I was just wondering if other characters that use multi color blocks actually have an edge over mono characters? Can you reach the same numbers using a mono character as you would otherwise?
 
I mean, even if I don't hit grays, have a clean finish and other bonuses I still can't top other players most of the time. I can't even come close to them, in fact. Now, I did manage to get a huge score on one song, but I can't help but feel that no matter what I do I improve my scores. Is that a limitation of the mono style or are other players simply cheating?

Mono's easy mode, so of course you'd get less points. But hell, that's all I play on Audiosurf anyways.

As Devoid said, Mono is easy mode, so it's not as complex, and there are different leader boards for each difficulty. Also, some people are either really good, or cheating. I saw some blatant examples of the later during the Portal 2 ARG thing.

I only play Ninja Mono Ironmode (I think that's what it's called). I just don't have fun with the others. It separates the modes on the leaderboard though, doesn't it? The scores aren't really supposed to parallel each other; you're just supposed to beat scores from the same mode. The other modes allow stacking for combos and let you time it for more "hot" blocks for more points. There's technically a solution for a mono track that would net a the highest score on its leaderboard, but you'd have to know which blocks to skip. I rather enjoy the music than play it like a puzzle game. 

@valrog: Oh yeah, sorry, haven't played it in a while. While they aren't separated with their own leader board, they do have little icons next to the score. And yeah, Mono is at a bit of a disadvantage, now that I think about it, but I suppose that's offset by how difficult the others are to master.

Saw this on the Audiosurf forums:  

If you open the "online stats" scoreboard for a song and click on a Mono character, you'll only see Mono scores.

@valrog: Yeah elite mono is hard, but the other elite modes are even more difficult. When I'm playing the game I'd like to be rewarded for engaging in somethings that's much more complex, it'd be silly if my time spent trying to set up a great combo was beaten by someone just nabbing every block that wasn't grey.