Anthropic Performance Challenge

Can You Beat Claude?

Compete in Anthropic's performance optimization challenge. Optimize your code to achieve the lowest clock cycles and climb the leaderboard.

Recruiting Threshold: 1487 cycles
Claude Opus 4.5 Best: 1363 cycles
Leaderboard
Top performers ranked by clock cycles (lower is better)
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How It Works
  1. Sign in with your X account
  2. Submit your optimized Python code
  3. We run it in a secure sandbox
  4. Your score appears on the leaderboard
Scoring

Performance is measured in clock cycles from the simulated machine. Lower is better. Beat 1,487 cycles to reach the recruiting threshold, or 1,363 cycles to match Claude Opus 4.5's best.

Rules
  • 5 submissions per hour
  • 30 second execution timeout
  • Code must pass validation tests
  • Only your best score counts