sessions if he does.
Current Status: Active
E
Echo[3] (Echo49) is one of the osu! developers present. He is attributed to the creation of BanchoBot under his former account name, Echo49. Among his many contributions to the osu! community are his IRC integration of the in-game chat and his general site maintenance.
Current status: Non-active.
Ephemeral[4] is a long-standing member of the staff team primarily responsible for the addition of the MAT to the community and has contributed a few features to the osu! client as an infrequent contributor. His added features range from the addition of Taiko live-mapping to the channel-list dialog overhaul which made it possible for every new language community to have their own chat channel in-game. He also manages and maintains the "ppytrackr", a utility used by staff to assist in chat moderation.
Some of osu!wiki contributors may know him as one of the earliest osu!wiki contributor.
Current status: No longer an active player, but still actively contributing in the role of an Administrator.
maal[5] (emaal) is both a modder and a former mapper that is somewhat well-known by the community.
Current status: Unknown.
G
geckogates[6] is a tablet user from the United States. He has 2 years of playing experience and has risen fast to the top 10 on the overall rankings. He improvised a way to use a metal pad (as touch area) and metal wires connecting to his keyboard's electric board in which he attached the other end of the wires to his fingers (as buttons), allowing him to comfortably stream (read: tapping the metal pad with wires on the fingers) without the need to press the keyboard's buttons itself. However, he is no longer using the metal wires and has gone back to hitting buttons of his keyboard.
geckogates's web site (Included are his Youtube Channel, Picasa and etc).
Current status: Active. (Ranked #3 [3rd November, 2012] in Score and #136 in pp)
J
James[7] is an osu! player and mapper who joined in Jan 20, 2008.
He is infamously known for the creation of James' Training with his signature "JAMES DIFFICULTY", in which many players referred to as a way of improving their skills.
His beatmaps are also know to be unique at its own rights, deploying various types of mapping techniques based on the song used and difficulty settings.
He was introduced to the osu! Hall of Fame on Feb 05, 2008, and is recorded to have done 125 mods in a single week, having run out of beatmaps to mod by the 5th day.
Current status: Unknown.
K
Kanopu[8] is a Japanese Taiko player who was ranked #1 in both Ranked Score and Performance Points rankings in the Taiko ranking boards. As of 6th May, he has amassed over 3,000 Taiko top ranks.
Current status: Active.
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Larto[9] is a friendly German long-time mapper and a former active BAT. He had mapped the entire "Here, Here and Here" album by himself and puts effort into creating creative patterns and difficulty spreads.
Current status: Non-active.
M
mm201[10](MetalMario201) is an osu! developer and is also part of the osu! team. mm sliders are named after him.
See also mm201's wiki userpage
Current status: Active.
N
nuudles[11] is the primary creator of the first iPhone osu! application. Currently, the application is considered outdated due to inactivity of nuudles. Do note the application itself is not complete and likely to be plagued with bugs or incompatibility.
Current status: Non-active.
Niko[12](niko8rs) is a Polish player who has a skill level on par with rrtyui and is praised for his aim and stream skill. Constantly referred to as the 2nd best in osu!, he is a laid back player and talks to anyone. He left due to a lack of motivation to play. He told though that he will probably come back.
Current status: Non-active
P
peppy[13] is the online alias of Dean Herbert, creator and primary developer of the code and sprites that make osu! tick. Note that the first letter written in lowercase. In addition to being the project leader, he oversees the interface/skin design, the site design, and server maintenance.
Current status: Active.
R
Rucker[14] is a Taiwanese player widely considered #2 in skill on osu!. He plays tablet with keyboard.
Rucker's Youtube.
Current status: Non-Active.
rrtyui[15] is a young Japanese player who is considered to share number 2 with Niko in terms of skill. He plays with tablet and keyboard and is known for retrying songs for hours at a time. He is famous for his #1 on The Quick Brown Fox - The Big Black (Blue Dragon) (Cookiezi took it in Jan 2013) with 2000 plays. rrtyui and Cookiezi have a long-time rivalry which both of them will try and beat each others top ranks.
Current status: Active
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SapphireGhost[16] is the nicest BAT you will ever meet on osu!, also a great mapper and modder. SapphireGhost demands people to ask questions so ask random stuff whenever you have the chance while SapphireGhost is online on osu! (except it was actually in reference to his somewhat inactive Formspring account). SapphireGhost is a PC Tablet User.
Most people may know him for the fortnightly Ranking chart (previously done by Cyclone and taken his place as in June 2012 until March 2013 [Replaced by DeathxShinigami, 10 months]) or the two approved beatmaps.
Current status: Active.
Saturos[17] is a standard osu! player from the United States who joined Nov 21, 2007. He is notable for being one of the best players of his time. He was admitted to the osu! Hall of Fame on Feb 05, 2008, and stands now as an osu! Alumni. He is the only player to be able to transcend Rank 1 and achieve Rank 0. Please refer to this topic for further information.
Current status: Non-active.
SiLviA[18] (SILVIA S15) is a Japanese osu! standard mouse + keyboard player who is consistently ranked in the top 50. SiLviA is arguably the greatest mouse + keyboard player on osu! SiLviA is known for very high accuracy with the mouse, constantly challenging and rank highly in difficult songs.
SiLviAs YouTube channel on YouTube.
Note: Silvia S15 is a car by Nissan.
Current status: Non-active.
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Uan[19] is a Taiwanese tablet + keyboard player who is currently #1 in terms of ranked score and places #1 in Taiwan. He is a hardworking player with an astonishing number of plays (over 150,000, in which over 2,000 of which come from one map alone). Though not the best in terms of skills, he is widely loved by the osu! community for being friendly and one of the few in the top 10 who actually bother to chat with other strangers in-game.
Current status: Active.
W
White Wolf[20] is a Polish osu! player and current #4 player in terms of Performance Points. White Wolf overtook Cookiezi as #1 on November 4th, 2011. Cookiezi had previously held the top position for 215 days. WW was known to be the best sight-reader ever in his prime and arguably the best in playing older maps (2009~).
Current status: Active.
woc2006[21] is a Chinese osu! developer. He became the osu! developer because he uncompiled the whole osu! program and made his own edition of the application. A notable thing he has done recently is that he created osu!mania game style and ranked the first osu!mania beatmap.
Current status: Active.
Z
ztrot[22] was formerly an Administrator and is one of the few mappers to hit the milestone of 100+ ranked maps. ztrot helped establish the MAT as the team it is today by campaigning for their ability to properly bubble maps, and was the first MATmanager after the founding of the team. He has contributed to the storyboarding scene by his frequent experimentation with new styles and features. He is also a higher-tier player and while is not immediately in the top rankings, has a large degree of skill with many different play-styles and mediums. ztrot has hosted the osu! community Ventrilo server for several years and continues to contribute to the community by applying his expertise through modding and guidance.
To download and use the Ventrilo server, please visit the website here.
Current status: Active.
