Editing Zoink (section)

===Heliopolis verification===
Zoink started playing Heliopolis after seeing various Twitter posts calling him out for playing 'easy' levels on the Demonlist and urging him to play a much more difficult level that would genuinely push, test, and likely improve his skill.<ref name="Heliopolis">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owc8PE11J9I</ref> What also might have contributed to him deciding to start playing Heliopolis is the large number of people on his live-streams asking him if he would try or verify the level.

On 27 April 2026, Zoink would start playing the level simply for fun and to see how far he could get from 0% in a day.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQc2gyaXNnQ</ref> During his stream, he got past 21% and achieved 16-28%, all in just 2,969 attempts. Seeing how fast Zoink progressed, with the beginning of the level being more difficult than the later parts, a large number of people started urging him to verify the level and claim the $10,700 bounty placed by MindCap.<ref>https://x.com/Polterghast/status/2048881111082631604</ref>

On day 2, Zoink set a new best of 24% and then a new record of 26%, all in 5,988 overall attempts.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c2-gCm4nF4</ref> On day 3, he would try making runs in the second, easier half of the level,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GhnBPui7wU</ref> meanwhile also setting a new best of 29%, passing the UFO with 8,357 overall attempts. On day 4, he managed to achieve 82-100%, 77-100%, 60-100%, 27-44%, and 49-79% on the level that day, beating it in five runs after 11,020 overall attempts.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7dQywnEpRU</ref> On 2 May 2026, he got a new best of 32%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSSuGmmgnFI</ref> He also did 27-63% that day, beating Heliopolis in three runs after 14,613 overall attempts. Zoink would then work towards achieving 49-100%. On 3 May, despite falling sick, he still achieved 32% again, with 37-85%, 10-48%, 24-56%, 49-80%, and 49-96%, across 17,086 attempts.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbssxQafBuA</ref> Finally, on 5 May 2026, Zoink managed to tie the 49-100% (48-100% using pre-2.2 percentages) world record committed by Abdieldevil.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MtbPcNE8ls</ref> His other good runs consisted of 49-98%, 27-63%, 30%, and 34%.

On 7 May 2026, Zoink announced that he would attempt to verify Heliopolis.<ref name="Heliopolis"/> However, this announcement caused an uproar in the Twitter community, with various players looking down on Zoink, seeing him as a 'thief' of the verification despite only Abdieldevil and garbag having given the level a serious shot, and both of them standing in support of Zoink and wishing him the best of luck on the verification.<ref>https://x.com/Abdieldevil/status/2052255098026226057</ref><ref>https://x.com/gaarbaagee/status/2052897598231486660</ref>

After this verification announcement, Zoink later reached 37% and 40% in the next stream,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFwje54dkvY</ref> then 27-65%, 37-89%, and 33-78%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhI_E3d2u_E</ref> Just the next stream, on 10 May 2026, Zoink did 37-100%, essentially beating the level in two runs in just 25,581 attempts.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U0NPdsK8s4&t=5863s</ref> Another stream later, he got 39%,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G2YtcCsomI&t=2455s</ref> and the next stream, another 39%, as well as the second 40%, and a run of 16-56%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChEgrjt3B7M</ref> On 13 May, he increased the record to 41%, and then finally set a new world record of 47%, tying the record set by garbag but going further by a few decimals.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjljMHsrgA&t=5342s</ref> The next stream, he got 46% and a record run of 27-73%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChUgKt50U8</ref> On 17 May, he attempted to play Heliopolis with CBF, as he did in the first stream. In that stream, he got another 47%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA_UBLKooaA&t=1052s</ref> On 28 May 2026, Zoink took a break from streaming until 4 June, as he would go outside his town. Zoink returned from his break and, on 7 June, set a new world record of 51%, reaching the spider part.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hld_6Bmzu8M</ref>

After that achievement and a couple more streams, Zoink would take a break from Heliopolis and move on to other ventures. During his first stream of beating Snowbound on 15 July 2026, he mentioned that Heliopolis would receive an update in August with buffs and fixes.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHi5p7nACps&t=1325s</ref>