How to hack GitHub contribution graph
GitHub Profile Achievements 🏆
This is my last article in 2023 inspired by two people shout out to @schweinepriester and @Thinkright20 so the massive credit goes to them. These include format of the tables, information about each budge, images for each badge and labels.
The purpose of this article is to show you how to collect every single badge on GitHub, some of them are obtainable, others are not obtainable, and some are in beta testing.
I hope you enjoy 😊😊
GitHub badge section was introduced after the launch of the first Mars Helicopter Ingenuity
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.
Today we have around 11 badges on GitHub, and some have different tiers or let’s just say levels, so we will start looking at unobtainable badges, Beta badges and obtainable badges where we will divide them into different categories from Very easy - Easy - Medium - and finally Hard
Unobtainable Badges
They used to be obtainable but now are not.
| Name | Badge Image | Earnable? | Earned By | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arctic Code Vault Contributor |  | ❌ No | Previously obtainable by contributing code to repositories in the 2020 Archive Program | Very Easy |
| Mars 2020 Contributor |  | ❌ No | Given if a user contributed code to repositories in the Mars 2020 Mission | Easy |
Beta badges
| Name | Badge Image | Earnable? | Earned By | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart On Your Sleeve |  | 🔜 Beta Mode | User cans obtain this badge by reacting to something on GitHub with a ❤️ emoji | Very Easy |
| Open Sourcerer |  | 🔜 Beta Mode | Can be obtained if a user had Pull Requests merged in more than 1 public repository | Medium |
Earnable badges
The following are earnable badge that you can get if you do what is required.
Easy category
| Name | Badge Image | Earnable? | Earned By |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quickdraw |  | ✅ Yes | Obtainable by closing a Pull Request or Issue in 5 mins of it being opened. (You can close your own issues) |
| Public Sponsor |  | ✅ Yes | This badge can be earned by sponsoring a repository/organization/user. |
Medium
| Name | Badge Image | Earnable? | Earned By |
| ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------ |
| Pull Shark | 
| ✅ Yes | You can get this badge by merging 2 pull requests. | Medium |
| YOLO | 
| ✅ Yes | A user can obtain this badge by merging a pull request without a review (This requires 1 user and 1 reviewer) |
| Galaxy Brain | 
| ✅ Yes | A user can get this badge by getting 2 of their answers accepted on the Community Discussions forum. |
Hard
| Name | Badge Image | Earnable? | Earned By |
| ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---- |
| Pair Extraordinaire | 
| ✅ Yes | The user can obtain this badge by Coauthoring in a merged pull request. (Requires GitHub Desktop App) | Hard |
| Starstruck | 
| ✅ Yes | This badge is given to someone when one of their repository’s gets 16 stars. | Hard |
Levels or Tiers
Some Achievements not only have the base version, but also tiers. The following are the only badges that have tiers right now:
| DEFAULT | BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD |
|---|---|---|---|
 |  |  |  |
| Created a repository that has 16 stars | Created a repository that has 128 stars | Created a repository that has 512 stars | Created a repository that has 4096 stars |
| DEFAULT | BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD |
|---|---|---|---|
 |  | 
|  |
| 1 merged pull request | Coauthored in 10 merged pull requests | Coauthored in 24 merged pull requests | Coauthored in 48 merged pull requests |
| DEFAULT | BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD |
|---|---|---|---|
 |  |  |  |
| 2 pull requests merged | 16 pull requests merged | 128 pull requests merged | 1024 pull requests merged |
| DEFAULT | BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD |
|---|---|---|---|
 |  |  |  |
| 2 accepted answers | 8 accepted answers | 16 accepted answers | 32 accepted answers |
Colors & Labels
Every tier has either an x2, x3, or x4 label with it that also includes color. Here is the information about each one below:
| Tier | Label | Sample | Hex | Visual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥉 Bronze | x2 |  | #F9BFA7 |  |
| 🥈 Silver | x3 |  | #E1E4E4 |  |
| 🥇 Gold | x4 |  | #FAE57E |  |
Achievement Skin Tone
Some of the achievements on GitHub appear with a different skin color depending on your Emoji Skin Tone Preference.
You can change your preferred Skin Tone by going to the appearance settings.
| Badge | Name | Skin Tone Versions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starstruck |
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 | Quickdraw |
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Previous Names
Only 2 achievements have had their name altered in all of GitHub’s History. These 2 achievements are the Public Sponsor and Mars 2020 Contributor as follows:
- GitHub Sponsor
+ Public Sponsor
- Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor
+ Mars 2020 ContributorResources
Credits
- Massive credit goes to @Schweinepriester and @Thinkright20 for the high-quality images for each badge, labels, information for each badge, and the inspiration to make this article.
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