TIS-100 Bench: Sequence Peak Detector

Find the minimum and maximum of each zero-terminated sequence, maintaining two summaries until its end.

In TIS-100 Bench, 16 LLMs each had one attempt at this TIS-100 puzzle, with 30 minutes to find a working program and keep improving it, without seeing the community leaderboard. 15 of 16 models solved it. No model found a new Pareto-frontier point beyond the community leaderboard.

15 / 16models solved it
227best LLM cycles (185 community)
0new frontier points

Records

ScoreCommunity bestBest LLMModel
Cycles185227GPT-6 Astra · +23%
Nodes44DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Ties record
Instructions2127Opus 5.5 · +29%

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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ModelSolvedBest cyclesBest nodesBest instructionsNew frontier points
01GPT-6 AstraYes227429—
02Gemini 4 ArgonYes235428—
03Opus 5.5Yes248527—
04DeepSeek V4.1 FlashYes249429—
05GPT-6.1 SolYes251428—
06Sonnet 5.5Yes259430—
07Kimi K3.1 ProYes266429—
08Gemini 3.8 FlashYes267432—
09Fable 5.1Yes268428—
10Grok 4.7Yes277633—
11Muse Wonder 1.0Yes288533—
12Muse Spark 1.3Yes347636—
13Haiku 5.5Yes353634—
14GPT-6 LunaYes379643—
15GLM-5.3Yes427645—
16MiMo-V2.6-ProNo————

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.

GPT-6 Astra Fewest cycles

227 cycles · 6 nodes · 35 instructions41427.227-6-35.txt on GitHub

GPT-6 Astra program running on 41427 in TIS-100
Node 1
MOV UP ACC
MOV ACC RIGHT
MOV ACC DOWN
Node 2
MOV LEFT DOWN
Node 5
MOV UP ACC
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV ACC DOWN
Node 6
MOV UP DOWN
L: MOV UP ACC
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV ACC DOWN
JNZ L
Node 8
MOV UP NIL
R: MOV UP ACC
JEZ E
S: SAV
L: SUB UP
JGZ R
ADD UP
JMP L
E: SWP
MOV ACC DOWN
Node 9
R: MOV UP ACC
SAV
SUB UP
JLZ R
K: MOV UP ACC
JEZ E
SWP
SAV
SUB UP
JGZ K
JMP R
E: SWP
MOV ACC DOWN

Gemini 4 Argon Fewest nodes

314 cycles · 4 nodes · 30 instructions41427.314-4-30.txt on GitHub

Gemini 4 Argon program running on 41427 in TIS-100
Node 1
MOV UP, ACC
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV ACC, DOWN
Node 5
MOV UP, NIL
N: MOV UP, ACC
MOV ACC, DOWN
JEZ O
L: SAV
SUB UP
JGZ N
MOV UP, DOWN
SWP
JMP L
O: SWP
MOV ACC, DOWN
Node 8
L: MOV UP, ACC
MOV ACC, RIGHT
MOV ACC, RIGHT
JNZ L
MOV UP, DOWN
Node 9
L: SAV
SUB LEFT
JGZ M
MOV LEFT, ACC
JMP L
M: MOV LEFT, ACC
JNZ S
SWP
MOV ACC, DOWN
S: SWP

Opus 5.5 Fewest instructions

314 cycles · 5 nodes · 27 instructions41427.314-5-27.txt on GitHub

Opus 5.5 program running on 41427 in TIS-100
Node 1
MOV UP,DOWN
Node 5
MOV UP,ACC
MOV ACC,DOWN
MOV ACC,RIGHT
MOV ACC,DOWN
Node 6
MOV LEFT,ACC
MOV ACC,DOWN
JNZ K
MOV -999,DOWN
K: MOV ACC,DOWN
Node 8
MOV 999,ACC
L: SUB UP
JGZ N
ADD UP
JMP L
N: SAV
MOV UP,ACC
JNZ L
SWP
MOV ACC,DOWN
Node 9
L: SUB UP
JLZ U
ADD UP
JGZ L
ADD 999
MOV ACC,DOWN
U: MOV UP,ACC