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There are also features in the editor that can help you build faster. Here are some of them.

- Build Helper and other tools below that. Found in the pause screen in the editor. These tools are basically like automation, such as automatically assigning new group IDs, automatically adding edges, automatically removing unused colour channels, etc. They are good at doing things fast and accurately, so learn them and integrate them into your building process.
- Free Move and Snap. The Free Move option allows you to move objects by hand. The Snap option snaps objects to the grid. When you wanna move objects but don't want to use the buttons in Edit, you can use this.
- The custom object tab in Build (the last tab). Select a group of objects and press + at the tab. Then, you can make duplicates of that object without painstakingly copy and paste. Do note that the editor cannot check whether an object is already present at the grid square you selected, so you may accidentally place two custom objects at the same time. To delete custom objects, select the custom object and press -.
- Start Pos. This object lets you alter the starting position of the icon to test certain parts of the level. Change the settings of the start pos by Edit Object.

I think you know some of them already. In fact, GD is littered with quality-of-life tools for the sake of faster building.

www.boomlings.com/files/GJGuide.pdf
This is a link to the Geometry Dash Editor Guide for everything you want to check. (this is also linked in the game but it may be painful to read on mobile)

For tricks for faster building:
- Choose a block that you can always mass delete, for example the default block. They will be useful in drawing outlines, building layouts, or basically act as a temporary hitbox. (unless you are making an 1.0-esque level)
- Start from simple outlines, then work through the details. Doing something simpler will help you fill in the time of thinking about the more subtle deco.
- Be familiar with which objects belongs to which tab so you don't need to check all possible tabs again to find that glow object or cog or so on.
- Build in sessions. Long building will cause fatigue and slow down your building.
- Save frequently to ensure a minimal loss when your brain is offline and you simply swipe the game to termination, losing everything you built after the last save.

Final words: if you think that using hours to build a single block deco will yield the best results, then so be it. I am saying this the second time here, but levels take time to be built. You can shave off some time by using tricks and features, but it's going to cost you time and dedication.