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 :)

2024-02-06: Achievements will no longer be available in GitHub's Community Discussions to counter spam, see the announcement.

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

Internal

These are internal Achievements awarded for contributions to GitHub's development itself by staff members. They cannot be earned through typical activity.

Title	Badge	Earnable?	Earned by
Proxima Pioneer		❌ (Internal)	M0 Participant ("contributed to Proxima POC")
Proxima Staffshipper		❌ (Internal)	M8 Participant ("shipped Proxima Staffship instance")
Proxima Staffuser		❌ (Internal)	When your team is on Proxima ("onboarded to Proxima")

Disabled

There are Achievements that were live at least for some but are currently disabled, so are neither earnable nor show up (anymore) on any profile.

Title	Badge	Earnable?	Earned by
Heart On Your Sleeve		❌ (🔜 Being tested)	React to something on GitHub with a ❤️ emoji
Open Sourcerer		❌ (🔜 Being tested)	User had PRs merged in multiple public repositories

Tiers

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

Title	Tier	Badge	Earned by
Heart On Your Sleeve x2	Bronze 🥉		16 ❤️ reactions
Heart On Your Sleeve x3	Silver 🥈		128 ❤️ reactions
Heart On Your Sleeve x4	Gold 🥇		??? ❤️ reactions
Open Sourcerer x2	Bronze 🥉		8 open source pull request merged
Open Sourcerer x3	Silver 🥈		16 open source pull request merged
Open Sourcerer x4	Gold 🥇		64 open source pull request merged
Pair Extraordinaire x2	Bronze 🥉		Coauthored in 10 merged pull requests
Pair Extraordinaire x3	Silver 🥈		Coauthored in 24 merged pull requests
Pair Extraordinaire x4	Gold 🥇		Coauthored in 48 merged pull requests
Starstruck x2	Bronze 🥉		Created a repository that has 128 stars
Starstruck x3	Silver 🥈		Created a repository that has 512 stars
Starstruck x4	Gold 🥇		Created a repository that has 4096 stars
Galaxy Brain x2	Bronze 🥉		8 accepted answers
Galaxy Brain x3	Silver 🥈		16 accepted answers
Galaxy Brain x4	Gold 🥇		32 accepted answers
Pull Shark x2	Bronze 🥉		16 pull requests merged
Pull Shark x3	Silver 🥈		128 pull requests merged
Pull Shark x4	Gold 🥇		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:

• Galaxy Brain
• YOLO

Tier labels

Each tier has a label associated which includes a color.

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

Title	Sample
Pair Extraordinaire	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @Rongronggg9
Quickdraw	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @Schweinepriester
Starstruck	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @torvalds
Galaxy Brain	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @ljharb
Pull Shark	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @ljharb
YOLO	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @Schweinepriester
Arctic Code Vault Contributor	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @Schweinepriester
Public Sponsor	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @ljharb
Mars 2020 Contributor	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @torvalds
Proxima Pioneer	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @brannon
Proxima Staffshipper	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @brannon
Proxima Staffuser	Live 100 % unlocked sample by @timrogers

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

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

Here are the old designs and names:

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

See also

• Flet/rejected-github-profile-achievements for a laugh about the Achievements
• drknzz/GitHub-Achievements same as this collection, but different ;)