Starting out (Ranks: 3m-800k)

When you start osu!. To gain your rank you will need to play a ranked beat map. At this current time most maps on osu! are ranked, so you shouldn't have any issues with finding a ranked one. All you need to do is finish a ranked beat map and you'll get your rank. (You'll be a very high rank at the start.)

Its very very easy to gain ranks when you're just starting out. after one or two songs you will have got the rhythm down and will be able to hit notes with 100% accuracy, and probably have almost gained ranks while you were at it.

Actually farming ranks

Once you feel you have the basics of the game down you can then move on to try to gain ranks and climb the ranked ladder. you'll probably be start at around rank 2-3 million.

As I mentioned before. Gaining ranks is very very easy when you just start out. Finishing any song will give you a fair amount of ranks. You could easily gain 1 million ranks in about an hour. At the lower ranks it can take days and months of practice to gains just a few ranks. so it's not always this easy.

1 - 2 Star Maps

At the start of the game you'll probably only be able to beat 1 - 2 star maps. Most players just naturally gain ranks over their first few days of playing without even realizing it. When you're playing a map try to hit a note with a 100% accuracy. The higher your accuracy is at the end of a song the more ranks you can gain. Trust me this makes a difference. getting a 95% accuracy score compared to a 98% score can be the difference of a few hundred ranks at higher ranks. So its good to try and train your accuracy early for later use.

Most people read the 'difficulty' and make the mistake that it will be a hard map. The user who makes the map you're playing names each difficulty and can write things like 'Hard Mode' 'Insane Mode'. A good tip would be to look at how many stars the map is and not what the 'Difficulty' is. People like to make maps look harder than they actually are thus resulting in people being put off them.  but it can be the difference between gaining ranks and not gaining ranks.

More maps can be downloaded from the Osu home page. a tip would be to download the popular maps. most of them have a 1-2 star difficulty rating.


Next i'll be talking about 'Tillerino' and gaining ranks from 800k-130k as well as higher star maps