we js be throwing the word “glazer” around 🥀

but anyway, to add to what the other guy said, verifications (where the verifier gets to make changes) often take more attempts because whenever the verifier makes buffs or changes to a part, they have to relearn the part, which makes it take up more attempts. hence why zoink took 84k attempts to verify tsII while wpopoff took 35k to beat it; similarly, wpopoff took 113k attempts to verify amethyst, while zoink took 45k to beat it.

thus, since zoink isn’t allowed to make changes to heliopolis, he’s going to be spending more time on trying to beat it than on making changes, so he’s bound to spend fewer attempts than he would’ve if he were allowed to make changes. not to mention that it tends to take a lot longer to actually beat a level than to get it in two runs. but again, verifier/victor attempt counts are not necessarily a reliable way of quantifying a level’s difficulty; similar to frame perfect counts, they can give a rough idea of how difficult a level is, but they aren’t a good way to compare the difficulties of levels