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.
August 1 - August 7, 2026
Timeline
Competition starts in
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
Sponsor prizes
Featured sponsor
Boot.dev is supporting the Recticode hackathon with participant prizes and a grand prize for the championship.
- —Qualifying participants can earn Boot.dev access as part of the event prize pool
- —Complete at least 3 challenges to qualify for participant prizes
- —Overall winner receives a 1-year Boot.dev subscription, worth £30
Sponsor the hackathon
Recticode is looking for sponsor credits, licences, swag, and other useful prizes for hackathon participants and winners.
Email vulcan@recticode.com to sponsor the hackathon.Competition starts August 1st.
In the meantime, submit challenges to Challenge Sprint