In June 2022, GitHub announced achievements – badges on a user’s GitHub profile to celebrate various accomplishments:

Achievements celebrate and showcase your journey on GitHub. You can take a trip down memory lane as you reminisce on some of your earlier work (yes, certain achievements will surface events dating back to the beginning!). You can also share them on social media to show off the new badges you’ve earned. We’ll only ship a few to start, but as we roll out more over time, achievements will begin to paint a clearer picture of you and the work you’re passionate about.

In this blog post, we’ll cover all of the GitHub Achivements available at the time of writing (and try to keep it up-to-date!) as well as how to unlock them.

Pair Extraordinaire

How you earn it: Coauthored a merged pull request (meaning that you worked on a pull request with multiple authors that was eventually merged).

Quickdraw

How you earn it: Closed an issue or a pull request within 5 min of opening.

Starstruck

How you earn it: Create a repository that has 16 stars.

Galaxy Brain

How you earn it: 2 accepted answers.

Pull Shark

How you earn it: 2 pull requests merged.

YOLO

How you earn it: Merged own pull request without code review.

Public Sponsor

How you earn it: Sponsoring open source work via GitHub Sponsors.

Arctic Code Vault Contributor

This badge is no longer available. It was awarded for contributions to repositories in the 2020 GitHub Archive Program.

Mars 2020 Contributor

This badge is no longer available. It was awarded for contributions to repositories used in the Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission.

Heart On Your Sleeve

Currently, this badge is not earnable because it’s being tested.

Open Sourcerer

Currently, this badge is not earnable because it’s being tested.

Thanks to Schweinepriester for compiling a useful list of GitHub achievements that was used to write this article.

Not seeing badges on your profile? GitHub may be caching your profile, and it can take some time for the badges to appear.