Best osu! skins
"Best" here means most actually used. o!rdr renders replay videos, and it publishes how many times each skin was picked to render one — 3,443,354 renders across 450 skins. That is a choice made by a player, for their own replay, with nothing to do with this site. Every other best-of in this niche is either somebody's shortlist or a view counter measuring the catalogue rather than the skins.
Below is the top 30. The full ordering is on the rankings page, and any of these can be played side by side instead of guessed at from a screenshot.
| # | Skin | Creator | Renders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danser default skin HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · 4 modes · play it | Haskorion | 633,789 18.4% |
| 2 | Aristia HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · 4 modes · play it | [Garin] + Aristia + Various | 269,440 7.8% |
| 3 | Rafis HDDT 2018-03-26 HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | DDK RPK | 249,115 7.2% |
| 4 | Vaxei HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | cyperdark | 187,076 5.4% |
| 5 | WhiteCat HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | cyperdark | 170,589 5.0% |
| 6 | FREEDOM DiVE HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | BTMC / JesusOmega / MyniMyxii / Tofumang / Kazu | 114,268 3.3% |
| 7 | a t m o s p h e r e HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | atturbo555 | 108,074 3.1% |
| 8 | WhiteCat 2.1 old HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | cyperdark | 98,962 2.9% |
| 9 | MonkoEdit HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · 2 modes · play it | Monko2k/Rektygon | 88,833 2.6% |
| 10 | WhiteCat HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | cyperdark | 88,291 2.6% |
| 11 | Vaxei HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | cyperdark | 73,210 2.1% |
| 12 | Aetrna aug. 2020 fir3ba7 HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · 2 modes · play it | Coralruler | 58,076 1.7% |
| 13 | boop HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | ryuk | 47,816 1.4% |
| 14 | re;owotuna v1.1 Selyu HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | Mekami & cyperdark | 38,103 1.1% |
| 15 | YUGEN archive not inspectable | Garin | 36,794 1.1% |
| 16 | 105°C Chocolate HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · 4 modes · play it | TKieen | 32,586 0.9% |
| 17 | Seoul v10 HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | Seouless | 31,961 0.9% |
| 18 | aetrnaaberatteFujiwara v3 HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · 2 modes · play it | Various Artists | 28,842 0.8% |
| 19 | Azerite 1.2 HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | mixed | 25,528 0.7% |
| 20 | FlyingTuna 2018-02-15 Selyu v2.2 HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · 2 modes · play it | Selyu (I stole all these elements + Cursors) | 23,489 0.7% |
| 21 | Boop 2.0 HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | okami, CK, Shikima | 22,034 0.6% |
| 22 | tekkito custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | tekkito | 20,338 0.6% |
| 23 | WhiteCat 2.1 DT HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | cyperdark | 18,408 0.5% |
| 24 | Varvalian HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | delisha | 17,990 0.5% |
| 25 | Rafis HDDT 2020 ft HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · 4 modes · play it | R/K | 17,629 0.5% |
| 26 | Black and White HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | u/Zack12301230 | 14,422 0.4% |
| 27 | BlooXoo HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | -Sc4rYSaiyajin- | 14,361 0.4% |
| 28 | Shigetora 33 HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · play it | Seouless | 13,173 0.4% |
| 29 | XooMoon Frankie Edit HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · 4 modes · play it | Redo_ | 12,722 0.4% |
| 30 | Adeus HD (@2x) art · custom hitsounds · cursor trail · 4 modes · play it | Xaexor | 12,313 0.4% |
What this list is not
It is not a judgement of quality, and popularity in a game with a fifteen-year history is partly inertia — several of these are a specific top player's skin from a specific year, and they stay used because people copy the player. It also only covers skins o!rdr knows about. Where an archive could not be inspected, the detail line says so rather than guessing.