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Complete guide to GitHub profile badges and achievements. Learn how to earn each badge and their tier requirements.
This project aims to compile and present all GitHub profile achievements and badges in a single, easy-to-navigate document. The goal is to help the community quickly find information about each badge, the requirements to earn them, and their tier levels. This project is based on research and inspiration from several well-known open-source repositories.
⚠️ Note: This is an informational resource, not an official list provided by GitHub. Badge requirements and achievement details may change as GitHub updates its system.
The table below lists all available GitHub badges, their names, whether they can currently be earned, and how to obtain each badge.
| Badge | Name | Earnable? | How to get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heart On Your Sleeve | 🔜 Testing |
User can obtain this badge by reacting to something on GitHub with a ❤️ emoji | |
| Open Sourcerer | 🔜 Testing |
Can be obtained if a user had Pull Requests merged in more than 1 public repository | |
| Starstruck | ✅ Yes |
This badge is given to someone when one of their repositories gets 16 stars. | |
| Quickdraw | ✅ Yes |
Obtainable by closing a Pull Request or Issue in 5 mins of it being opened. (You can close your own issues) | |
| Pair Extraordinaire | ✅ Yes |
The user can obtain this badge by Coauthoring in a merged pull request. (Requires GitHub Desktop App) | |
| Pull Shark | ✅ Yes |
You can get this badge by merging 2 pull requests. | |
| Galaxy Brain | ✅ Yes |
A user can get this badge by getting 2 of their answers accepted on the Community Discussions forum. | |
| YOLO | ✅ Yes |
A user can obtain this badge by merging a pull request without a review (This requires 1 user and 1 reviewer) | |
| Public Sponsor | ✅ Yes |
Sponsoring open source work via GitHub Sponsors | |
| Arctic Code Vault Contributor | ❌ No |
Previously obtainable by contributing code to repositories in the 2020 Archive Program | |
| Mars 2020 Contributor | ❌ No |
Given if a user contributed code to repositories in the Mars 2020 Mission |
Some achievements have multiple tiers, including default, bronze, silver, and gold. The following table describes each tier and its corresponding requirements.
| Achievement | Default | Bronze | Silver | Gold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart On Your Sleeve | (?) |
(?) |
(?) |
(?) |
| Open Sourcerer | (?) |
(?) |
(?) |
(?) |
| Starstruck | 16 stars |
128 stars |
512 stars |
4096 stars |
| Quickdraw | 1 quick close |
- | - | - |
| Pair Extraordinaire | 1 commits |
10 commits |
24 commits |
48 commits |
| Pull Shark | 2 pull requests |
16 pull requests |
128 pull requests |
1024 pull requests |
| Galaxy Brain | 2 answers |
8 answers |
16 answers |
32 answers |
| YOLO | 1 merge without review |
- | - | - |
| Public Sponsor | 1 sponsorship |
- | - | - |
| Arctic Code Vault Contributor | Legacy badge |
- | - | - |
| Mars 2020 Contributor | Legacy badge |
- | - | - |
Several GitHub achievements display with different skin tones, adapting to your personal Emoji Skin Tone Preference for a more inclusive and personalized experience.
You can change your preferred Skin Tone by going to the appearance settings.
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This project is intended for educational and reference purposes, helping GitHub users better understand the badge and achievement system. If you spot any inaccuracies or missing information, feel free to contribute or open an issue to help improve this resource.
This project was developed by referencing and learning from the following outstanding community projects:
- Thinkright20/Profile-Badges – Comprehensive list of badges, tiers, and skin tone variations.
- drknzz/GitHub-Achievements – Collection of images, details on achievements, tiers, and variants.
- Schweinepriester/github-profile-achievements – List of achievements, update history, inspiration and useful links.
Special thanks to the authors and community contributors for providing information, images, content, and inspiration for this project.