Editing Technical

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|nickname     = Tech, Technical49, TechnicalJL, Thomas Echnical

|country       = {{Flag|us|United States}}

|levels       = 6

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|stats         = [https://gdbrowser.com/u/Technical Technical]

|youtube       = [https://youtube.com/@TechnicalJL Technical]

|twitch       = [https://twitch.tv/technicaljl TechnicalJL]

|twitter       = [https://twitter.com/TechnicalJL Technical]

'''Jonathan''' (born 18 April 2003), better known as '''Technical''' (formerly '''Technical49'''), is a skilled American player in ''Geometry Dash''. He became the first person to beat [[Bloodlust]], [[Plasma Pulse Finale]], Gamma (the update of which he verified), [[Spacial Rend]], and [[Sonic Wave]] without the FPS bypass. On April 9, 2019, he became the unofficial verifier of [[Zodiac]] after xander confessed to hacking, and no one else managed to beat the level without the FPS Bypass after him until Ozzy612 beat it four months later. Additionally, he beat [[Tartarus]] on April 18, 2020 and also verified updates to the levels Gamma and Breakout.

He had a period of inactivity during 2021-2022, but he has been recently beating difficult Extreme Demons again. His current hardest Demon is [[Slaughterhouse]], beaten on July 16, 2024. His second-hardest Demon is [[LIMBO]], beaten on April 2, 2024. His third hardest Demon is [[Edge of Destiny]], beaten on August 28, 2023, and he also beat [[Hard Machine]] on October 9, 2023, which he finds easier than Tartarus.

===Conflicts===

*'''kowareta Rating Drama:''' On December 31, 2018, Shuri verified the Extreme Demon level [[kowareta]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWBFaZYHPM</ref> It would have been placed at #2 if it were rated, as it was considered harder than [[Plasma Pulse Finale]] and [[Spacial Rend]], which at the time were contesting for the placement of the second hardest Demon. On August 23, 2019, it finally got featured and placed at #6 on the [[Geometry Dash Demonlist|Demonlist]]. Shortly after, Technical addressed his distaste for the level and his opinion that it was not rate-worthy. Suddenly, his fans lashed out at Shuri, sending him death threats and telling him to quit ''Geometry Dash''. This event sparked so much controversy that it was unrated by RobTop only nine hours after its release and removed from the Demonlist. Once Shuri addressed this drama, people started criticizing Technical for his role and made a community post addressing it. On August 24, 2019, it was re-rated and re-added to the list, though this time only as a star rating. Both parties have retracted since.

===Unrated levels===

*Enlightened Express - A mega-collaboration with eight other creators placed #1 on the [[Geometry Dash Demonlist|Demonlist]] for April Fools' Day 2019.

**The video Noctalium uploaded on his YouTube channel is named "When you act like a god for 10 seconds (Galaxy Collapse)," which became a meme in the community.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6AKWGJfyDg</ref>

*Ocular Miracle ULDM - An ultra Low Detail Mode version of the level Ocular Miracle.

*Tech Wave - A level he made for a Creator Battle against [[npesta]], organized by [[Viprin]].

===Canceled/deleted levels===

*Brandon Larkin Chal - Stands for "Brandon Larkin Challenge." It is a parody of Titan Complex, created as a jest aimed at [[Brandon Larkin]], who was making determined efforts to complete Titan Complex at that time.

*Flop - An ''Asdfmovie''-themed level that he and his friend Indigo67 hosted. Most of the gameplay creators were members of "The Guys." Originally intended to be decorated solely by Arandamiguel as a solo decoration project, it was later canceled before completion.  

===Upcoming levels===

*Cosmic Drift - A remake of his oldest level, The Falling Mysts. It is a space-themed mega-collaboration featuring GunnerBones, Reunomi, [[CuLuC]], HelpegasuS, npesta, [[Gizbro]], and several other creators.

*Flamewall - An upcoming Top-1 Extreme Demon hosted by RicoLP and Narwall.

===Extreme Demon verifications===

*Ad Aeternum (October 18, 2019) - A low-end Extreme Demon published by Awzer.

*Breakout (update) (December 9, 2019) - An early 2.1 Extreme Demon initially verified by [[Surv]] but later updated and verified by Technical.

*Omega (February 15, 2020) - The third installment in MindCap's Greek Letter trilogy.

*[[Ocular Miracle]] (June 11, 2020) - A lengthy mega-collaboration hosted by GaidenHurteny, initially set for verification by [[SrGuillester]] before Technical.

**Reverie, Faith, and Diligence (June 26, 2020) - The "Ocular Miracle trilogy," created after it was found that the original level was too object-heavy to be rated, prompting the host to split it into three parts.

*aether (January 26, 2024) - A low-end Extreme Demon collaboration by ZeroSR and Arclia, being one of the first non-platformer Extreme Demons to incorporate innovative 2.2 features.

*POW (May 6, 2025) - An Extreme Demon collaboration hosted by Zenn, Tamori, Artsi and Deactive. The official sequel to [[WOW]].

''Received 1 award in the [[The Geometry Dash Awards]]''

 

*The last two letters of his Twitter profile (JL) represent his initials in real life.

*He thinks [[kowareta]] is not rate-worthy, sparking minor drama after it was briefly unrated. Community members believed the unrating was motivated, in part, by Technical's statements regarding the level.

*His completion of [[LIMBO]] on April 2, 2024 did not come without difficulties.

**After selecting the key in the finale, he accidentally triggered a speed-hack keyboard shortcut that he habitually used to fast forward through end screens during his runs. Despite not affecting the difficulty of his completion, his accidental shortcut invalidated his completion by Demonlist standards. Anticipating Twitter controversy over the validity of his run, he opted to rebeat the level, which he accomplished in just six hours.

**On April 4, 2024, he uploaded his completion video to YouTube, but it had the misfortune of having the "n-word" in the URL. He quickly privated the video, reuploaded it, and then shared about the error on Twitter, garnering nearly 50,000 likes, making it his most liked tweet to date.<ref>https://twitter.com/TechnicalJL/status/1775574739580277018</ref> Despite his initial anger at YouTube's oversight stealing his completion's spotlight, he admitted he'd likely laugh about it later on.<ref>https://twitter.com/TechnicalJL/status/1775575943710441594</ref>

***He later unlisted the original video on May 15, 2024 for those who "really really wanted it and to prove it does still exist", according to the video's description. The video can be found [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Xz96NIGGA here].

*He is known for making a full Extreme Demon ranking log, started at 200 Extreme Demons. He ranks levels primarily by gameplay, then decoration, and music. Currently, the level in first place is Quaoar by [[Viprin]] and the last one is [[The Hell World]].

*At one point, he was the set verifier for [[Sonic Wave Infinity]] by [[Riot]], a remake of [[Sonic Wave]], said to rival the difficulty of [[Tartarus]]. He later dropped the verification due to concerns about future stress.

*He is known for dying on levels due to celebrating too early. The most notable instances of this are his 95% death on Sigma, 97% death on Catalyze, 98% deaths on [[The Ultimate Phase]] and [[Carnage Mode]], and his first 98% death on [[Ragnarok]].

*He died at 98% on Ragnarok twice: the first time due to a bug and the second time due to bad timing.

*He hit 10,000 YouTube subscribers on April 3, 2019,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1efOnsqeIUA</ref> 20,000 on May 15, 2019, 30,000 on July 2, 2019, 40,000 on August 14, 2019, 50,000 on January 11, 2020, 60,000 on April 14, 2020, 70,000 on June 15, 2020, 80,000 on September 12, 2020, 90,000 on December 8, 2020, and 100,000 on April 4, 2021.

*He is often regarded as the official verifier of [[Zodiac]] after the original verifier, xander confessed to hacking the level on June 11, 2019. However, Technical has stated that he does not see himself as the verifier.

*He was part of "The Gang," which included [[npesta]], [[Golden]], [[Gizbro]], and himself. It was disbanded on January 18, 2021.<ref>https://twitter.com/TechnicalJL/status/1351341186754207744</ref>

*He crashed at 98% on the Extreme Demon [[Necromancer]] after he took a brief skip in the level and got killed by the anti-cheat at the end. This instance was the first discovery of the skip anti-cheat, and the death caused some of his fans to attack TGI, the verifier and publisher, for watching Technical take the skips and, as a joke, not telling him about the anti-cheat.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_iLUYqh6-Y</ref>

*He removed the number 49 from the end of his YouTube username on October 18, 2019. The number signified his jersey number in baseball, which he finally revealed in his 49,000 subscribers special.

*He once changed his YouTube name to "yoshiwannabe" because he lost a bet to one of his friends, Golden.

**His name was also changed to "yoshiwannabe" on the Demonlist for April Fools' 2019.

*On November 4, 2019, he beat his 500th Demon and his 100th Extreme Demon, [[Visible Ray]], making him the fourth player to have completed 100 Extreme Demons at the time, after [[Rainstorm]], [[Kainite]], and iNeo.

*He has been featured on Meet with Csx42Gaming. He was on Episode #22.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZDaHbj3oeU</ref>

*The reason why Technical received the verification rights for Welcome To GD News is due to Technical's roommate knowing [[Vortrox]], the host of the level, personally. Vortrox would show up in Technical's apartment to discuss about passing the level's verification to him, which he offered to take.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISrpkzBsei4?si=yJ4fn-ivJ7fdvn28</ref>

*In late March 2020, [[nSwish]] surpassed him to claim the #1 spot on the ''Individual Stats Viewer''. However, Technical briefly reclaimed the top position on April 18, 2020, following his completion of [[Tartarus]]. nSwish quickly regained the lead a day later after completing Tapwreck.

*For April Fools 2020, he was promoted to #1 in the ''Individual Stats Viewer'' and labeled North Korean.

*The YouTuber named Blue made a documentary on his history.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUuIrXau8YI</ref>

*He lost to Gizbro in the semi-finals in the first session of the ''Geometry Dash'' World Cup.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEDJbuQwTes</ref>

*He is a very skilled ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'' player and even holds the World Record on Rainbow Road 200cc with a time of 1:31.842, considered as the hardest thing ever done in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyfpy0PAQKQ</ref>

**He also holds the World Record on 3DS Rainbow Road 200cc with a time of 1:09.977.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkX6JNcvCUw</ref> Additionally, he also holds the World Record on Wii Rainbow Road 200cc with a time of 1:52.997.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCxP0NGZGro</ref>

*He uses the same enjoyment rating scale from 0 to 100 for every level that he beats.

**AcropoliX did not receive a rating because he beat it at 4 AM.

**He gave Furious Flames a rating of Brian/100 as a joke and said on stream that the real rating would be around 8 or 9/100.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu8XpNhIp0w</ref>

|-|Gamma Update Verification=

[[File:Geometry Dash - Gamma (Extreme Demon) by MindCap and more - Verified by Me on Stream|center|thumb|330x330px|The verification of [[Gamma]] (update). Credits to Technical.]]

|-|Photovoltaic II Verification=

[[File:Geometry Dash - Photovoltaic II (Extreme Demon?) by Mazl and more - Verified by Me on Stream|center|thumb|330x330px|The verification of [[Photovoltaic II]]. Credits to Technical.]]

|-|Sigma Verification=

[[File:Geometry Dash - Sigma (Extreme Demon?) by MindCap and more - Verified by Me|center|thumb|330x330px|The verification of [[Sigma]]. Credits to Technical.]]

|-|Ragnarok Verification=

[[File:Ragnarok VERIFIED (Extreme Demon) by Knobbelboy and more - On Stream - Geometry Dash|center|thumb|330x330px|The verification of [[Ragnarok]]. Credits to Technical.]]

|-|Ouroboros Verification=

[[File:Ouroboros VERIFIED (Extreme Demon) by Viprin and more - On Stream - Geometry Dash|center|thumb|330x330px|The verification of [[Ouroboros]]. Credits to Technical.]]

|-|Omega Verification=

[[File:Omega VERIFIED (Extreme Demon) by MindCap and more On Stream Geometry Dash|center|thumb|330x330px|The verification of [[Omega]]. Credits to Technical.]]

|-|Ocular Miracle Verification=

[[File:Ocular Miracle VERIFIED (Extreme Demon) by Davphla, GaidenHertuny, Zero, etc. Geometry Dash|center|thumb|330x330px|The verification of [[Ocular Miracle]]. Credits to Technical.]]

|-|Sigma Interface Verification=

[[File:Sigma Interface Verified (Extreme Demon) by Platnuu Geometry Dash|center|thumb|330x330px|The verification of [[Sigma Interface]]. Credits to Technical]]

|-|Cybernetic Crescent Verification=

[[File:Cybernetic_Crescent_VERIFIED_(Extreme_Demon)_by_Viprin_and_more_-_Geometry_Dash|center|thumb|330x330px|The verification of [[Cybernetic Crescent]]. Credits to Technical.]]

|-|Triadic Trials Verification=

[[File:Triadic Trials Verified (Extreme Demon) by Hero3210 - Geometry Dash|center|thumb|330x330px|The verification of Triadic Trials. Credits to Technical.]]

|-|Autobiography=

 

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