Interface

This article explains everything you need to know on how to use the osu! game client. Here you will find information about the song select screen, the rankings display as well as the results screen. When starting the game client, you can see the following screen:

Introduction screen

Main menu

Main menu

• [1] The osu! cookie. Clicking on it opens the main menu. It pulses according to the BPM of the music and bars extend around it visualising the audio spectrum. If no song is playing, it pulses at a slow 60 BPM.
• [2] Click Play (or press P) to play osu! either for yourself or with others.
• [3] Click Edit (or press E) to edit a beatmap.
• [4] Click Options (or press O) to open the options sidebar.
• [5] Click Exit (or press Esc) to exit the game.
• [6] A random useful tip.
• [7] The ppy logo along with copyright information. Clicking on it leads to the osu! website.
• [8] When connection issues with the Bancho server arise, a broken chain link is shown here.
• [9] The chat, and to its left a toggle for the extended chat window, which lists currently online users. They are also toggleable with F8 and F9 respectively.
• [10] The jukebox. In the main menu, it plays songs in a random order. See below for more information about the buttons in this menu.
• [11] The number of beatmap difficulties available (despite what it says), how long you have been playing for, and your system clock.
• [12] Your profile. Clicking on it shows the user options.

The jukebox has the following buttons:

Button	Description
	Previous track
	Play
	Pause
	Stop and reset the current song to its beginning
	Next track
	Toggle between having the information for the current song showing permanently, or fading out after a little while.
	Jump to a specific song. You can search for songs or filter by collection.

The jukebox can also be controlled using keyboard shortcuts.

User options

User options

Access this screen by clicking on your profile at the top left of the main menu. You can select any item by pressing its corresponding number:

• 1. View Profile: View your profile page on the website.
• 2. Sign Out: Sign out of your account. After signing out, the game will prompt you to sign back in.
• 3. Change Avatar: Open the edit avatar page on the website.
• 4. Close: Close this dialog.

Play menu

Play menu

After selecting Play in the main menu, you can choose between three options:

• Click Solo (or press P) to play on your own. This leads you to the song selection screen.
• Click Multi (or press M) to play with other people. You will be directed to the Multi Lobby.
• Click Back to return to the main menu.

Multiplayer lobby

Main page: Multi

Multiplayer lobby

The multiplayer lobby allows you to play with as well as against other players.

Song select

Song select

The currently selected game mode icon can be seen in the bottom left options, above Mode. The mode icon is also faintly visible at the centre of the screen. These are the four you will see:

• is osu!
• is osu!taiko
• is osu!catch
• is osu!mania

Before continuing on, this screen has too many elements to note with easily, noticeable numbers. The subsections below will focus on one part of the screen at a time, starting from top to bottom and left to right.

Beatmap information

This area displays information on the beatmap difficulty currently selected. When entering the song selection screen, the song playing on the jukebox is selected by default. The top-left icon displays the beatmap category, where this particular one is ranked.

The song title is normally shown as romanised (lower picture), but if you select Prefer metadata in original language in the Options, it will show the Unicode title (upper picture). The difficulty name of the beatmap is shown between square brackets ([]). The creator who mapped the beatmap is shown below the title, and even more information is listed below. From left to right, the values are as follows:

• Length: The total length of the beatmap, from start to finish, including breaks. Not to be confused with drain time.
• BPM: Beats Per Minute, the tempo of the song. If there are two BPM values as well as one in parentheses, it means that the BPM changes throughout the song. It shows the slowest and fastest BPM, and the value in parentheses is the most common BPM in the beatmap.
• Objects: The total amount of hit objects in the beatmap.
• Circles: The total amount of hit circles (osu! and osu!taiko), fruits (osu!catch), or regular notes (osu!mania) in the beatmap.
• Sliders: The total amount of sliders (osu!), drumrolls (osu!taiko), juice streams (osu!catch), or hold notes (osu!mania) in the beatmap.
• Spinners: The total amount of spinners (osu!), dendens (osu!taiko), or banana showers (osu!catch) in the beatmap.
• OD: The overall difficulty of the beatmap.
• HP: The HP drain rate. See the article on health for more details.
• Stars: The star rating of the beatmap. The amount of stars is also easily visible on the beatmap carousel.

Group and Sort

Click on one of the tabs to sort your song list according to the selected criterion.

Group

These options organise beatmaps into various expandable groups:

The first five groupings are available in tabs below Group and Sort.

Sort

Sort beatmaps in a certain order.

Search

Main article: Beatmap search

The search bar allows for filtering difficulties that match some criteria. By default, osu! runs full-text search, only showing results that contain all of the specified words. In addition to that, it is possible to search by approach rate, star rating, and many more values using a set of filters such as ar=8 or stars>=5.

To search beatmaps, simply start typing when at the song select screen (without the options or chat panel open).

Rankings

A variety of things can appear in this space:

• A Not Submitted box denotes a beatmap that has not been uploaded to the osu! website using the Beatmap Submission System or was deleted by the mapper.
• An Update to latest version box appears if there is a new version of the beatmap available for download. Click on the button to update.

  • Notice: Once you update the beatmap, the local scores on it will be wiped. Replays for local scores can be exported by right-clicking them.
• A Latest pending version box means that the beatmap has been uploaded to the osu! website but is not ranked yet.
• If replays matching the view setting of the beatmap exist, they will be displayed instead of a box denoting the ranked/played status of the beatmap. This is shown in the above picture.

  • Under public rankings (e.g. Global, Friends, etc.), your high score will be shown at the bottom, as well as your rank on the leaderboard.
• A No records set! box means that there are no replays for the current view setting (this is typically seen in the local view setting if you just downloaded or edited the beatmap).

These are the view settings:

• Local Ranking
• Country Ranking*
• Global Ranking
• Global Ranking (Selected Mods)*
• Friend Ranking*

*Requires osu!supporter.

Click the word bubble icon to call up the quick web access screen for the selected beatmap:

• Press 1 or click the Beatmap Listing/Scores to view the beatmap page for the selected difficulty in your browser.
• Press 2 or click Beatmap Modding to view the beatmap's modding page.
• Press 3 or Esc or click Cancel to return to the song selection screen.

Beatmap carousel

The beatmap carousel displays all available beatmaps. Different beatmaps may have differently coloured boxes:

You can navigate the beatmap list by using the mouse wheel, using the up and down arrow keys, dragging it while holding the left mouse button or clicking the right mouse button (known as absolute scrolling), which will move the scroll bar to your mouse's Y position. Click on a beatmap to select it, then click it again, press Enter or click the osu! cookie at the bottom-right corner to play the beatmap.

Gameplay toolbox

List of available game modes

This section can be called the gameplay toolbox. We will cover each button's use from left to right.

Press Esc or click the Back button to return to main menu.

Click on the Mode button to open a list of game modes available in osu!. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl and 1 (osu!), 2 (osu!taiko), 3 (osu!catch), or 4 (osu!mania) to change the game mode. Switching to another mode will also switch to its leaderboards, as one may observe by seeing the displayed rank change.

Mod selection screen

Click the Mods button or press F1 to open the mod selection screen.

In this screen, you can apply modifications ("mods" for short) to gameplay. Some mods lower difficulty and apply a multiplier that lowers the score you achieve. Conversely, some mods increase the difficulty, but apply a multiplier that increases the score you achieve. Finally, some mods modify gameplay in a different way. Relax and Auto Pilot fall in that category.

Place your mouse on a mod's icon to see a short description of its effect. Click on an icon to select or deselect that mod. Some mods, like Double Time, have multiple variations — click on the mod again to cycle through them. The score multiplier value displays the combined effect all selected mods will have on your score. Click Reset all mods or press 1 to deselect all currently selected mods. Click Close or press 2 or Esc to return to the song selection screen.

Click the Random button or press F2 to have the game randomly scroll through all of your beatmaps and pick one.

Note: You can press Shift + the Random button or F2 to go back to the beatmap you had selected before you randomised your selection.

Possible commands for a beatmap

Click the Beatmap Options button, press F3 or right-click your mouse while hovering over the beatmap to bring up the beatmap options menu for options on the currently selected beatmap.

• Press 1 or click the Manage Collections button to bring up the collection manager — here, you can manage pre-existing collections, as well as add or remove the currently selected beatmap or mapset to or from a collection.
• Press 2 or click Delete... to delete the [1] currently selected difficulty, [2] delete the currently selected beatmap, or [3] delete all VISIBLE beatmaps.

  • Note that deleted beatmaps are moved to the Recycle Bin.
• Press 3 or click Remove from Unplayed to mark an unplayed beatmap as played (that is, change its box colour from pink to orange).
• Press 4 or click Clear local scores to delete all records of the scores you have achieved in this beatmap.
• Press 5 or click Edit to open the selected beatmap in osu!'s editor.
• Press 6 or Esc or click Close to return to the song selection screen.

Click on your user panel to access the user options menu.

Click on the osu! cookie to start playing the selected beatmap.

Results screen

Accuracy in osu!

This is the results screen shown after you have successfully passed the beatmap. You can access your online results by scrolling down or pressing the obvious button.

Below are the results screens of the other game modes.

Accuracy in osu!taiko

Accuracy in osu!mania

Accuracy in osu!catch

Extended results screen

An example of an online osu! score

This is your online leaderboard. You can go here by scrolling down from the results screen. Your local scoreboard will show your name and the score as usual.

• [1] Your user panel. It shows your performance points (pp), global rank, total score, overall accuracy, and level bar.
• [2] Save replay to Replays folder: You can watch the replay later either by opening it from a local leaderboard, or by going to Replays directory and double clicking it.
• [3] Add as online favourite: Include the beatmap into your list of favourites, which is located on your osu! profile page under the Beatmaps section.
• [4] Local leaderboard: All your results are stored on your computer. To see them, navigate to the song selection screen and select Local Rankings from the drop-down menu above the scoreboard.
• [5] Beatmap Ranking section. Available only for maps with online leaderboards (qualified, ranked, or loved). You also need to be online to see this section. See below for more details.
• [6] Overall Ranking section. It's available only for beatmaps with online leaderboards. You also need to be online to see this section. See below for more details.
• [7] Information about the beatmap with its play count and pass rate.
• [8] Beatmap rating. Use your personal discretion based on whether you enjoyed the beatmap or not. Best left alone if you can't decide.
• [9] Click here to return to the song selection screen.

The categories in the ranking panel are as follows:

Medals

Main page: Medals

Unlocking a medal

Sometimes, when specific conditions are met, you may receive a medal.