Demonlist Top 1 Levels

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Demonlist Top 1 Levels are levels that have ranked #1 on the Demonlist. As the Demonlist ranks rated levels by difficulty as determined by the collective opinions of members of the community, the Top 1 level is considered to be the overall hardest level in Geometry Dash.

The position is often speculative and, as a result, variable, as nearly all Top 1 levels see only a handful of victors who can provide insight into their relative difficulty during their placement. The history of Top 1 levels before the introduction of the Demonlist and current legitimacy standards is largely conjecture, and early Top 1 levels were frequently ranked retrospectively or through disjointed community discussion.

The creation and verification of Top 1 levels are documented and closely observed, often spearheading progress in the community, with levels such as Bloodbath and Sonic Wave becoming emblematic of the game as a whole. Others like Cataclysm and Silent Club went on to influence their own genres of levels, hell-themed and Silent, respectively. The community-made Insane and Extreme Demon terms for these levels inspired the addition of the ratings in Update 2.1 altogether. Some levels, including Kenos, Bloodlust, Slaughterhouse, and GRIEF, have received exposure outside of the Geometry Dash community either from players' reactions or their immense difficulty. Levels formerly as a Top 1 continue to be highly popular, alongside ongoing interest in current and upcoming Top 1 levels.

Top 1 levels

Classic levels

This is a list of levels in chronological order considered by the Geometry Dash community as Top 1 based on collective opinions cross-checked with multiple community figures and, later, Demonlist placement.

Given the circumstances, if a level initially placed at the #1 spot is later moved below another former Top 1 level due to players' shifting difficulty opinion, the level is considered to be a pseudo- or false Top 1 level. The reigning duration of the former Top 1 level that was supposedly dethroned in this manner will be retroactively extended, regardless of whether they place Top 1 again. Levels that were never placed at #1 but are eventually deemed harder than their contemporary former Top 1 level (e.g. Silent clubstep against Slaughterhouse and Sonic Wave Infinity against Tartarus) are considered retrospective or 'robbed' Top 1 levels. See section below for more information.

While many of these levels are currently unrated or deleted, some are reverified, rated, and uploaded to the verifier's account. Because the subcategories of Demon ratings were only added in Update 2.1, Top 1 levels that were deleted or unrated before Update 2.1 will be given an estimated Demon difficulty based on difficulty comparisons with still-rated Demons. The current Top 1 level is marked in bold.

Legend

• ¹ The level was reverified and published by a different uploader later on, and possibly rated after.
• ² The level was hack-verified but remained rated due to having a first victor.
• ³ The level was either unrated or deleted, though possibly reuploaded by the original creator or a different player.
• ⁴ The level was either buffed or nerfed at some point in time after being uploaded and taking the #1 spot.
• ⁵ The level was initially placed somewhere below #1, usually at #2 before being moved right to the #1 spot.
• ⁶ The level became a Top 1 level temporarily under a technicality, either due to being deemed harder initially, but being moved down nonetheless, or the former Top 1 level was later moved down. It may not have been reflected on the Demonlist as an actual #1 placement.
• ⁷ The level was unrated or updated before Update 2.1; thus, this difficulty rating is only theoretical.
• ⁸ Because Element 111 Rg was deleted and forever lost in time, the currently uploaded version is the theoretical version that Stormfly and the Restoration Union have created in hopes of restoring the level.

Image	Name	Uploader (verifier)	Upload date	Level ID	Top 1 duration	Info
	GRIEF	icedcave (Doggie)	5 October 2026	149992717	Incumbent (since 5 October 2026)	The official prequel to Slaughterhouse and the first Epic-rated Top 1 since Bloodlust. This is also the Top 1 level that took the longest to verify in both attempt count and elapsed time, taking 436,879 attempts and 2.5 years.
	Society	Neomarbilan (wPopoff)	20 June 2026	127323087	103 days	The official sequel to Escalator. The first Top 1 level to utilise Update 2.2's features.
	Thinking Space II	CairoX (Zoink)	25 May 2025	119544028	278 days	Verified on the same day as Amethyst. Remained unrated for nearly four months.
	Amethyst	Mist (wPopoff)	25 May 2025	119550490	107 days	Gameplay style inspired by The Golden, making it the third Top 1 level with ties to that level.
	Tidal Wave (original)4	OniLink (Zoink)	9 September 2023	86407629	472 days	Longest time for a level to get rated after its verification and initially get placed at the #1 spot. Longest time consecutively as Top 1 (471 days), beating Tartarus's previous record (418 days).
	Avernus4 5	PockeWindfish (Zoink)	22 March 2023	89496627	125 days	The antagonist to The Golden; both Avernus and The Golden are former Top 1 levels that were moved below the prior Top 1 level after some time at the #1 spot. Avernus was temporarily moved below the prior Top 1 level, Acheron, a few months after Tidal Wave was rated, but has since been moved back above.
	Acheron5	ryamu (Zoink)	23 August 2022	73667628	374 days	The second level of Riot's trilogy, following Tartarus and preceding Aeternus; Aeternus has yet to be verified.
	Abyss of Darkness6	Exen (Cursed)	3 April 2022	49896559	45 days	Was moved below Slaughterhouse after about six weeks; modern difficulty opinions, however, state that this level is indeed harder than Slaughterhouse.
	Sakupen Circles6	Diamond	29 December 2021	76962930	71 days	Remake of the 1.9 impossible level of the same name.
	Slaughterhouse2	icedcave (Doggie)	24 October 2021	27690100	226 days	Slaughterhouse was moved to the #1 spot multiple times due to spaceuk's difficulty opinions on other former Top 1 levels that were close to Slaughterhouse, most notably Abyss of Darkness and Acheron. While it was also the reason for Sakupen Circles being moved down from the #1 spot, Slaughterhouse is still considered slightly harder than Sakupen Circles. It was Top 1 on three separate occasions. Currently the latest Top 1 to have been rated after an illegitimate verification.
	Firework5	Trick	29 October 2021	75206202	~18 seconds	Shortest duration as Top 1 on the Demonlist. Due to the exposure of spaceuk's level-completion achievements being illegitimate, Firework was technically the hardest legitimately verified Demon for 51 days before Doggie verified Slaughterhouse on 19 December 2021.
	The Golden6	Bo (nSwish)	17 April 2020	60978746	105 days	One of the levels in the New RGB Trilogy, along with Tartarus and Sonic Wave Infinity.
	Tartarus	Dolphy	6 January 2020	59075347	522 days	Former longest duration as Top 1, as well as one of the levels in the New RGB Trilogy, along with The Golden and Sonic Wave Infinity. It is also the first of the levels in Riot's Trilogy, along with Acheron and Aeternus; Aeternus has yet to be verified. The Golden dethroned Tartarus after a 110-day-long reign, but it returned to the #1 spot a few months later. Its Top 1 duration record was by Tidal Wave.
	Crimson Planet6	TrueOmega (Wooshi)	19 May 2018	45866767	~20 hours	Was not rated until Zodiac had already been placed; was only Top 1 because xander, the then-publisher of Zodiac, updated the level to be a free Demon after confessing to hack-verifying the level before it was reverted a day later.
	Zodiac2 4	Bianox (Technical)	28 January 2019	52374843	339 days	Longest former Top 1 level at a length of 3 minutes and 14 seconds; the only other Top 1 level that exceeds a length of 3 minutes is Tidal Wave.
	Bloodlust	knobbelboy	21 February 2018	42584142	381 days	Former longest duration as Top 1, the record now being held by Tidal Wave. Was also the second Epic-rated Top 1 level.
	Plasma Pulse Finale5	Smokes	29 October 2017	38655495	35 days	The fourth and final level in the Plasma Pulse series, and the only one to be Top 1. Additionally, the final Top 1 level, in which its verifier played a significant role in its creation.
	Stalemate Redux6	GDTheTactiq (Zephal)	9 September 2017	37398911	4 days	Zephal's extremely overrated opinion of the difficulty of this level ended up placing this at the #1 spot initially; modern opinions place it below the entire Old RGB trilogy.
	() Digital Descent (unbuffed)4 6	Viprin (Combined)	11 September 2017	37456092	4 days	One of the Technology Trilogy levels, alongside Artificial Ascent and Cybernetic Crescent; however, Cybernetic Crescent was never a Top 1 level. Modern opinions place this level below the entire Old RGB trilogy, and the pre-buff-date version was even moved below Artificial Ascent. It was also the first level developed during 2.1 to be Top 1, and the first-ever Epic-rated Top 1 level.
	Erebus5 6	BoldStep	19 March 2017	31462941	101 days	One of the Old RGB Trilogy levels, along with Yatagarasu and Sonic Wave. It was moved to the #1 spot on 18 July 2017, but it eventually lost that spot permanently on 9 November. It was Top 1 on three separate occasions.
	Yatagarasu6	TrusTa	13 January 2017	28220417	104 days	One of the Old RGB Trilogy levels, along with Erebus and Sonic Wave.
	Artificial Ascent6	Viprin (Combined)	12 December 2016	27122654	33 days	One of the Technology Trilogy levels, along with Digital Descent and Cybernetic Crescent; Cybernetic Crescent was never Top 1.
	Sonic Wave (current)	Sunix	25 November 2016	26681070	172 days	It was when Sunix legitimately verified Sonic Wave and uploaded it to his account. This version is part of the Old RGB Trilogy, along with Yatagarasu and Erebus; Sonic Wave also beat Yatagarasu's record for the longest-standing level on the Demonlist with 2,508 days, and was the last 1.9/2.0 level to be pushed into the Legacy List of the Demonlist after the placement of Instinct (Krazyman50) on 8 October 2023. It was Top 1 on four separate occasions.
	Athanatos (old)2	Exenity (Sunix)	5 November 2016	75455747	12 days	Originally hack-verified by Aurorus, but Sunix very quickly completed it after being rated, while it was still Top 1.
	Sakupen Hell1	TrusTa	14 August 2016	23262780	4 days	The last solo level to first get to Top 1 before Tidal Wave (Sonic Wave would retake its #1 spot after being verified by Sunix and be the last solo Top 1 level before Tidal Wave); it is also currently the shortest Top 1 level in terms of length, being 50 seconds.
	()7 Phobos (unnerfed)1 3 4	Tygrysek	20 November 2015	13612299 (deleted) 126113675 (reupload)	12 days	Originally hack-verified by Tygrysek, then nerfed down to below Bloodbath difficulty. It was then deleted from the servers before being reverified by KrmaL on 12 May 2016. However, it was considered easier than Bloodbath at the time.
	Bloodbath	Riot	12 August 2015	10565740	443 days	Former longest duration as Top 1, succeeded by its remake, Bloodlust. The second of the Apocalyptic Trilogy levels, succeeding Cataclysm and preceding aftermath. The former longest-standing level on the Demonlist at 1,997 days.
	Fexty1 4	Ozpectro	7 August 2015	25449475	5 days	Shifted to #1 when Sonic Wave was unrated. It was unrated after Bloodbath was rated, but it was eventually rerated on SkyJax's account after he legitimately verified it.
	()7 Sonic Wave (old)1 3	Cyclic	20 July 2015	9704784 (deleted) 19451035 (reupload)	18 days	Considered #1 when Cyclic originally hack-verified Sonic Wave.
	()7 Future demoness (unnerfed)4	MaJackO	7 July 2015	9229228	~1 day	Future demoness was nerfed sometime after two weeks, giving Cataclysm the old top spot back.
	()7 Supreme Lab Factory (buffed)3 4	demonmker	June–July 2015	126113673 (reupload)	~20 days
	()7 Cataclysm (old)2 4 5	Ggb0y (Giron)	3 January 2015	3979721	~41 days	The first of the Apocalyptic Trilogy levels, preceding Bloodbath and aftermath.
	ICE Carbon Diablo X2 5 6	Roadbose	20 May 2014	814678	~46 days	The easiest and the oldest former Top 1 level on the Demonlist, created in Update 1.6.
	() Silent Club1	BlackP2sFull	1 April 2014	462797	205 days	Former impossible level. Inspired the Silent levels trend. Was verified by Luqualizer and rerated on his account in 2021.
	()7 Element 111 Rg3 4 8	DarkX	7 April 2014	498620 (deleted) 61775814 (recreation)	1 day	The level was unrated on 13 April 2014 due to having a secret way. It was subsequently deleted within a month, with no copies having surfaced yet. All copies of the level are currently speculative, as a full copy of the original is yet to be found. The closest verified version available was done by paqoe on 11 April 2024.
	()7 Stereo Demoness (unnerfed)4	MaJackO	22 February 2014	260693	~193 days	It was the original version of Stereo Demoness before it was nerfed to Insane Demon difficulty.
	()7 The Hell origin (original)3	Sohn0924	31 January 2014	29386981 (reupload)	~28 days	One of the levels in Sohn0924's Hell Series; it was when Sohn0924 practice-verified the original layout version of the level. The Hell origin is the only level of the original layout of the Hell series to have been deleted.
	()7 Heaven And Hell1 3	roadjunior	23 January 2014	167264	5 days	Former impossible level. Was unrated due to a secret way.
	()7 The Hell World (original)3	Sohn0924	12 January 2014	149027	15 days	One of the levels in Sohn0924's Hell Series; it was when Sohn0924 practice-verified the original layout version of the level.
	()7 The Hell zone (original)3	Sohn0924	8 January 2014	142942	3 days	One of the levels in Sohn0924's Hell Series; it was when Sohn0924 practice-verified the original layout version of the level.
	Bicycle	Back	26 December 2013	120432	14 days
	()7 demons time machine3	bbddee	24 December 2013	117818	~9 hours	Was unrated due to a secret way.
	demon world	superhexagon	24 November 2013	72540	~7 days	The first Top 1 Demon to be hack-verified.
	FINAL DESTINATION	ZurkQyulox	5 December 2013	91402	~13 days
	Extreme Park	Rabbitical	16 November 2013	56287	16 days
	To the Grave	Darnoc2	19 October 2013	12556	32 days
	demon park	M2CoL	17 October 2013	10109	1 day	Inspired the addition of the Demon rating in Update 1.3.

Prospective entrants denied by lack of star rating

The following levels were recognised as the hardest at the time, but they never received a star rating (a prerequisite for ranking on the Demonlist).

Image	Name	Uploader (verifier)	Verification date	Level ID	Top 1 duration ^	Contemporary Top 1	Info
	Tidal Wave buffed	wPopoff	1 April 2025	116732736	55 days	Tidal Wave	Identical to the rated version, with some slight buffs throughout the level.
	Acheron buffed	Zoink	30 January 2023	88201288	51 days	Acheron	Buffed version of Acheron initially conceived as an update, it was uploaded as a separate level due to the level being update-locked.
	VSC	Bo (Yossarian)	21 September 2021	60805571	194 days	Tartarus, Firework, Slaughterhouse, Sakupen Circles	Although the level is infamously polarising due to its difficulty being hard to compare to other levels, it was undoubtedly the hardest-beaten level for a short amount of time, at least until Slaughterhouse was rated. Remained unrated due to being under 30 seconds. It also held the #1 spot on the Challenge List for over 3.5 years after it was verified.
	Crystal Edge	UFokinWotM8	13 July 2021	64530439	70 days	Tartarus	Sequel to DIAMOND BLADE by icedcave, likely not given a rate due to the lack of proper decoration for the majority of the level.
	Sakupen Realm	MeatiusGaming	18 September 2017	37641709	1 month	Sonic Wave (current)	Likely remained unrated due to the level being generally of poor quality.
	SonicBath	Sunix	12 May 2017	33728111	168 days	Sonic Wave (current)	Red version of Sonic Wave that ends with Crack and ASonicMen's part in Bloodbath. Remained unrated because it was a level mashup.
	Athanasia	ViRuZ	24 November 2016	26647581	1 day	Athanatos (old)	Orange Athanatos-themed level that was verified less than 24 hours before Sunix verified Sonic Wave. It is not currently known why this remained unrated.
	WindFall	YoshiPower	29 April 2016	19378386	2 weeks	Bloodbath	A 2.0 Nine Circles level with many elements that were never seen in rated Top 1 levels. The verifier himself underestimated the level's true difficulty. It was likely not noticed by RobTop at the time.
	Rythem Time Machine	GW Popomon	6 January 2014	139804	2 days	demon world	Level largely reliant on primitive sync gameplay. Likely remained unrated due to having poor decoration.

Notes

^ Based on whichever level comes next according to Restoration Union's History of Hardest Beaten Levels list.

Retrospective entrants denied by circumstances

The following levels had the potential to be ranked as the hardest level at the time; however, they were legitimately verified too late despite consensus of their difficulty, or they were star-rated but disputed (not ranked or ranked lower), and only in retrospect would be recognised as being owed the hardest ranking at the time of being uploaded.

Certain notable levels that achieved Top 1 at some point but could have remained there significantly longer are also included below.

Image	Name	Uploader (verifier)	Upload date	ID	Retrospective Top 1 duration	Contemporary Top 1	Info
	Definite integral	Rabbitical	29 January 2014	180857	4 weeks	Heaven And Hell, The Hell origin (original), Stereo Demoness (unnerfed)	Rated during the era of hacked Top 1 levels.
	Bizarre milestone	pg1004	27 February 2014	284555	1 month 3 weeks	Stereo Demoness (unnerfed), Element 111 Rg, Silent Club	Rated during the era of hacked Top 1 levels.
	pg clubstep	pg1004	8 April 2014	513137	2 weeks	Element 111 Rg, Silent Club	Rated during the era of hacked Top 1 levels.
	XYZ Step Infinity (old)	OrcaSN	22 April 2014	608361	1 month 1 week	Silent Club	Remake of XYZ Step by Coke. Rated during the era of hacked Top 1 levels.
	Primary Maze	Centuple	1 June 2014	928589	3 months 3 weeks	Silent Club	First (retrospective) Top 1 level to surpass 2 minutes in length, at 2 minutes 19 seconds; would remain the longest (retrospective) Top 1 level until Yatagarasu over two years later. Rated during the era of hacked Top 1 levels.
	Deadly ClubStep	Neptune (LunarSimg)	20 September 2014	1299298	4 months 1 week	Silent Club, ICE Carbon Diablo X	Originally hack-verified before being legitimately completed by LunarSimg. Rated during the era of hacked Top 1 levels.
	Stereo Demoness (nerfed)	MaJackO (KeiAs)	8 January 2015	260693	3 weeks 3 days	ICE Carbon Diablo X
	Ice cream	Cyclic (Zobros)	1 February 2015	69936244 (reupload)	2 weeks 5 days	ICE Carbon Diablo X	Originally hack-verified before being legitimately completed by Zobros. Rated during the era of hacked Top 1 levels.
	Acropolis	Zobros	19 February 2015	5155022	3 weeks 2 days	ICE Carbon Diablo X	Rated during the era of hacked Top 1 levels. It is notably the last full-solo (retrospective) Top 1 level (created and verified by the same player).
	Necropolis	Neptune (GMDElite)	14 March 2015	2241592	2 months	ICE Carbon Diablo X, Cataclysm (old)	Originally hack-verified before being legitimately completed by GMDElite on 14 March 2015. Rated during the era of hacked Top 1 levels. It is also the easiest retrospective Top 1 listed on the Demonlist.
	()7 Cataclysm (old)	Ggb0y (Giron)	14 May 2015	3979721	2 months 2 weeks	Supreme Lab Factory (buffed), Future demoness, Sonic Wave (old)	While this level was properly Top 1 for a few months, the timeframe it was Top 1 for changes if basing Top 1 length on legitimate verifications instead.
	The Ultimate Phase (old)	Andromeda (GMDElite)	29 July 2015	7174110	2 weeks	Sonic Wave (old), Fexty	Nowadays considered the first legitimately verified Extreme Demon, as the old version of Cataclysm and ICE Carbon Diablo X are no longer considered Extreme Demon difficulty.
	Phobos (current)	KrmaL	12 May 2016	19759411	5 months 3 weeks	Bloodbath, Sakupen Hell	This is the nerfed version of Phobos, legitimately verified and uploaded by KrmaL; the unnerfed version, hack-verified by Tygrysek, that was unrated was a proper Top 1 level. It was initially placed below the then-Top 1 Bloodbath before both were moved several times after Artificial Ascent was rated, with Phobos ending up above both Bloodbath and Sakupen Hell.
	Betrayal of Fate	weoweoteo	31 May 2016	20329544	2 months 2 weeks	Bloodbath	Was initially placed below the then-Top 1 Bloodbath before later being moved above.
	WcropoliX	BlassCFB	31 July 2016	22183448	3 months 2 weeks	Bloodbath, Sakupen Hell	Infamously remained unrated for nearly nine years and was one of the very first levels to be unanimously considered harder than Bloodbath by the community. Despite supposedly being unrated due to its criticised gameplay, it was unexpectedly rated on 17 June 2025, likely owing to its historical significance.
	The Hell Zone (old)	Stormfly	2 August 2016	22259203	4 months	Bloodbath, Sakupen Hell, Athanatos (old)	This is the currently rated remake hosted and hack-verified by Cyclic and later legitimately verified by Stormfly. Considered harder than Bloodbath, Sakupen Hell, and Athanatos, which were all Top 1 between when this level was verified and when it was rated. By the time this level was rated, Artificial Ascent, Sonic Wave, and Yatagarasu had already been rated and placed above it; this level was also heavily underrated on the Demonlist initially, initially placing even below Bloodbath.
	Sonic Wave (current)	Sunix	25 November 2016	26681070	11 months	Artificial Ascent, Yatagarasu, Erebus, Stalemate Redux, Digital Descent (unbuffed)	While this level was properly Top 1 for a few months, several levels temporarily usurped it, and its difficulty would not be truly surpassed until Plasma Pulse Finale was moved above it in January 2018.
	Death Corridor Z	Sunix	20 October 2017	38403655	4 months	Sonic Wave, Plasma Pulse Finale	An alternate version of Eternaswip's Death Corridor remake. Likely remained unrated at the time because it was not verified by the intended verifier, KugelBlitZ; however, it was unexpectedly rated on 18 January 2026 alongside multiple other long-standing unrated levels.
	Crimson Planet	TrueOmega (Wooshi)	19 May 2018	45866767	10 months 3 weeks	Bloodlust, Zodiac	While this level was properly Top 1 during Zodiac's short stay in the Legacy List, it would have been Top 1 for much longer had it been rated soon after its verification.
	Lucid Nightmares	CairoX (Wooshi)	26 January 2019	52310333	2 months 2 weeks	Bloodlust, Zodiac	Although considered easier than Crimson Planet, that level had not yet been rated at the time of this level's verification, leading it to potentially being Top 1 had it been rated before Crimson Planet and Zodiac.
	Thinking Space	Atomic	9 April 2019	54953085	1 day	Crimson Planet	Would have replaced Crimson Planet as the Top 1 level during Zodiac's short stay in the Legacy List had it been rated within two months of its verification.
	Kenos	npesta	14 December 2019	58673581	3 weeks	Zodiac	Was moved above its contemporary Top 1 Zodiac on 7 March 2025, over five years after it was initially placed.
	Tartarus	Dolphy	6 January 2020	59075347	1 year 10 months	The Golden	While this level was properly Top 1 for over a year, it was temporarily usurped by The Golden for a few months in mid-2020.
	Sonic Wave Infinity	APTeam (Xanii)	30 May 2021	69685815	5 months	Tartarus	Was initially placed below then-Top 1 Tartarus before Tartarus was moved below this level on 10 May 2023. Part of the New RGB trilogy, along with Tartarus and The Golden. It is nowadays considered the hardest of the three, despite never having been Top 1 at the time.
	Oblivion	dice88	5 July 2021	71025973	3 months 3 weeks	Tartarus	Was rated over a year after its verification and was initially placed above the Top 1 level at the time of its verification, Tartarus; would later be moved below Tartarus, but it was due to Update 2.2's physics changes significantly nerfing the level, making it still considered as a retrospective Top 1 level.
	Trueffet	SyQual (Baeru)	16 July 2021	71434979	None (3 months 2 weeks at peak placement)	Tartarus	Was initially placed below then-Top 1 Tartarus before being moved above Tartarus after Firework and Slaughterhouse were rated; it would later be moved back below Tartarus, making this level no longer a retrospective Top 1 level.
	arcturus	maxfs (ultrakawaHD)	8 August 2021	69685815	2 months 3 weeks	Tartarus	Took nearly three months to be rated; it would be rated at the same time as and placed later than Firework and Slaughterhouse, two levels considered harder. It would initially be placed below Tartarus, the Top 1 level at the time of this level's verification, before being moved above.
	Hard Machine	Komp (Varium)	19 August 2021	72744364	2 months 2 weeks	Tartarus	Was initially placed below then-Top 1 Tartarus before being moved above Tartarus after Firework and Slaughterhouse were rated; it would later be moved back below Tartarus, but it was due to Update 2.2's physics changes significantly nerfing the level, making it still considered a retrospective Top 1 level.
	Diabolic ClubStep	Sevant	1 September 2021	73214186	1 month 28 days	Tartarus	Was verified while Tartarus was Top 1, but was not rated until 2026.
	Firework	Trick	29 October 2021	75206202	1 month 3 weeks	Slaughterhouse	While this level was placed at the #1 spot for 18 seconds, Slaughterhouse, which was placed immediately afterwards, had no legitimate completion at the time; thus, Firework was retrospectively at the #1 spot for significantly longer.
	Abyss of Darkness	Exen (Cursed)	3 April 2022	49896559	4 months 3 weeks	Slaughterhouse	While this level was initially placed at the #1 spot, it was moved down below Slaughterhouse after six weeks, despite this level being harder based on modern difficulty standards.
	Silent clubstep	Sailent (paqoe)	17 July 2022	4125776	1 month 2 weeks	Slaughterhouse	Was initially placed below the then-Top 1, Slaughterhouse, as well as the actual hardest rated level at the time, Abyss of Darkness, before being moved above both on 23 Apriln2023. On 25 July 2025, it would again be raised, this time above Acheron and Avernus, though it was due to Update 2.2's physics changes, making the latter two levels comparatively easier.
	Avernus	PockeWindfish (Zoink)	21 March 2023	89496627	10 months 4 weeks	Acheron	While this level was properly Top 1 for over 4 months, it was initially placed below the then-Top 1 at the time, Acheron, before being moved above it on 16 October 2023. On 15 June 2024, it was moved below Acheron again, but it was later moved above it again on 23 December 2024.
	Tidal Wave (original)	OniLink (Zoink)	9 September 2023	86407629	1 year 8 months	Acheron, Avernus	While this level was properly at the #1 spot for over a year, it was not rated until over 5 months after its verification, making it the longest time for a level to get rated after its verification and initially get placed at the #1 spot. Longest time (in retrospect) as Top 1 (624 days), beating Tartarus's previous record (510 days).
	Thinking Space II	CairoX (Zoink)	25 May 2025	119544028	1 year 4 weeks	Tidal Wave, Amethyst	Verified on the same day as Amethyst. Remained unrated for nearly four months.
	Artemis 13	mvngo (Zoink)	9 September 2026	148598469	3 weeks 4 days	Society	Although generally agreed to be harder than Society, the level did not receive a placement on the Demonlist prior to GRIEF's verification and placement.

Potential upcoming entrants

Name	Host/uploader (current verifier)	First previewed	Verification progress	Info
Aeternus	Riot (open verification)	18 October 2023	23%, 24-39% (dewbbs)	The third in a trilogy of hell-themed levels hosted by Riot, and a successor to Acheron.
			16%, 16-27%, 24-34%, 33-48%, 47-61%, 60-79%, 76-100% (wShock)
			14%, 16-28%, 19-31%, 26-40%, 36-49%, 42-59%, 56-69%, 67-88%, 77-100% (aden)
			18%, 72-100% (Chill Guy)
Angelicide	LexyCat (open verification)	?	41% x2, 6-59%, 37-82%, 56-98%, 48-95%, 68-100% (Druki)	A near-impossible level by LexyCat and decorated by Madison Yuko.
			28%, 22-38%, 37-74%, 68-100% (Kaza)
FAIRY KNIFE HELL	EternaswipVMAX (open verification)	17 February 2017	37% (Cuatrocientos)	Mega-collaboration finished after almost eight years, after the first preview was published.
			42-59%, 78-100% (enzollz)
Heliopolis	MindCap (open verification)	31 August 2022	85%, 16-80%, 49-100% (Zoink)	A level inspired by Acropolis. It was previously to be verified by Thnnder, but Abdeildevil and garbag took over after Thnnder's long-term break. Then, in early 2026, it became an open verification with a $10,700 USD community-funded bounty.
			35%, 27-78%, 49-100% (Trick)
KOCMOC UNLEASHED	Cherry Team (Arshadow)	12 November 2023	69%, 14‑81%	Remake of KOCMOC, based on the original unnerfed version.
Silent Clubstep II	Sailent (open verification)	7 March 2022	31%, 38-100%, 43-100% (Skittle Catastrophe)	The official sequel to Silent clubstep.
SILENT UNKNOWN	spkgmd, Relayne	?	23%, 12-39% (Chill Guy)	A nearly impossible version of UNKNOWN.
Sweeping Demon 2	Temp (Taiago)	16 May 2020	86%, 21-87%, 34-100% (Taiago)	The official sequel to Sweeping Demon.
WRATH	Cherry Team (No set verifier)	?	No progress	A level about a path that will lead into darkness. Based on Dante's Inferno.

Platformer levels

As Platformer levels are generally not comparable to Classic levels, they have their own rankings and list of Top 1 levels separate from the Classic Top 1 list.

Placements are based on the Platformer Demonlist, inferred from modern placements for levels prior to The Abyss (the Top 1 level at the time of the Platformer Demonlist's creation).

Image	Name	Uploader (verifier)	Upload date	Level ID	Top 1 duration	Info
	Nautical Nightmares	RealJera (Shroomy)	25 April 2026	138993732	Incumbent (since 31 May 2026)	-
	delightful climb	JuNiOr202 (uvlight58)	16 February 2025	115206404	58 days	Would not be rated for over a year after its verification, finally being rated on 31 March 2026, though it was still Top 1 by this point.
	Diamonds For Dashers	yunotyou (nng12)	11 May 2025	118798387	260 days	Would remain unrated for roughly two months, being rated on 17 July 2025. Was technically never the hardest verified platformer level, as delightful climb was verified first.
	CONVOLUTION	MaddyGMD (uvlight58)	12 August 2024	105724358	329 days	-
	Null	RealJera (viare)	26 April 2024	104031134	12 days	Left unrated for three and a half months after its verification, being rated on 10 August 2024.
	ECSTASIS (unnerfed)2 4	dkitey	22 July 2024	108103482	10 days	Initially hack-verified but received a legitimate victor on 31 July 2024, while it was still Top 1.
	Free Solo	MeowMasterer	18 April 2024	103998262	104 days	-
	HYPER GRAVITRON6	exsii	6 January 2024	98745817	<1 day	Was rated alongside Free Solo and initially placed above but was almost immediately moved below.
	The Abyss	MadisonYuko (mikoshii)	9 January 2024	98163412	99 days	The first rated Platformer Extreme Demon to remain Extreme Demon to this day.
	The Tower XXII	o1iv3	22 December 2023	97692058	18 days	-
	i wanna be the guy	Aless50	20 December 2023	97543536	2 days	The first rated Platformer Extreme Demon; would later be demoted to Insane Demon.
	Jet Lag	disp	20 December 2023	97536552	<1 day	The first rated Platformer Demon, very quickly dethroned on the same day by i wanna be the guy.

Trivia

• No player has ever beaten every single current and former Top 1 level.
• Element 111 Rg is currently the only Top 1 level not beaten, as no known copies of the level exist; however, a restored version of the level was verified by paqoe on 11 April 2024.
• Digital Descent, Bloodlust, and GRIEF are the only Top 1 levels that are Epic-rated.
• Five levels have reigned as the Top 1 level on the Demonlist for at least a year: Bloodbath, standing at the #1 spot for 367 days, followed by Bloodlust, which reigned as a Top 1 level for 383 days, Tartarus with a total of 527 days (418 days consecutively), Acheron with a total of 374 days, and Tidal Wave, which stood for 471 days.
  • Based on modern difficulty opinions, Bloodbath would have lost its spot at #1 after roughly nine months to Phobos, and Acheron would have lost its spot at #1 after roughly seven months to Avernus.
    • Additionally, had Crimson Planet been rated earlier, Bloodlust would have had its reign at the #1 spot cut off much sooner.
    • Had Thinking Space II been rated when within a month of its verification, it would have reigned at #1 for a year as well.
• Bass Cave and Black Off were moved above the level that was Top 1 at the time of their releases, but it was due to a buff-date that made each level harder. The unbuffed versions of both were deemed too easy to be Top 1.
• arcturus was rated and placed alongside Firework and Slaughterhouse, both projected to be Top 1. Collectively, these levels are colloquially known as the '3 Top 1s', despite arcturus initially placing below Tartarus.
  • arcturus was later moved above Tartarus, but because it was rated alongside Firework and Slaughterhouse, it would not have been Top 1 if it had been placed there originally.
    • It was, however, the first to be verified of the three, meaning if it had been rated soon after its verification, it would have indeed been Top 1 had it been placed above Tartarus.
• Arctic Lights and Devil Vortex were once accidentally placed as the Top 1 level of the Demonlist at some point, but they did not count as the hardest level.
• Avernus is currently the Top 1 level that took the longest to have its first victor, taking over 8 months and surpassing Bloodbath's 7 months.
• Fexty, Sonic Wave, Plasma Pulse Finale, and Avernus are the only Top 1 levels to have their songs available from both Newgrounds and the Music Library.
• Three different versions of Sonic Wave have been Top 1: Cyclic's original version, Cyrillic's version that RobTop accidentally rated, and Sunix's legitimately verified version, which is the current one rated to this day.
• Two different versions of Phobos have been rated: Tygrysek's hack-verified unnerfed version that was Top 1 before it was updated to the nerfed version and then deleted, and KrmaL's copy of the nerfed version, which was legitimately verified and is still rated. Both were Top 1 upon their rating based on modern difficulty opinions, but only the first was ever actually placed there.
• Two different versions of Tartarus have been Top 1: Mullsy's version after he became the first victor, and Dolphy's version, which was rated after his verification was proven legitimate.
• With his verification of Tidal Wave, Zoink became the first and the only player to have verified the latest three Top 1 levels, as well as the then-Top 3, having also verified Avernus and Acheron.
  • Zoink would later have two more subsets of his verifications as the Top 3 levels on the Demonlist: first, Tidal Wave, Acheron, and Nullscapes, and then Tidal Wave, Nullscapes, and Avernus.
  • Zoink would verify a fourth Top 1 level, Thinking Space II, before any other Top 1 levels were verified; however, it would not be rated until over three months after Amethyst broke Zoink's streak of Top 1 verifications.
    • Having verified Acheron, Avernus, Tidal Wave and Thinking Space II, Zoink is the only player to have beaten four Top 1 levels, the most out of any player.
  • It is also claimed that LunarSimg previously had verified the three hardest legitimately completed levels, as the SIMG Factorial series of levels contained some of the hardest legitimately verified gameplay at the time; though, this claim is disputed.

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