Mapping Techniques

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There exist a plethora of known Mapping Techniques that work well when used correctly on Beatmaps, here's some of the most commonly used ones.

Patterns

• Star Patterns
• Etna Sliders
• Symmetry

Difficulty Increasing Techniques

• Jumps
• Anti-Jumps
• Slider Velocity Changes
• Streams
• Compressed Streams
• Short Spinners
• ztrot Spacing
• Spacing acceleration/deceleration
• Spreads

Unrankable Techniques

• Burai Sliders
• Hold Sliders
• Stack zero
• Ninja Spinners (Different from short spinners)

List of Mapping Techniques from the forum

Current Nominations:

49. Differential Stacks

50. Krisom-Krosses

51. Spiral Slider

52. Compressed Streams

53. Double Spinners

Nominations with Not Enough Ranked Examples:

54. Step-Too-Fars

55. Spider Sliders

Already Rated

1. Back and Forth Beats

2. Mirrored Sliders

3. Half-backing

4. Etna Sliders

5. Reverse Zig-Zag Sliders

6. Triangle Beats

7. Short Repeating Sliders

8. Spacing Out (Patternmap)

9. The Kickstream

10. Blanket Combos

11. Zig-zag Sliders (the normal kind)

12. Segment Sliders

13. ztrot Spacing

14. Accelerated Spacing

15. Anti-Jumps (SeibeiStyle)

15.5. Anti-Jumps

16. Flower Combo

17. Rainbow Sliders

18. Deathstreams

19. Orbital Sliders

20. Slider Art

21. Triplet Streams

22. Back-and-Forth v2

23. Slider Trains

24. Parallel Sliders

25. Windmill Sliders

26. Wave Sliders

27. Zig-Zag Streams

28. Square Formations

28.5. Square Formations v2

29. Switch-Back Sliders

30. Honeycomb Beats

31. Back-&-Forth Beats v3

32. Oibon Jumps

33. Post-Spinner Note

34. Cutting Sliders

35. Hooooooold Sliders

36. Tricky Triple Combo

37. Double Stacks

38. Tick-Hitsounds

39. Crumpled Sliders

40. Divebomb Combos

41. Pre-Spinner Notes

42. QQ Diamonds

43. Tornado Combos

44. Central Anti-Jumps

45. Star Formations

46. Drain Sections

47. End-Cutter Sliders

48. Endpoint Slider Jumps

Source

• osu! forum Mapping Techniques
  • kingcobra52's Rate the Mapping Technique - Nominations

Mapping Techniques
Slider Techs	Mirrored Sliders • Etna Sliders • Blanket Combos • Zig-zag Sliders • Segment Sliders
Hit Circle Techs	Back and Forth Beats • Half-backing
Jumps

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