Not to be confused with Cyrillic or the level of the same name by Experience D.
Cyclic is a popular and skilled South Korean player, level creator and former hacker in Geometry Dash who quit on 5 March 2016 but returned on 16 July 2016. He had beaten numerous Demons, the most notable being Cataclysm, ICE Carbon Diablo X, Poltergeist, Necropolis, Acropolis, UltraSonic and The Ultimate Phase. Cyclic is the verifier of Galatic Fragility. He also verified the first version of A Bizarre Phantasm (the second version of the level was verified by GoodSmile). He is the creator of the infamous Extreme Demon Sonic Wave (however, he hacked the level's verification and Sunix became the person to verify it legitimately).
History[]
Cyclic started his YouTube account in 2012 but only started to upload Geometry Dash content in 2014. He uploaded basic Geometry Dash completions and made a video on the GW YouTube account where he beat Super Cycles. During the start of 2015, Cyclic began improving as a player and progressing on some extremely difficult levels.
Before his name was Cyclic, he was a sparsely posting user under several names, such as GW Frozen. He was an avid star-grinder and posted pictures of him in the Top 100, along with others like saRy, who also documented his star rating due to how close they were on the rankings. It did not take long for Cyclic to begin dominating the scene, starting in April 2015.
On 19 April 2015, he posted his first screenshot of Cataclysm, reaching 50%, seen as ground-breaking at the time. He began to progress further, but along the way, he started grinding a few Demons, including Windy Landscape and Blue Marine, still seen as insane achievements at the time. On 28 April, he finally beat Cataclysm after over 15,000 attempts. That same day, he achieved 69% on Necropolis, one of the hardest Demons at the time. He took little time to complete it, and on 10 May 2015, he completed Necropolis in almost 4,000 attempts.
Even more surprisingly, he quickly took on The Ultimate Phase and beat it in five days, taking almost 5,000 to do so on 15 May. Four days after, he completed DeCode, Breakthrough, Dr Raszagal Phoenix, and Alphabet X, all of which were considered as Hard-Insane Demons at the time.
Before May 2015, Cyclic uploaded a QnA to his YouTube channel, and one notable question he answered was, 'What's your hardest demon?' A seemingly obvious question to many, Cataclysm, of course. However, he had responded with 'The Hell Zone.' No one remembered this level as it only existed during 1.4 and 1.5, shadowing many of the newer mobile and PC players' introductions to the game. This level would eventually be remade in February 2016.
On 21 May 2015, he beat Swing Squad and The Shredder, two notably difficult Demons at the time. Starting on 23 May 2015, he began to grind ICE Carbon Diablo X, reaching 66%. When Riot beat it, Cyclic wrote in a forum post that he was happy he completed it, showing even in the rivalry that both were friendly.
Two days later, on 25 May 2015, he beat ICE Carbon Diablo X, taking over 7,000 attempts. He was the third to complete it, behind Riot and Andromeda (at the time was still considered legitimate). Before Sonic Wave appeared, Cyclic kept grinding Demons, including UltraSonic and worked on verifying his collaboration level Demon Fortress from 31 May to 19 June.
On 20 June 2015, Cyclic began to progress in beating Sonic Wave (light blue). He got to 30% and, on the next day, posted a forum post showing he had verified the level and showed the comments page. The verification video was reportedly lost after Cyclic posted a cut video and said in the description that it was cut. The verification was later proven to be hacked. He did not stop with Sonic Wave, but before that, he completed a few more Demons, including Death Moon and verifying his level Lunar Intoxication.
Cyclic then held a poll determining the new update's colours for Sonic Wave, with dark blue winning the majority. Cyclic now had a new level to tackle and progress on 16 July 2015, reaching 31%. It did not take long for him to make quick progress, and eventually beat it on 20 July 2015, marking the level as the hardest Demon at the time, taking the throne away from Bloodbath pre-verification.
Cyclic began receiving hate comments thrown at both his video and level due to the rampant hacking suspicion during the latter half of July and August. After grinding more levels, Sonic Wave was inexplicably changed to a Back on Track remake (known commonly as Cyclic on Track) and deleted every unrated level. Due to the sudden change, Sonic Wave was promptly unrated, and Cyclic deleted it shortly after the second week of August.
While Sonic Wave was gone, he still played the game, verifying Galatic Fragility for TeamSmokeWeed. However, his playtime would cut short after he quit in early September 2015, putting out a final video and closing his YouTube account.
He would not resurface until 16 November 2015, when Water posted a video about him returning and many others praising Cyclic for returning.[1] He began to play for a good bit until he posted on his community page stating he had to quit for studies, which did not last long. He still played Demons in the final days of December 2015, and in January 2016, he fully returned into high gear, verifying A Bizarre Phantasm on 19 January 2016. He then rebeat Cataclysm for the new update on 24 January 2016.
Cyclic started to grind Demons once again, notably beating Fake A Doom, Sparklic Ocean and getting 98% on Night Terrors.
On 23 February 2016, Cyclic began to preview The Hell Zone, a remake of the ill-fated 1.2 level of the same name as Sohn0924. He made fast progress and 'verified' it on 25 February 2016.[2] However, many people noticed cuts in the video after slowing down the footage at certain parts.
On 5 March 2016, he confessed to hacking The Hell Zone and Sonic Wave with this message:[3]
| “ | Sorry that I can't make a confession video because this computer doesn't have windows moviemaker.
I used verify hack to verify The Hell Zone. Both 1st and 2nd version. For the video, I used 4 cuts. One at Koreaqwer's first part (the transition), one at 31%, one at 36%, one at the end of the level (just before the icon disappears) (this was to make look like verified with the same attempt as the beginning) Now I verified the 3rd version legit but I don't have a video cause I gave my laptop to my sister and I can only use a computer which all my family members use it and I can't record it cause of lag. You don't have to believe me because I don't deserve it. I'm very sorry that I tried to trick all geometry dash players and I'm especially sorry to my collab members: 1234, Koreaqwer, and Ryan LC. I had only 3 days left till my sister takes my laptop so I tried to verify in 3 days but I couldn't so I used verify hack. And for sonic wave. Yes I hacked that level too. I was so scared about what will happen if I admit it so I kept denying. First and second version were both hacked but the stream was real. (First version was verify hack and second one was speedhack) I lied about this for many months and I'm very sorry. I'm really regretting now and again, I'm so sorry for what I have done. My YouTube channel will be inactive until I come back after highschool graduate. (My activity on geometry dash will be only beating secret way levels when I see them on YouTube or gmdw) I will be streaming after I come back with a new computer. And again, I'm very sorry to all geometry dash players and all people who believed me. |
” |
―Cyclic | ||
The Skype conversation where Cyclic admitted to hacking and/or splicing all of his levels.
The day afterwards, Riot posted a Skype chat video between him and Cyclic. Cyclic said he hacked or cut every video/level on his YouTube channel, and all of his streams were prerecorded (whether this is true or not is unknown). After the 'double' confession, he deleted his YouTube, Skype, Twitch and Geometry Dash account. He said he would get a new computer and start streaming when he returns. His statement may have been a lie, and he just wanted to leave the community forever because there were no signs of hacking or splicing (except in The Hell Zone).
In July 2016, Cyrillic, Wabbit and Aquatias gave his original name back requested by Cyclic.
On 16 July 2016, Cyclic remade his YouTube channel.
As of January 2017, Cyclic officially returned with a 144Hz monitor and started streaming on Twitch. He had gotten Sonic Wave Infinity from Riot, who had quit around this time. He ended up dropping it. The verification went through several verifiers up to Xanii, who eventually verified the level.
But once again, he quit Geometry Dash with a comment left on his last Geometry Dash video titled 'beating Aqueous by WOOGI1411 on stream.' In the comment, he stated his reasoning for quitting Geometry Dash again (written mostly in Korean, this is his English translation):
| “ | You must have heard that I'm quitting this game if you saw N2's video. There are lots of reasons for this and I don't have a video to upload so I will just list it here.
1. Geometry Dash is too boring. 2. This game has very nice security. [Sarcasm] 3. Robtop gives advantages to his friends. (You guys might not understand but lots of Koreans think this a big problem) 4. I'm not sure but I might retake the Korean SAT test. I didn't go to a bad university but I just want to get in to a better university |
” |
―Cyclic | ||
As of 5 November 2020, Cyclic has again returned to the game, even streaming himself playing Bloodbath and posting completions of levels like Free Stars by Sminx and Wily by PG1004.
Levels[]
Unrated levels[]
- Unnamed 0
- Virtual World
Demon levels[]
Hard Demon levels[]
- Lunar Intoxication (starred) - A level he created after being accused of beating Sonic Wave illegitimately and was reverified in 2022.
Insane Demon levels[]
- Ice cream (starred) - His first Demon level that was deleted but reuploaded in 2022 when Cyclic returned to the game.
Cancelled/deleted levels[]
- Invisible Clubstep - An invisible version of Clubstep and Cyclic's first featured Demon. It was easy before 2016 when it got buffed.
- Invisible Clutterfunk - An invisible version of Clutterfunk.
- Invisible Time Machine - An invisible version of Time Machine.
- Invisible xStep - An invisible version of xStep.
- Sonic Wave - A blue-themed Extreme Demon remake of Nine Circles known for extremely tight spaces and difficult gameplay. He was exposed for hacking the level's verification, and the level was deleted. Sunix verified it legitimately on 25 November 2016, writing history. However, this has caused drama because Sunix made a deal that Riot would verify Sonic Wave first, which he later broke.
- The Hell Zone - A redesign of the original level by Sohn0924 by 1234, Koreaqwer, Ryan LC and Cyclic. Cyclic used to use verification hacks and spliced the video. He claimed to have beaten it legitimately but not recorded it, then later admitted to hacking it. A player named Cypher pointed out all the cuts in the verification video. Stormfly verified it legitimately, and he published it onto his account and also slightly nerfed Cyclic's part, but it did not get rated until February 2017.
Upcoming levels[]
- Misanthrope - An upcoming Extreme Demon mega-collaboration hosted by Brittank88.
Collaborations participated in[]
- Artificial Ideology - A Team N2 Extreme Demon mega-collaboration verified by knobbelboy.
- Cosmic Cyclone - An Extreme Demon mega-collaboration being the official sequel to Sonic Wave.
- Dance of the Violins - An old 2.0 Extreme Demon mega-collaboration published by DrayTM. It was verified by WatchPiggy with improved decoration and visuals to some parts.
- Demon Fortress - An unrated collaboration level.
- Sonic Wave - A former Top 1 Extreme Demon Nine Circles level that Cyclic made the entire gameplay and decoration of it. However, it was verified by Sunix, and the level is published on Sunix's account.
- Tartarus - A former Top 1 Extreme Demon mega-collaboration hosted by Riot and verified by Dolphy.
- The Hell Zone - An Extreme Demon collaboration that Cyclic originally hack-verified. It has now been reverified and published on Stormfly's account.
- The Ultimate Phase - An Extreme Demon mega-collaboration hosted and verified by Andromeda.
- Gust Dive - An Insane Demon mega collaboration hosted by WOOGI1411.
Nominations and awards[]
- Placed 25th in GDToday's 100 Greatest Levels of All Time List with Sonic Wave
Trivia[]
- He used a rabbit-themed texture pack created by Gelt.[4]
- The rabbit cube icon of that texture pack that was associated with Cyclic was officially added to 2.2 as a reward for beating 500 Demons.
- He used to use the up key to play Geometry Dash on his PC, but it broke after a while, so he swapped to the spacebar instead (he said he did not have a mouse on stream). He said on YouTube that 'spacebars sucks for him.' He has since gotten his hands on a mouse and uses it to play at all times.
- Cyclic tends to put the tag '#RespectWOOGI' in the videos of his levels made by WOOGI1411, who tends to comment the tag '#RespectCyclic' in return.
- Cyclic used to make his video descriptions merely say '.' but no longer does this usually. One time, he put 'qqftt' instead of putting '.'
- Cyclic vs Riot has been a subject of debate for a long time.
- Cyclic, if not hacking these levels, was the first player to complete Cataclysm and The Ultimate Phase legitimately.
- Cyclic is the creator of Sonic Wave, an incredibly difficult Nine Circles level. After being unable to prove he did not hack to verify it, he replaced it with his Back on Track remake, Cyclic on Track. People argued about Cyclic hacking Sonic Wave, but he admitted it on 4 March 2016.
- Cyclic confessed that he hacked to beat The Hell Zone and Sonic Wave.
- Despite his confession, Riot did not seem to believe he hacked every major level he played.
- He is the first person to have beaten A Bizarre Phantasm legitimately, followed by GiGas.
- As of 5 March 2016, he has made his levels free levels but suddenly removed them altogether.
- He initially made a part in Yatagarasu, but he was eventually kicked out and then replaced by Manix648.
- Cyrillic uploaded an early, incomplete version of the level with his part on his account.
- During the time he quit Geometry Dash from March to July 2016, Cyclic had probably played on another account named Kerwan. This instance appears in WOOGI1411's collaboration Gust Dive, where Cyclic's name appears, but in an earlier version, 'Kerwan' appears instead.
- Cyclic has, a few times, ranked first on the global leaderboards in 2015, usually swapping the Top 5 with earlier players. They include LunarSimg (who quit in early 2.0 but returned since), 3xotiC (possibly a hacker), zNymo98 (who is still somewhat active but has lost his stats in 2.0 and is now only playing for fun) and saRy (a well known, extremely skilled and somewhat mysterious player and creator of the notorious Red World; saRy had suddenly left in very early 2.0; however, he made an account proving that he tried Update 2.0, and there is some evidence suggesting that he had also hacked).
- Following Riot's retirement from Geometry Dash, Cyclic was given the task of verifying Sonic Wave Infinity, a buffed version of the original Sonic Wave with new decorations by Viprin. He dropped the verification. The project was transferred to APTeam for a complete overhaul, and it was verified by Xanii.
- Cyclic had two old accounts named Egoist and MashiMario. These accounts are now owned by Wabbit and Aquatias.
Videos[]
Cyclic's confession message
Cyclic's confession to hacking The Hell Zone and Sonic Wave. Credits to Hyversal (reupload).
Geometry Dash - All of Cyclic's levels
A showcase of all of Cyclic's levels. Credits to Stormfly.
-Legends Series- Cyclic
The documentary of Cyclic. Credits to Sea.