How To Play Geometry Dash Hardest Level

[Yoana Terrano]

The Geometry Dash Demonlist is a website that lists 150 Demon levels in Geometry Dash in order of difficulty standing based on player opinions. The official list was originally a topic on gdforum, historically a community hub for the game; it later moved to the independent pointercrate.com website and has been receiving updates since April 2015. Currently, the list classifies Tidal Wave as the hardest Demon level in the game.

The 150 levels are divided into two lists: the Main List, consisting of the 75 most difficult Demons and player percentage records on each, and the Extended List, consisting of the next 75 most difficult Demons and exclusively player completion records on each. The list has a leaderboard system titled the Stats Viewer, where each player who beats a level on the Main/Extended List will be awarded Demonlist points, and the player's rank on the Stats Viewer is determined by how many points they have. Currently, the Individual Stats Viewer classifies Trick as the player with the most Demonlist points, and the Nation Stats Viewer classifies the United States as the country with the most Demonlist points, sitting at the maximum possible amount of 10000.

The Demonlist is considered one of the most influential creations in Geometry Dash history,[1] establishing a competitive scene in the game and having widespread effects on level creation, completions and content creation, for which it has also experienced significant criticism.

The Demonlist displays all 150 most difficult Demon levels. Each section leads to the page for the respective level; these are not permanent links to the specific levels, but to the ranking on the list. On a level page, the level's name, publisher, and verifier are listed at the top, followed by the video of the level's verification. Under the video, the Demonlist score awarded for completing the level and for reaching the minimum record percentage are listed. The next section, Position History, lists historical placements for the level as well as the reason for changes (e.g. the placement of new levels or shifting of existing levels). The last section, Records, describes the threshold of progress for record qualification (e.g. 55% or above for Tidal Wave), the number of records and completions, then a list of records including the holder, their nationality, the progress, and video proof of their record.

The Demonlist was initially prototyped by loogiah as "Impossible and Very hard Demons Records!" on gdforum.[2] loogiah's inactivity led to several successors[3] before the creation of the "NEW Extreme and Insane Demons Records List" the verification of Bloodbath by Riot in collaboration with the player R4Z0R following the former's verification of Bloodbath; this list became the first iteration of the modern Demonlist.

The community's eventual shift to higher refresh rate monitors and the usage of tools such as the FPS bypass allowed players to complete levels that had not been finished before due to the limitations of lower refresh rates.

The Main List and the Extended List include subjectively ranked Demon levels, added as a result of the average sentiment of the players given the time that had to be put into the levels and the skill required to complete them in normal mode. As a method of management, the lists are split into two, each containing 75 Demons. The Legacy List contains Demons that occupied the list but were pushed off as new levels were annexed. The Legacy List does not follow any order and receives updates when new Demons are moved down.

The Demonlist is led by a handful of people known as list editors and helpers. They have a public Discord server in which people can get involved in evaluations of the list via polls that they occasionally post as announcements.

One of the most widespread criticisms of the Demonlist is a perceived oversaturation of ranked levels.[5] Between Updates 2.1 and 2.2, nearly 500 new levels were placed on the Demonlist at an increasing rate per year; around 100 of these levels after 2020 placed approximately in between Zodiac and Plasma Pulse Finale, respectively #1 and #12 at the time. Numerous Demons are accused of being created with the primary intent of receiving placement on the Demonlist, including Avernus.[6]

Toward the end of Update 2.1, players began to note the ever-escalating difficulty of the Demonlist; Main List level difficulty officially began to exceed that of popular formerly impossible levels, starting with the placement of Silent Club at #15. With prohibitively difficult gameplay elements such as frame-perfects and extreme straight-flying becoming more prevalent in List levels, players began to question the accessibility of the Demonlist. As of the start of Update 2.2, all of the top 4 Demons (Avernus, Acheron, Silent clubstep and Abyss of Darkness) have received significant criticism from victors for their lack of enjoyment.[7][8][9][10]

A vote occurs among victors of new candidates as to where they should place the level to democratise the placement of levels on the Demonlist. This process has received criticism for its slowness and potential bias.[4] Notably, this process has led to such situations as when Silent clubstep, a former impossible level and fan-favourite contender for #1, was swapped with Slaughterhouse, the #1 at Silent clubstep's release, only after both had been surpassed by Acheron.[11]

The invention of the FPS bypass to decrease input lag led to a significant controversy spanning 3 years in which players debated whether the tool should be considered illegitimate. The Demonlist's guideline against FPS bypass was finally lifted on 25 November 2020.

Riot is a very popular and an extremely skilled American player in Geometry Dash, known for beating several difficult levels such as Ice Carbon Diablo X,[1] Crimson Clutter,[2] and Cataclysm.[3] However, he isn't much of a creator and doesn't have many rated levels. His most famous achievement to date is his verification of the legendary Extreme Demon mega-collaboration, Bloodbath.[4]

Riot started playing Geometry Dash on April 28, 2014, during Update 1.6, when he first uploaded a video of himself beating Ystep by Darnoc, one of the oldest Easy Demons.[5] He then uploaded videos of himself beating the original 1-10 levels by the next day as well as Clutterfunk v2 by Neptune, rated a Medium Demon today.[6] As you can see, he started off small, mainly beating Easy Demons at that time.

On May 21, 2014, when Update 1.7 came out, Riot beat Electrodynamix, which is somewhat important in his history due to his main icon being the Electrodynamix icon.[8] Four days later, he reached 100 subscribers, a small but significant milestone for his Geometry Dash career. However, he did not make many significant achievements over the next five months, mainly beating Easy Demons and uploading them to YouTube.

On October 14, 2014, Riot beat Doomsday II by Neptune on mobile, one of the most significant achievements done on mobile.[9] Even though Riot became a legend on the PC, this was still a significant achievement especially seeing as it was done on a phone.

On December 21, 2014, when Update 1.9 was released, Riot beat his last Demon on mobile - Speed Racer.[10] Afterward, Riot switched to the Steam version of Geometry Dash, where he would begin the main part of his Geometry Dash career.

On December 28, Riot beat his hardest Demon at this point - Deadly Clubstep by Neptune. It took him around 17,000 attempts.[12] Whereas Andromeda and other players beat it much more quickly and in fewer attempts, this was a very impressive achievement at that time, significantly increasing Riot's fame.

On May 14, 2015, Riot beat Astronaut 13 by Minesap, the first Nine Circles level he ever beat. At that time, he also promised that he would beat all rated Circles levels.[14] Even though people thought it was a hollow promise at that time, Riot surprised everyone even more by beating three very difficult demons in four days, starting off with Cataclysm, which he beat on May 20th after under 33,000 attempts.[3] He was the third person to beat it after Sandstorm[15] and Giron,[16] who all beat it on the same day. On May 21, Riot beat Necropolis by Neptune after 20,690 attempts - another great achievement.[17] On May 23, Riot beat Ice Carbon Diablo X by Roadbose, thus becoming the first person to legitimately complete it on stream.[1]

Following this achievement, Riot was receiving more and more popularity as one of the best Geometry Dash players. On May 31, 2015, Riot released a preview of an upcoming mega-collaboration, which we now know as Bloodbath. A week later, Riot released a second preview, showing the intense straight fly gameplay.[18][19] Riot promised to release this before Update 2.0, but in the meantime, Riot started beating more Hard Demons and continued to make his progress on the Nine Circles Levels.

On June 8, 2015, Riot beat Stalemate by Nox, a 1.9 Insane Demon featuring very difficult timings and memorization.[20] He then later beat Fire Temple[21] and Shadow Temple,[22] two of the first installments in the Temple series by Michigun. On June 14th, Riot beat Windy Landscape by Woogi1411, a challenging 1.9 Insane Demon as well as one of the most famous demons of all time.[23]

Shortly after beating Windy Landscape,[23] Riot started making progress on the Nine Circles levels, firstly beating Figures[24] and then Poltergeist - a very difficult Nine Circles level by Andromeda that was one of the hardest Nine Circles level at that time.[25]

Riot then later beat Supersonic,[26] Fairydust,[27] Nine Circles,[28] and other easy Nine Circles Levels as well as more difficult ones. However, when he took a break from the Nine Circles levels in June 2015, he focused his attention on Bloodbath. On June 25th, 2015, Riot got a record of 48% on Bloodbath - an excellent run considering he only recently started practicing.[29] On July 6th, 2015, Riot released a cinematic preview of Bloodbath and achieved a new best of 58% seven days later.[30] Riot continued to progress, getting a record of 65% on August 3.[31] Afterward, on August 6th, he fluked from 65% to 90% (citation needed). On August 8, he got a record of 94%, his biggest Bloodbath fail ever.[32] However, four days later, on August 12, Riot finally verified Bloodbath - the hardest 1.9 Demon of all time.[4]

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