What are Vertical Bridges?

Vertical Bridges are the Bridging Methods which move the player either upwards or downwards in any way,
or use a downbridging mechanic.


What types of Bridges does Vertical Bridging include?

  1. A lot of Utility Methods
  2. Lots of Pole Variants
  3. A lot of QS (flix) Variants
  4. Hold Mechanics
  5. A lot of styles and complex Mechanics and Methods

NOTE: Some Poles got grouped together due to strong similarities/coverage in the halfpole categories.

Staircase

  • Good ingame
  • >
  • Utility method
  • Super easy

How to do it:

Place a block infront of you, jump, place a block below yourself, then repeat.

Difficulity Rating: 1/10

Inventor: unknown

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click

CPS: 4

Celestial Span/1x Xylen

Celestial Span:

  • Super useful ingame
  • Fast
  • Gives elevation quickly

How to do Celestial Span:

Jump, place a block below yourself, hold, Jump off of that block, aim about 135-180 degree backwards so you pull the remaining blocks below yourself, turn back to the front and repeat.


1x Xylen

  • Easy
  • Reliable in games
  • Fun

How to do 1x Xylen:

Start am MJ-Bridge, place a block on it whenever you are comfortable, start another MJ-bridge, repeat.

Difficulity Rating: 5/10, 2/10

Inventor: motnon, Xylen69

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click/Normal Click

CPS: -

1b Half Pole

  • Super fun
  • One of the best Methods for Freestyling
  • Super utile

How to do it:

Place a block, hold, jump, aim at the block again while falling (or below the block) and then clutch.

Difficulity Rating: 4/10

Inventor: Badlands & lucerna

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly

CPS: 3

2b Half Pole

  • Super duper fun
  • Easy once you got 1b Half Pole down
  • Good for Freestyling

How to do it:

Like 1 block Pole but flicking further down.

Difficulity Rating: 5/10

Inventor: Badlands & Rexpem

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly

CPS: 3

3b Half Pole

  • Not fun anymore
  • Super difficult to chain
  • Good to flex

How to do it:

2b Half Pole but aiming a bit lower and moving to flick back up later, the 3rd block places on the way up.

Difficulity Rating: 8/10

Inventor: Badlands & lucerna

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly

CPS: 3

LT Half Pole/3b LT Half Pole/Big LT Half Pole

LT Half Pole:

  • Super fun
  • Takes a lot of effort to do consistently
  • Satisfying
  • ASMR

How to do it:

Do a 2b Half Pole, flick slightly deeper and time 2 Butterfly Clicks for the lower block and the clutch.


3b LT Half Pole:

  • Borderline Inhuman
  • Insanely difficult to do without Drag Clicking
  • Barely anyone can do it

How to do it:

Do a 3b Pole and time 2 Butterfly Clicks while going back up. (Alternative: Drag Click)


Big LT Half Pole:

  • Inhuman
  • Nobody can do this consistently
  • Only a hand full of players have ever done it

How to do it:

Like a 3b LT Half Pole but with way more precise timing.

Difficulity Rating: 8/10, 10/10, 11/10 (Inhuman)

Inventor: Badlands, Badlands, Badlands

Recommended Clicking Method: Timed Butterfly/Timed Butterfly, Drag Clicking/Timed Butterfly, Drag Clicking

CPS: 4

Pole

  • Super fun
  • Super satisfying
  • Perfect for Freestyling

How to do it:

Version 1:

Place a block, Hold, jump off of it (while sprinting) and turn around to place the block down, flick slightly down and clutch, then place the top block.

Version 2 (Top Pole/Tole):

Place a block, Hold, jump off of it (while sprinting) and turn around, place the down block without flicking below the block, place the top block first, then clutch. (Advantage: faster)

Difficulity Rating: 5/10 (6/10 for Tole)

Inventor: Badlands & lucerna

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly

CPS: 3

2b Pole/3b Pole

2b Pole:

  • Fun to do
  • Easy if you can do 2b Half Pole
  • Good for Freestyles

How to do 2b Pole:

Like 1b Pole but flick down a bit deeper.


3b Pole

  • Painful to do
  • Barely anyone can do it consistently
  • Doing 1 is doable, chainging is difficult

How to do 3b Pole:

Like normal 3b Pole but the aiming is way trickier, due to the 180 degree turn when jumping off messing ones aim up.

Difficulity Rating: 7/10, 9/10

Inventor: Badlands & Rexpem, Badlands

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly/Normal Click, Timed Butterfly

CPS: 3

LT Pole/3b LT Pole/Big LT Pole

LT Pole:

  • Easy if you can do LT Half Pole
  • Fun
  • Satisfying

How to do LT Pole:

Do a 2b Pole but Time 2 Clicks while flicking back up to place the 2nd block.


3b LT Pole:

  • Painful
  • Borderline Inhuman without Drag Clicking
  • Barely anyone has ever done it, even with Drag

How to do 3b LT Pole:

Do a 3b Pole but time 2 Clicks while flicking back up to place the 2nd block, it is very precise due to the turn which messes up aim.


Big LT Pole:

  • Inhuman
  • Very few players have ever done it
  • Super unfun to try

How to do Big LT Pole:

Do a 3b Pole but time 2 Clicks while flicking back up, the timing is insanely precise and way more difficult than Big LT Half Pole.

Difficulity Rating: 9/10, 10/10, 11/10 (Inhuman)

Inventor: Badlands, Badlands, Badlands

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly/Timed Butterfly, Drag Clicking/Timed Butterfly, Drag Clicking

CPS: 4, 4, 4

Upwards Pole

  • Insanely difficult
  • Super short window to place
  • Barely anyone has ever done this

How to do it:

Place a block, hold, jump off and the exact moment you start falling and it places the downblock, click 2 times very quickly to place the top block to clutch (the player jumps a bit higher than 1, about 1.125 blocks, so this is possible)

Difficulity Rating: 10/10

Inventor: lucerna

Recommended Clicking Method: Timed Butterfly, Drag Clicking

CPS: 4

Shifted Pole

  • Difficult to get the hang of
  • Barely anyone can do it consistently
  • Easy once you got it down

How to do it:

Do a 1b pole but turn around slightly later and dont move forward so you can do a 2 block extension clutch by clicking twice.

Difficulity Rating: 7/10

Inventor: Badlands

Recommended Clicking Method: Timed Butterfly, Butterfly

CPS: 4

2W2 (or Shifted 2b Pole)

  • Cool name
  • Fun to do after you got it down
  • Not that difficult after you got Shifted Pole down

How to do it:

place a block, hold, jump off, hold backwards, flick down sharply, flick back up equally sharp and then do a 2 block extension clutch.

Difficulity Rating: 8/10

Inventor: Badlands

Recommended Clicking Method: Timed Butterfly, Butterfly

CPS: 3

2b Wall Pole/3b Wall Pole

2b Wall Pole:

  • Painful to do
  • Requires fast clicking
  • Not that difficult once you got it down

How to do 2b Wall Pole:

Do a 2b Pole but click 3 times on the way up.


3b Wall Pole:

  • Insanely difficult
  • Barely anyone has ever done it
  • Requires insanely fast clicks
  • Wildly Inhuman

How to do 3b Wall Pole:

Do a 3b Pole, then flick a bit further down than usually and click 4 times on the way back up.

Difficulity Rating: 9/10, 11/10 (Inhuman)

Inventor: xw, xw

Recommended Clicking Method: Timed Butterfly, Butterfly, Drag Clicking/Timed Butterfly, Butterfly, Drag Clicking

CPS:

Staircase Pole/1b Staircase Pole/ 2b Staircase Pole

Staircase Pole

  • Super fun
  • Not too difficult once you got it down
  • Good for Freestyle

How to do Staircase Pole:

place a block, jump backwards, place a block ontop of the previous block mid jump, then click at the edge of the block mid jump to downbridge while falling and then clutch on the edge of the downbridged block.


1b Staircase Pole

  • Not too difficult
  • Fun to try
  • Kinda useles

How to do 1b Staircase Pole:

Like normal Staircase Pole but flick down slightly on the downbridged block and then flick up again.


2b Staircase Pole

  • Borderline Inhuman
  • Unfun to try
  • A weird flex

How to do 2b Staircase Pole:

Like 1b Staircase Pole but flick deeper.

Difficulity Rating: 7/10, 8/10, 10/10

Inventor: lucerna, unknown, xw

Recommended Clicking Method: Normalclick, Timed Butterfly/Normalclick, Timed Butterfly/Normalclick, Timed Butterfly

CPS: 4

Nojump Down Icy

  • Fun to do
  • Has a lot of potential to speed it up
  • Not too difficult, once you got the timing down.

How to do it:

Variant 1:

Place a block, walk down backwards semidiagonally, the downmechanic triggers mid fall, clutch on that block.

Variant 2:

Place a block, sprint semi diagonally, turn back to downbridge, clutch, untap d, tap d again, place a block, repeat (the most difficult but also fastest variant).

Variant 3:

Place a block, do a quasar turn, walk down, clutch, repeat.

Difficulity Rating: 6/10

Inventor: unknown

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly

CPS: 4-6

QS (Flix)

  • Insanely many variants
  • A lot of potential for Freestyle
  • Fun if you are consistent at it

How to do it:

Variant 1:

Bridge 4 blocks, jump and place below you, repeat develope your own strafe pattern to slow it down and aid your timing.

Variant 2:

Bridge 4 blocks, jump and place below you, all without staving.

Difficulity Rating: 7/10 (Nostrafe: 9/10)

Inventor: qwertyguy8x

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly, Butterfly, Drag Click

CPS: up to 9

Lightning Turns

  • Fun
  • Easy after you got it down
  • Good for silly Patterns.

How to do it:

Bridge and whenever you feel comfortable, turn rapidly, add a strafe to make it easier, jump, place below you, repeat.

Difficulity Rating: 7/10

Inventor: unknown

Recommended Clicking Method: Any

CPS: -

2x (or more) Xylen

  • Useful in game
  • Former most difficult Method
  • fun

How to do it:

Variant 1:

place a block, jump ontop of it and then jump from it and place 2 blocks 3-4 blocks ahead (repeat that multiple times for 3x and 4x) then start a jumpbridge from there.

Variant 2:

The same but with a C-span turn.

Difficulity Rating: 5/10

Inventor: Xylen69

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly

CPS: -

2x Dylen Bridge

  • The same as Xylen but for diagonally.
  • Easy
  • Kinda relaxing

How to do it:

Like Xylen but instead of starting the jumpbridge straight, start it to the side.

Difficulity Rating: 5/10

Inventor: Xylen69

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly

CPS: -

Xylen +1

  • Former Tier 1 Method
  • Fun to do
  • Easy once you got it down

How to do it:

Like a Xylen but you jump slightly to the side, clutch on the side block and do a C-span turn.

Difficulity Rating: 7/10

Inventor: unknown

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly

CPS: -

Andromeda QS (flix)

  • Insanely difficult
  • Very complex
  • Barely anyone can do it

How to do it:

Do an Andromeda and whenever you feel comfortable, bridge a block ahead, jump, place a block ontop of the last andromeda headhitter block, place a block below you, continue the Andromeda. (Alternative: use the Sneak Mechanic)

Difficulity Rating: 9/10

Inventor: unknown

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly

CPS: up to 8

One Span (O-Span)

  • Very fast elevation gain
  • Easy to learn
  • Very useful ingame
  • There is also a 4b and 5b variant, those are way more difficult, with 5b being near Inhuman

How to do it:

place a block, jump on it, hold, turn, place a block on the ones you just pulled below you.

Difficulity Rating: 6/10

Inventor: Xynuua

Recommended Clicking Method: Normal Click, Timed Butterfly

CPS: 4