Zoink (2024)

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Zoink (formerly Z01nk, zZoink in-game) is a skilled American player in Geometry Dash. He is widely considered one of the best players in the game, having beaten numerous top Extreme Demons with incredibly low attempt counts. He is the second player ever to complete the entire Top 75 hardest Demons on the Demonlist, following in the footsteps of nSwish.

His rise to fame began with an impressive jump from Bloodbath to Zodiac and also becoming the first victor of Slaughterhouse. However, his popularity soared in 2022-2023 after he verified Acheron, Avernus, and Tidal Wave within just over a year, making him the first to verify three Top 1 levels in a row and the first to verify the entire Top 3. Additionally, he verified two other Top 10 levels, KOCMOC and Tunnel of Despair, having verified half of the Top 10 and verifying the entirety of the Top 3.

Although less active now, he still occasionally beats difficult levels. He recently verified Nullscapes,^[2] the sequel to Shardscapes, and is planning to verify Ashley Wave Trials.

History[]

Zoink created his YouTube channel on January 1, 2018, but did not upload any videos until two years later. His first video was uploaded on May 2, 2020, a Minecraft-related video.^[3] He uploaded 40 other videos about Minecraft before uploading his first video related to Geometry Dash on December 11, 2020. The video was titled 'Cold Sweat Without 'D' blocks, (Geometry Dash)',^[4] in which he, as the title implies, uses speed hacks to play the wave part in the level Cold Sweat without having the wave slide on the blocks. His next video was uploaded on January 18, 2021, in which he does a noclip run on the old version of Silent Circles.^[5]

A few videos following this, he uploaded his first progress video on an Extreme Demon on March 2, 2021, in which he makes a run of 55-94% on Sonic Wave.^[6]

On March 31, 2021, he verified an unrated Extreme Demon Jumper remake called Bruhmper, which he uploaded on an alternate account named awmenewq. The level and account no longer exist on the servers.

On May 9, 2021, he achieved 75% on Sonic Wave, and on June 4, 2021, he got 50% on Zodiac, stating that he would jump to the latter level from Bloodbath. He would continue to upload progress videos on Zodiac, in which he achieved 59%, 66%, 77%, and, on September 11, 2021, a new record of 97%.

Sometime before his 97% record on Zodiac, he would also start playing Tartarus, achieving a run of 64-100% on August 21, 2021.^[7]

On October 25, 2021, he beat Zodiac after ~40,000 attempts, making it his first completion of a non-legacy level on the Demonlist. Two days later, he beat WOW.^[8]

Two months later, on December 17, 2021, Zoink beat Sonic Wave.^[9]

He would go on to beat Deimos on December 21, 2021, achieve 51% on Slaughterhouse on January 4, 2022,^[10] beat Cold Sweat on January 7, 2022, Calculator Core on January 15, 2022, and Bloodlust on January 22, 2022. On April 12, 2022, he became the first victor of Slaughterhouse.^[11]

Zoink later joined Acheron's open-verification race after Wolvez dropped the level. On a version Zoink had buffed to be harder than Wolvez's, he got 66%,^[12] then 82%,^[13] 91%,^[14] and 96%.^[15] Zoink took a short break from verifying after crashing at 96%. He finally verified the level on August 23, 2022, after 72,808 attempts and a 97% fail.^[16]

He verified Avernus on March 22, 2023.^[17] It was placed at #2 on the Demonlist on April 23, 2023. It was later moved to #1 on October 16, dethroning Acheron.

He verified Tidal Wave on September 9, 2023, and it was rated five months later on February 18, 2024, claiming the #1 spot on the Demonlist, dethroning Avernus.

He verified Nullscapes on September 2, 2024 after over 90,000 attempts and over six months of practicing the level.^[18]

Levels[]

Unrated levels[]

• 12gone wrong street
• 3 seconds nick
• 54 kanye street
• Acheron buffed
• Acheron zoink
• Aerial Gleam mine
• alphagetspam1
• alphas crazy
• Avernus sp
• Cataclysm 2
• christmashouse
• club challenge
• consistency challen
• consistency challeng
• contradiction
• Death topi
• dual challenge
• dublow
• eles
• Enlex wave buffed
• enlex wave is dead x
• flord
• gabe challenge bro
• glock in my rori
• hard challenge
• hard evw challenge
• iamarobber challenge
• jeff hcicien
• Jeremiah x2 nehemiah
• Jerry Vortex
• Jigsaw startpos
• Jonathangd challenge
• Josh Vortex
• kingsam challenge
• LAMAR DAVIS
• lamar davis redux
• LDM CHECKBOX
• lilwc challenge hard
• lilwc challenge omg
• Lilwhite The
• marble challenge
• MARTIN L king jr
• meat buffed again
• my keres ldm
• myles challenge
• Nehemiah Challengeee
• onealpha TROLL
• Problematic BUFFED
• red terminal
• reveveveevevzzzz
• Sakupen Circles my
• Sazerix sp
• scammer gets scammed
• sc challenge
• ship challenge
• shipperton
• Silent clubstep copy
• Sinister Silence sp
• Slaughterhouse LDM 2
• slendstone challenge
• Solar Flare LDM
• sonic wave slam buff
• swing copt challenge
• tartardart
• teabag
• thatkidlof
• the meat buffed
• the new
• this is possible
• Tidale wave start pos
• Travis challenge
• Trueffet LDM mine
• Unbuffed Avernus
• washing the towel
• wave practice
• Wave Practice Final
• wave practice II
• wave practice III
• what
• white blizzard
• worlds dumbest wave
• yo challenge
• Z01NK CHALLENGE
• zgamergamer buffed
• zgamergamer challeng
• zodiac end wave x4
• zodiac end wave x5

Verifications[]

• Acheron - The "spiritual successor" to Tartarus hosted by ryamu and Riot, currently #2 on the Demonlist.
• Avernus - An infamous mega-collaboration hosted by PockeWindfish, currently #4 on the Demonlist.
• KOCMOC (updated version) - Initially verified by Trick, a Top 10 Extreme Demon created by the members of Cherry Team and inspired by Slaughterhouse.
• Nullscapes - The sequel to Shardscapes and expected to place around Top 5-10.
• Through the Gates - An unrated Top 20-difficulty Extreme Demon.
• Tidal Wave - A 3-minute-long Extreme Demon created by OniLink. It is currently placed at #1 on the Demonlist after infamously taking five months to be rated.
• Tunnel of Despair - A Top 10-difficulty Extreme Demon built by Exen and decorated by ImMaxX1.

Victor titles[]

Nominations and awards[]

Received 1 nomination and 1 award in the Geometry Dash Awards

Nominations[]

• Nominated in the 2022 Awards for Best Player

Awards[]

• Awarded in the 2023 Awards for Best Player

Trivia[]

• He currently has over 230,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.^[19]
• He dethroned spaceuk on the Demonlist Stats Viewer on January 13, 2023, holding the #1 spot until June 11, 2024, when Trick overtook him after a reign of 515 days.
  • After Trick overtook him, the two have been battling for the #1 spot since then, with the two overtaking each other back to back several times.
• He verified a small buff-date of Acheron on January 30, 2023, adding slight buffs and fixes to the level.^[20] However, RobTop update-locked the level, so he uploaded this updated version onto his account.
• He held the previous world record for the lowest attempt count for a Tartarus victor, with 13,909 attempts. wPopoff currently holds the world record with ~8900 attempts.
  • He also may have the world record for the lowest attempt count for a Firework victor, presumably around 22,500 attempts.
    • He stated the attempt count may be slightly higher due to difficulty counting it due to occasional game crashes.
• He verified the unnerfed version of Yatagarasu on December 30, 2023.^[21]
• He beat Zodiac on 144Hz as his first list Demon, a jump from Bloodbath.
• He did a run of 60-100% on Cold Sweat at 1.2x speed, which contains the infamous wave segment.^[22]
• He is the first victor of Silent clubstep, Kyouki, Slaughterhouse, and ItsHybrid's Deimos.
• The two hardest levels on the Demonlist he is yet to complete are Belladonna and the two-player level Codependence, the latter of which requires being played by one sole player to achieve a record on the list.
• His attempts for Nullscapes (over 90,000) is the highest amount he has spent on any level, followed by Slaughterhouse (76,004) and Acheron (72,808).
  • According to himself, his attempt count for Nullscapes is due to his lower skills with the robot game-mode despite thinking the level is around Top 5-10 in difficulty.
• He is the second player, following LunarSimg, to verify the Top 3 hardest levels, being Tidal Wave, Avernus, and Acheron.
  • Avernus has since been moved from #2 to #4 on the Demonlist.
• He was the first guest of The Dasher Podcast, hosted by gmdblue, IcEDCave, and fnm04.^[23]

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