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GitHub Profile Achievements

GitHub Profile Achievements 🏆

A collection listing all Achievements available on the GitHub profile.

Following the launch of the first Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, GitHub announced the new Achievements section:

We are also using this opportunity to introduce a new Achievements section to the GitHub profile. Right now, Achievements include the Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission badge, the Arctic Code Vault badge, and a badge for sponsoring open source work via GitHub Sponsors.

This repository attempts to list them all.

2022-06-09: GitHub announced more Achievements, but without specific criteria. If you see something not listed here or is incorrect, please open an issue :)

Don't like the Achievements? Here is how to disable them. Direct link to the setting for your convenience.

Achievements

Title Badge Earnable? Earned by
Pair Extraordinaire Pair Extraordinaire Badge ✔️ Coauthored in a merged pull request
Quickdraw Quickdraw Badge ✔️ Closed an issue or a pull request within 5 min of opening
Starstruck Starstruck Badge ✔️ Created a repository that has 16 stars
Galaxy Brain Galaxy Brain Badge ✔️ 2 accepted answers
Pull Shark Pull Shark Badge ✔️ 2 pull requests merged
YOLO YOLO Badge ✔️ Merged a pull request without code review
Arctic Code Vault Contributor Arctic Code Vault Contributor Achievement Badge Contributed code to repositories in the 2020 GitHub Archive Program
Public Sponsor GitHub Sponsor Achievement Badge ✔️ Sponsoring open source work via GitHub Sponsors
Mars 2020 Contributor Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor Achievement Badge Contributed code to repositories used in the Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission

Tiers

Some Achievements not only have the base version, but also tiers.

Title Tier Badge Earned by
Pair Extraordinaire x2 Bronze 🥉 Pair Extraordinaire Bronze Badge Coauthored in 10 merged pull requests
Pair Extraordinaire x3 Silver 🥈 Pair Extraordinaire Silver Badge Coauthored in 24 merged pull requests
Pair Extraordinaire x4 Gold 🥇 Pair Extraordinaire Gold Badge Coauthored in 48 merged pull requests
Starstruck x2 Bronze 🥉 Starstruck Bronze Badge Created a repository that has 128 stars
Starstruck x3 Silver 🥈 Starstruck Silver Badge Created a repository that has 512 stars
Starstruck x4 Gold 🥇 Starstruck Gold Badge Created a repository that has 4096 stars
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Galaxy Brain x2 Bronze 🥉 Galaxy Brain Bronze Badge 8 accepted answers
Galaxy Brain x3 Silver 🥈 Galaxy Brain Silver Badge 16 accepted answers
Galaxy Brain x4 Gold 🥇 Galaxy Brain Gold Badge 32 accepted answers
Pull Shark x2 Bronze 🥉 Pull Shark Bronze Badge 16 pull requests merged
Pull Shark x3 Silver 🥈 Pull Shark Silver Badge 128 pull requests merged
Pull Shark x4 Gold 🥇 Pull Shark Gold Badge 1024 pull requests merged

Official list

There is was an official list available in the GitHub Docs at

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/customizing-your-profile/personalizing-your-profile#displaying-badges-on-your-profile (link to the archived version).

There is still a section which includes specifics on how badges were/are awarded, e.g. which repositories and versions qualified for the Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor.

Consider this repository a mirror, maybe in the future with historic purpose. Unless there will be an official list again, this is it.

Details

Specifics on how to achieve

For now, please refer to the discussions.

To the best of our knowledge:

Tier labels

Each tier has a label associated which includes a color.

Tier Label Sample Hex Visual
Bronze 🥉 x2 x2 #F9BFA7 #F9BFA7
Silver 🥈 x3 x3 #E1E4E4 #E1E4E4
Gold 🥇 x4 x4 #FAE57E #FAE57E

100 % samples

Here are screenshots of all Achievements at 100 % unlocked as seen in full in the dialog, both light and dark mode.

See them live, including the animation some have, for example here:

Do you know a user with all Achievements at the same time? Let me know!

Variants

Here are the variants of Badges including the Octocat :octocat: based on the setting for the Emoji skin tone ✌️✌🏻✌🏼✌🏽✌🏾✌🏿.

Highlights

The Highlights section below the Achievements including the corresponding badges is currently best documented in the official GitHub docs.

Previous versions

2021-04-19 - 2022-06-09

From the start with Ingenuity on 2021-04-19 until the additions on 2022-06-09, the first three Achievements had slightly different designs and names. In other words, they were overhauled on 2022-06-09.

- GitHub Sponsor
+ Public Sponsor
- Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor
+ Mars 2020 Contributor
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Here are the old designs and names:

Title Badge
Arctic Code Vault Contributor Arctic Code Vault Contributor Achievement Badge
GitHub Sponsor GitHub Sponsor Achievement Badge
Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor Achievement Badge

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Moazam Ali

Thanks for the article. Btw I love to achieve badges.