🏆 GitHub Achievement Badges 🏆
Unlock and showcase your GitHub achievements! Join the recode hive community and earn badges that highlight your contributions to the open source ecosystem.
🎯 Complete Achievement Guide
Master these challenges to earn exclusive GitHub badges and showcase your expertise
| Badge | Name | How to get | Needed Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Starstruck | Create a repository with a lot of stars. Sample repo If you get the first 16 stars you will unlock the badge. Watch the Video Tutorial | Levels: Default, Bronze, Silver, Gold    Needed: 16, 128, 512, 4096 |
 | Quickdraw | Gitty up! If you closed an issue / pull request within 5 minutes of opening you will unlock this badge | Level: Default  Needed: 1 |
 | Pair Extraordinaire | Coauthored commits on merged pull request Requirement: VSCode IDE (bit difficult to get) You can raise a sample PR here by adding to the existing readme file and tag @sanjay-kv Watch the Video Tutorial | Levels: Default, Bronze, Silver, Gold     Needed: 1, 10, 24, 48 |
 | Pull Shark | Opened a pull request and it should be merged You can raise a sample PR here by adding on existing readme file and tag @sanjay-kv Watch the Video Tutorial | Levels: Default, Bronze, Silver, Gold     Needed: 2, 16, 128, 1024 |
 | Galaxy Brain | Answered a discussion and someone marked your reply as answer You can answer some of the discussions here Watch the Video Tutorial | Levels: Default, Bronze, Silver, Gold     Needed: 2, 8, 16, 32 |
 | YOLO | Merged a pull request without a review You can raise a PR here Watch the Video Tutorial | Level: Default  Needed: 1 |
 | Public Sponsor | GitHub Sponsors. GitHub Sponsors Watch the Video Tutorial | Level: Default  Needed: 1 |
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✨ Highlights Badges ✨
| Badge | Name | How to get |
|---|---|---|
| ⭐ | Pro | Pay for GitHub Pro or if you are student get it free: Watch Video |
| 📋 | Developer Program Member | Be a registered member of the GitHub Developer Program |
| 🔒 | Security Bug Bounty Hunter | Helped out hunting down security vulnerabilities at GitHub Security |
| 🎓 | GitHub Campus Expert | Participate in the GitHub Campus Program |
| ⚠️ | Security advisory credit | Have your security advisory submitted to the GitHub Advisory Database accepted |
❌ Badges no longer earnable ❌
| Badge | Name | How to get | Needed Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mars 2020 Contributor | Contributed code to a repository used in the Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission | DEFAULT 1 |
 | Arctic Code Vault Contributor | Contributed code to a repository in the 2020 GitHub Archive Program | DEFAULT 1 |
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