TIS-100 Bench / Puzzles / Exposure Mask Viewer
TIS-100 Bench: Exposure Mask Viewer
52544 Medium Image generation Arithmetic construction Built-in puzzle ·
Read a rectangle's position, width, and height, then draw it. Coordinate loops must stop at exactly the requested boundaries.
In TIS-100 puzzle, with 30 minutes to find a working program and keep improving it, without seeing the community leaderboard . 13 of 16 models solved it. No model found a new Pareto-frontier point beyond the community leaderboard.
13 / 16 models solved it
556 best LLM cycles (511 community)
0 new frontier points
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Community records from the community leaderboard when we froze it. A record counts only after fresh-game replay and 100,000 passing random tests.
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Exposure Mask Viewer: cycles against instructions for the community frontier and each model’s frontier points 460 592 763 982 1,265 22 29 39 50 66 Cycles (log scale) Instructions Gemini 4 Argon: 872 cycles, 4 nodes, 31 instructions Gemini 4 Argon: 600 cycles, 4 nodes, 34 instructions Gemini 4 Argon: 567 cycles, 4 nodes, 37 instructions Gemini 4 Argon: 557 cycles, 4 nodes, 38 instructions Gemini 4 Argon: 556 cycles, 5 nodes, 39 instructions Gemini 4 Argon: 557 cycles, 5 nodes, 37 instructions Opus 5.5: 600 cycles, 4 nodes, 45 instructions Opus 5.5: 556 cycles, 7 nodes, 60 instructions Opus 5.5: 597 cycles, 5 nodes, 48 instructions Opus 5.5: 564 cycles, 5 nodes, 56 instructions Opus 5.5: 560 cycles, 6 nodes, 60 instructions Opus 5.5: 579 cycles, 5 nodes, 53 instructions Opus 5.5: 602 cycles, 4 nodes, 41 instructions Opus 5.5: 776 cycles, 4 nodes, 33 instructions Opus 5.5: 836 cycles, 4 nodes, 31 instructions Kimi K3.1 Pro: 663 cycles, 5 nodes, 43 instructions Kimi K3.1 Pro: 1,036 cycles, 4 nodes, 37 instructions Kimi K3.1 Pro: 560 cycles, 5 nodes, 58 instructions Sonnet 5.5: 561 cycles, 5 nodes, 35 instructions Sonnet 5.5: 569 cycles, 4 nodes, 34 instructions Sonnet 5.5: 837 cycles, 4 nodes, 31 instructions GPT-6 Astra: 578 cycles, 5 nodes, 47 instructions GPT-6 Astra: 699 cycles, 5 nodes, 43 instructions GPT-6 Astra: 676 cycles, 5 nodes, 44 instructions GPT-6 Astra: 834 cycles, 4 nodes, 31 instructions GPT-6 Astra: 562 cycles, 5 nodes, 49 instructions GPT-6 Astra: 731 cycles, 4 nodes, 51 instructions GPT-6 Astra: 795 cycles, 4 nodes, 35 instructions GPT-6 Astra: 780 cycles, 4 nodes, 39 instructions GPT-6 Astra: 587 cycles, 5 nodes, 46 instructions GPT-6 Astra: 563 cycles, 5 nodes, 48 instructions Fable 5.1: 959 cycles, 4 nodes, 32 instructions Fable 5.1: 596 cycles, 5 nodes, 35 instructions Fable 5.1: 955 cycles, 4 nodes, 33 instructions Fable 5.1: 594 cycles, 5 nodes, 36 instructions Fable 5.1: 604 cycles, 4 nodes, 35 instructions Grok 4.7: 919 cycles, 8 nodes, 45 instructions Grok 4.7: 675 cycles, 8 nodes, 56 instructions Grok 4.7: 599 cycles, 8 nodes, 59 instructions Grok 4.7: 841 cycles, 8 nodes, 48 instructions Grok 4.7: 1,074 cycles, 4 nodes, 37 instructions Grok 4.7: 967 cycles, 5 nodes, 41 instructions Grok 4.7: 688 cycles, 5 nodes, 51 instructions Gemini 3.8 Flash: 879 cycles, 4 nodes, 40 instructions Gemini 3.8 Flash: 1,128 cycles, 4 nodes, 37 instructions Gemini 3.8 Flash: 650 cycles, 4 nodes, 44 instructions Gemini 3.8 Flash: 619 cycles, 4 nodes, 50 instructions Muse Spark 1.3: 880 cycles, 4 nodes, 40 instructions Muse Spark 1.3: 628 cycles, 4 nodes, 44 instructions Muse Spark 1.3: 619 cycles, 5 nodes, 46 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 849 cycles, 4 nodes, 34 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 803 cycles, 4 nodes, 42 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 849 cycles, 5 nodes, 33 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 660 cycles, 4 nodes, 50 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 814 cycles, 4 nodes, 38 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 814 cycles, 5 nodes, 37 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 892 cycles, 4 nodes, 32 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 840 cycles, 6 nodes, 32 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 801 cycles, 6 nodes, 36 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 786 cycles, 6 nodes, 40 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 878 cycles, 5 nodes, 31 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 839 cycles, 5 nodes, 35 instructions GPT-6.1 Sol: 690 cycles, 4 nodes, 49 instructions Muse Wonder 1.0: 1,150 cycles, 4 nodes, 36 instructions Muse Wonder 1.0: 674 cycles, 5 nodes, 51 instructions Muse Wonder 1.0: 806 cycles, 4 nodes, 52 instructions Muse Wonder 1.0: 878 cycles, 5 nodes, 37 instructions Haiku 5.5: 926 cycles, 4 nodes, 35 instructions Haiku 5.5: 763 cycles, 4 nodes, 37 instructions gpt-6-luna: 1,141 cycles, 4 nodes, 38 instructions Community leaderboard Nodes are not shown; lower is better on both axes.
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These programs are in TIS-100 save format and released under the MIT License. All of this puzzle’s model programs are on GitHub and Hugging Face .
Gemini 4 Argon Fewest cycles 556 cycles · 5 nodes · 39 instructions 52544.556-5-39.txt on GitHub
Node 1 MOV UP, DOWN
MOV UP, DOWN
MOV 6, ACC
SUB UP
MOV ACC, DOWN
SAV
MOV UP, ACC
JMP F
L: MOV 1, DOWN
SWP
MOV ACC, DOWN
SWP
F: SUB 1
JGZ L
MOV 3, DOWNNode 4 MOV UP, ACC
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV UP, RIGHT
JMP G
F: MOV ACC, DOWN
G: MOV UP, DOWN
JRO UP
MOV -2, RIGHT
JMP F
MOV -3, RIGHTNode 5 MOV LEFT, ACC
MOV ACC, DOWN
ADD 1
JRO LEFTNode 9 MOV LEFT, DOWN
MOV UP, DOWN
JRO LEFT
MOV 3, DOWN
MOV 3, DOWN
MOV 3, DOWN
MOV 3, DOWN
MOV 3, DOWN
MOV -1, DOWNGemini 4 Argon Fewest nodes 557 cycles · 4 nodes · 38 instructions 52544.557-4-38.txt on GitHub
Node 1 MOV UP, DOWN
MOV UP, DOWN
MOV 6, ACC
SUB UP
MOV ACC, DOWN
SAV
MOV UP, ACC
JMP F
L: MOV 1, DOWN
SWP
MOV ACC, DOWN
SWP
F: SUB 1
JGZ L
MOV 3, DOWNNode 4 MOV UP, ACC
MOV UP, DOWN
F: MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV UP, DOWN
JRO UP
MOV -4, DOWN
JMP F
MOV -5, DOWNNode 8 MOV UP, ACC
MOV UP, RIGHT
MOV ACC, RIGHT
MOV UP, RIGHT
ADD 1
JRO UPNode 9 MOV LEFT, DOWN
MOV LEFT, DOWN
JRO LEFT
MOV 3, DOWN
MOV 3, DOWN
MOV 3, DOWN
MOV 3, DOWN
MOV 3, DOWN
MOV -1, DOWNGPT-6 Astra Fewest instructions 834 cycles · 4 nodes · 31 instructions 52544.834-4-31.txt on GitHub
Node 1 MOV UP DOWN
MOV UP DOWN
MOV UP ACC
SAV
MOV UP ACC
B: SWP
MOV ACC DOWN
SWP
SUB 1
JEZ E
MOV -6 DOWN
JMP B
E: MOV -9 DOWNNode 4 MOV UP ACC
SAV
MOV UP ACC
B: SWP
MOV ACC DOWN
SWP
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV UP DOWN
ADD 1
JRO UPNode 9 MOV LEFT DOWN
MOV LEFT DOWN
MOV LEFT ACC
L: MOV 3 DOWN
SUB 1
JNZ L
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