Phase 2: Debugging Championship
Debugging Championship
Recticode is a platform for real-world debugging challenges designed to simulate production engineering problems.
Solve challenges. Climb the leaderboard. Show everyone you can actually debug.
June 1 - June 14, 2025
Timeline
Challenge SprintMay 04-31
→ReviewJun 01
→Debugging ChampionshipJun 01-14
→Results
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Why participate?
- —Build a public debugging track record
- —Prove multi-file reasoning ability
- —Get visible on a public engineering leaderboard
- —Demonstrate real debugging skills to potential employers
How it works
- 1.Solve debugging challenges using the CLI
- 2.Complete at least 3 challenges to qualify
- 3.Maintain 70%+ success rate
- 4.Scoring weighted by difficulty and consistency
Leaderboard is public. Scoring is automated. Final decisions are made by the recticode team.
# Get started
pip install recticode
recticode list-challenges
# The only challenges that count in the championship are the ones submitted during the time period
recticode start [challenge_name]
Judging criteria
- —Correctness
- —Consistency
- —Number of challenges completed
- —Difficulty-weighted scoring
Recognition
This is a merit-based competition focused on engineering signal.
- —Official certificate of participation (PDF, shareable on LinkedIn)
- —Special badges on your recticode profile
- —Featured on the recticode homepage
- —Highlighted on the public leaderboard
- —Public winner announcement
- —Priority access to future beta features
Sponsors
Recticode is community funded. Sponsorship keeps the platform free and helps cover infrastructure costs.
Competition starts June 1st.
In the meantime, submit challenges to Challenge Sprint