Who is the user with the longest streak on GitHub? [closed]

Question

Does anybody know how to find a list of the users with longest Github streaks ever?

Answer 1

Streak is easy to game, so results will not be relevant

As of 2015-03-20, it might be me with 32k days (100 years) https://github.com/cirosantilli , but it was giving 502 most of the time so I opened an issue for that. I later pushed a 1000 year streak, but it gives 502 all the time.

Update 2015-10-21: GitHub contacted me and explained that this was consuming too much resources on their servers. My profile page is back for the first time since 7 months :-) But my public contributions simply don't show, while normal users have an empty "Public contributions" and "Contribution activity" sections. This is step 1 of fixing things twice.

Generated with https://gist.github.com/cirosantilli/4d24fc646ab9aec8def7 by making one commit per day, making this metric very easy to game to infinity. The bounding factor I've found so far was the repository generation time. Repository size is small (15M). Maybe someone can optimize the commit generation speed? Edit 2016-05: I have since generated 1 million commits in a few minutes (but it does not scale to 10M very well): https://github.com/cirosantilli/test-many-commits-1m

Update 2015-04-01: it seems that GitHub patched it to limit new streaks arbitrarily to 1000 days, even though my home still gives 502. Tested with my puppet: https://github.com/cirosantilli-puppet , https://github.com/cirosantilli-puppet/test-streak (now deleted because of their silly one account per person policy, I have since learned to use webarchive and tor).

Update 2016-05-19: streaks were deprecated: https://github.com/blog/2173-more-contributions-on-your-profile but my contribution graph is not back up yet.

Other stroke gaming methods

• https://github.com/4148/greenhat Seems to generate a more camouflaged streak that looks more authentic
• https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar allows you to pick a language to generate contributions for

Possible ways to do if if you're still interested

Holman said that he does not think there is a simple way to get it, so probably there isn't.

http://longeststreak.net/ is (was, down now?) maintaining a programmaticaly generated list. Source code: https://github.com/oblakeerickson/longest_streak . I haven't looked into their techniques.

As of Jan 2015, the longest streak on longestreak is: 5168 by mahipal, but that is clearly a gamed streak on a single empty repo. Since this is about 14 years, longer than GitHub exists, it indicates that the method used by longstreak is the same as GitHub, as it considers only repository data instead of push date, which is easy to game like I did. I wonder why mahipal stopped at such a small number in his gamed streak, so I asked him at https://github.com/cirosantilli/chat/issues/1 . No reply so far.

Upon quick inspection, the top 10 streaks of longstreak seem to be gamed, or made of diligent trivial contributions.

Possible starting points that export all GitHub public data:

• https://www.githubarchive.org/ exports hourly to Google BigQuery
• http://ghtorrent.org/ exports quarterly as a torrent

Misc

• https://github.com/wojciechpolak/vcstreak calculates a stream for a given local repository
• https://github.com/motdotla/github-streaker emails you to remind to continue your streak
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8848024 asks why streak is limited to 1096. Contacted OP at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/chat/issues/17 My theory is that it is 1000 + non-gamed commits.
• https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti draws pixel art on your "Public contributions" instead
• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/isometric-contributions/mjoedlfflcchnleknnceiplgaeoegien Chrome extension that shows streak. Not sure if for last year only or all time.
• https://hackernoon.com/believe-it-or-not-github-edition-90e61a1bdf4b features my saga

Answer 2

This gist provides a list of the 256 most active users. At the bottom of the list there is a list of Contribution Streak users that will answer this question more directly. I have not seen a report of all time streak records.