The difficulty of Super Monkey Ball 1 stages

    • Plain: Over 100% simple!
    • Diamond-Single Jump: Piece of cake!
    • Exam-A: Mostly, but not completely easy
    • Beginner Extra stages: Simple
    • Bump: As easy as Beginner stages that came before, if slightly even more effortless
    • Walking-Blocks Slim: As simple as Beginner stages, if very slightly less easy.
    • Bonus Wave: Simple (somewhat hard if trying to get all bananas)
    • Choice: easy if you pick the thickest choice, no pun intended, but very hard if you pick the thinner ones that lead you to skipping stages like…)
    • Bowl: As effortless as Bump
    • Jumpies: Very easy
    • Stoppers-Bent Floor: Easy, but needs a small amount of effort put into them
    • Conveyor: Super easy
    • Exam-B: Similar to Exam-A, but a little steeper
    • Chaser: Very simple, regardless of the goal to get
    • Jump Double: A little more effort is to be put in it than its Beginner counterpart, but is still easy
    • Bonus Grid: Medium difficulty if trying to get all the bananas, otherwise, it’s so easy that it’s a bonus stage)
    • Middle Jam: Mostly easy, if slightly medium
    • Ant Lion-Swing Bar: Total piece of cake!
    • Labyrinth: Extremely easy, but much harder if trying to get the green goal)
    • Spiral: Mostly easy
    • Wavy Jump-Unrest: As easy as other Beginner/Beginner Extra/Advanced stages
    • Polar: Medium (but mostly easy)
    • Hard Hitter: Medium (mostly hard, no pun intended)
    • Puzzle – Hard (because it does take about a minute to beat, so you gotta be fast as possible in order to beat it, unless you wanna take the shortcut)
    • Polar Large – So f’in hard it made me feel like rage-quitting!!!!!
    • Ruin: A piece of cake, especially by Expert stage standards!
    • Branch: Medium, but very hard if trying to get the red goal
    • Overturn: Easy (but very hard if trying to get the green goal)
    • Excursion: Mostly struggling, but even then, there are much harder stages!
    • Dodecagon: Like some Advanced stages, it’s easy, but takes a slight amount of effort to go through
    • Exam-C: Hard during the first half, but near-impossible during the second half where you’re practically on a very thin like that’s also long and curvy!!!
    • Skeleton: Easy, especially compared to the stage before!!!!
    • Tracks: About as frustrating as Polar Large and Exam C!
    • Downhill Hard: Medium-to-hard
    • Gears: Mostly easy, but takes some effort
    • Collapse: Actually very easy, if more of a “Destruction Hard”
    • Invasion: Very hard, yet even easier than the infamous Exam-C!
    • Diving: Simple
    • Floor Slant: Medium (if mostly easy)
    • Tram: Medium
    • Swing Bar Long: Much harder than “Swing Bar Short”, but mostly of medium difficulty
    • Paper Work: Easy-to-medium
    • Twin Attacker: Very hard
    • SEGA Logo: Decently easy, but only if you know which other to take. (Otherwise, if you’re Sonic, it would be about as easy as frickin’ Plain! XD)
    • Snake: Easy, despite being an Expert stage
    • Wind: Moderately hard. Not impossible, but the hardest part of the stage is that either you have to speed up or take the shortcut. Either way, this is a long stage!
    • Sliders: Moderately easy
    • Fall Down: Easy, as long as you know where you fall
    • Twin Cross: Medium (if slightly harder than it is easy due to the checks) if you take the blue goal, but harder than a rock if you take the red goal
    • Spiral Hard: So hard that you’d have to practice the stage no matter what in your first tries!
    • Conveyor: Medium, but mostly hard since you have to have good timing
    • Bonus Bumpy: Easy, certainly more so than Bonus Wave!
    • Gaps: Easy
    • Curvature: Easy during most of it, but when the curvature (no pun intended) gets narrow, it gets very hard!!!!
    • Ant Lion Super: Medium, but not for blinder people!
    • Drum: Mostly hard
    • Twister: Fairly easy
    • Speedy Jan: Mostly difficult
    • Quake-Cassiopeia: Easy
    • Pirates: Mostly easy
    • Bonus Hunting: Absolutely easy if trying to get the goal; practically impossible if trying to get all the half-hundred umbrellas
    • Bowl Open: Kind of easy, but nowhere near as much as “Bowl Closed”
    • Checker: Easy, but hard when trying to get the other goals
    • Carpet-Ridge: Hard, but not one of the hardest
    • Mixer (no pun intended on the singers of “Only You”, “Wings”, “Touch”, “No More Sad Songs” and more): Easy
    • Rings: Easy if trying to get the blue goal, but hard if trying to get the green goal
    • Steps: Partially hard
    • Clover: Medium-to-hard
    • Coffee Cup: Medium
    • Metamorphosis: Simple
    • Breathe: Medium-to-easy
    • Ferris Wheel: Mostly hard
    • Factory: Somewhat easy
    • Curl Pipe: Hard
    • Magic Hand: Medium, but mostly easy
    • Sanctuary: Very hard
    • Daa Loo Maa: Easy, as long as you catch up
    • Wave Master: Of medium difficulty, but certainly simple by Master standards!!!
    • Fan Master: Hard
    • Stamina Master: And I thought Polar Large and the hardest of Expert stages were hard as hell!
    • Spring Master: Extremely difficult!!!!!
    • Dance Master (no pun intended on an overplayed, excruciating song of last year, which even Tones & I’s voice is easier to manage): What so you think?
    • Roll Master: Another one of the much-easier Master stages, maybe of medium difficulty
    • Edge Master: Easy-to-medium
    • Dodge Master: Overwhelmingly hard!!!!!!
    • Bridge Master: The absolute hardest stage right up to the ranks of freakin’ Stamina Master, making it one of the hardest things to ever even complete!!!!!
    • Monkey Master: Very hard, yet even easier than Bridge Master!

 

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