Top Descriptors marathon A map with a drain time of over 5 minutes. , featured artist Features song(s) composed by artists in osu!’s Featured Artist listing , freeform An unrestrained and loose approach towards visual structure. , megacollab A map with 8 or more associated mappers. , messy Visually chaotic and intentionally disorganised patterns, often involving many overlaps and unequal visual spacing between objects. , jump aim Focuses heavily on jumps, i.e. circles spaced far apart that require the player to move towards, slow down to hit, then speed up to move towards the next object. , avant-garde Employs boundary-pushing and experimental philosophies to map design, often foregoing gameplay and aesthetic conventions to extreme measures. , slider tech Tests uncommon skills involving sliders, such as heavy use of kicksliders or aim on complex slidershapes. , improvisation Uses patterns that do not correspond to sounds in the music, often using hitsounds to add sounds in. , large circles Uses larger-than-usual circles. Typically refers to maps with circle sizes below 3.