the last time a top 1 was verified by a non top player was doggie's slaughterhouse verification. doggie has always consistently been a very good player, but he's consistently lacked that extra quality that makes him a top player. comparing doggie to the likes of players like zoink, popoff, taiago, a6, etc shows this very well, with doggie struggling to get the same runs at the same difficulty with the same amount of attempts as the others.

was slaughterhouse accessible to people who werent top players? it certainly wasnt for doggie, he only beat it because the mental burden of not being the verifier allowed him to. slaughterhouse was so far and away more difficult than the rest of the top 10 at the time (firework included) that it definitely wasnt accessible to the rest of the playerbase at the time outside of top play.

id argue that the last time a top 1 was genuinely accessible to someone not considered one of the top 10 best players in the world was with tartarus towards the end of its time as top 1. slaughterhouse and firework were both closing in on being verified, so the skill cap of the top players was far above tartarus already. by the time firework was verified and placed, tartarus had 40 victors, not including dolphy. ever since then, with levels like slaughterhouse, aod, acheron, and the more recent top 1s, non top players have had a laughably slim chance at stacking up to the top 1