FAQ — PP, rating and duels
Everything that usually raises questions in one place: how PP is awarded, what a rating run and ladders are, how the modes differ, and how duels work.
What is PP?
PP (performance points) are mastery points earned in a rating run. The idea is the same as in osu!: the harder the conditions and the more accurate and faster your answer, the more PP you get per track.
The core rule is simple:
Get it right — earn PP. Get it wrong — 0 PP. There is no penalty for a miss.
PP is awarded only in rating mode (the “Rating” toggle on the mode-select screen, available after you sign in). Regular play without rating does not affect PP or the leaderboard — feel free to practice.
How PP is scored per track
For every track you guess, points are computed as:
PP = base × video × type × speed × accuracy × name
Where:
- Base depends on the track’s recognizability. The rarer it is guessed by players, the higher the base. A popular hit gives few points; a niche opening gives many.
- The rest are multipliers you choose with your run settings (and they’re shown right on the buttons when rating is on).
Multipliers
| Multiplier | Values |
|---|---|
| Video mode | blurred ×0.7 · banner ×1.0 · clear ×0.5 |
| Track type | openings ×1.0 · endings ×1.3 · both ×1.2 |
| Answer speed | from ×1.0 (slow) up to ×1.5 (≤5 seconds) |
| Exact title | ×1.1 if you pick the exactly correct title |
| Character name | ×1.2 in character mode when guessing the name (not the anime) |
Speed scales smoothly: an answer in 5 seconds or faster is the max ×1.5, 25 seconds or slower is ×1.0, linear in between.
Exact title (×1.1) rewards matching the title exactly, rather than approximately or by franchise.
Example
A niche ending (high base), blurred video, answered in 4 seconds, exact hit:
≈170 (base) × 0.7 (blurred) × 1.3 (ending) × 1.5 (fast) × 1.1 (exact) ≈ 255 PP
The same track with clear video and a slow answer scores several times less — which is why “hard” settings are worth more points.
All multipliers are locked on the server at the moment the run starts. The client only sends the answer and the timing — you can’t inflate PP by switching to easy settings on a hard track.
What a rating run and ladders are
A rating run is 20 tracks in a row in “Rating” mode. The sum of PP over those 20 tracks is your run result.
Your rating on the leaderboard is your best completed run (like a personal record). A weak run never lowers your rating: only your strongest result counts.
There are three separate ladders:
- 🎬 Anime — guess the title from the music.
- 🎤 Artist — guess the performer.
- 😀 Character — guess from an image.
Each has its own leaderboard.
Game modes
- Anime — an opening or ending plays; guess which anime it’s from.
- Artist — same music, but you guess the performer/band.
- Character — a character image is shown; you can guess either the anime or the character’s name (the name is harder and gives ×1.2).
Difficulty and video mode
Difficulty picks the track pool by recognizability:
- Easy — popular hits almost everyone knows.
- Medium — the sweet spot.
- Hard — niche tracks.
- Any — a mixed pool across all tiers.
The harder the track, the higher its base PP.
Video mode changes how much of the image is visible and affects the multiplier:
- Blurred (×0.7) — the image is blurred, harder to recognize.
- Banner (×1.0) — an anime banner.
- Clear (×0.5) — fully visible, the easiest, so fewer points.
In character mode only blurred and clear are available (there is no banner for a character).
How duels work (Versus)
A duel is a live game against other people in one room.
- A room holds 2–8 players, joined by an invite code.
- You play in sync: everyone hears the same track, and whoever answers correctly faster scores more.
Round points use a Kahoot-style model — correctness × speed:
points = 1000 × (1 − (answer_time / 30s) / 2)
- An instant correct answer — about 1000 points.
- An answer right at the deadline (30 seconds) — 500 points.
- A wrong answer — 0.
Answer time is measured by the server (from the round start), so speed is fair — we don’t trust client timings.
The winner is whoever has the most points across all rounds. You can reconnect if your connection drops.
Duels are a separate kind of fun: they do not affect your PP rating. PP is only earned in rating runs.
Quick answers
- Is PP scored in regular play? No, only in “Rating” mode and only when signed in.
- Does a miss subtract points? No. A missed track is simply 0 PP for that track.
- Will a bad run hurt my rating? No. The leaderboard counts your best run.
- Why do tracks score differently? The base depends on a track’s recognizability: rarer ones give more, hits give less.
- Do duels affect the rating? No, it’s a separate mode.
- Can PP be cheated? No — all multipliers and timing are computed by the server.