Cyclic
Template:Hatnote Template:Infobox Player Cyclic is a popular and skilled South Korean player, level creator and former hacker in Geometry Dash. Considered the best player of his time alongside Riot, he is most known for creating the infamous Extreme Demon level Sonic Wave, which became the hardest level in the game, alongside his completion of many of the hardest Demon levels, including Cataclysm, ICE Carbon Diablo X, Poltergeist, Necropolis, Acropolis, UltraSonic and The Ultimate Phase. He is also the verifier of Galatic Fragility and A Bizarre Phantasm.
History
Cyclic started his YouTube account in 2012 but only started to upload Geometry Dash content in 2014. He uploaded basic Geometry Dash completions and made a video on the GW YouTube account where he beat Super Cycles. During the start of 2015, Cyclic began improving as a player and progressing on some extremely difficult levels.
Before his name was Cyclic, he was a sparsely posting user under several names, such as GW Frozen. He was an avid star-grinder and posted pictures of him in the Top 100, along with others like saRy, who also documented his star rating due to how close they were on the rankings. It did not take long for Cyclic to begin dominating the scene, starting in April 2015.
On 19 April 2015, he posted his first screenshot of Cataclysm, reaching 50%, seen as ground-breaking at the time. He began to progress further, but along the way, he started grinding a few Demons, including Windy Landscape and Blue Marine, still seen as insane achievements at the time. On 28 April, he finally beat Cataclysm after over 15,000 attempts, becoming the first victor of the level. That same day, he achieved 69% on Necropolis, one of the hardest Demons at the time. He took little time to complete it, and on 10 May 2015, he completed Necropolis in almost 4,000 attempts.
Even more surprisingly, he quickly took on The Ultimate Phase and beat it in five days, taking almost 5,000 to do so on 15 May. Four days after, he completed DeCode, Breakthrough, Dr Raszagal Phoenix, and Alphabet X, all of which were considered as Hard-Insane Demons at the time.
Before May 2015, Cyclic uploaded a QnA to his YouTube channel, and one notable question he answered was, 'What's your hardest demon?' A seemingly obvious question to many, Cataclysm, of course. However, he had responded with 'The Hell Zone.' No one remembered this level as it only existed during 1.4 and 1.5, shadowing many of the newer mobile and PC players' introductions to the game. This level would eventually be remade in February 2016.
On 21 May 2015, he beat Swing Squad and The Shredder, two notably difficult Demons at the time. Starting on 23 May 2015, he began to grind ICE Carbon Diablo X, reaching 66%. When Riot beat it, Cyclic wrote in a forum post that he was happy he completed it, showing even in the rivalry that both were friendly.
Two days later, on 25 May 2015, he beat ICE Carbon Diablo X, taking over 7,000 attempts. He was the third to complete it, behind Riot and Andromeda (at the time was still considered legitimate). Before Sonic Wave appeared, Cyclic kept grinding Demons, including UltraSonic and worked on verifying his collaboration level Demon Fortress from 31 May to 19 June.
On 20 June 2015, Cyclic began to progress in beating Sonic Wave (light blue). He got to 30% and, on the next day, posted a forum post showing he had verified the level and showed the comments page. The verification video was reportedly lost after Cyclic posted a cut video and said in the description that it was cut. The verification was later proven to be hacked. He did not stop with Sonic Wave, but before that, he completed a few more Demons, including Death Moon and verifying his level Lunar Intoxication.
Cyclic then held a poll determining the new update's colours for Sonic Wave, with dark blue winning the majority. Cyclic now had a new level to tackle and progress on 16 July 2015, reaching 31%. It did not take long for him to make quick progress, and eventually beat it on 20 July 2015, marking the level as the hardest Demon at the time, taking the throne away from Bloodbath pre-verification.
Cyclic began receiving hate comments thrown at both his video and level due to the rampant hacking suspicion during the latter half of July and August. After grinding more levels, Sonic Wave was inexplicably changed to a Back on Track remake (commonly known as Cyclic on Track) and deleted every unrated level. Due to the sudden change, Sonic Wave was promptly unrated, and Cyclic deleted it shortly after the second week of August.
While Sonic Wave was gone, he still played the game, verifying Galatic Fragility for TeamSmokeWeed. However, his playtime would cut short after he quit in early September 2015, putting out a final video and closing his YouTube account.
He would not resurface until 16 November 2015, when Water posted a video about him returning and many others praising Cyclic for returning.[1] He began to play for a good bit until he posted on his community page stating he had to quit for studies, which did not last long. He still played Demons in the final days of December 2015, and in January 2016, he fully returned into high gear, verifying A Bizarre Phantasm on 19 January 2016. He then rebeat Cataclysm for the new update on 24 January 2016.
Cyclic started to grind Demons once again, notably beating Fake A Doom, Sparklic Ocean and getting 98% on Night Terrors.
On 23 February 2016, Cyclic began to preview The Hell Zone, a remake of the ill-fated 1.2 level of the same name by Sohn0924. He made fast progress and 'verified' it on 25 February 2016.[2] However, many people noticed cuts in the video after slowing down the footage at certain parts.
On 5 March 2016, he confessed to hacking The Hell Zone and Sonic Wave with this message:[3]
“quote~ originator
The day afterwards, Riot posted a Skype chat image between him and Cyclic. Cyclic said he hacked or cut every video/level on his YouTube channel, and that all of his streams were pre-recorded. After the confession, he deleted his YouTube, Skype, Twitch and renamed his Geometry Dash account to a string of random letters. His confession may have been a lie, as there were no signs of illegitimacy in his completions, with the exception of Sonic Wave and The Hell Zone. Riot thinks he lied about hacking everything in order to leave the community after feeling guilty about hacking the two levels.[4] Cyclic said he would get a new computer and start streaming when he returns.
In July 2016, Cyrillic, Wabbit and Aquatias gave his original name back requested by Cyclic.
On 16 July 2016, Cyclic remade his YouTube channel.
As of January 2017, Cyclic officially returned with a 144Hz monitor and started streaming on Twitch. He had gotten Sonic Wave Infinity from Riot, who had quit around this time. He ended up dropping it. The verification went through several verifiers before Xanii finally verified the level on May 30, 2021.
But once again, Cyclic quit Geometry Dash with a comment left on his last Geometry Dash video titled 'beating Aqueous by WOOGI1411 on stream.' In the comment, he stated his reasoning for quitting Geometry Dash again (written mostly in Korean, this is his English translation):
“quote~ originator
As of 5 November 2020, Cyclic has again returned to the game, even streaming himself playing Bloodbath and posting completions of levels like Free Stars by Sminx and Wily by PG1004.
When update 2.2 released on December 19, 2023, Cyclic uploaded his completion of the new main level Dash,[5] as well as a video of him getting all secret coins in The Tower.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
- The rabbit cube icon of that texture pack that was associated with Cyclic was officially added to 2.2 as a reward for beating 500 Demons.
- He used to use the up key to play Geometry Dash on his PC, but it broke after a while, so he swapped to the spacebar instead (he said he did not have a mouse on stream). He said on YouTube that 'spacebars sucks for him.' He has since gotten his hands on a mouse and uses it to play at all times.
- Cyclic tends to put the tag '#RespectWOOGI' in the videos of his levels made by WOOGI1411, who tends to comment the tag '#RespectCyclic' in return.
- Cyclic used to make his video descriptions merely say '.' but no longer does this usually. One time, he put 'qqftt' instead of putting '.'
- Cyclic vs Riot has been a subject of debate for a long time.
- Cyclic was probably the first player to complete Cataclysm and The Ultimate Phase legitimately.
- Due to Cyclic's hacking confession, a lot of people believe Giron was the first person to complete Cataclysm legitimately; however, there were no signs of illegitimacy in Cyclic's completion video.
- He is supposedly the first person to have beaten A Bizarre Phantasm legitimately, followed by GiGas.
- As of 5 March 2016, he has made his levels free levels but suddenly removed them altogether.
- He initially made a part in Yatagarasu, but due to his hacking scandal, he was kicked out and replaced by Manix648, who was then replaced by AbstractDark who won.
- Cyrillic uploaded an early, incomplete version of the level with his part on his account.
- During the time he quit Geometry Dash from March to July 2016, Cyclic had probably played on another account named Kerwan. This instance appears in WOOGI1411's collaboration Gust Dive, where Cyclic's name appears, but in an earlier version, 'Kerwan' appears instead.
- Cyclic has, a few times, ranked first on the global leaderboards in 2015, usually swapping the Top 5 with earlier players. They include LunarSimg (who quit in early 2.0 but returned since), 3xotiC (possibly a hacker), zNymo98 (who is still somewhat active but has lost his stats in 2.0 and is now only playing for fun) and saRy (a well known, extremely skilled and somewhat mysterious player and creator of the notorious Red World; saRy had suddenly left in very early 2.0; however, he made an account proving that he tried Update 2.0, and there is some evidence suggesting that he had also hacked).
- Following Riot's retirement from Geometry Dash, Cyclic was given the task of verifying Sonic Wave Infinity, a buffed version of the original Sonic Wave with new decorations by Viprin. He dropped the verification. The project was then transferred to APTeam for a complete overhaul, and it went through several verifiers before it was finally verified by Xanii on May 30, 2021.
- Cyclic had two old accounts named Egoist and MashiMario. These accounts are now owned by Wabbit and Aquatias.
- He has participated in Doggie December 2024 beating all RobTop levels with deathlink.
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