Heliopolis at 85%: Zoink closes in on a new top 1 verification
After roughly 72,000 attempts on MindCap's extreme demon, his best run got its own upload and passed half a million views within a day.
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HELIOPOLIS 85% (Top 1)
"HELIOPOLIS 85% (Top 1)" is not a completion, and it did not need to be. Zoink cut his best run on MindCap's level out of the livestreams and posted it on its own. In less than a day it gathered close to 600,000 views, more than anything else he put up all week.
The description explains why the run matters to him. He finally got past the ball section and, in his words, fluked the hardest clicks of the UFO part. He calls it his hardest achievement in Geometry Dash so far. He puts the count at about 72,000 attempts and around 70 hours of play, spread across an old version of the level and a new one. He also spends a paragraph on MindCap: he feels bad that Heliopolis is so often measured against Grief, and asks viewers to give each level its own credit. He says he does not know which one is harder, and that working it out is not his goal. His goal is to verify a new top 1.
The comments mostly picture MindCap watching it happen. Others predict an incoming wave of Geometry Dash shorts and news channels, or joke about where Tidal Wave will land on the list once Heliopolis is beaten.
The rest of the week was the grind itself. Four livestreams carried "HELIOPOLIS" in their titles, ending with one labeled "FINAL STRETCH," and there was a lighter detour too: a 100 Life Challenge in the recent tab, where he beat Denouement, an idea he credits to EricVanWilderman. All of it pushed his daily views to nearly three times their usual level, and the channel added 10,000 subscribers. Among streaming channels of his size, Stable Ronaldo Live had the largest week, JasonTheWeen and vinesauce are also running hot, and Vortrox is quieter than usual. For Zoink, the remaining 15% of Heliopolis is the whole story.
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- Channel
- Zoink
- Subscribers
- 1,350,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,052,562
- Videos published this week
- 7
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 590,398
The numbers
Here is how Zoink's channel and videos moved over the past seven days.
💡 Test your knowledge
In Geometry Dash, which difficulty rating sits at the very top of the scale?
Demon is the game's highest difficulty rating, and it is split into tiers that run up to Extreme Demon, the tier where levels like Heliopolis belong.
