WHAT

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Template:Infobox Level WHAT is a 2.1 Hard 5* Epic level created and published by Spu7Nix and verified by AeonAir. The level is a spiritual sequel/successor to HOW, featuring much more elaborate 3D effects produced with external programming.

Gameplay

• 0-10%: The level begins with the player appearing as an actual grey cube and then a section containing multiple three-dimensional objects appears. This part is tricky to sight-read because some objects are platforms while some are not. There are indicators for when to jump, but they are hard to see and disappear as quickly as they appear. Memory may be required in this part. In the last segment, the player must jump onto a yellow pad after switching gravity between two blue pads. When launching from the yellow pad, the level will show the player turning into a 3D wave and transitioning into a representation of a third-person perspective.
• 10-29%: Now, as a wave, similar to the one in HOW, the player must travel through a circular tunnel-like structure with different coloured L-shapes while avoiding numerous cubes of obstacles. The final obstacle consists of two hollow shapes. When going through that obstacle, the level will show the obstacle facing forward, then zooming far out, transitioning into the next part
• 29-48%: The game-mode switches to a very unique-looking ship that has blue fire coming out of it (similar to how the engine is in the real Geometry Dash ship), and the player must manoeuvre between dodecahedrons and tesseracts of different colours. Then, the player enters a transition with their ship control taken away as the screen fades to white, with some minor effects.
• 48-66%: Once the screen has gone white, the white 'wall' covering the screen breaks into cubes, revealing a magenta background with more purple-ish cubes getting created. As the level's title appears on screen letter-by-letter in tune with the piano in the song, the background first pulses to an orangey red when 'W' appears on screen, then it pulses to a more yellow colour for the 'H', then green when the 'A' appears, and then teal (similar to the one used for the background of the first part of Time Machine) when the words 'WHAT' are finished. During all this, the 3D cubes move out, and there is a faded, white outline of the fourth default cube in the game. As the icon goes from a white outline to the normal cube coloured yellow and blue (the colours of it on the Geometry Dash app icon for all devices), the font of the 'WHAT' text constantly changes, and the background of the part, now black, splits in half to reveal the default background and ground, along with the gameplay for the next part (at least in the low detail version).
• 66-100%: This part is the only one where the gameplay changes if you have low-detail mode enabled, along with only requiring a single input. Once you click, the screen cuts between multiple different levels in sync with the music as the cube jumps in slow motion. The levels in order are:
  • WHAT (Low-Detail Mode)
  • Another World by FunnyGame
  • Lucid Dream by Dverry
  • Hallucion by Spu7nix
  • Bionic Belly by MisterM
  • Drift by G4lvatron
  • Colorful Sky by AbstractDark
  • Prism Break by ilrell
  • Fiji by nasgubb
  • Glyph by Optical
  • Image by Hyenada
  • Under by Serponge
  • Xalagy by Echonox
  • iSpyWithMyLittleEye by Voxicat
  • Metropolis by DesTicY
  • Azimuth by Knots
  • Tsuretette by Xenoteric
  • Sha by Vrymer
  • Sedulous by Samifying
  • Change of Scene by bli
  • Well Rested by cometface
  • White Space by Xender Game
  • HOW by Spu7nix
  • Bloodbath by Riot
  • W.I.P

Trivia

• The level contains 655,350 objects.
• The level received in honorable mention in GDToday's 100 Greatest Levels of All Time list. It was not featured in the top 100 due to it being unrated at the time.
• The song used for this level can also be found in the Japanese rhythm game Arcaea.
• Before Update 2.2, the high number of objects and triggers in the level would cause the game to crash on most devices. On Windows, playing the level requires a patch that allows the application to access 4GB of virtual memory. The required patch can be used on any 32-bit application and can be found here. Due to 2.2's optimisation and Geometry Dash now being a 64-bit application, the level would now be able to run without crashing on most devices.
• The low-detail mode version of this level stylises it after 1.6-1.8 levels.
• The beginning cube, wave, and ship parts replicate the game-modes using collision blocks and move triggers.
  • This is why the ship at 30% feels heavier than normal.
• The song used for the level is a special version of the song made for the level.