Editing Silent Club (section)

==History==
Silent Club was published on 1 April 2014 as an elaborate April Fools' joke, and it was subsequently rated by [[Robert Topala|RobTop]]. After its release, the level sparked controversy for its brutal difficulty. It was the first Demon to be in the first position in the early era of the [[Demonlist (Pointercrate)|Demonlist]] back in 2014 by surpassing [[Stereo Demoness]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzAdJBAaQqY&t=1090s</ref> Only a few players could get more than 10% (at the time, the world record was by Crack, who did 15%).<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Usyk_hzcE&t=348s</ref>

Eventually, Silent Club lost its rating due to a supposed secret way. It was also eliminated from the list because its completion was deemed illegitimate. Despite this, many players attempted to beat it. [[Zobros]] did 52-100%,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADr5KDrA--U</ref> claiming it to be an easy task and 'not even hard' in the video of his run. Dark Sary raised the world record to 23% on 30 May 2015.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sUjAktmlTs</ref> [[Riot]] became the first person to beat the first spam legitimately on stream.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6_as_V0v_Q&t=33s</ref> Even with those runs, the level faded into obscurity due to the birth of more popular Silent levels, such as Silent clubstep, [[Silent Circles (Cyrillic)|Silent Circles]], and Death Corridor, and attention shifted to those levels.

On 13 December 2017, the player [[SrGuillester]] (a player who also beat 'Silentfunk')<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DppmWzD3Xt8&t=87s</ref> achieved an unbelievable record of 45% in only seven minutes of recording.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q0coDPI3TQ</ref> In 2017, Superex created a nerfed version of Silent Club by replacing the spam part with an easy straight-fly. This version was beaten by many players, such as [[Sunix]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5AyauqVgC0</ref>

Luqualizer verified the unnerfed version by BlackP2sFull on 29 October 2020.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJZbumB4EdQ</ref> He states that Silent Club is highly unbalanced. The section 0-42% is around [[Bloodbath]] difficulty, while 53-100% is 'Insane Demon' difficulty, and the spam sections carry all the difficulty. He claimed that the level is around Top 20 difficulty. He beat it in a 1.9 private server. The reason is that Silent Club has layered orbs with three orbs on top of each other. In Update 2.1, it is possible to do two-layered orbs, but not three. The bugs around 46-50% are due to physics changes in [[Update 2.0]] that make the level impossible in Update 2.1. The verification took Luqualizer about 15,000 attempts. He would later verify and upload his version to the [[Geometry Dash]] servers with the orb masking bug fixed. However, if the ''Low Detail Mode'' option is enabled, the layered orbs with three orbs placed on top of one another reappear within the level.

On 24 April 2021, seemingly out of nowhere, Silent Club received a Demon rating on Luqualizer's account, becoming the oldest level to get the 'Extreme Demon' rating.<ref>https://twitter.com/demonlistgd/status/1386121721762177025</ref> He would later upload a video verifying his version on 26 April 2021.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjEiHIokTGM</ref> The rating of this level had a revolutionary effect on the community. It also gave Silent Club the spotlight for the first time in five years and, like the previous rate, caused controversy. Some players said it should not be rated, while others said it should. RobTop had decided to rate the level; it later got placed on the Demonlist. Players, such as [[AeonAir]],<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcZ2vthu_7Y</ref> made videos talking about the rating of the level. It was considered a significant moment in Geometry Dash history; Luqualizer's video of his 1.9 completion garnered more than 20,000 views after the news that the level had been rated. Many unknown players, especially mobile players, started trying to beat the level.

On 29 April 2021, an unknown player named Tuggy became the first victor of the newly rated level after 10,668 attempts, stating that Silent Club should be at least Top 30.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gYlheN_jec</ref>

Despite being roughly around [[Bloodlust|Bloodlust's]] difficulty on the Demonlist, the community widely debated the genuine difficulty. GeoDasher and CreatorRiley think Silent Club is overrated. GeoDasher believed the level was easier than Lucid Chaos, and CreatorRiley thought it was Top 40 at the time, rather than Top 30. cobrablitz considered the level underrated, saying it should be above [[Cognition]].