Trick

Trick is an American player. He rose to fame by verifying the Top 2 Extreme Demon Firework in mid-2021, following a long lineage of verifiers. He was widely considered to be one of the best players in the game, becoming the first victor of KOCMOC, Abyss of Darkness, and Tidal Wave. He held the #1 spot on the Pointercrate Stats Viewer from June to September 2024, before Zoink dethroned him. Trick also became the first victor of Old Centipede, Spectre, and Apocalyptic Trilogy in January 2025.

After a break from top play between January and June 2025, he went on to complete Anathema, Subterminal Point, Waterfall, Sevvend Clubstep, and KOSETSU. Due to long periods of inactivity, he would fall down the Pointercrate Individual Stats Viewer.

Since January 2025, Trick had not been consistent in uploading new level completions due to heavily considering quitting top play entirely. However, he returned and made huge progress on Thinking Space II, which he eventually beat on 14 July 2026 as his new and current-hardest Demon.

Trick belongs to a group of skilled Geometry Dash players, dubbed TCD after himself, Conix, and Denni. In the group, there are also Cursed, Diamond, and Doggie.

History

Beginnings

Trick created his YouTube channel during Update 2.0 on 26 December 2015, but did not upload any videos until four years later. He uploaded his first video on 5 January 2020, titled 'LordVaderCraft being LordVaderCraft for 50 seconds'. Later, he started uploading more videos, all Geometry Dash-related.

Trick's first major achievement was completing the Extreme Demon Cataclysm on 14 October 2020. It was the seventh video uploaded to his channel. On 15 October, he re-beat Cataclysm on a stream and Bloodbath for the eighth time. He then beat some other Extreme Demons, such as Down Bass, Allegiance, Glide, and Gunslinga Corridor, as well as making progress on Sonic Wave and Digital Descent. On 8 December 2020, Trick beat his new hardest Demon, Auditory Breaker, which took him 1,591 attempts.

On 19 December, Trick made progress on Firework with a run of 19-37% (although he was not the level's official verifier yet), and then he got 24% and 32% two days later.

Starting in 2021, on 6 January, Trick beat Digital Descent, marking his new hardest Demon. He later decided to re-beat it. On 12 January, he beat Sakupen Hell, and the next day, he beat Asmodeus. In February, he got a record of 38% and 41% on Firework, then made further progress with runs of 24-60% and 64-96%. Soon after, he got 53% on Wasureta in under six hours, then 66%, and eventually a fail at 95% on 17 February.

On 3 March 2021, Trick beat Carcano and simultaneously achieved 200 List Points on the Pointercrate Individual Stats Viewer.

Firework verification

Trick's popularity rose when he was announced as the new set verifier for Firework. When Trick became an official verifier, he had a copy of the level named 'Trick Firework Fix 3', on which he achieved 43%. He made further progress by getting runs such as 35-64%. Later, he got 53% on 17 April 2021. On 26 April, after three deaths on the level's last input, he beat Wasureta, making it his new hardest Demon. The next day, on 27 April, he showcased his final version of Firework. After the showcase, he achieved 60% on the level on 4 May.

On 14 June 2021, Trick achieved 69% on Firework, surpassing Kurumi's record, and made further progress with 49-100% and 33-100%. He would soon achieve 81% on 28 June. After super-buffing the level, he achieved 88% on 1 July. Ten days later, he became the first victor of Kuzureta.

On 11 August 2021, Trick achieved 91% on his super-buffed version of Firework, and on 22 September, he achieved a 24-100% run. Following this, he would slightly nerf the level. After 234,000 attempts, he verified the level on 29 October,

Post-Firework

On 1 February 2022, Trick completed The Golden; it was #8 at the time. His worst fail before completion was 93%. On 13 August, Trick beat Abyss of Darkness. The level was #2 at the time, and he became the first to beat it. On 19 September, he completed Slaughterhouse after about 50,000 attempts, with fails at 92% and 94%, becoming its fifth victor. The level was #1 at the time. On 15 October, he beat the #8 Demon at the time, Oblivion.

Trick finally beat Acheron on 25 February 2023, after failing at 98%, making it his hardest completion at that point.

On 12 March 2023, Trick verified KOCMOC. On 2 April, Trick became the third victor of Kyouki, which was #3 at the time. On 27 April, he completed Edge of Destiny. On 8 May, he became the third victor of Silent clubstep; it was #3 at the time as well. On 16 June, Trick rebeat KOCMOC after the level was updated and verified by Zoink on the same day.

On 23 October 2023, Trick uploaded his first progress video for Tidal Wave, in which he achieved 43%. Four days later, he got 62%. The next year, on 26 February, he achieved 73% and 29-100%. On 7 March 2024, 18 days after Tidal Wave was rated, Trick became its first victor, with nearly 70,000 attempts.

At the same time as making his Tidal Wave videos, Trick would beat Deimos by ItsHybrid on 7 November 2023. On the last day of that year, he completed VSC, the hardest challenge at the time. Next year, Avernus on 8 January, which was the hardest Demon at the time. On 31 January, Eyes in the Water, and a week later, The Hallucination. On 18 March, he beat Tunnel of Despair after about 12,000 attempts.

On 11 June 2024, Trick overtook Zoink as the #1 player on the Stats Viewer after Zoink's reign of 515 days. Trick had been beating List Demons in secret and submitted them all simultaneously to claim the #1 spot. After Trick overtook Zoink, the two players battled for the #1 spot for three months, overtaking each other back-to-back several times. During that time, on 21 June, Trick became the first victor of Centipede, an unrated Top 20 Demon at the time, after about 5,700 attempts. On 12 October, he became the first victor of Spectre, after 5,582 attempts. Since 14 November, Zoink has retained the #1 spot on the Stats Viewer. Trick said on stream on 5 November that he did not want to overtake Zoink again because of the egregious list-grinding and the game's general loss.

In 2025, on 7 January, Trick became the first victor of Apocalyptic Trilogy, the level he was previously set to verify, but due to drama and controversy surrounding him, the verification project was transferred to Polterghast. Before

On 12 February 2025, Trick made a video in which he said he was officially quitting the game due to partial burnout and a need to try new, unrelated things, such as expanding his passion for music and exploring himself. Trick said that he would stay in touch with the game and keep posting on his YouTube channel until he figures out which way exactly he wants to go. He also added that after he dropped the level, Amethyst would be verified by wPopoff.

Return and Aeternus

On 7 June 2025, Trick returned to top play, posting a completion of Anathema. In the video description, he explained that although he is still technically retired from list-grinding, he decided to keep playing top levels for his own enjoyment. Soon after, he would start streaming progress on Aeternus, a future Top 1 Demon.

On 14 June 2025, Trick uploaded his first Aeternus live stream. He has streamed Aeternus eight more times to date. At first, and as expected, his progress on the level was minimal, with the best runs achieving 91-100% and 80-85%. However, during the next stream, Trick achieved 88-100%, 88-98% and 80-89%. 17 June was a breakthrough in the progress, as Trick achieved 86-100% (almost beating Chill Guy's previous 84-100% record), 80-96%, 80-90% and 80-88%. On the same day, he also got 79-98% and 80-97%.

The next day, Trick achieved two runs of 80-98%. On 20 June, Trick achieved 71-90% and 71-89%. That same day, he got 71-92%, 71-87%, 71-90%, 71-89%, and 71-86%. On 21 June, Trick got 71-98%, a new best run, becoming a new world record. He also managed runs of 79-98%, 71-93%, and 71-90%. Two days later, he got 71-94%. That stream was the last progress update on Aeternus that Trick has provided.

On 12 August 2025, Trick completed Subterminal Point after about 4,500 attempts. On 16 August, he completed Waterfall after about 3,000 attempts. The next day, he beat Sevvend Clubstep. On 20 August, he beat KOSETSU after about 3,000 attempts.

On 28 September 2025, Trick streamed himself playing Flamewall with Doggie and achieved a best run of 24-57%.

On 1 November 2025, Trick started streaming Thinking Space II, the #1 level at the time. At the same time, he also rolled himself another level to beat, The Yangire, which he beat the next day. He accumulated four fails at 57% shortly after his first stream. He rolled another level to beat on 7 November, Every End; however, he played it off-stream. On 14 November, he failed six more times at 57% on Thinking Space II in one stream. Two days later, he finally got a new best of 62%. On 22 November, he revealed that he got 73% off-stream. The next day, he reached 78% off-stream; during this stream, he also failed at 77% twice. On 26 November, he reached 84%.

Trick kept streaming Thinking Space II until mid-December, and he announced he would take a break for his mental health. He would post one video three months later, doing dedicated 'Trick' challenge levels.

Trick later returned to streaming Thinking Space II on 20 June 2026. During this period, he also reacted to wPopoff verifying Society. On 28 June, he posted that he got a new best of 86% off-stream. He improved his best to 87% on 9 July. Two days later, he reached 93%. On 14 July, he got a 95% fail off-stream, and a few minutes later, he finally beat Thinking Space II.

Right after completing Thinking Space II, he went for the newly verified Top 1 level Society, already showing a new best of 27%. In his first stream, he reached 38%. In his third session, he reached the drop, getting 51%. On 5 August, he played andromeda.

A month later, after noticing wPopoff learning Flamewall, Trick decided to race him to beat Flamewall. Before the race, he had already gotten runs past 40% when he went for it, but he stopped playing so zLevii could become the first or second victor. His first major progress came on his second stream, when he achieved a new best of 52%. He later improved to 56%, then 57%. Meanwhile, he and Doggie both beat DOUBLE DYNAMO on 7 September. On 10 September, he managed to fluke from 57% to 84%. On 17 September, he got 87%, and later that day, offline, Trick beat Flamewall after a devastating 98% fail, winning the race. He is currently racing against Zoink to try and verify Heliopolis.

Controversies

• Lying about Tartarus attempts: On 13 December 2021, Trick uploaded a completion of Tartarus to his YouTube channel. This accomplishment was no surprise, as Trick is a highly skilled player to most community members. However, his attempt count of merely 11,358 raised suspicions, as it had taken him over 234,000 attempts to beat Firework, and the attempt record, held by Luqualizer, was still 17,000 attempts. After dice88 and a few others called him out on Twitter, he eventually confessed to lying about his attempt count. His response to the situation read: 'when I do something cool and exaggerate, my "dumba** self" decides it is the right idea.' He still legitimately beat Tartarus, but his actual attempt count was around 26,000. The drama died down shortly after.
• Taking 60Hz bugfix key during Abyss of Darkness completion: After beating Abyss of Darkness on 13 August 2022, people took notice after watching the completion video that Trick collected a 60Hz bugfix key that, on higher refresh rates, nerfs the ball timing at the beginning of MegaSkill's part. (Trick completed the level using 360FPS). Due to Trick not collecting the key for its intended purpose, some people believe this makes his completion of the level illegitimate.

Levels

Unrated levels

To be added soon.

Extreme Demon levels

• Firework (Star-rated) - A two-minute-long Extreme Demon mega-collaboration hosted by Vernam and created by the members of Cherry Team. It is also known as the level with the shortest time spent at #1 on the Demonlist, at 18 seconds.

Verified levels

• KOCMOC (Epic) - An Extreme Demon created by the members of Cherry Team, with its gameplay heavily inspired by Slaughterhouse. Trick originally verified the level, and Zoink later update-verified it.

Victor titles

1st victor

• Abyss of Darkness
• Apocalyptic Trilogy
• Centipede
• KOCMOC
• RUTHLESS
• Spectre
• Tidal Wave

2nd victor

• Acheron
• Avernus
• poocubed
• PSYCHOPATH
• Thinking Space II
• Tunnel of Despair

3rd victor

• Belladonna
• Deadlier Clubstep
• Deimos (ItsHybrid)
• Kyouki
• LIMBO
• Mayhem
• Silent clubstep
• The Lightning Rod

4th victor

• Edge of Destiny
• Flamewall

5th victor

• Aerial Gleam
• MINUSdry
• ORDINARY
• Slaughterhouse
• UNKNOWN

Nominations and awards

Received 5 nominations in The Geometry Dash Awards

Nominations

• Nominated in the 2021 Awards for Best Player
• Nominated in the 2022 Awards for Best Player
• Nominated in the 2023 Awards for Best Player
• Nominated in the 2024 Awards for Best Classic Player
• Nominated in the 2025 Awards for Best YouTuber as part of the TCD

Trivia

• Trick has garnered over 302,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.
• Trick was the sixth guest of The Dasher Podcast.
  • Trick was also the 14th guest of the Secret Way interviews.
• Trick has beaten Firework at least 11 times.
• At the time, Trick's verification of Firework held the record for the most attempts spent on successfully verifying a level, totalling around 234,000 attempts. However, Demishio has since surpassed this record by verifying his own level, Kyouki, which he also built solo, after 501,997 attempts.
• Trick had a copy of 'Trick Firework Fix 3', but it was later deleted from the servers.
• Firework had the #1 spot on the Demonlist for 18 seconds due to the combined rating with Slaughterhouse and arcturus on 29 October 2021.
  • Because of this, Firework currently holds the title for the shortest time spent at the #1 spot on the Demonlist.
• Trick originally verified KOCMOC, but Zoink verified the updated version.
• Trick formerly held the world record of 33% on the Top 1-difficulty level Misanthrope. It is now held by iIiLaseriIi, with 48%.
• Trick has expressed hatred over the ball-copter part in Anathema.
• Despite being declared 'retired', Trick has stated he wants to try and get his #1 spot back on the Stats Viewer.
• Trick has stated that he would go for FAIRY KNIFE HELL (a projected Top 1-5 level) if one of his videos reached 10,000 likes. The video reached the milestone two days later; however, Trick is currently grinding Heliopolis instead.