*ENHIX = Easy Normal Hard Insane Extra/Expert

Introduction

Hey guys, Priti here.
I am here to explain about a common thing I see; unmatching difficulty spreads, This happens extremely frequently, especially in maps by newer mappers since a lot of times they don't know the sources of the difficulty names.
There are a whole lot of difficulty spreads nowdays, there is the typical osu! spread being Easy -> Normal -> Hard -> Insane -> Extra/Expert which most of know, but for example, a lot of people don't know what "Overdose" or "EXHAUST" mean.
Some people use their own difficulty namings, But for newer mappers its more recommended to stick to the basics.
Also, please note that none of this is official (except for the non-osu!mania basic namings), This is mostly how things are commonly used, so some things might be different from their origin.

The Basics

Here I will go over the basic difficulty spreads of osu! and it's three companion game modes.

osu!

1. Easy
2. Normal
3. Hard
4. Insane
5. Extra/Expert

Taiko

1. Kantan
2. Futsuu
3. Muzukashii
4. Oni
5. Inner Oni/Ura Oni

Catch The Beat

1. Cup
2. Salad
3. Platter
4. Rain
5. Overdose

osu!mania

1. EZ
2. NM
3. HD
4. MX
5. SC

Alternatives and Additions

These are different variations of the standard spreads, usually unused but sometimes they are needed.

osu!

1. Beginner: In an ENHIX spread, it means the lowest level, even easier than Easy.
2. Medium: In an ENHIX spread, it's a difficulty that is between Normal and Hard.
3. Hyper: In an ENHIX spread, it usually means an Advanced Hard (Also known as Light Insane)
4. Extreme: Pretty uncommon, but it's higher than Extra/Expert.
5. Ultra: A difficulty name originally used by the mapper Avena, indicates a difficulty that is far beyond an Expert and expresses the song to its' full extent.
6. Marathon: Map that is over 5 minutes of Drain Time and got ranked through the Approval system (Applies to all modes)

Catch The Beat

1. Deluge: When there are two Overdose difficulties in a single set, the harder of the two will usually be called Deluge.

Beatmania IIDX

Difficulty spread inspired by Beatmania IIDX, heavily recommended to only use in maps for songs from there (This also works for BMS songs)

1. Beginner
2. Normal
3. Hyper
4. Another
5. Black Another

SOUND VOLTEX

Difficulty spread inspired by SOUND VOLTEX, heavily recommended to only use in maps for songs from there. (This also works for K-Shoot songs)

1. BASIC
2. NOVICE
3. ADVANCED
4. EXHAUST

SOUND VOLTEX Specials

Every SDVX game features a different name for special difficult charts., which is recommended to use when mapping a song from the respective game.

1. SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH - None
2. SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection- - INFINITE
3. SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS - GRAVITY
4. SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN - HEAVENLY (Respective to GRAVITY and INFINITE) or MAXIMUM (Counts as a regular chart, just like NOVICE, ADVANCED and EXHAUST)

Touhou

Difficulty spread inspired by Touhou, heavily recommended to only use in maps for songs from there.

1. Easy
2. Normal
3. Hard
4. Lunatic
5. Extra

Pop'n Music

Difficulty spread inspired by Pop'n Music, heavily recommended to only use in maps for songs from there.

1. Easy
2. Normal
3. Hyper
4. Ex

In The Groove

Difficulty spread inspired by In The Groove, highly recommended when you map songs from there, or anything related to it.

1. Novice/Easy
2. Medium
3. Hard
4. Expert

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I hope this helps anyone, comments and feedback will be heavily appreciated!
If I forgot anything or messed up something, please tell me.

omg
why just osu!mania and standard is variate names hue
also thanks for this!

Neat. Thanks for doing this. Pinned.

Might be worth making a note somewhere that some people use custom spread names for their difficulty spreads, and Marathon is a special difficulty name that allows enlarged file sizes iirc, for approval maps with length > 6 minutes.

Some people also use Beginner/Light/Standard/Heavy/Challenge for DDR/StepMania maps, but I'm not sure how usage is nowadays.

Kytoxid wrote:

Neat. Thanks for doing this. Pinned.

Might be worth making a note somewhere that some people use custom spread names for their difficulty spreads, and Marathon is a special difficulty name that allows enlarged file sizes iirc, for approval maps with length > 6 minutes.

Some people also use Beginner/Light/Standard/Heavy/Challenge for DDR/StepMania maps, but I'm not sure how usage is nowadays.

Added Marathon and a line about usermade spreads~
I will so some research about DR and Stepmania.

First time for Priti to write a polite post lol
congrats

Priti wrote:

Pop'n Music

Difficulty spread inspired by Pop'n Music, heavily recommended to only use in maps for songs from there.

osu!

1. Rust
2. Bronze
3. Silver
4. Chrome
5. Gold
6. Platinum

Can you add it at Pop'n music, priti? :/

You should move the note about writing the number of keys in difficulty name for osu!mania to the beginning. I think it's important enough to be in the intro.

Also for Ura Oni, people sometimes use English and put Inner Oni.

Loli -[Koinuri] wrote:

Also for Ura Oni, people sometimes use English and put Inner Oni.

Maybe in english is "Hell oni"?
also name it "Ura/Hell/Inner Oni" xD

Official English Taiko no Tatsujin use Inner Oni for Ura Oni (I'm pretty sure, but couldn't get any source to confirm).

I just looked up "Hell Oni" in osu!, and I only have 1 map with that difficulty name (http://osu.ppy.sh/b/102527). Maybe I'm just not downloading taiko maps enough.

In order of the most to least used difficulty name: Inner Oni, Ura Oni, then Hell Oni.
All the new ones I download uses Inner Oni instead of Ura Oni, so there's probably a rule for taiko mapping to use Inner Oni instead now.

DenoisoGoiso wrote:

But "Collab" diff name? please add "Collab" diff name at Alternatives and Additions

That ain't rankable anymore, so no.
And Inner Oni = Ura Oni, but Inner is more common in osu!

Priti wrote:

DenoisoGoiso wrote:

But "Collab" diff name? please add "Collab" diff name at Alternatives and Additions

That ain't rankable anymore, so no.
And Inner Oni = Ura Oni, but Inner is more common in osu!

I know, just thought you should add that to the list.

edit: lol nvm, I'm just stupid, was reading in weird order.

Great Post!

Extra difficulty in mania

NOTE: Badly photoshopped

vahn10 wrote:

Extra difficulty in mania

NOTE: Badly photoshopped

omg ty <3

Classic music:

Adagio
Moderato
Allegro
Vivace
Prestissimo

In The Groove

Difficulty spread inspired by In The Groove, highly recommended when you map songs from there, or anything related to it.

osu!

1. Novice, Easy - depends on the difficulty
2. Medium
3. Hard
4. Expert

osu!mania

1. Novice
2. Easy
3. Medium
4. Hard
5. Expert

I'm curious what was the issue with special named difficulties?, don't the stars help tell you how hard the diff is?

no they don't. (at least for now)

and special named difficulties will fit the origin of the song better

I've heard of mania's
SHD
Fever
...
Well, and what about the "Level XX"?
Nice post

for beatmania; its Normal, not Standard. Extra is not a difficulty, it's just an extra song you get to play. Correct "Extra" difficulty name would be Black Another.
and for Pop'n Music, its Ex, nothing more.

Updated some things, also fixed the Marathon length.

Hai, Priti

In SOUND VOLTEX, can INFINITE i use is Extreme?

For Alternatives and Additions (osu!standard), add Another for Insane

sorry! was stealing your pictures and clicked enter thinking it was my map ;w;

For osu!Mania there is:

• - SHD

If you add that, that would be nice.

Other difficulty suggestions, although none of them are music-related. I guess other media references sound plausible

Evangelion Movies
-You Are (Not) Alone
-You Can (Not) Advance
-You Can (Not) Redo
-You Will (Not) Survive
-Get your act together, Shinji

Call of Duty
-Recruit
-Regular
-Hardened
-Veteran
-Idk for this one. Try "Zombies" b/c you're downright screwed on this one

Call of duty =/= osu

Sorry for the necro, but something bout this thread interests me.

REFLEC BEAT

osu!

1. BASIC
2. MEDIUM
3. HARD
4. SPECIAL

osu!mania

1. BASIC
2. MEDIUM
3. HARD
4. SPECIAL

Dance Dance Revolution

osu!

1. Beginner
2. Basic
3. Difficult
4. Expert
5. Challenge

osu!mania

1. Beginner
2. Basic
3. Difficult
4. Expert
5. Challenge

Necro alllll teh posts

GROOVE COASTER EX

osu!

• EASY
  NORMAL
  HARD
  EXTRA

bbcode is hard

OHHHHHH! What a nice post! I should've visited here more often b4 asking dumb questions on #modhelp XD

This is nice
However, is Extreme seriously uncommon?
I prefer using it over Extra tbh

If osu! have Advanced and light insane, so Taiko will get these (CMIIW)

Taiko

1. Kantan
2. Futsuu
3. Tsuzuki
4. Muzukashii
5. Kantan Oni
6. Oni
7. Inner Oni/Ura Oni

Tsuzuki/Kantan Oni?
Meh I prefer
Kantan
Inner Kantan
Futsuu
Futsukashii
Muzukashii
Muzoni
Oni
Inner Oni
Ura Oni
9 is more then enough

Baraatje123 wrote:

Tsuzuki/Kantan Oni?
Meh I prefer

Inner Kantan

9 is more then enough

Yes, literally means like this

Tsuduzki - Advanced. Kurouto has altered means
Kantan Oni - Easy Oni, equivalent to Hyper/Light Insane. I don't want this diff pronounced as Haaipa instead

Ura Kantan? Never heard about that

Priti wrote:

SOUND VOLTEX

Difficulty spread inspired by SOUND VOLTEX, heavily recommended to only use in maps for songs from there.
Note that the mania shortcuts are only a recommendation since you also need to fit a key count in most mania maps, so shortening the difficulty name as much as possible can benefit you, if you really want you can use "EXHAUST" in mania and "NOV" in osu!

osu!

1. BASIC
2. NOVICE
3. ADVANCED
4. EXHAUST
5. INFINITE

osu!mania

1. NOV
2. ADV
3. EXH
4. INF

Most mania map's of SDVX contain the full diff. name, but those are nice shortcuts
Also INFINITE and GRAVITY (GTY [i don't know if that abbreviation is alright]) (missing) charts got introduce in SDVX (II) Infinite Infection and SDVX (III) Gravity Wars respectively. Gravity is used to be more difficult than Infinite.

Dynamix

osu!

CASUAL (Easy)
NORMAL (Normal)
HARD (Hard)
MEGA (Insane)
GIGA (Expert)

osu!mania

CAS (Easy)
NM (Normal)
HD (Hard)
MGA (Insane)
GGA (Expert)

Since the difficulty names are inspired from digital storage units, KILO, TERA, PETA (don't), EXA, ZETTA and YOTTA could also be used.

SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HEAVEN

osu!

BASIC (Easy)
NOVICE (Normal)
ADVANCED (Hard)
EXHAUST (Insane)
MAXIMUM: This could really be either a high star Insane or an Expert.
HEAVENLY: Most likely to be used in high difficulties, such as 6*+.

Geometry Dash
Difficulty levels parallels Osu very closely, except Hard is split into two parts (2.25-3.00 stars, and 3.00-3.75 stars). Demon (Expert / Extra) have 5 separate difficulty icon based on the star rating.

Star Ratings are for Osu, not Geometry Dash.

Easy (under 1.5 stars, as per Osu ranking criteria)
Normal (1.5-2.25 stars, as per Osu ranking criteria)
Hard (2.25-3.00 stars)
Harder (3.00-3.75 stars)
Insane (3.75-5.25 stars, as per Osu ranking criteria)
Easy Demon (5.25-6.00 stars)
Medium Demon (6.00-6.75 stars)
Hard Demon (6.75-7.50 stars)
Insane Demon (7.50 - 8.25 stars)
Extreme Demon (over 8.25 stars)

here's a bunch of obscure and sometimes limiting ones

k-shoot mania's default (old? everyone uses sdvx skins) skin actually uses:
LIGHT
CHALLENGE
EXTENDED
INFINITE
you could probably add on to this with sdvx special diffnames too

for lanota (ios/android):
Whisper (easy)
Acoustic (normal)
Ultra (hard)
Master (insane/expert+)
you could also shift these down or up a bit and add anything you think fits inbetween

for arcaea (also mobile):
Past (easy/normal)
Present (normal/hard)
Future (insane+)
that's all there is though

for groove coaster (ac/mobile, these are pretty self explanatory):
EASY (easy/normal)
NORMAL (normal/hard)
HARD (hard/insane)
EXTRA (expert+)
again not much room here
if you're going by the mobile version you could add "AC-" before each but kinda no purpose unless ur making some weird map with 2b/multitaps

and finally an old one, beat hazard (steam/mobile?):
Easy
Normal (normal/hard)
Hardcore (hard/insane)
Insane (insane/expert)
Suicidal (ultra+)

ok

Why is the Insane range in GDash so wide?
Also:

[-obee58-] wrote:

for arcaea (also mobile):
Past (easy/normal)
Present (normal/hard)
Future (insane+)
that's all there is though

https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/590341 This map uses more diff names inspired by the existing ones.

Just thought to update here since the thread was revived, the information from this thread + comments have been moved to the difficulty naming section of the ranking criteria.
It covers pretty much anything that is considered acceptable, and is a better reference point.

https://osu.ppy.sh/help/wiki/Ranking_Cr ... lty_Naming

How about a diff in between easy and normal...how should it be named

The difficulty set i will use once i start mapping:
Remedial - 0-1.75 Stars
Moderate - 1.76-2.9 Stars
Complex - 2.91-3.8 Stars
Intense - 3.81-4.6 Stars
Frantic - 4.61-5.99 Stars
Unholy - 6-8.5 Stars
Hellfire - 8.51-9.99 Stars
Impossible/Shitmap - 10+ Stars

Team Fortress 2 Set
Unremarkable - 0-2 Stars
Notably Dangerous - 2.01-3.1 Stars
Wicked Nasty - 3.11-3.9 Stars
Rage-Inducing - 3.91-4.99
Hale's Own - 5+ Stars

Quantum/Atomic Physics Set:

Neutrino (Easy)
Proton (Normal)
Nucleus (Hard/Light Insane)
Gamma (Insane)
Nanotube (Hyper/Light Another)
Ionization (Another+)

PAYDAY 2 difficulties:
Normal
Hard
Very Hard
Overkill (light insane)
Mayhem (insane)
Death Wish (extra)
Death Sentence (>extra)

Not sure if they'd be useful, but a possible SCP difficulty spread:
Neutralised (normal)
Safe (hard)
Elucid (insane)
Keter (extra)

Borderlands spread?:
Normal
True (hard)
Ultimate (insane)
Overpower (extra)

Most of these are probably useless but I thought i'd throw them here anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How bout a galactic themed ctb spread:

Pluto - cup
Venus - salad
Earth - platter
Saturn - rain
Jupiter - overdose

Organized by size btw

Ok seems like the diff naming theme a little bit starts to fly off to far, lets just stick to the usual thing that mostly used for the song reference itself, like another rythm game diffnames. Using movie or any other diffname theme is also cool but please use it only when the song is related to that

geometry dash:

Easy (easy ofc)

Normal (normal ofc)

Hard (advanced)

Harder (Hard)

Insane (insane ofc)

Easy Demon (light extra)

Medium Demon (extra)

Hard Demon (harder extra)

Insane/Extreme Demon (7* extra)

ALL Japanese Arcade Music Game Difficulties.

(without beatmania,SDVX)

CHUNITHM:
BASIC(easy)
ADVANCED(normal~advanced)
EXPERT(hard~insane)
MASTER(extra)

https://chunithm.sega.jp/player/

maimai:
EASY(easy)
BASIC(normal)
ADVANCED(advanced)
EXPERT(hard~insane)
MASTER(extra)
Re:MASTER(harder than MASTER,extra+?)

https://maimai.sega.jp/

jubeat:
BASIC(easy)
ADVANCED(normal~hard)
EXTREME(insane~extra)

https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/jubeat/clan/top/

Nostalgia:
Normal(easy~normal)
Hard(hard)
Expert(insane~extra)

https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/nostalgia/p/index.html

REFLEC BEAT:
BASIC(easy~normal)
MIDIUM(hard)
HARD/WHITE HARD(insane~extra)

https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/reflec/reflesia/p/top/index.html

Does anyone know what SC stands for in Mania?