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GitHub Profile Achievements 🏆

This is my last article 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.
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)
Starstruck		`✅ Yes`	This badge is given to someone when one of their repository's gets 16 stars.

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	👋 👋🏻 👋🏼 👋🏽 👋🏾 👋🏿
	Quickdraw	👋 👋🏻 👋🏼 👋🏽 👋🏾 👋🏿

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 Contributor

Resources

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.

Follow me on GitHub @brunoblaise ❤

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