Defeated Circles

Defeated Circles is an Extreme Demon level, created by Galaxium, [MHC] Slijee⁩, muriday, GDFluxit, pootys, [ABA] SlendStone, GXQ, notcyanide, lupodzn, verified by Zoink, and published by GXQ.

This level was verified by Zoink on May 30, 2025, taking ~9000 attempts over 5-6 days.

Walkthrough

Template:Stub/Section0-16% - A short cube part with a brief difficult memory section, and some speed changes throughout.

17%-23% - A difficult ship part with gravity changes and difficult slope timings.

23%-27% - A short auto cube section and some orb timings.

27%-30% - A half speed mini cube with several frame perfect 2 spike jumps.

31%-41% - The first drop with a fast wave and size changes.

42%-44% - Several more difficult mini cube 2 spike jumps.

45%-54% - Another fast wave and size and gravity changes .

55%-59% - Several triple spike jumps back to back.

59%-70% - Several switches between cube, ship and ball parts with many gravity changes.

70%-73% - Several mini cube jumps.

74%-84% - A very fast dual wave part with many size and gravity changes, preceding a 2 1/2 block mini wave spam.

84%-88% - Several ball timings before a final cube jump.

89%-100% - Level ends with artwork.

Difficulty and rating

• Extreme Demon rating: Defeated Circles is officially classified as an Extreme Demon, indicating it is one of the most difficult levels in the game.
• Demonlist placement: The level's placement on the official Geometry Dash Demonlist has been a topic of discussion among the community.
  • Initial speculation: Upon verification, the level was speculated to be a top 50, or even top 25, level on the list.
  • Final placement: It was officially placed on the Demonlist at position #17.
• Frame-perfect inputs: A large part of the level's notoriety comes from its high number of frame-perfect inputs. One analysis found over 100 such inputs within just 60 seconds of gameplay, making it comparable to other notoriously difficult levels in the game.

First 10 Victors

First 10 victors

Victor #	Player	Date Completed	Total Attempts	Furthest Fail	Video
Verifier	Zoink	30 May 2025	~9,000	87%	Youtube
1	Tazik	28 September 2025	~75,000	?	Youtube
2	Moliklee	24 October 2025	~29,000	75%	Youtube
3	Netermind	31 October 2025	?	?	Youtube
4	zThund3r	10 November 2025	?	?	Youtube
5	SerVax	18 November 2025	~15,000	88%	Youtube
6	ROZE	19 November 2025	~21,000	?	Youtube

Trivia

• Defeated Circles was created as a successor to the legendary Nine Circles series of levels. These levels are characterized by their hypnotic, colorful, and wave-heavy gameplay.
  • This is currently the hardest nine circles level on the Demonlist.
    • If Subsuming Vortex is placed above this on the Demonlist, It will be the hardest Nine circles level on the Demonlist.
    • Unnerfed Sakupen circles is the hardest Nine circles level not on the Demonlist.
• Defeated Circles was rated on June 12th 2025.
• Defeated Circles has over 100 frame perfects in its 1 minute long length.