Editing Npesta (section)

==History==
npesta created his YouTube channel on 26 June 2017. His first upload was a completion of [[Windy Landscape]], which he originally beat on 11 March 2017.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--MV57GFcto</ref> Afterwards, he conquered other Demons. On 12 July 2017, he started trying to beat [[Red World Rebirth]]. In his first progress video, he got 55%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKki6-4FVHQ</ref> The next day he got 71%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi3rZbSQmo8</ref> Six days later, after a fail at 96%, he beat the level, making it his hardest Demon at the time.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycyJpkzjzSA</ref>

He took a break from Extreme Demons until he went for the game's most famous Extreme Demon, [[Bloodbath]]. On 1 August 2017, he got 44% on it.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKgUGIE0EDw</ref> One week later, he went all the way to 71%,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ05rRKi9bQ</ref> which made him pretty confident. Then, on 23 August 2017, he got 88%, which enraged him quite a bit. npesta then failed at 87%,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cIfDUsysdo</ref> which he showed in a video titled, 'Extremely Funny Reaction (Bloodbath 87%)'.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqyvsr03hU</ref> Finally, on 1 September 2017, he beat Bloodbath, taking him a month.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W476xA3CFb8</ref>

Following this, npesta skill would start to improve rapidly, as he would complete levels such as [[Conical Depression]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-JnS8T1ayo</ref> [[Phobos]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwkScr6ZCZ4</ref> Incipient,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YYwUlCqMCQ</ref> and more. On 14 July 2018, npesta took on a verification project that would mark him as one of the best players in history. He went for a level harder than [[Sonic Wave]]. It was a buffed Phobos remake called Deimos by EndLevel.

===Deimos===
He did a run of 60-85% that day,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfTlIv5SJeg</ref> then he got 43% five days later,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khEZyavLU4U</ref> after which he did the last dual 10 times on 2 August 2018.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ9kfVLukzU</ref> After that day, he did a run from 53-100%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl230fH0jDc</ref> Unfortunately, on 27 August 2018, he took a break from the game because he had to move houses, and he would come back on 14 September 2018.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2AGFCpUxFs</ref>

During this inactivity, npesta made an exposé video aimed at [[ToshDeluxe]], claiming that Tosh had automated parts of the level in his verification video of [[Devil Vortex]]. Tosh tried to disprove npesta, but Tosh's points only made npesta more suspicious.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da9c8hcyM6k</ref> He made another exposé video to further detail his points. Once again, Tosh made another video countering npesta's points. npesta got so suspicious that he gathered the [[Demonlist (Pointercrate)|Demonlist]] team to make a video to expose ToshDeluxe. Originally, [[DiamondSplash]] uploaded the video, but npesta later uploaded the same video to his channel.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5prJgUFP_1s</ref> The video was a success. Tosh made another video attempting to disprove the Demonlist team,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdeZamerh_w</ref> but to no use, for the Demonlist had reasons for Tosh to hack, and most of the community believed npesta.

Finally, npesta returned to Geometry Dash, and he went right back to Deimos. He got 49% four times on 8 November 2018 (two months after he got back),<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE3eKvPKOUc</ref> and then he got 56% on 17 November 2018.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KqQldngNyo</ref> After this video, he took another verification project. The level was a mega-collaboration called Unearthed. He verified it on 3 December 2018, taking about 2,000 attempts. npesta said this verification was special for him.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvR454BuffE</ref> After that, npesta went straight to Deimos again. He got 66% on 2 January 2019.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJnFNnx86ls</ref> After that, on 10 February 2019, he did a run of 32-100%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LKVeBgV4k0</ref> The same day, he got 75%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPNjVFqtPoI</ref> Six days later, he got 86%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQVlHKF-k8k</ref> Then finally, on 17 February 2019, npesta verified Deimos after eight months, 75,000 attempts, and 500 hours of playing time.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgxsNzQnF5o</ref>

===Post-Deimos===
npesta was then very motivated to play levels, beating [[Erebus]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZqpA7UzH-8</ref> and getting 40% on Zodiac.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypb-4Jit_WU</ref> But then he took on another verification that [[TrusTa]] hosted to verify on 22 March 2019. This level is called WOW and is known for its infamous spam parts. That day, npesta got 31%<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXglstfhxEc</ref> and did a run of 62-100% the day after.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JaRakNvypY</ref> Then, on 5 April 2019, he got a run of 30-100%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKi0p6-eMQg</ref> On 9 April 2019, he got 66% on the level,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWGr_ludM30</ref> and then 88% on 11 April 2019.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL8wHCd1G78</ref> Finally, on 22 April 2019, npesta verified WOW, taking 20,312 attempts and a bit over a month.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbUVw7p0Ebg</ref>

===Kenos===
About a week later, npesta took on another verification project, Kenos, a super-buffed and extended rebirth of [[Sakupen Hell]].

On 29 April 2019, npesta did a 64-100% run on Kenos. Then, after 18,000 attempts, he got to 53%, making it to the second half of the level. On 23 May 2019, npesta achieved a 31-100% run and then got 69% 41 days later. He then achieved 83% on 13 August 2019.

On 16 September 2019, npesta heavily buffed Kenos because he switched to a 240Hz monitor and found it not difficult enough at that frame rate. He started getting more deaths, over 100, in fact, past 70% and 80%, and on 17 November 2019, he did an impressive 17-100% run on Kenos, which, before completion, he would end up doing three times. On 30 November 2019, npesta got 90% on the level, making it past the two difficult wave parts he had struggled with.

On 14 December 2019, he finally verified Kenos on stream after eight months and 135,320 attempts. The stream peaked at 1,000 viewers, making the verification one of the biggest moments of his gaming career.

Reddit user u/AGT-AM posted a video on 16 December 2019, of someone beating Stereo Madness in practice mode on the popular meme subreddit ''r/okbuddyr*tard'', with npesta's face-cam and the Kenos reaction in the corner.<ref>https://reddit.com/r/okbuddyretard/comments/ebeq8i/i_beat_square_game/</ref> This meme inspired people to make more memes, such as the C**k Island speedrun,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keTQSU-aj-s</ref> the Google Earth Cat speedrun,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckLM_UBk38A</ref> and the black emoji speedrun.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxGynpQxWcQ</ref> These memes caused npesta to have a page made about him on ''Know Your Meme,''<ref>https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/npestas-kenos-verification-reaction</ref> and even getting noticed by PewDiePie.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq8QxKnN_5I?t=75</ref> PewDiePie said that npesta was an 'Impossible Game Speedrunner', which resulted in RobTop calling out PewDiePie on Twitter.<ref>https://x.com/RobTopGames/status/1236071032571785216</ref>

Toward the end of December 2019, npesta would stream Sakupen Hell, the original level for its remake, Kenos. He believed he could beat it quickly since he had verified the buffed remade version. However, after npesta beat the level, he asked Doggie (npesta's editor who applied for the position just days earlier) to edit together a stream highlights-based video as content for npesta's channel.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k05q30apCN8</ref> Because of this video, the concept of stream highlights received a massive boost in the Geometry Dash community. People such as [[Technical]], [[Juniper]], AmorAltra, and Golden hired editors such as Lake Iverson, ViewSonic, RiceNStuff, PoisonArch, and Doggie himself to make stream highlights for their channels. npesta has stuck with the stream highlights format since the Sakupen Hell video, with Doggie continuing to edit for him.

===Post-Kenos===
He would pick up Altered Ascent later on. He eventually verified this in over a week on 4 April 2020.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBjKEokItKM</ref>

On 31 July 2020, npesta had the idea for a community challenge titled Extreme Demon Roulette. The classic version of this challenge features the Main List and the Extended List of the Demonlist. In this challenge, the player must generate 100 levels and achieve a certain percentage on each level; the percentage increases by 1% for each new level. The challenge progresses until the player gives up or reaches the end by completing an Extreme Demon 100%. The challenge blew up in the community instantly, with famous players such as [[knobbelboy]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1A-MTxf1do</ref> GuitarHeroStyles,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUCGICpHOyw</ref> [[EricVanWilderman]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmm4uEu7V0</ref> and [[Dorami]]<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML71kCflCGI</ref> playing the challenge multiple times. Players have also created modified versions of the challenge, such as NCat and GDVenom, who created the Extreme Challenge Roulette.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw2m2-ud3Vo</ref>

On 6 October 2020, npesta went live on Twitch to address the issues that had arisen due to unnecessary hate and jokes about him stemming from his Kenos reaction meme. He stated that although he pretended like it was all cool, it was, in reality, not so, and it hurt him considerably, and he finally revealed it. He also pointed out that he is speaking for everyone in the Geometry Dash community, such as Technical, Juniper, and others, who have received unfair hate. In short, his main points were:

*Anyone who decides to hurt someone else mentally, on the internet, or through any means is a loser, and it is not worth trying to get back at them, as they are doing so because they are frustrated in life and want to spread it to others.
*Anyone who wants to make fun of someone for no reason and without permission should not think that what he is doing is not a big deal; rather, it does hurt.

He requested the community to avoid fighting amongst one another and not try to get back at the mentally unstable, stating that 'there is no point, and it is not going to get you anywhere good'.

On 24 December 2020, he went live on YouTube after leaving Twitch, for an unknown reason at the time. In this stream, he stated that he would attempt to beat the Extreme Demon Roulette and had set rules allowing him to automatically skip any level that hurt his eyes, as well as that the roulette is meant to span multiple sessions and that he would try to beat it by continuing to play until 100%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zle2lFSFxqA</ref> Six days later, he revealed the reason for leaving Twitch was that his email was hacked. He was able to recover all his social media accounts with this email, except for one: his Twitch account.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60tb28yO6Ek</ref>

On 5 January 2021, after 32,376 attempts, npesta beat [[Bloodlust]] on stream after five deaths at TMNGaming's part and two deaths at the final spike at 98%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo3G9Y4AT9s</ref>

On 15 March 2021, npesta hinted that something very fortunate had happened to him and that he would announce it later that week. Sure enough, on 17 March 2021, he released a video announcing that he had gotten his Twitch account back three days earlier and would no longer be streaming on YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1oPOrx9OPk</ref> He stated that he would be celebrating this with a ''Marbles On Stream'' stream.

===Extreme Demon Roulette completion===
As stated above, on 24 December 2020, npesta began his attempt to beat the entire Extreme Demon Roulette. He gave himself five skips that he could use on any level and free skips for certain levels that he could not play because of his astigmatism.

At first, he got Sakupen Hell for 1%, but he gave up immediately because the level was impossible to fail at 1%. He started another round afterwards:
*1%: Dimension Breaker
*2%: Sunset Sandstorm
*3%: VendetTa

However, npesta accidentally got 4% on VendetTa, which caused him to skip a percentage. He restarted the roulette again. It went as follows:
*1%: [[Wasureta]]
*2%: [[Tartarus]]
*3%: [[Infernal Abyss]]
*4%: Fabricated Thoughts
*5%: [[Fusion Z (PlebKingdom)|Fusion Z]]
*6%: Ziroikabi
*7%: Ecstasy
*8%: Freedom08
*9%: Titan Complex
*10%: [[Calculator Core]]
*11%: Molten Mercury
*12%: Omicron
*13%: Cadrega City
*14%: Tapwreck
*15%: [[Thinking Space]]
*16%: The Hell Origin
*17%: Tempered Steel
*18%: Epsilon
*19%: Yuh
*20%: WOW
*21%: SINGULARITY
*22%: Galactic Shift
*23%: The Hell Field
*24%: [[Astral Divinity]] (he missed 24% because of the auto part, getting 25% instead)
*26%: Molten Gear
*27%: Deimos (EndLevel)
*28%: [[Lucid Nightmares]]
*29%: super probably level (free skip)
*30%: Dark Flare
*31%: Fabrication
*32%: Tenth Circle (considered counting this as a free skip, but decided not to)
*33%: [[Killbot]] (free skip)
*34%: [[The Yandere]] (fluked the hardest part of the level, which was JonathanGD's)
*35%: [[Hyper Paracosm]]
*36%: [[Bausha Vortex]] (free skip)
*37%: [[kowareta]]
*38%: Under lavaland
*39%: xo
*40%: [[Yatagarasu]]
*41%: [[Cold Sweat]] (free skip)
*42%: Catalyze
*43%: Hatred
*44%: Delta Interface
*45%: Omega
*46%: Generic Wave
*47%: EnvY
*48%: Down Bass (free skip)
*49%: Biohazard (free skip, even though he did not originally consider it to be one)
*50%: Phobos
*51%: Ancestral Calamity
*52%: BuTiTi III
*53%: Dimension Breaker
*54%: Betrayal of Fate
*55%: [[SubSonic]]
*56%: distraught
*57%: Silentium Gradas (57% is an auto part, but [[Luqualizer]] found a frame-perfect timing that made it possible to fail there)
*58%: [[Athanatos]]
*59%: Ethereal Artifice
*60%: [[The Hell Zone]]
*61%: Occult Outcry (free skip)
*62%: The Hell Bird
*63%: Mystic
*64%: Dolos
*65%: Rate Demon
*66%: Bloodbath
*67%: Kenos
*68%: Audio Expulsion
*69%: [[Bass Cave]] (he put increasingly complicated math equations on the screen to replace the number 69)
*70%: Hateful Reflection (free skip)
*71%: [[Artificial Ascent]]
*72%: Missing Benefits
*73%: Altered Ascent
*74%: Sonic Wave (free skip)
*75%: Shock Breaker (switched back from YouTube to Twitch)
*76%: Falcon16
*77%: Balengu Vortex (free skip)
*78%: ElectroLux
*79%: Carcano
*80%: [[Arctic Lights]]
*81%: Spectrum Cyclone
*82%: Low Death
*83%: [[The Golden]] (used his first skip due to the level being extremely difficult)
*84%: Breakout Redux
*85%: Step To Hell (fluked from 26%)
*86%: Belloq
*87%: Macabre (used his second skip due to his experience of this level being extremely unfun, long, and luck-based)
*88%: 2 1 1 (fluked from 58%)
*89%: Demonicat
*90%: Sakupen Hell (predicted that Sakupen Hell would pop up)
*91%: Chromatic Haze
*92%: Necromancer (gaslighted by Doggie into thinking this would be for 91% and thinking it would not come up when he instead rolled Chromatic Haze)
*93%: [[Ouroboros]]
*94%: [[Digital Descent]]
*95%: [[Stalemate Redux]]
*96%: Celestial Force
*97%: [[Black Blizzard]] (predicted that Black Blizzard would pop up)
*98%: [[Crimson Planet]] (used his third skip due to the level's extreme difficulty and the only way to fail at 98% not working all the time)
*99%: SPEEDRUN (used his fourth skip due to it being impossible to fail at 99%)
*100%: Zodiac

Finally, after hundreds of streams and 487 days, npesta rolled the level he would have to complete to beat the Extreme Demon Roulette on 25 April 2022. To the extreme surprise of him and his Twitch chat, it was Zodiac, which also resulted in him having to beat Zodiac as his new hardest Demon after two years of having Kenos as his hardest. Right after he rolled Zodiac, he satirically exclaimed, 'The odds of this happening are impossible!'

He would finally complete Zodiac on 20 June 2022,<ref>https://twitch.tv/videos/1509330525</ref> accomplishing both the completion of the Extreme Demon Roulette and the completion of a new hardest on the list, dethroning Kenos after 919 days. Unfortunately, he only beat the Extreme Demon Roulette with 99 points because he had to skip a percentage at 24%. If he had used his first skip on Astral Divinity (24%), the level he would have rolled for 100% would have been Carnage Mode (a level that he has already beaten).

===Oblivion===
In early February 2023, npesta tweeted about a secret project he had been immersed in, hinting at why he had not been streaming Geometry Dash much in the past few months.<ref>https://x.com/zNpesta__/status/1623112505990995970</ref> His tweet, mentioning his attempt count as 59,070, sparked speculation that he was tackling a level tougher than Kenos. A week later, on 14 February, he triumphantly announced his completion,<ref>https://x.com/zNpesta__/status/1625642408665833473</ref> followed by a reply that stated '12/14/19 - 2/14/23',<ref>https://x.com/zNpesta__/status/1625644821925793795</ref> confirming speculation of his surpassing of Kenos. On 19 February 2023, npesta posted a video revealing his secret project, Oblivion, not through his usual stream highlights but his pre-recorded footage from the past four months.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VysP4Oo1n7w</ref>

In the video, he revealed that his motivation stemmed from EricVanWilderman's 12 Demons of Christmas 2022 challenge, which set a deadline of 23 December. He began his journey in early November 2022, believing he had more than enough time before the deadline. However, unexpected events such as illness and family matters arose in mid-December, complicating his journey. He missed the initial deadline, and this crushed his motivation; however, encouragement from loved ones reignited it. Despite falling sick again in January, npesta resumed his grind, culminating in the completion of Oblivion on 14 February 2023, after 62,378 attempts.<ref>https://x.com/zNpesta__/status/1625642408665833473</ref> Five days later, he shared a highlights video edited by Doggie, along with his own segment detailing the challenges he faced from mid-December to mid-January.

===Edge of Destiny===
Following Oblivion, npesta began playing Edge of Destiny, streaming it around 70 times from February to September. He dedicated much of his time to runs, and his first notable progress would arrive in his eighth stream, achieving 40%. His motivation dwindled when RETURN 0, a level he was set to verify, got cancelled in April 2023. He discussed in a stream on 16 April that this left him uncertain about his channel's future and worried about finances. However, he persisted. 

On 8 May, he achieved a significant milestone, reaching 79%. However, it took nearly five months before he surpassed this achievement, reaching 82% on 3 September. Despite this progress, npesta felt he was losing stamina and didn't view his success as a significant victory. Nevertheless, his stream on 3 September triggered a substantial financial boost through SUBtember, resulting in a generous outpouring of support from his viewers.<ref>https://x.com/zNpesta__/status/1698480760204788211</ref> Just 16 days after hitting 82%, he finally beat the level after 89,455 attempts.