Can’t wait to jump from The Lightning Road to The Lightning Rod!

I'd say since GD is a platformer of sorts, jumping is generally a good idea if you want to beat any level

I like jumping, it keeps my legs in shape.

The answer is play what you want to play

I like jumping, that is how I beat the level jumper

Pro tip jump - Robtop

from toe2 to tidal wave

honestly not jumping was the best decision i ever made. When my hardest was a medium demon i wanted to beat cerebral torment and no luck. Threw easily over 10,000 attempts into it without passing 50%. After beating a bunch of Hards and 4 Insanes, i got to working on my first extreme (Glisten) and beat it in an incredibly short amount of time. From me, I do NOT recommend jumping. You'll have a LOT more fun just playing at your skill level.

As somebody jumping from a hard demon to Acu, only do it if you have the time and patience

So many good points here. I think the reason people jump all comes down to impatience. They want to have the thrill of beating a truly difficult level, but they don’t want to go through the steps required to achieve such a thing. Then, because so many other people are jumping with moderate success, it enforces the idea that jumping is the best way to get you better at the game. Equally, (at least for really big jumps) I would say it’s for attention. I’d be lying if I said that my current jump I’m attempting from Glacier 15 to mobile Kuzureta isn’t at least partially for attention. Making an insane jump like this, I can already tell you, can be incredibly demotivating. It’s so easy to feel burnt out after a big jump in difficulty, because even if your jump was successful, you won’t have the skills and fundamental knowledge to continue afterwords. If you jump from an Easy Demon to Acu and then attempt a Hard Demon, you’ll probably have an extremely tough time with that hard demon. That’s because making a jump usually means forcing every section of the level to be engraved into your muscle memory until you eventually beat it, instead of having the already developed skills.

its honestly the same with creating levels. i tend to get stuck needing to make the best level in the game instead of improving my creation skill methodically and it very quickly burns me out

I'm jumping from Sunset Sandstorm to LIMBO. I have 80% and 18-100, and I'm getting getting to the halfway point multiple times a day. However, it's taken over 150,000 attempts across nearly 2 years, and I'm incredibly burned out. It is exhausting to play this level and it's killed my desire to continue improving at GD. Anyone considering going a massive jump, please consider otherwise.

Hercs is probably shaking rn 💀

I jumped from ultra violence to magma bound and now im going magma bound to artificial ascent wish me luck

I never found jumping to be the beat way of improving, as gradually improving is a lot more sustainable. I literally had 14 insane demons before my first extreme.

I still remember that one time someone got 92% on AA jumping from Stereo Madness. That would've been one of the most batshit insane jumps this community has ever seen imo

You make a lot of good points in this video that I probably should have listened to when I decided to jump, but my reasons for jumping outweigh them imo. I wanted to jump from nc to bb because I died around 80 in Crazy II and felt very impatient and demotivated to play it, as it was unbalanced and the beginning destroyed me. So I started bb and somewhere through there I ended up deciding that I would just jump to stay interested in the game. As it stands currently, I have beaten bb and I am now on bloodlust, making good progress, with plans of zodiac and then acheron. I will probably never end up getting that far as motivation's running low rn, but thats me. Great advice on jumping, and I agree with a lot of things you said. Don't jump.

It’s like the phrase: Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime. Choosing to jump is giving a single fish, you beat a hard level, but you don’t have the skill to beat more, but if you practice up to the level you need to be at, you’ll do better at beating multiple hard levels.

The level should give a challenge to the player if he wants to become a better player. It’s better to go through a level that is difficult for me, but at least feels like it’s possible for me. No need to go through 40 demons between cataclysm And bloodbath. It'll be too slow. It is necessary to greatly increase the difficulty, but not to crazy levels. This will happen in any skill where you can progress. “You need to get out of your comfort zone and start taking action”

I jumped from fairydust to wasureta (on mobile) and here's what i can share: -doing this massive of a jump really boosted my RAW SKILL as i went on to do 60-100 on kyouki on 2 runs on mobile. But the problem is consistency and speed is also a factor in being a good player in this game, and those two factors will be left behind if you're gonna do a massive jump. It still took me months to beat bloodbath even tho I was already a wasureta victor. -jumping is a huge time commitment, so unless you wanna play the same level 7 hrs a day for months or even up to more than a year, don't jump. -Beating the level you want to jump to is not the end if the story. You need to ride the momentum you've gained from jumping and continue to beat levels around (preferably higher) the difficulty of the level you've jumped to while having your consistency lagging behind as I stated in the first point. you can't really take a break after you beat the level cus when you lose that momentum, it's gonna be hard to get back on track again. -it's often not a fun experience. you need to love the level you wanna jump to so much so it counter acts the mental stress and annoyance the experience will give you -it didn't give me the ability to beat easy demons in under a hundred attempts -there's gonna be a lot of days where you just think of stopping or just wanting to quit the game entirely

It's sad this even needs to be said, good on you for sitting down and actually making the case Another thing I'd like to point out is moreso about consecutive hardests I've seen some people who don't seem to understand that your hardest alone doesn't determine how a new hardest will go For instance, say your top 3 is Bloodbath, Acu and Subterranean Animism Beating SPEEDRUN is gonna be a heck of a lot harder than if your top 3 is Bloodbath, Artificial Ideology and The Hell Factory Equally, let's say you just beat Bloodbath as a new hardest and it took 6 months Beating SPEEDRUN immediately after is gonna be a heck of a lot harder than if Bloodbath took you a week, assuming that wasn't a fluke Some people just seem to think that, even if they spent months on clearing something, their skill level just automagically teleports to that of the map they just cleared

Well you have to jump hundreds of times to beat any level with cube, so I would say it’s worth it.

yeah i've been jumping from ispy to an insane demon for about 5 months, been doing pretty good. I approve of jumping

I almost jumped from an upper end medium demon to Glisten. I did this just because I wanted to play Glisten and it fit my skill set with no other reasons. I ended up beating Toe lll before I beat Glisten, but easy hard to easy extreme is still a decently big jump. I don’t regret jumping.

hello! jumper here (wasureta first extreme, which was main list when i completed it) i think something that’s really important you didn’t really mention is how jumping ruins your skillset by becoming good only on the levels similar to the one you jumped to. This can be fixed, but will still show after a long time, since now my hardest is tartarus and i still am a lot better at fast paced levels, like wasu. If that’s not important to you, i would say go on and jump, it was my best experience in this game to date and will (most likely) give a lot of satisfaction!

Verity to windy landscape

My first "jump was when I jumped from Platinum Adventure to Puzzle Trials, an INSANE DEMON. I beat it in a week. Most of the difficulty in Puzzle Trials comes from the intense memory aspects, and the only hard part for me was timings, which didn't take long to get used to. That's why I don't consider that low end easy to low end insane to be an actual "jump."

Tbh, as someone who plays this game very casually (and with that I mean sometimes don't play for months, sometimes play a few hours a week and sometimes grind my ass off). I always wanted to complete Cataclysm, which was the hardest level in the game when I found out the game was bigger than just the original levels. Back then it seemed impossible to me that someone could ever complete it legit, until Riot did. Then, about a year ago. I had like 2 old insane demons, supersonic and windy landscape, completed. Not the hardest insane demons, probably around the easier half. After that, I didn't know what to do next, so, for fun, I did a practice run of Cataclysm. And instead of spamming checkpoints to to get 2 pixels futher, I could actually do specific parts after a few attempts. So, instead of the level feeling like it would feel when I would try a Tidal Wave practice run now. It actually felt doable. I started practicing the level and a 2 months later, I completed both old Cataclysm (because this was the version I grew up with) and new Cataclysm (because I want an actual extreme). So imo, only 'jump' to a specific level when you feel like the level is actually in your skill range, and don't jump for the sake of jumping, even though every click of the level feels impossible to complete. So I'm going to complete Tidal Wave next, see you later!

The first completion I ever recorded was an Insane Demon, i think before then I hadn’t really played GD to grind hard levels, so technically a jump from like Change of Scene or smth like that. Then again I had been playing for like 5 years before then so I might’ve been a bit better than the average player jumping from an easy to insane demon 😭

was doin' small jumps like section to nine circles, and nine circles to windy landscape, but in all honesty even doing small jumps like that just took the fun out of GD for me, and now i'm back to just playing whatever i like that KNOW i can beat and improving at different skills n' such and it honestly just makes gd funner

This was a really helpful video I've been starting the gddp and was considering jumping up to a medium or hard demon, but considering my wave skill is terrible, yea that wouldn't turn out well. I'll just keep playing where I'm at

I feel like a lot of complaints about "awkward gameplay/clicks" would be lesser if people didn't jump because when you jump to a really hard level you get really good at one specific click pattern so when the gameplay differs from this click pattern people complain. ImO awkward gameplay doesn't exist, but unadapted skill sets do.

As someone who benefits quite a bit from jumping myself, I see your points honestly. I think that quite a lot of the time, jumping isn't helpful and can actually tarnish the enjoyment of a lot of players- Though I think it really depends on the person. Kind of like I said at the start of this comment, I benefit from jumping a lot myself. I'm very slow to absorb new information- Or, a better explanation of what I mean, absorbing new information can be overwhelming and exhausting for me- Not just that, but routine, consistency, and things staying the same are really what I enjoy (most likely due to the fact that I'm autistic). I have had a lot of players tell me that I am objectively wrong for jumping, and that natural progression is like a one-size fits all kind of a thing that is objectively the best, but I really don't think that's the case- I have tried natural progression before, but my progression is much slower and way less enjoyable to me than if I were to spend time grinding one specific, much harder level. I actually enjoy and benefit from spending extraordinarily large amounts of effort on one specific level. I think from what I've heard from the community, jumping is not at all for everyone, likely not something that will benefit most- However, I do think it's important to keep in mind that everyone plays the game differently and there is no objective best way to play/learn that applies to everyone.

atleast for me i went from beating duelo maestro to practicing moment, just practicing the level has made me so much better and also changed my mentality for grinding harder levels out of your skill range

I did jump from (what I would consider) a hard demon to an extreme demon but I didn't really do it the traditional way. I played a bunch of levels in between but never actually put in the time to finish them. I kinda did the same when I jumped from subsonic to kowareta (kowareta was top 10 and subsonic was about to fall of the main list at the time) and my advice in retrospect is that you really should do levels in between. Even if you use my strategy instead of just grinding one level until completion and "jump" by getting skill from other levels there is the whole mental game you have to play to beat gd levels and for me at least, that has always been my biggest struggle. Put in the time and effort to be able to overcome those moments when the level feels inconsistent and impossible to do even though you've spent so much time and practice on it because those moments will always happen in this game and if you can't learn to continue through them you won't get too far.

Bit of an opposing side to this that I have, though I do agree with everything said in the video I went from Boss 3 Electro to Leyak a couple years ago. It wasn't because I wanted to get better. I played Leyak in practice and enjoyed it. So I went for it because I had fun with the level. Sometimes it's good to "jump" in the sense where it's like "I want to play this level now because it looks fun, not because its hard." Currently I'm jumping from Quaoar to FIREPOWER because it's fun! I don't care to take the time between them. If it takes me a bunch of time to beat FIREPOWER then I don't... really care. I don't try to get better at this game. I play it for fun. Though if you ARE trying to get better at it then definitely listen to Aeon. Gradually building up your skill it very important for improving. That's just not what I'm trying to do. TL;DR Some people play the game to have fun instead of getting better so if you just want to play fun levels even if they're way harder than you can do then there's no problem with that. If you are trying to get better listen to Aeon :P

I jumped from deadlocked to Thanatophobia (when it was still extreme). It took me 90k attempts and was a very fun and satisfying journey and i felt very proud afterwards. The issue was that afterwards easier levels (such as hard demons and insane demons) still took me thousands of attempts and didnt feel as satisfying. Along with this i was kind of burnt out and as a result I lost motivation. I dont regret jumping but i wonder if i had progressed slower and more steadily whether id still be playing frequently today and whether i would have reached a higher level. I still play occasionally but i dont think ive beaten anything harder than a medium demon in over a year and i dont know if I'll ever get back into gd properly.

Basically space beast decode, then jumped to windy landscape, then to wazuretta (however you spell it) then got 96% on the golden, everything after that was hacked 1:59

Can I mention that. When someone brings up the biggest jump. People are most likely to react like. “Oh yeah that one guy” or some shit. The only person that I remember without someone having to bring them up is vision. But that’s only cuz he pushed silent clubstep to its limit for his time. Which is completely unrelated to the jump. Jumps won’t get you anywhere other than maybe short term fame and a skill boost. When jumping be smart about it, don’t think just cuz you jumped to said level you can play levels around it. Unless you feel like you can do what you want. But trust me jumping can be the most miserable experience you could ever get while playing the game. Especially if the level is unbalanced.

As someone who is now good enough to do top 20s and got their by jumping, I do NOT recommend jumping for most people, it worked out for me because I am incredibly muscle memory carried, but for most people the jumps that I made would have taken them a lot longer than the around 4ish weeks I spent on each jump I completed

i went from Death moon to Shrill Hallway to Nine circles to a recently completed Windy landscape. im definitely slowing down my progression to enjoy the game and beat easier levels like Nowise or B that i couldn't do before (literally beat B in like 200 attempts after windy landscape)

As a person who has made a huge jump themself (deadlocked to bloodbath), making huge jumps can be really rewarding, or just pointless. My jump took me 2 months and 72,000 attempts, which boosted my skill to where I could beat cata, nine circles, and aftermath in 2 months, and even my current hardest (BoJ) in only 2 weeks and 18,000 attempts. Now I'm jumping from BoJ to Bloodlust, and 4 weeks and 20k attempts in, I've gotten really unlucky, but I still managed to enjoy the level and get runs like 30-100 and 56%. All in all, I approve jumping, but only if you have the passion and commitment to beat that certain level. And no anger issues (cant relate lol-)

I like struggling on things for hours and hours on end :D Going from Meow and Zircon (easy demons) to either Kingslayer or Anahita (flip-flopping between them. Mostly settled on Anahita). It isn't that there aren't levels I like in-between. JonathanGD levels especially interested me. However, I'm jumping because I want to. I enjoy doing the same thing in a game for weeks (though playing different games... the Destiny 2 and Pokemon addictions are coming back). Not to mention how much I like the songs of the levels I've been playing. Which, of course, is a little null because I could find dozens of good songs in hard and insane. I will say, 12:10 is probably true for a lot of people, but I either don't find the relatively tough gameplay frustrating or am handling it better than most. After a few nights sleep I've started to feel consistent and that feeling of "quickly" overcoming something is so satisfying.

I’m jumping from Fire Temple to cataclysm and it is a very fun expirence, I’ve got 52-100 and 42-90 as my best runs and I know beating it will be rewarding af. So if you are looking to jump just make sure you like the level

i have a friend who jumped from acropolis to zodiac because of spaceuk, he beat it before the exposal and he was not happy when space got exposed because of space being his inspiration

I have massive respect for the dedication of people who jump from easy to very hard stuff, but if anyone ever asks me if they *should* jump to X level I will almost always answer with no for their own sake. I find steady progression to be a much more enjoyable experience that helps you become a more well-rounded player. Even if you complete a big jump, that won't necessarily give you the skills to beat other levels around its difficulty without another long intensive grind, leading to more frustration.

as someone who jumped from B to Acu, one of the only reasons i jump is because it’s genuinely very fun to play levels out of your league. right now i’m working on blade of justice, while my hardest is acu, which i’ve heard is a kinda big jump

I jumped from a hard demon to acu and I agree with you, I ended up beating troll level which was the only easy extreme that fit my skill set and after troll level the only improvement I got was from doing insane demons. Most jumps will completely ditch consistency which is vital to improve at GD. It has been 6 months since I last beat a hardest

i will say that my most satisfying achievement in this game playing-wise is jumping from Windy Landscape to Night Life. Even if this isnt the largest jump of all time it still took me a month of grinding the level actively which i still dont have a precedent for even with my now-hardest level which is ALSO technically a jump (medium NLW to insane NLW). I personally would 100% recommend doing a jump, but only if two specific things are true. 1) If you are willing to grind the level very actively for over a month and really really like the level 2) if the jump is reasonable. Easy demon to insane demon or above is almost never gonna be doable

I agree with all of your points! Anyways jumping from Kingslayer to Haunted Corridor

I have been making small little jumps. I started with some unremarkable easy demons, then my hardest was B for a while, I grinded Future Funk for like a year and then after beating that jumped to Dark Travel and beat it in like 6 days. Now I'm working on Future Funk 2 and Dark Odyssey. Edit: Also been doing Nine Circles for a bit, but prioritizing the XLs because I hate myself I guess.

Deadlocked - Nine Circles - Supersonic/Windy Landscape - Bloodbath is what I did

coming back into the game i was doing easy demons and I thought it was a waste of time so I jumped to bloodbath. It was hard but it didn't take much time to beat it so I decided to go for the most extreme demons and I'm happily making good progress on these levels

i jumped from deadlocked to nine circles to acu and they were all very doable so highly recommended jump path, when i started acu i felt oh i can do this

Jumping from a medium demon to deadly clubstep. Fairly fun but the first ship is quite a choke point.

It also comes down to how much time you have to play each day, if you have heaps of time jumping is more efficient than it normally is because your muscle memory picks up a lot quicker and as a whole you learn a lot quicker. But if you don't have much time free to play then jumping is a bad idea because you won't be able to build muscle memory and your skill that fast, I've almost finished jumping from HeLL to Supersonic after 3 weeks and I regret it because I didn't have enough to time free to play to make jumping worth it and I think I could've completed quite a few hard demons by now instead if I didn't jump. I probably will try jumping again but I'll make sure to do it during holidays so I have lots of time to play the game so that it's worth my time.

As someone who loves to jump, my friend Track has 1M attempts on the former top 1 Bloodbath and only has 6%

(EDIT. Added TL;DR) Personally jumped like this: Nine Circles > Cataclysm in 1 month Cataclysm > Bloodbath in 5 months Imho, anything that keeps you playing and motivates you to do better, it's fine! But jumping at those difficulties surely is a mind burner. It was something I wanted to experiment because of the "historical value" of those two levels and how child-me was viewed that as an unreachable goal when BB was top 1. These jumps surely improved my skills by a long shot but, as Aeon says, in a kinda "non-organic" way. It can have those benefits, but imho there is a time and place (and most importantly a reason/goal) for a jump, it shouldn't be used as a standard just because some players have been successful with it. Every player's journey is diverse and this is what makes it all even more interesting! TL;DR: imho jumping for any reason but "this jump is making me want to play more and gives me motivation to improve" is a bad idea. Everything you invest in the jump, if you do it for any other reason which is not focused on your improvement and relationship with the game, is not worth it.

I stopped playing harder levels about a year ago so my hardest is Sedulous (but I have 10 hard demons) and I've really enjoyed the regular progression because it allows me to grasp hard- medium- easy demon difficulty more easily for creating (Also looks more impressive on the stats 😳). Also I feel like if you jump, you still struggle to beat most of the levels in- between so you won't bother, and miss out on some great levels. You'll rarely have the experience to beat more levels of the same difficulty as the level you're jumping to, while it's frustrating to struggle on easier levels. But I don't know anyone who has tried it so these are just my observations of what I expect the experience to be like

i jumped from nine circles to old cataclysm

If you want my opinion, I think jumping can be quite fun if you really enjoy the difficult side of the game. I jumped from The Eschaton to Reanimate (a mid-tier hard demon to a low-tier extreme) and had a lot of fun doing it. I’m currently trying to beat Bloodbath while multitasking on some other hard levels like MikuMikuMikuMiku.

My first jump was from extiction to nine circles

As a person who jumped from HeLL to Psychosis and is currently doing windy landscape to maybe possibly thing I absolutely agree with you on that. Jumps like that are almost always useless, and the only reason I even pushed myself through 15k attempts for Psychosis and currently 16k still going for second jump is because I just fell in love with those levels, to the point where even 15k att, 97 and 98% weren't able to burn me out, and those 6 months are still a wonderful memory. If you're not ready to face that you shouldn't jump, and doing it only for attention will just be a fight against your own mental health that you can't win.

Acu was my hardest in about September 2022, my current hardest is Artificial Ascent, 1 half years 23 extremes in between and I have artificial done, just slowly getting up to the levels you wanna beat well yeah it has the potential to take longer you are gonna enjoy it more and its much more likely to actually end up happening. Anyways, hope this helps aid the point lol

I like to have a level outside of my skill set that I am practicing as well as some that are within my skill set that I’m actively trying to beat. Right now I have nine circles and the yatagrasu as my levels I’m trying to beat (both of which I can beat with a session, I’ve just been putting it off) and lit fuse as the level outside of my skill set which I’ve gotten like 56% on.

My first ever jump was VeritY to Windy Landscape, and while it didn't really help much and took way longer than it ever needed to (18k attempts) , I don't regret it one bit, though I absolutely do not recommend the experience lol Though I did find a great way to improve at the game. Shortly after I beat SubSonic 2.2 came out and I couldn't get the update because I play on megahack mobile and it is yet to be updated, and some of the lists I submit my records to (most notably the HRR mobile list) have deemed 2.1 to be illegitimate due to the physics change, so since I couldn't beat any level I just decided to attempt a level that I've had my eyes on for a while, Spectrum Cyclone, with the intent of just getting runs and not beating it, and that made me ridiculously better at the game, so much so that I went on to start playing other random extremes for fun and got insane progress on a lot of them (Endless Dream, BoJ, CF, AA and DD), I also started beating easy extremes a lot faster

Personally, I jump from Acu to Killbot, that was hell... I spent 2 months anxiously wondering if I could really succeed the level. Towards the end I forced myself without any desire to launch the level just because I didn't want to leave all this work for nothing. Jump was a terrible idea.. Do I regret ? No, I've never been so happy to see that I can surpass myself so much.. and that makes me really proud. I told myself that I would never do a jump again in my life, and 1 month later I found myself starting Cognition, and this jump seemed even bigger to me. Do I recommend jumps? No... but yes

As someone who has a good jump (Deadlocked-Acu) and almost did another, harder one (Napalm-RUST), I don't think jumping is going to help you progress faster or anything, like you said except in a few rare exceptions. I would only ever recommend a jump to someone if they really like a specific level for some reason, otherwise you're just going to lose motivation instantly.

I’m planning to have my first extreme be Black Blizzard not because I want to improve with that method, but because I love the level in every way. I won’t continue to beat levels that difficulty, but saying I did it is something I want to be able to do

I remember I went from starter insanes to starter extremes because high end insanes didn’t interest me. Now, high end insanes are some of my fave levels in the game

I've been saying this for a long ass time: Jumping will more than likely do nothing but hurt you. People like SpaceUK (yes Ik don't fucking comment it) and Zoink are 1 in a million where they jumped and it worked out for them. Most people, they jump and either they drop the level or they do the jump then drop the game because they either have nothing else to play or aren't as good as they thought they'd be on the other end of the jump. Say you jump from Cataclysm to Kowareta: that doesn't mean you're now good enough to go beat stuff around it like Visible Ray or PPF, or even worse, suddenly good enough to go do another new hardest like Bloodlust, Rust, or Crimson Planet. Rather, most likely your skill has leveled out anywhere from around the Photovoltaic II/The Moon Below Range to at max Yatagarasu/Cybernetic. So in this instance, you would have to back track and work to fill the gaps from the middle up rather than being able to play the stuff right below or right above it, and this may be demoralising to most people since they jump to get the skill to play what levels they want to. To give some personal experience. I tried in February 2020 to jump to Bloodbath from Deception Dive. It dragged out for 20k att., 3 months, a wavebreaker completion, and getting 71 on Blade of Justice. It destroyed the momentum I had in the game up to that point that to this day I'm still working on trying to get myself out of. I used to max out at a week on lvls n now if the lvl is remotely actually difficult for me it drags for weeks. Second example: After Bloodbath, like a dumbass, I tried to jump to Artificial Ascent, and Guess what? Dragged out for 5 months and I had to beat Subsonic in between to have any chance n yet it still ended up taking like 50k. Finally (and prolly the biggest one for me): After AA, due to a thinly stretched out skill and not being able to play aswell as I thought I should be, I dropped a BUNCH of levels. Ultimately, I tried to do a jump from AA to Erebus and guess what happened? It dragged out for T W O Y E A R S, took 86k, led me to drop a bunch of other lvls between AA and Erebus and above Erebus in a struggle to get skill, and ultimately stagnated me. Post Erebus I just said "fuck that, never making those kinds of jumps again" n its been working out so far. Beat a lot of levels between hardests, not just easier extremes but stuff between your hardest and 2nd hardest. A general rule I keep for myself is don't jump, and once you do a normal hardest, knock your previous hardest to your 4th or 5th hardest before you do a new hardest. I tried this and guess what? I beat Cybernetic as my new hardest from Erebus in 18k and only in about 4 weeks of playing time, and I wasnt demotivated at all. I did since go on to just go from cybernetic straight to kowa without filling in the gap and that took 108k att. and almost wrecked my motivation (thanks peer pressure!!), and I have since resumed following my rules. I'm currently beating yata rn and once I've knocked cybernetic to my 4th-5th hardest, I'm thinking about doin Crimson Planet. Additionally, I thought several times for one reason or another to jump to Zodiac from whatever my hardest was at the time. But I always opted out of it, cuz its been THE goal post for years now and I knew it would not only be miserable but I would end up uninterested in the game after. So, has it worked as my goal post? Abso-fucking-lutely. Everytime I'm feeling demotivated, its there as an endgoal to keep going, and to keep looking if theres nothing I want to beat in that moment. So.. don't jump. Set it as an end goal and move towards it at a comforting pace. There's a 99% chance you'll never be a top player, so why force yourself to rush towards the top like you will be?

8:00 now I'm imagining someone who only likes Ispywithmylittleeye and bloodbath and literally nothing else

I jumped from Future Funk to Acu and I beat it in like 4 days of playing for 1 hour each day. It was worth it however I tried to beat Cataclysm and dropped it immediately due to it being boring. Jumping can be beneficial if you like the level. If you don't like the level, the jump will be boring and most likely, you will be turned off from playing other hard levels. I beat Decay in a similar matter after not playing anything hard for another 5 months or so. I've come back now and I am "jumping" to Eon, which is a bad idea, but I actually think the level would be really funny to beat. I don't mind sitting through the level since I like it. Jumping to Eon from Decay, which was my last insane-extreme demon that I beat doesn't feel like a jump because of it's long length and difficulty feeling like an insane 9 star. (The end sections though, what in the world...) I've debated it back as well since I like the song and I've made decent progress, 43%, but I got bored and stopped playing it thus making it feel like a bad jump. The jump has to be right, and I feel like it can help a player develop skill, but only if the player likes the level in the first place. That time will feel like it was wasted and you will have gotten nothing but 10 stars from it.

Since jumping, I found that my current limit is hard demon. I did feel some strong ambition and wanted to jump up to extreme demon to play ouroboros but that soon died down because I was too overwhelmed and only got through the first part and passed the straight flight. I’m looking to jump to Insane demons.

In the summer of 2022 I had beaten golden hope becoming my hardest demon as it’s a hard demon. This made my top 3 hardest at the time 1. Golden hope 2. Jawbreaker 3. Nine circles all wave nine circle based levels. Which made me think about attempting a level like Acu. And from September of 2022 until around June of 2023 I was able to achieve 77% on acu with thousands of attempts. But after spending 9 months grinding to beat acu I gave up and went back to go beat The furious a harder end Hard demon. And starting to work on future funk. And work on 3 insane demons after future funk. (The 3 insane demons I have 51% 64% and 54% on cuz I also tried playing them during the 9 months) and I hope to be able to beat acu by the end of the year after not only having experience with it already but the levels lined up for me I have a lot of experience with and when I went back to try them I had progressed really fast and will see wether or not it was the right decision. Edit: forgot to mention. I’m legit ONLY MOBILE. My computer for some reason doesn’t like geometry dash and at times straight up dies when I try to play it. When I was first progressing through the game back in like 2021 I had beaten toe 2 on Computer the day I decided to swap and even get 50% on deadlocked: Which was really big for me: But had to swap back to mobile and have gotten slow progress but now after having many breaks and losing interest, I have finally gotten myself back into actually playing this game and finding motivation to just do regular progression. Jumping is a huge mood killer. I’d rather spend my time being excited over a hard demon then an insane to another insane and another insane and finally beating that extreme demon. Instead of going from easy hard demon to easy extreme as now yeah I’ll have a lot of excitement. But. That’s only for like 1 week after spending almost a year beating it. When I could have many weeks of getting motivation beating levels regularly over that same year span.

I personally do a gradual skill increase I started by struggling to beat easy demons and I played easy demons until I could easily beat them then moved to medeum and now i can desently beat hard demons my hardes is acu

When my hardest was deadlocked, i wanted to do a huge jump, from a random easy demon into sonic wave for the simple reason that i love playing this level, but after some weeks or months i realised how hard and dumb it was, so i started grinding some easy demons and i got better at the game. If you want to make a jump, be sure that this a level that you like, that you CAN do the jump, not a stupid jump from an easy demon to an extreme, and if you have time to spent into the level, making a jump takes a lot of time. But i don't think jumping is the best idea, use the GDDP, play harder levels but not TOO hard, you can also make a level or ask a friend to make a level for you, train differents skillset, this is how we progress in geometry dash.

I did deathmoon to ninecircles to niwa had alot of fun and feel like it definitely saved me abit of time

I really really wanted to beat avi and have been trying at it for the past 3 hours and went from 2 to 13 % as my best I’m tempted to keep going but this video is slowing changing my mind

My hardest is ISpyWithMyLittleEye and I was considering jumping to Nine Circles but now I’ve decided to beat one more easy demon then beat Cosmos by Decticy which will be my first medium then continue how you said with beating 10 medium, 10 hard, 10 insanes, the do any easy extreme like acu or cataclysm. Thanks for ur advice

im jumping from misty mountains to faded dream (60hz mobile) and this video really did make me think if i have interest for easier for easier extremes and i noticed someone showed me lost love by theblackhell and i think the level is cool, but i want to beat faded dream first, since lost love is a memory level and i don’t want to do a memory extreme right now.

i was planning on jumping from toe2 to death note because i wanted to try and get better at the game, started practicing it, stopped playing it, and then i just started practicing other insane demons and started getting better at the game, i was going to try and find a good insane demon to jump to but then eventually i just started playing forest temple and then just started getting alright runs and started to get better at the level, but even though jumps do help with progress, if your hardest is a easy demon or medium demon and you want to jump, just jump to a hard demon its better than spending 10 months on a insane demon or extreme and then just giving up on it.

im doing deadlocked to acu and i got 60% so i think its a good idea despite what you say. When you jump to an extreme your skill improves exponentially faster because you are playing levels with harder timings.

As someone who jumped from White woman to acu on mobile, I have something I would like to say to people thinking to do the same. Maybe don't. Even though I really enjoyed acu, it didn't really make me that much better at the game it just made me good at that level, and I personally think that I got way better when I beat 10 easier Demons (2 hard, 1 medium, 7 easy) in a week than the 145 days of playing acu

i personally do mini jumps in difficulty, my first demon was an easy, then i jumped to NC, then i jumped to poltergiest, then cataclysm, and now sakupen hell, i have ~300h on the game so it hasnt taken a long time, and i still constantly grind challenges too

I love to jump "Dash to Nine Circles" in 1 month worth of grind

i wanted to jump from Nine Circles to Relic, but it wasnt the best idea, so i just kept beating other levels and now im beating Relic really quickly, with my hardest now being Lit Fuse. i really recommend just playing normally

my hardest level is currently nowise, a gauntlet level and now I'm like jumping from than to an extreme called CONGREGATION... on mobile btw. I just like the timing based gameplay synced with the music and also I suck at wave and ship. Probably not gonna beat it anytime soon but I am very sure about that I want to beat it, I want it to be one of my first extreme, even if it won't be my next demon.

Cant wait to jump from Dry Out to MinusDry

personhuman also jumped from bloodbath to zodiac, and he is an INSANE player! He is grinding list demons weekly and his skill is way above everyone else. He is a top 10 player atm easily

i spent 44 days and 74535 attempts jumping from B to Bloodbath and I found it pretty fun during the jump playing bloodbath, I don't really recommend jumping always but if you are dedicated and willing to jump, the satisfaction you get is legendary when you beat it.

As someone who put 285k attempts trying to beat Firework when my hardest is cataclysm, i eventually got to a point where i couldnt make any more progress and basically just hit a wall and lost motivation. jumping is only good if you have the skill and dedication to pull through with it, eventually you will feel like you are too far in to quit but the level just won't be fun at all anymore, which is why i am no longer going for firework as of now. i plan to return to it sometime in the future

I haven't fully watched this video yet. But I think jumping demons might be a good idea. I am a mobile player. My hardest was deadlocked. I jumped to supersonic. It massively improved my skill. So i'd reckon it works. Now I'm gonna try playing the lost existence next.

I was planning to progress normally until I get to extremes, to only then jump, and your arguments really reinforced my point. I'm currently in Insane Demon territory with FFFFFF being my hardest. There are still some fun Insanes I'm excited for like Miku. But there are just too many extremes I am excited for, which are mainly: Cataclysm Bloodbath Astral Divinity Killbot The Yandere I think jumping will also be way more comfortable for me at this point

Bro this guy talks so Fkn fast but it still manages to be perfectly understandable and I love it so good job aeon air

I was going to jump from nine circles to acu. I had 44% on it but I had almost 15k attempts. I decided that I wasn't going to grind the level but I'm still gonna play it because it's my favorite level in the game

Well to get over the spikes I think jumping is a great idea

I have never jumped in this hame and it has worked for me, from late 2022 to early 2024 i went from The Nightmare to Delta Interface

i find people try to improve by beating harder and harder levels thus jumping to levels that are quite out of reach for them. I feel you should improve by being consistent (e.g beating a lot of easy demons, etc). In my experience when i have tried to jump to a level that is way harder than my current hardest (leyak - bloodbath, black blizzard, etc) i have gotten very demotivated very quickly. Jumping CAN work but it also has a much greater risk than just working on a lot of 'easier' levels

I jumped from B to Invisible Deadlocked. 💀 I have good muscle memory...