Intermediate charting

Reference pages are ideal for outlining how things work in terse and clear terms. Less concerned with telling a story or addressing a specific use case, they should give a comprehensive outline of what your documenting.

Further reading

• Read about reference in the Diátaxis framework

Limitations of Each Difficulty Class

Color Swaps

Understanding Drift

Charting Patterns

This section will list some common patterns that adheres to the basic principles of charting. These patterns may be commonly used but it is important to remember that charting is far more than stringing common patterns together and this section will only provide some examples on some ways you could arrange your notes that allows for fluid gameplay that is (mostly) friendly to all playstyles.

Also note that this section will cover mostly tap, match, beat and spin patterns. Slider shapes will be covered in a later chapter.

Triangle	Inverted Triangle	Moving Taps
Triangle	Inverted triangle	Moving taps

Lane Swap	Same Lane Color Swap	Same Lane Tap Swap
Lane swap	Same Lane Color Swap	Same Lane Tap Swap

Jacks	Ice-cream Sandwich	Double Match
Taps or beats in rapid succession	Hard beathold with a tap in between	Two matches with the same timing and color on different lanes. Note that your wheel only need to align with one of the matches to hit both. Same principle applies with more matches

Zick	Rifle	Chord
Zick	Rifle	Chord

Beat-taps	Tap-beats	1-5-1-5
Beat taps	Tap beats	1-5-1-5

Staircase	Same Direction Spins	Alternating Spins
T1-M5 pattern with a color swap after each match note	A.K.A. Neppy Spins	A.K.A. Snepped Spins (if done in rapid succession)

Opposite Lane Color Swap	Telegraphed Backspin	Conrad
Uncommon in custom charting but has seen extensive use in base game.	A.K.A. Darnoc. Plays like a backspin but is telegraphed normally.	Opposite of the Darnoc, it plays like a normal spin but is telegraphed like a backspin.

Input Density

Chart Pacing