Editing Heliopolis (section)

===Verification race===
====Pre-open verification====
MindCap's full showcase of Heliopolis announced Pablohh as the verifier, saying he had already reached 27% on the level. MindCap also said that Pablohh wanted to verify it on 240Hz. On the same day, he uploaded his progress to his YouTube channel.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snbDRkT0qx4</ref> On 31 October, he reached 36%<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SEl4jjpsCk</ref> and later set a record of 39%.

However, on 16 February 2024, MindCap announced that Pablohh had dropped the level and given the verification to Jif, who had achieved 46%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgKVwFJYYzE</ref> On 20 April, Jif announced he was kicked from the verification due to demotivation.<ref>https://x.com/JifStuff/status/1781649541139177896</ref> MindCap passed the verification to Draxit III, but he dropped it after being unable to do the last wave. MindCap then passed it secretly to another verifier.

On 14 November, MindCap revealed the secret verifier in a joke tweet, Thnnder, who has spent over 108,000 attempts on the level.<ref>https://x.com/MindCap/status/1856869317469495720</ref> Thnnder had teased his secret project six days before.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxGpe1O_UZRFgZZidnfx9n6iZHK8O2Ie47</ref> Later that day, Thnnder officially revealed his verification project and his progress run of 60-100% on the super-buffed version of the original unnerfed copy of the level.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G08eCti1e68</ref> He later achieved 17% and a run of 49-87%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQLEFiJ9a98</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-hg3r25hMs</ref>

However, after a stroke and accompanying finger pain, Thnnder temporarily quit the game on 8 March 2025 and dropped the level. Meanwhile, Abdieldevil picked up the level and began making progress, achieving a 27-50% run and a 48-100% run for the second time.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_qyQmvfF0</ref> Before he picked up the level, he got 48-100% on Thnnder's version.

On 27 May, MindCap released a video showcasing the number of frame-perfects in the level.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et78md9-hoM</ref> Additionally, he announced up to three open verifier slots for anyone to join Abdieldevil for verification.

After becoming the second victor of [[Every End]], garbag picked up the level soon after and joined the race. He quickly made progress from 0%. On 20 September, he reached 28%, becoming the first player to pass Spamdrew128's UFO part.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKBxvqtQyl4</ref> His current record was 31%, achieved on 17 December.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsiaBlobyOc</ref> Abdieldevil took back the record with 32% on the level on 19 December.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCPIBzBpRMs</ref> Additionally, he set a record run of 38-95% on 29 January 2026.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFFZ9rKU0h4</ref> garbag tied the record at 32% on 18 February, although he failed earlier than Abdieldevil.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4iQIEBQU1c</ref> garbag extended the record by a fluke to 39% on 24 February.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VphXNq993xM</ref>

On 11 March, MindCap posted an update on Heliopolis's status. He implied he would make Heliopolis an open verification on 25 March to make up for the level's long release time, while also competing with other upcoming top levels (e.g., GRIEF, [[Angelicide]], KOCMOC Unleashed, etc.).

====Open verification and Zoink====
On 25 March 2026, MindCap uploaded a video announcing Heliopolis's open verification. He stated that it would be continually buffed to be harder than any other verified Top 1 until Heliopolis is verified.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSoIN-hlHQk</ref> In addition, MindCap set a bounty starting at $2,000 USD for the verifier. The bounty was opened on a [https://ko-fi.com/heliopolis_bounty Ko-fi page] to allow community donations to raise the bounty with a maximum cap of $10,000 USD. The bounty reached $10,700 USD in less than a day and a half after MindCap released the video.<ref>https://x.com/MindCap/status/2037374541748412718?s=20</ref>

Since then, on 6 April, garbag extended the lead again, reaching a record of 47%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u5aQmb7Ofw</ref> On 13 April, Abdieldevil achieved a run of 38-97%, nearly going from the second half of the robot to the end.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JKtUBz2VpQ</ref>

On 27 April, Zoink started playing Heliopolis and achieved runs of 34% and 49-100% within a week.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MtbPcNE8ls</ref> On 7 May, Zoink announced that he would officially try to verify Heliopolis.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owc8PE11J9I</ref> He later reached 37% and 40% in the next stream.

On 10 May, Zoink set a world-record run of 37-100%, making him the first player to beat Heliopolis in two runs.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U0NPdsK8s4&t=5872s</ref> He would get 39% twice and another 40% in the next two streams until 13 May, when he increased the record to 41% and then finally set a new world record, tying garbag's 47% record but going further by a few decimals.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjljMHsrgA&t=5342s</ref> He later set a new record of 27-73% in the next stream.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChUgKt50U8&t=510s</ref>

On 17 May, he would attempt to play Heliopolis with the Click Between Frames (CBF) mod, 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, Zoink took a break from streaming until 4 June, as he went outside his town.

Zoink returned to streaming and, on 7 June, set a new world record of 51%, becoming the first person to reach the spider part.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hld_6Bmzu8M</ref>

====Other people's progress====
[https://www.youtube.com/@theopex5468 theopex58], one of the last remaining participants in [[npesta|npesta's]] '100 Pros vs Heliopolis' event, would post his 26% run on 16 April 2026.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a_s0Bs3eS0</ref> Despite his elimination from the challenge, he kept grinding the level. On 28 April, he achieved 31% after 93,000 attempts.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXbFDw6LdGU</ref> On 26 May, he uploaded a video in which he beat Heliopolis in four runs: 31%, 27-56%, 49-77%, and 77-100%.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1_mSmOzT5E</ref>

Another player, iIiLaseriIi, achieved a run of 48-100% on Heliopolis.<ref name="iIiLaseriIi">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAJ5duD7yo</ref>

Bradenbowl completed Heliopolis in three runs as of 9 August 2026.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidHuhySUmg</ref>