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
| 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 |
Demonlist
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.
- This is currently the hardest nine circles level on the Demonlist.
- Defeated Circles was rated on June 12th 2025.
- Defeated Circles has over 100 frame perfects in its 1 minute long length.