Sonic Wave 100%!!! [NEW HARDEST IN 25K ATTEMPTS!!!] 

It has been a full day since I beat the level, and I still can't believe it actually happened. I never thought I would make it this far in Geometry Dash and remember trying this level on my iPad when I was little and thinking it was impossible. The fact that I actually managed to beat it astonishes me and I am very proud of myself for finishing this. The road to getting here was very hard and full of annoying fails, frustration, and misery. I plan on making a rewind type video for the level soon, but I don't have many clips to make it with, so it won't be too long. Anyways, I started this journey when I was playing on my old 60hz Mac laptop having recently beaten Sharp Minor as my hardest. This is around the same time I picked up Bloodbath and was convinced I could make progress on anything. I didn't expect to beat it anytime soon, but I tried doing some runs and would commit myself to doing one practice run of the level every day. This lasted about two weeks before I decided the level was too hard for me and went on to look for other extremes to beat. I later came back and made more progress, passing the second wave and making it to the click before the drop, which was my first milestone in the level. I was still playing on 60hz which made this 10 times harder, and I quickly gave up again. When I finally got my high refresh rate PC computer, I was finally able to make some progress and quickly did runs on the first wave, which I had always been too afraid to touch on 60hz. I also made it to the drop, which boosted my confidence in beating the level. I then got the level in 3 runs, doing the whole first wave and a second wave to 100 run. I started losing interesting in the level again around this time because I was working on other, more accessible hardests like Chroma II and Catalyze. I would still play the level for fun occasionally but never seriously grinded it. This all changed one night when I was randomly playing the level from 0 with no practice, and I fluked past most of the chokepoints in the first wave, dying at the infamous 48 mini wave click. I was in no situation for that to happen, because I didn't even have my headphones on, and was talking to a friend IRL, when this all happened. I thought I had simply gotten lucky and kept on playing from 0. I was hugely shocked when the same exact thing happened 10 minutes later, and I died to the 48 click again with the same fluke. I still don't know what was going on then, but this boosted my motivation enough for me to put this as my main goal for a hardest. I was fully grinding this like I had never grinded anything before, and it paid off. I eventually passed the first wave and got 67% on the level, which was my record for a long time. I would end up dying to 67%, 66%, and 65% many times before I would pass the 67% barrier (Wavix reference???). I kept grinding the level until one day, everything would change. I was at the second wave for probably the 6th or 7th time and like usual, was trying my best to not die at the beginning of the second wave. I miraculously passed it, but instead of dying to the chokepoint upside down wave like I had anticipated, I passed the entire second wave and before I knew it, I found myself in the last wave, the final trial of the level. My nerves got to me, and I died to the difficult click at 90%, but this was still an amazing run, being a fluke from 67. I kept grinding for a couple more weeks but couldn't pass the second wave. I would keep dying to the chokepoints like the beginning, the upside down part, and other random frustrating things I shouldn't have died to. I eventually lost it with my death to a bug at the very end of the second wave, and just like that, all my motivation was gone and I stopped playing the level entirely. Around this time, I started playing challenges for the MCL and stopped playing actual levels. I quickly found another hardest that ended up being my favorite level in the game, being Chromatic Haze, and I focused all my effort into that. Once I did, I struggled to make myself play Sonic Wave again, but my consistency eventually came back, and I was on a roll again. I was now more consistent than ever before and decided to give it one dedicated stream, but instead of beating it, I died to the memory cube at the end in a really easy click. I simply lost the ability to play due to the intense nervousness I had from all the viewers watching (I was at record viewers from a raid) and my hope to beat it on stream. This was the worst death I ever had in GD, and I was so demotivated I had a hard time even eating dinner that night. In the morning, I woke up with a new perspective and decided to finally finish off this momentous level and do another stream. This stream, I was very consistent again and about an hour into it, the attempt finally came.
Worst Deaths: 90% x2, 86% (memory cube), 79% (to a bug), 73%, 72% x3, and 71%.
Attempts: Around 25K (13K old)
Enjoyment: 7.5/10
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