diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/UsersController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/UsersController.php
index f3f1156d9b7..06ebfb69eab 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/UsersController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/UsersController.php
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ public function extraPages($_id, $page)
                     'monthly_playcounts' => json_collection($this->user->monthlyPlaycounts, new UserMonthlyPlaycountTransformer()),
                     'recent' => $this->getExtraSection(
                         'scoresRecent',
-                        $this->user->scores($this->mode, true)->includeFails(false)->count()
+                        $this->user->recentScoreCount($this->mode)
                     ),
                     'replays_watched_counts' => json_collection($this->user->replaysWatchedCounts, new UserReplaysWatchedCountTransformer()),
                 ];
@@ -816,9 +816,12 @@ private function getExtra($page, array $options, int $perPage = 10, int $offset
             case 'scoresRecent':
                 $transformer = new ScoreTransformer();
                 $includes = ScoreTransformer::USER_PROFILE_INCLUDES;
-                $query = $this->user->scores($this->mode, true)
+                $query = $this->user->soloScores()
+                    ->default()
+                    ->forRuleset($this->mode)
                     ->includeFails($options['includeFails'] ?? false)
-                    ->with([...ScoreTransformer::USER_PROFILE_INCLUDES_PRELOAD, 'best']);
+                    ->reorderBy('id', 'desc')
+                    ->with(ScoreTransformer::USER_PROFILE_INCLUDES_PRELOAD);
                 $userRelationColumn = 'user';
                 break;
         }
diff --git a/app/Models/Solo/Score.php b/app/Models/Solo/Score.php
index 2be4ed1074f..9a688db4c15 100644
--- a/app/Models/Solo/Score.php
+++ b/app/Models/Solo/Score.php
@@ -106,6 +106,18 @@ public function scopeDefault(Builder $query): Builder
         return $query->whereHas('beatmap');
     }
 
+    public function scopeForRuleset(Builder $query, string $ruleset): Builder
+    {
+        return $query->where('ruleset_id', Beatmap::MODES[$ruleset]);
+    }
+
+    public function scopeIncludeFails(Builder $query, bool $includeFails): Builder
+    {
+        return $includeFails
+            ? $query
+            : $query->where('data->passed', true);
+    }
+
     /**
      * This should match the one used in osu-elastic-indexer.
      */
diff --git a/app/Models/User.php b/app/Models/User.php
index 91753b37777..afe9a3185c5 100644
--- a/app/Models/User.php
+++ b/app/Models/User.php
@@ -916,6 +916,7 @@ public function getAttribute($key)
             'scoresMania',
             'scoresOsu',
             'scoresTaiko',
+            'soloScores',
             'statisticsFruits',
             'statisticsMania',
             'statisticsOsu',
@@ -1427,6 +1428,11 @@ public function scoresBest(string $mode, bool $returnQuery = false)
         return $returnQuery ? $this->$relation() : $this->$relation;
     }
 
+    public function soloScores(): HasMany
+    {
+        return $this->hasMany(Solo\Score::class);
+    }
+
     public function topicWatches()
     {
         return $this->hasMany(TopicWatch::class);
@@ -1776,6 +1782,18 @@ public function authHash(): string
         return hash('sha256', $this->user_email).':'.hash('sha256', $this->user_password);
     }
 
+    public function recentScoreCount(string $ruleset): int
+    {
+        return $this->soloScores()
+            ->default()
+            ->forRuleset($ruleset)
+            ->includeFails(false)
+            ->select('id')
+            ->limit(100)
+            ->get()
+            ->count();
+    }
+
     public function resetSessions(?string $excludedSessionId = null): void
     {
         SessionStore::destroy($this->getKey(), $excludedSessionId);
diff --git a/app/Transformers/UserCompactTransformer.php b/app/Transformers/UserCompactTransformer.php
index f1f3603d0ba..56d91c3cede 100644
--- a/app/Transformers/UserCompactTransformer.php
+++ b/app/Transformers/UserCompactTransformer.php
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ public function includeScoresPinnedCount(User $user)
 
     public function includeScoresRecentCount(User $user)
     {
-        return $this->primitive($user->scores($this->mode, true)->includeFails(false)->count());
+        return $this->primitive($user->recentScoreCount($this->mode));
     }
 
     public function includeStatistics(User $user)