Best pp Farm Maps in osu! (2026): Easiest Maps to Boost Your pp

Performance points (pp) are the currency of osu!standard. Every ranked play you set is scored by the pp algorithm, your profile keeps a weighted list of your best results, and your global rank is just a leaderboard of those weighted totals. "pp farming" is the practice of deliberately seeking out the maps that hand you the most pp for the least skill, and then grinding them until one clean pass lands in your top scores. It is the single fastest way to climb the rankings, and it is also one of the oldest arguments in the community.

This guide explains why certain maps pay out far above their difficulty, how mods change the maths, where the etiquette lines sit, and which maps are doing the heavy lifting right now. The pp-farm meta shifts constantly — Performance Points reworks, new ranked maps, and rebalanced star ratings all move the goalposts — so treat the list below as current as of 2026 and double-check live values before you commit hundreds of retries.

What "pp farming" actually means

Your profile pp is not the sum of every play you have ever set. osu! takes your top scores sorted by pp and applies a decay: your best play counts at 100%, your second-best at 95%, your third at roughly 90%, and so on, each subsequent score weighted by 0.95 to the power of its rank in the list. Because the curve is steep, only your top ~50–100 plays meaningfully contribute. Farming is the act of replacing a low play in that weighted list with a higher one — which means the only score that matters on a farm map is the one clean run that beats your current floor.

Why some maps over-reward pp

The pp algorithm scores a play on aim, speed (tapping), and accuracy, then combines them with length and the difficulty mods you used. Several structural quirks make some maps pay out more than their star rating suggests:

• Length scaling — longer maps award more pp because the difficulty value scales with object count. A 4-minute marathon of consistent patterns can out-pay a brutal 90-second map, which is why "marathon farm" maps exist.
• Aim density and spacing — maps built from large, evenly-spaced jumps inflate the aim component. The system rewards the raw distance your cursor travels under a tight time window, so wide, rhythmic jump maps farm aim-heavy players.
• Stream length and consistency — long, even streams pump the speed value. A map that is mostly one sustained burst of 1/4 notes at a comfortable BPM can hand a strong streamer enormous pp for a single FC.
• Mod multipliers — Hidden (HD) and especially Double Time (DT) multiply both star rating and the pp ceiling. DT raises BPM and approach rate, inflating speed and aim; HD adds a flat reward for the reading challenge. Hard Rock (HR) tightens circles and AR for an accuracy/aim bump. Stacking DTHD or HDHR on a map you can already pass is the classic farm move.
• Accuracy headroom — maps with low object density but high difficulty value let you cash in near-perfect accuracy, since the acc component punishes misses hard but rewards 99%+ generously.

The etiquette and the controversy

Farming is not against the rules — it is a legitimate part of the ranked ladder, and essentially every top player has a farm list. The friction is cultural. Purists argue that grinding the same handful of "overweighted" maps inflates rank without building real skill, producing players whose profile pp outruns their actual consistency. The counter-argument is that pp is a leaderboard, not a skill certificate, and chasing rank is a valid way to play.

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pp is a measure of how good your best plays are, not how good you are. Farm if you want the rank; practice if you want the skill. Most people quietly do both.

The one genuine taboo is choking etiquette in multiplayer farm lobbies and, more seriously, anything that crosses into cheating — timewarp, relax, or assist tools turn a farm into a ban. Honest farming with your own hands is fine. Tools like grumd’s osu-pps and osu!FM exist specifically to surface the most farmable maps for your rank, and the community treats them as standard kit.

Farm maps by rank bracket (2026)

The table below collects maps that have been reliable farm staples, grouped roughly by the rank range that benefits most. Star ratings are for the top difficulty without mods and move whenever the difficulty calculator is reworked — verify the live number in-game.

For 6-digit to high-5-digit players

Stay in the 4.5–5.5★ range and lean on mod multipliers rather than raw difficulty. Remote Control with HDHR, or any mid-tier aim map you can FC cleanly with DT, beats grinding a 6★ map you miss on constantly. The goal is consistency: a B-grade pass with chokes pays far less than a clean S, so pick a map a full half-star below your fail ceiling.

For 4-digit players

This is where the named farm maps shine. Genryuu Kaiko and Sidetracked Day are the bread and butter — one for aim, one for streams — and adding HD for the flat reading bonus is nearly free pp once you can read it. Harumachi Clover and similar modern aim sets reward players who have built genuine jump consistency.

For 3-digit players and above

At the top, farm and skill converge: Blue Zenith, FREEDOM DiVE, and the LeaF tech catalogue are simultaneously the hardest maps and the biggest pp payouts. There are no shortcuts left — the farm is just doing the hardest maps cleanly, often with DT layered on top.

How to find current farm maps yourself

Because the meta moves with every pp rework, the most reliable approach is to use a live farm tracker. grumd’s osu-pps and osu!FM both rank maps by how much pp they hand out relative to their difficulty, filtered to your rank and preferred mods. Feed in your current top-play pp, filter to maps a little above your floor, and sort by farmability. Combine that with your own honest sense of which patterns you FC consistently, and you will out-climb anyone blindly grinding the most famous names on this page.