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Revision as of 13:02, 12 October 2026
The hardest level in Geometry Dash refers to the most difficult verified level, based on collective opinions. In the contemporary community, this usually refers to the level at the #1 position on the Geometry Dash Demonlist, colloquially referred to as the Top 1 level. This position is often speculative and thus variable, as nearly all Top 1 levels see only a handful of victors who can provide a stance on their relative difficulty during their placement. The history of Top 1 levels before the introduction of the Demonlist is primarily conjectural, and early Top 1 levels were often ranked retrospectively or as a result of disjointed community discussion.
Top 1 is one of, if not the most influential level type in Geometry Dash. Levels such as Cataclysm and Silent Club went on to influence their own hell-themed and Silent genres of levels respectively, while the community-made Insane and Extreme Demon terms for these levels inspired the addition of the ratings in Update 2.1 altogether. Levels that were formerly Top 1 continue to receive high popularity alongside continuous new interest in current and upcoming Top 1s.
List of Top 1 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[1].
While many of these levels are currently unrated or deleted, some are re-verified, rated and uploaded onto the account of their verifier. Because the subcategories of Demon ratings existed in the 2.1 Update, Top 1 levels that are deleted or unrated before Update 2.1 will use the default Demon rating (File:Hard Demon.png). The current Top 1 is marked in boldface.
- Legends
1 The level was re-verified 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 re-uploaded by the original creator or a different player.
4 The level was buffed or nerfed at some point in time after being uploaded and taking the Top 1 spot.
5 The level became a Top 1 temporarily under particular circumstances: either due to being deemed harder initially, but being moved down nonetheless, or the former Top 1 was moved down.
6 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.
7 Currently unrated and/or not placed on the Demonlist.
Trivia
- Element 111 Rg is currently the only Top 1 yet to be beaten.
- Digital Descent and Bloodlust are the only Top 1 levels that are Epic-rated.
- Bloodbath is the first Top 1 to reign as the hardest level for over a year, followed by Bloodlust, which reigns as a Top 1 for 383 days, later on by Tartarus with a total of 527 days (418 consecutive days), and Acheron with a total of 374 days.
- Hard Machine, Silent clubstep, Sonic Wave Infinity and Kyouki were all moved above the Demon that was Top 1 at the time they were rated; however, it was too late for them to place at Top 1.
- arcturus was rated and placed alongside Firework and Slaughterhouse, both projected to be Top 1. Collectively, these levels are known as the '3 top 1', despite arcturus initially placing below Tartarus.
- arcturus was later moved above Tartarus, but due to the rating of Firework and Slaughterhouse it would not have been top 1 if it was placed there originally.
- Arctic Lights and Devil Vortex were once accidentally placed as the Top 1 of the Demonlist at some point but 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.
- Three different Sonic Waves have been Top 1: Cyclic's original version, Cyrillic's version that RobTop accidentally rated, and Sunix's legitimately verified version that is the current one rated to this day.
- Two different Tartaruses have been Top 1: Mullsy's version after he became the first victor, and Dolphy's version that was rated after he was proven to not be a hacker.
- With his verification of Tidal Wave, Zoink became the first player to have verified the latest 3 Top 1 levels.
See also
Videos
Notes
- ↑ Because this level, To the Grave and Extreme Park (two levels considered harder) were all rated together, it probably means that this level would not have been Top 1 if a list of the hardest levels would have been present at the time.
- ↑ It is currently unknown which levels between BP Night and demon world were rated first; hence, it is currently debated.
- ↑ ↑ Sonic Wave has been at the Top 1 for two separate times; first, during the 1.9 update where Cyclic hack-verified the level and second, when Sunix re-verified the level legitimately on November 25, 2016, where it was temporarily dethroned multiple times.
- ↑ Slaughterhouse was placed directly afterwards.
- ↑ Slaughterhouse was thought to be verified on October 24, 2021, by spaceuk; however, he was exposed for verify-hacking the level over a year later on April 25, 2023. Retroactively, Slaughterhouse was verified on December 19, 2021, by Doggie due to spaceuk's confession to verify-hacking the level; hence, the verification rights were given to Doggie instead.
- ↑ Though Tidal Wave is the hardest verified level at this time, it is generally not labelled Top 1 due to its lack of a rating.