ima organize this, theres alot to cover.
FOROMS
for forums, gameplay and rankings is where you ask stuff, just make sure to go into mania subforum.
NOTES (skin)
ok so basically this part may be either really easy or annoying depending on if you wanna stay with funky friday receptors (where hit note indication) if youre ok with it then hunt a skin on yt but if you wanna try smth new then it may take a while (dont shit yourself when the judgement line (the point when you hit notes) is not aligned with receptor (vidual indication). theres also different skin types like bar, arrow, and diamond mainly thatd other than circle
scroll sleed
try f3 and f4 and also ctrl+ ctrl- and make it between 25 and 32. scroll speed works in time on screen, so different skins have slower/faster notes. on my skin, i use 28 scroll speed but on another with way bigger notes i was able to read 35
actual gaminf
LEARN LN (long notes) I BEG YOU PLEASE JUST LEARN LONG NOTES THE MORE YOU WAIT THE MORE YOU STRUGGLE. also youll be playing like shit on alot of patterns but youll learn quickly. also, play map packs as it makes you cracked as fuck especially on higher key counts. go to where you search for charts, and type "keys=[INSERT KEY COUNT HERE] pack" and then slap on pattern names at the end and youll find map packs
KEY COUNT
you liked shaggy mod? osu mania has that! 1k! 2k! 3k? 4k! 5k! 6k! 7k! 8k! 9k! 10k! 12k! 14k! 16k! 18k! 20k*!
so basically the only thing you should know is that 7k is popular because of bms amd o2jam blah blah blah 6k underrated
*20k is only on lazer
game version
so basically theres stable amd lazer. everyone likes stable because nothing chhanges on it, but lazer is cooler because you can download stuff ingame and you dont have to worry about getting a skin and getting jumpscared with big (clothed) anime titties. use either lazer or stable, but id reccomend lazer personally
DAN COURSES
dont play them
HOW TO IMPROVE
so you wanna get good? you wanna be so good you can call yourself the osu silly fangirl knock off that can play 5 stars? well lookie here! start out with 2 - 3 stars because fnf teaches jack shit for improvement so play those. AIM FOR S RANKS trust me gang, just keep aiming for S ranks and youll improve. as mentuined before, map pacjs theyre COOL! but also play some non map pack. map packs are less dense more akward and complicated pattern while ranked stuff is more dense and simple so you can use map packs to get better and ranked stuff to make your fingers fast
if you have questions please ask, i dont wanna enjoy being a writer too mucb