Mouse: Logitech G Pro X Superlight v1 (Currently using backup mouse Razer Viper 8KHz @ 8KHz setting)
(2000 hw DPI/0.4 in game sens)
Mousepad: LGG Venus Pro XL (490x410mm)
Keyboard: Cooler Master CK 552 Gateron Red Switches

Standard: "sd" Single Tap / Hybrid Alt (single tap leaning)
Mania 4k: "90 *-"
Taiko (KDDK): "90 *-"
CTB: Default

Skins:
STD - Seoul v9 Personal Skin New Hitcircle
M4k - YUGEN REMASTERED
Taiko - Night of Knights STD/Taiko
CTB - Exgon's Skin for CTB
(All skins w/ slight Lazer edits)

PC:
CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5600X (stock cooling fan)
Mobo - MSI B550 Tomahawk AM4
RAM - 4x Corsair Vengeance 3200MHz CL16 DDR4 8GB
SSD - 1x Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2
PSU - Thermaltake GX2 600W 80+ Gold
GPU - MSI x AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
Case - Thermaltake V250 ATX Mid Tower (3x 120mm RGB front fans, 1x 120mm black back fan)

June 22 2019: first 100pp play
Watch Me - Feint [xDarxen's Hard]+HR
July 1 2019: broke 200k
September 19 2019: broke 2000pp
October 22 2019: 5,187 max combo
Linkin Park - Living Things [Marathon Lite]+HR
February 13 2020: broke 3000pp
April 7 2020: 5 digit!!!
May 23 2020: 200 pp play
Yuuki Aoi - Mata Ashita [Insane]+DT
December 14 2020: broke 4000pp
March 24 2021: re-entered 99.5% profile accuracy
April 5 2021: broke 200k (Mania)
August 7 2021: broke 1000 SS ranks
August 16 2021: broke rank 50k + 4 digit US
August 24 2021: broke 4 digit Ranked Score
August 25 2021: broke 5,000pp
February 21 2022: broke 30 billion Ranked Score
March 24 2022: broke rank 5000 in Ranked Score
April 13 2022: 300 pp play
Yasuda Rei - Best of my Love [A Colorful Path of Love]+DT
November 10 2022: broke 50 billion Ranked Score
November 22 2022: broke 2000 SS ranks
November 28 2022: broke rank 2000 in Ranked Score
November 29 2022: broke max combo, now 5,642
zts - Umineko no Naku Koro ni Compilation [When They Cry]

Global Rank: 28,309* (October 3 2022)
Ranked Score Rank: 1,003 (September 4 2023)
SS Total Rank: 785 (December 12 2022, fetched from osu!alt)
Peak Accuracy: 99.67% (August 15 2021, fetched from osu!daily)
*: in the middle of rework update

tourney history sheet wip lol
All my past tournament mappools here, reverse chronological order (Pooler/Tester -> Player)
As player:
February 1 2020: (First) Beginner's osu! Tournament 3 [1v1] (Single Elim 3rd/4th place!)
April 24 2020: STK7 [2v2, Bobathicc w/ BubblyQT] 9th-12th (Loser's Semifinals R1)
October 18 2020: STK8 [2v2, Phantom Strikers w/ Eiko Kawasegawa & Defy] (Loser's Quarterfinals R2)
November 7 2020: SoCal Fall Festival [1v1] (Swiss 59th/84)
January 9 2021: SMST 16 [1v1] (Single Elim RO32)
January 25 2021: GameCon Online [1v1] (Tier 3 Qualifiers 80th/103)
January 30 2021: Rapid Monthly Tournament #53 [1v1] (Single Elim Bye-RO128)
February 13 2021: BQT Valentine's Day Blitz [2v2, QUACKED w/ chelsea] (Single Elim RO16)
March 5 2021: Nocy's Voli-tile Clash Tier 2 [2v2, GCO: Q-25 w/ BubblyQT and Will-] (Loser's Quarterfinals R1)
May 15 2021: WhiteCat Official Osu Tournament [2v2, Vanilla Felines w/ BubblyQT, Ari- & fat nuts] (Low Tier Qualifiers 191th/327)
May 28 2021: Unicornlover's Scuffed Osu Tourney [2v2, The Vibe w/ chelsea, [-Kitsune-] & GrimTide] (Loser's Semifinals R1)
July 9 2021: EST Summer Edition 2021 [2v2, The Vibe v2 w/ chelsea and [-Kitsune-]] (Loser's Semifinals R1)
July 23 2021: Moop's Intermediate Tournament [4v4, Tostin's Grandchildren w/ this dude, onyo, Use, Tostin, Charmory, chelsea & Poker] (Loser's Semifinals R1)
September 14 2021: Scarlet's Touhou Tournament 2 [1v1] (Minor League Loser's Finals R1, 5th/6th place)
September 26 2021: Vin-Tana Solo Showdown [1v1] (Loser's Round of 16 R2)
October 15 2021: What If... OWC 2015 was played by 5 digits? [4v4, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis w/ this dude, onyo,Tostin, Charmory, [-Kitsune-], MiniShoey & Allison] (Group Stage 2-2)
October 15 2021: BubblyQT osu! Party 2 [2v2, AntiCircleCircleClub w/ Charmory, Eiko Kawasegawa & AstrZt] (Qualifiers 54th/81)
February 13 2022: BQT Valentine's Day Blitz 2 [2v2 > 4v4 > 8v8, Shitmisses & Toge Kisses duo w/ Charmory] (Collab Grand Finals 8v8 "2nd Place"!)
February 19 2022: Rapid Monthly Tournament #66 [1v1] (Single Elim Bye-RO64)
March 14 2022: Waffle's Draft Tournament [3v3 Draft, Bottled cirno fumo, drafted by -[Chex]- w/ Loreal, THE BEST HOBO & t4hN] (Loser's Finals R1, 5th/6th place)
April 7 2022: Random Map Tournament [2v2, poopshit w/ stonks & Axorite] (Loser's Quarterfinals R1)
May 20 2022: Donut As Hitcircle Tournament 3 [3v3 Suiji, 5WC "players", picked w/ RocketeerRover & Kagami] (Group Stage 1-2)
June 10 2022: 5 Digit United States Cup [3v3, Arizona w/ onyo, Doga, Sethmanz, Yukari Enjoyer & ILOVEDEADLIFTS] (Loser's RO16)
July 11 2022: Hard Rock Cup 2 [3v3, HardChicken Meow w/ - Mayumi -, Spev & chelsea] (Qualifiers 77th/84)
August 20 2022: Rapid Monthly Tournament #72 [1v1](Single Elim RO64)
September 11 2022: Nocy's Second Voli-tile Clash [3v3, Cat-sune Life w/ [-Kitsune-], Cat Mom Mippy, MtkoGaming & strawbewwiii] (Qualifiers 59/69)
October 18 2022: Colour Cup [1v1] (Qualifiers 100th/222)
November 4 2022: Bubble's Halloween Cup [2v2, The Vibe v3 w/ chelsea, [-Kitsune-] & Charmory] (Qualifiers 90th/112)
November 4 2022: osu!Accuracy Tournament 13 [1v1] (Qualifiers 37th/56)
February 4 2023: Convex and Annaki's Triplet Cup [2v2, suck at team names lol w/ Hozay] (Qualifiers 43rd/61)
Feb 12 2023: BubblyQT Valentine's Blitz #3 [2v2 > 4v4, Meowku + Cinnamoroll duo w/ - Mayumi -] (Collab Quarterfinals 4v4)
Feb 17 2023: Dynasty Cup Season 1 [4v4, bluecatchipsmirk w/ [Hirai Momo], Cat Mom Mippy, CYN bacon, Coffers, Gary Eats, NanoShinra & idiot stick] (Loser's Quarterfinals R1)
June 6 2023: MonkeCup 4 [4v4, GorillaSpin w/ Cat Mom Mippy, Hozay, Xyrexx, Lunpai, RedTheren, Coffers, Lilli] (Qualifiers 34th/48)
June 6 2023: ProfessorKui's Kewl Tournament (1v1) (Qualifiers, Did Not Play)
June 8 2023: Clashing Tides [4v4, Stiff Spaghetti w/ Memesical, DJRidoo, gvecheets, Square_Squared & metalface] (Qualifiers 49th/52)
June 16 2023: 5 Digit Touhou Cup [3v3, Gensokyo Weekly w/ Cat Mom Mippy, Hozay, RedTheren, Zodi & Chinatsu Kano1] (Qualifiers 40th/61)
August 11 2023: Osu! Impulse [1v1] (Single Elim Quarterfinals)
May 25 2024: Rapid Monthly Tourney #93 [1v1] (Single Elim Round of 64)
June 8 2024: Quag's Low AR Tournament 3 [2v2, silly map team w/ zSidd] (Qualifiers 20th/42)
June 15 2024: 5 Digit United States Cup 3 [3v3, Arizona w/ Nyoah, Zeke07, zeplic, Polar- & nonentity] (Loser's Round of 16)
August 3 2024: Sunset Summer Phantasy [4v4 Draft] (Undrafted)
August 9 2024: Deranker Heaven 3 [2v2, awooo~ with runaa, [-Kitsune-] & ShiroNai] (Qualifiers 72nd/77)
May 26 2025: Doremi's Birthday Party [1v1] (Qualifiers 93rd/116)


As staff:
June 6 2020: BQT (Admin, Mappool Selector and Referee)
September 25 2020: BTMC Community Cup (Mappool Tester and Referee)
February 14 2021: BQT Valentine's Day Blitz (Emergency Referee)
April 29 2021: Non-Professional Cup 4 (Referee)
May 8 2021: Beginner's osu! Tournament 5 (Mappool Selector and Referee)
August 7 2021: BubblyQT's osu! Party [Badged] (Admin, Referee, Commentator & Honorary TB Mappooler)
November 20 2021: Konoha Cup Winter 2021 [Badged] (Mappool Tester and Referee)
May 17 2022: Konoha Cup Splash Season [Badged] (Admin, Mappool Selector, Referee, Commentator)
August 19 2022: Konoha's Desert Menu (Emergency Referee, Commentator)
March 3 2023: Neko's Club Tourney 3 [Badged] (Emergency Commentator)
March 11 2023: Spring Flower Scramble: Wisteria [Badged] (Referee, Commentator)
May 3 2023: Couls Scuffed Overskilled 5 Digit Cup (Referee,Commentator)
June 23 2023: Kitsune's 6 Digit Cup (Admin, Playtester, Commentator, Referee)
July 1 2023: Rutgers RGC Monthly #10 (Commentator)
July 11 2023: Konoha Cup 4 [Badged] (Admin, Mappooler, Streamer, Commentator/Voiceover/Script Writer, Referee)
July 12 2023: Scarlet's Touhou Tournament 3 [Badged] (Mappooler, Commentator, Referee)
August 19 2023: Rutgers RGC Monthly #11 (Commentator)
September 9 2023: TCC4 (Commentator, Referee)
October 28 2023: Foxy's Farmer Paradise 2 (Mappooler)
January 19 2024: Aqui's Cooking Cup 2 (Mappooler)
February 9 2024: Matho's osu! Tournament (Referee)
March 6 2024: 5 Digit World Cup 2024 [Badged] (YouTube Editor)
July 12 2024: osu! Watermelon Cup (Mappooler, Playtester, Referee)
July 23 2024: All-American Auction House 3 [Badged] (Commentator/Voiceover (for 1 video lol))
October 28 2024: 5 Digit Touhou Cup 2 (Commentator)
January 26 2025: ANZT 12 Summer (Mappooler)
February 26 2025: 5 Digit World Cup 2025 (Commentator)
March 6 2025: 5 Digit World Cup Minor League 2025 (Commentator, Referee)
February 26 2025: Catfe Clash Tourney Version 2 (Pooler, Commentator, Referee)
June 26 2025: 5 Digit United States Cup 2025 (Commentator)

Special Roles:
January 8 2022: BQT4 [Team Supporter for marketable plushies w/ vicpp, GrimTide, Gxm & ElMatiuma]
July 10 2022: Konoha Cup Splash Season [Grand Finals 4v4 Showmatch, Team Staff w/ chooga, Hidero_, FelixSosa, Spev, Valentz, Maytide & Hardstcukc 3]

Gincli for getting me into this game, and inspiring me to be a cracked dual-game (osu AND League) player!
BubblyQT for being my first osu teammate in my first team tourney and hosting wonderful tourneys for players to enjoy!
chelsea for keeping me in check as an osu player and being an overall good friend to everyone around you!
Charmory for being my shining light, the best teammate I can ever ask for and believing I still can love and be human again!

Done on 2/12/2021

I PEAKED, done on 9/27/2022

osu! was released on September 16 2007. Since then, there has been an abundance of events that shaped osu! to what it is today.

From players who changed the way osu! is meant to be played and inspired other players to follow in their footsteps.

Mappers who create the beatmaps and inspect each other’s maps both as a way to keep the players engaged and pushing the limits of what is possible for the elite.

Rank and scoring system changes that define and change the meta across both solo and pro play, with Ranked Score, ppv1 and v2 influencing the global leaderboards and several records (sometimes in a bad way which is why looking back is important to fix the current issues that we have now) and ScoreV2 influencing the tournament scene bringing an even more important balance between accuracy and combo.

Content creators who bring osu to a wider audience and also foster communities for people to hang out, such as casual music/anime lovers, artists(graphics and music, both digital and physical work) tournament players/staff, mappers, bot developers etc.

Learning from the past allowed me to see so many amazing things, and even the ones that don’t look so amazing I still can learn a lot from it. Players I look up to as inspiration like Cookiezi when I started playing, and players I also can identify as having a similar playstyle or habit such as Bikko, Umbre and Chaoslitz who are accuracy demons in their high level gameplay, and SS or Quit, Sleepteiner, Zalaria and kevin3333g who commit to such a high SS rank count and having an absurdly high profile accuracy.

I look up to mappers such as Pishifat and Charles445 who built upon the foundations of osu! mapping and then taking influence from jonathanlfj, happy30 and Crissa as my preference is long consistency maps as for me, long maps with easily defined elements such as simple jumps, bursts and streams are the purest forms of osu!.

This is also why I encourage mappers and players old and new to look up any part of osu! history, even if it’s fairly recent so that you can learn about who you’re initially inspired by, who are you the most similar to and which player/mapper do you want to most closely resemble. It will reflect better who you currently are as a mapper/player (or both) and who you want to be in your future osu! career.

I will be using DigitalHypno’s osu!phd flowchart and his HR explanation to illustrate the points that I will be mentioning.

The “Hard Rock” mod amplifies ALL of the difficulty settings up to 10 (Circle Size is the only thing in the editor that can only go up to base 7 but changing the .osu file can make it go up to 10). Circle Size is multiplied by 1.3x, and the rest such as AR, OD and HP are multiplied by 1.4x. This therefore makes it arguably the hardest mod in the game to learn not only through its sheer scaling of the difficulty but the amount of different skill sets it tests which I will explain in greater detail.

In DigitalHypno’s video the skills required for learning HR boils down to precision, reading speed and accuracy, because of the aforementioned difficulty settings being increased. (Opinion: The reason why I agree with Hypno that HR is more overloaded than say DT is that HR tests skills from completely different branches (and cranks up the consistency skill up to 10, no pun intended) rather than DT which shares a lot of speed-related skills.)

Precision branches from cursor control and focus, because there is less room for “aim error” if you imagine aiming in the center of the circle and the circle size/radius is the leniency (how far away from the center) you’re allowed to go out of before you miss.

Reading speed which I believe to be the main concern for players entering HR branches from pattern processing, speed(general) and rhythm sense. The key element to good reading speed is being able to predict the pattern well ahead of time, due to 1) identifying repeating elements of the track (if any) and 2) of the circles and sliders that were placed by the mapper since unless you have an insane reaction time, there is usually not enough time to “see” the patterns.

Accuracy branches from rhythm sense, pattern processing and finger control. At the maximum setting of OD 10, it is extremely hard to get good acc unless you’re able to master the rhythm of the song and knowing exactly how to tap said rhythm in order to get all 300s. DO NOT USE OFFSET IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW IT WORKS. If you want to anyway, here’s a good rule of thumb (and only use this if you know for certain that it’s not a reading issue or a “wait I tapped early/late on one part and the rest were fine” issue).
Above Unstable Rate there are a set of error numbers as seen here.
The number on the left corresponds to the averages of early hits and subsequently the number on the right for late hits. As an example, for error numbers -11ms 7ms with an UR of 90, I can then use the error numbers and with math, (11+7)/2 would give me a +-9ms off-centeredness of my hits. Then I would use the offset to -2ms so in theory on my next play assuming similar conditions the error numbers would be -9ms 9ms with a similar UR.

If you’re able to notice a trend, these three main elements have an element of consistency with precision partly branching from cursor control, reading speed from pattern processing, and accuracy from both finger control and pattern processing. If you feel like you don’t have consistency without HR, then HR is most likely going to be way too hard for you and you should work on your consistency before going back to attempt it. Ironically, the exact opposite can also be true where if you’re reading this as a HR main, if you’re consistent at HR but outside of it it feels like you don’t know how to play the game on lower ARs. Please learn to read lower AR too because it’s also a major part of pattern processing.

Once you've improved your consistency to a point where you're comfortable, then you can improve on the main skills required for HR in isolation to get yourself ready for it but at some point you should dive straight into it (ideally when you have 2/3 of the skills down e.g. precision + reading speed) since there's only so much you can do improving each skill in isolation when HR tests them all together.

Tonehh mentioned in one of his tweets that learning any AR outside of your comfort zone (whether it’s AR8 HD, EZ or HR mods) it’s a matter of brute force until you’re able to adapt to the finer details and I’m blessed/cursed to start with HR early in my osu days because it means I’m used to the AR while others can’t in low rank tourneys but with the tradeoff of not being able to read low AR until somewhere last year where I forced myself to learn it and now I’m an all-rounder with an HR niche.

If you want some math to describe how hard HR really is, at the maximum difficulty stats AR 10 means that the circles will last on screen for 450ms. OD 10 is a +-19.5ms hit window for a 300. Combining these two, to get a 300 on a single note (assuming no overlaps like bursts and no prior knowledge of the song/map) it takes (450/2)+19.5=244.5ms to see the note THEN hit it without going too late. On the Human Benchmark website, the median reaction time is 273ms.