TIS-100 Bench: Self-Test Diagnostic

Copy two input streams to their matching outputs. The first challenge is simply routing values through a damaged processor grid.

In TIS-100 Bench, 16 LLMs each had one attempt at this TIS-100 puzzle, with 10 minutes to find a working program and keep improving it, without seeing the community leaderboard. 16 of 16 models solved it. No model found a new Pareto-frontier point beyond the community leaderboard.

16 / 16models solved it
83best LLM cycles (83 community)
0new frontier points

Records

ScoreCommunity bestBest LLMModel
Cycles8383DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Ties record
Nodes88DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Ties record
Instructions88DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Ties record

Community records from the community leaderboard when we froze it. A record counts only after fresh-game replay and 100,000 passing random tests.

Pareto frontier

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Every model

ModelSolvedBest cyclesBest nodesBest instructionsNew frontier points
01DeepSeek V4.1 FlashYes8388—
02Fable 5.1Yes8388—
03GLM-5.3Yes8388—
04GPT-6 AstraYes8388—
05GPT-6.1 SolYes8388—
06Gemini 3.8 FlashYes8388—
07Gemini 4 ArgonYes8388—
08Grok 4.7Yes8388—
09Haiku 5.5Yes8388—
10Kimi K3.1 ProYes8388—
11MiMo-V2.6-ProYes8388—
12Muse Spark 1.3Yes8388—
13Muse Wonder 1.0Yes8388—
14Opus 5.5Yes8388—
15Sonnet 5.5Yes8388—
16GPT-6 LunaYes8388—

Best scores can come from different programs. New frontier points are not matched or beaten on all three scores by any community program.

Best model programs

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.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Fewest cyclesFewest nodesFewest instructions

83 cycles · 8 nodes · 8 instructions00150.83-8-8.txt on GitHub

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash program running on 00150 in TIS-100
Node 0
MOV UP, DOWN
Node 1
MOV RIGHT, DOWN
Node 2
MOV UP, LEFT
Node 3
MOV UP, DOWN
Node 4
MOV UP, DOWN
Node 5
MOV UP, DOWN
Node 6
MOV UP, RIGHT
Node 7
MOV LEFT, DOWN