leaderboard farm
pending| Name | leaderboard farm |
| Description | Low-difficulty and usually short maps that contain simple, repetitive patterns and often lack spinners, with the intent of making play with 4-mod as easy as possible. |
| Parent descriptor | simple |
| Proposer | Bive |
| Type | new |
| Creation date | 2026-06-27 20:58:52 |
| Last updated | 2026-06-27 21:25:42 |
| Proposals can be approved when it receives 20 votes and has >=65% positive votes. Approvals can only happen after a minimum of 5 days. |
Vote
7.14% voted positivelyyes (1): Bive
no (12): Visionary, mynarco-, Deca, maxb, a bat, a night parrot, Lilian, [[[[[[, Rita Summers, Oolt cloud, kosi, Hobbes2
hold (1): Adequate
Comments (5)
I do kinda like the idea of low diff descriptors of some sort if applicable. I'm not sure I entirely agree with this descriptor, feels like it misses a lot of what leaderboard farm can be (i.e. I actually see a lot more hard diff HDDT leaderboard farmers than super low diff 4mod farmers I'd say), and even then, what makes a map leaderboard farmable is kinda dynamic (like mynarco said, playcount makes leaderboards substantially harder, and a lot of the maps that would abide by this criteria are nigh impossible to leaderboard since all of the top 50 has been maxed out)
i mean, i can kind of get it but this is just 99% of low diffs or actually just every low diff ever that doesn't have a weird gimmick (aka isn't actually a low diff)
This feels very temporary. Descriptor needs to point out something that is inherently true in a map: "oh this is aimslop", "the map is a megacollab" etc. What purpose does this tag get when the leaderboard will be eventually filled up and it's no longer "farm"?
there aren’t many descriptors for low diffs cuz they are typically insanely restrictive and the actually “cool” ones (ie app strangeprogram) are known for things other than being a sub 3* that has over 120s of drain time
` believes there aren't enough descriptors that target low difficulty beatmaps and ` believes this archetype of low diff is prevalent enough to warrant a descriptor for it
"leaderboard farm" is an established term on osu! already as far as ` is concerned but here are some sources to back this up:
https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/comments/1qajdd3/leaderboard_farming_competition_starting_soon/
https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/comments/19ansxh/osu_lazer_release_will_be_dday_for_leaderboard/
https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/2161409?n=8
https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/1442719?n=3