ScoreV1

This page archive the old Score formula used before the implementation of ScoreV2 since 2007 (the birth of osu!)

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osu!

The score given by each hit circle and end of a slider is calculated with the following formula:-

Score = Hit Value + (Hit Value * ((Combo multiplier * Difficulty multiplier * Mod multiplier) / 25))

Each slider start, end and repeat tick awards 30 points, each slider middle tick awards 10 points and each spin of a spinner awards 100 points.

Additional bonus of 1,000 points given for each spin of a spinner after the spinner meter is full.

How to calculate the Difficulty multiplier

The Difficulty multiplier was calculated based on each map's star rating (the old one, before the introduction of performance points), which factored in object density, and was affected by the difficulty settings of the map as follows.

Circle Size (CS), HP Drain (HP) and Overall Difficulty (OD) each give a tick on difficulty point.

The accumulated difficulty points affect the Difficulty multiplier as so:-

The limited highest is 27 difficulty points with CS7, OD10 and HP10.
The limited lowest is 2 difficulty points with CS2, OD0 and HP0.

CS cannot normally go below 2 or above 7 (requires direct modification to the .osu file).

Note that game modifiers (like Hard Rock/Easy) will not change the Difficulty multiplier.
It will only account for original values only.

osu!taiko

Each GREAT (excluding Kiai Time's 1.2x bonus) is worth 300 + RoundDown(Combo / 10) times n up to a maximum of 300+10n points, in which n depends on the difficulty rating of the song.

Each GOOD gives half of the score as GREAT does.

Each MISS/BAD gives zero score.

Double score is given for successful hit on large notes (different from Taiko no Tatsujin, left and right drum must be hit at the same time very precisely in order to allow a successful hit of large notes).

For yellow long notes, 300 is given per hit in the small one while 600 per hit is given to the large one.

For shaker notes, each shake gives 300 and finishing the shaker gives score twice as much as a GREAT of the current combo.

A typical value of n (4.5-5 star difficulties in old 5 star ratings system) is 80, which gives a maximum score of 1,100/2,200 at 100 combo and later combos.
For 4 - 4.5 star difficulties, n is equal to 64 in which the maximum score per hit is 940/1,880.
In the hardest case, n is equal to 96 in which the maximum score per hit is 1,260/2,520.
There are lower value of n for even easier difficulties.

Unlike osu!d/osu!catch, a miss in osu!taiko will not cause a drastic score difference from the maximum possible score (in osu!/osu!catch, score deviation damage from a miss grows wider the higher the maximum combo and especially breaking in around half combo of the maximum combo).
Instead, a constant score of n (explained above) is reduced per miss if each miss is separated by more than 100 combos.
With the existence of shaker and large notes, score loss would be larger.

For example, in a typical difficulty (80), breaking a combo in the middle of a song without accounting for large notes and spinners, would result in a maximum loss of 44,000 points (to bring the combo back up to 100, all GREAT score value).

Also unlike the other game modes, Kiai Time has an effect on scores because it refers to the "Go-Go Time" in Taiko no Tatsujin.
While Kiai Time is active, the drum in the upper left changes animation, the playfield has a background gradient and the hit area gains a fire graphic around it.
Additionally, all hit notes gain a 1.2x score multiplier, long yellow notes (drumroll) included, except for hits on a shaker (the final hit is still multiplied).

In short: Score = {ScoreValue + [min(RoundDown(Combo / 10), 10) * RoundDown(taiko score multiplier * raw mod multiplier)]} * Kiai Time

Exceptions:-

• Each successful drumroll hit gives a constant GREAT Score Value (300/600 for small/large drumroll respectively) with Kiai Time bonus only.
• Each denden hits/shaker shakes gives a constant GREAT Score Value (300) without Kiai Time bonus except for last denden hit/shaker shake, which gives a large GREAT Score Value (600) with current combo multiplier.

osu!catch

Scoring for osu!catch follows the same multiplier as in osu!.
However, the fruit that adds up the score is different from osu!.

• A regular sized fruit gives a score of 300 times the multiplier.
• A large juice drop (slider tick) gives a score of 100.
• The smallest drop (also called "droplet", or slider trail/path) gives a score of 10.
• Each collected bananas (collected during spinner duration) will give a static score of 1,100 regardless of mod and combo multiplier.

Combo will not be lost for missing droplets (considered as Miss Droplet in server leaderboard) in this mode, but a drop of Accuracy and score gain from it.

Score = Hit Value + [Hit Value * ((Combo multiplier * Difficulty multiplier * Mod multiplier) / 25)]

Note: There is a difference between osu! and osu!catch's scoring methods:

• 300s and a combo increment are not given to a finished spinner
• reverse slider ticks are counted as a full score of a hit

  • note that in osu!, a reverse tick only gives 30 points

osu!mania

In osu!mania, each beatmap has the same maximum total score of 1 million (1,000,000).

The score is given in two parts, base score and bonus score, each contributing 50% of total score.

• Base score is based on hit judgement.

  • A rainbow 300 is worth a bit more than 300.
• Bonus score is based on hit judgement and a floating bonus multiplier.

  • The multiplier increases with a rainbow 300 or 300, while it decreases with a 200 or below.
  • The better judgement, the more multiplier increase/less punishment.

    • There's an upper limit for the multiplier.

The score given by each note is calculated with the following formula:-

Score = BaseScore + BonusScore

BaseScore = (MaxScore * ModMultiplier * 0.5 / TotalNotes) * (HitValue / 320)

BonusScore = (MaxScore * ModMultiplier * 0.5 / TotalNotes) * (HitBonusValue * Sqrt(Bonus) / 320)
Bonus = Bonus before this hit + HitBonus - HitPunishment / ModDivider
Bonus is limited to [0, 100], initially 100.

MaxScore = 1 000 000
ModMultiplier = The score multiplier of the selected mods (difficulty reduction and/or nK)
ModDivider = The punishment divider of the selected mods (difficulty increase)

Judgement  HitValue  HitBonusValue  HitBonus  HitPunishment
   MAX       320          32            2
   300       300          32            1
   200       200          16                        8
   100       100           8                       24
    50        50           4                       44
  Miss         0           0                        ∞

       Mod  ModMultiplier  ModDivider
      Easy       0.5
    NoFail       0.5
  HalfTime       0.5
  HardRock                    1.08
DoubleTime                     1.1
 NightCore                     1.1
    FadeIn                    1.06
    Hidden                    1.06
Flashlight                    1.06