Kardashevian

Arena · Sandbox · release 002

Learning a world it has never seen

Each round generates a new world: a rover, walls with narrow gaps, checkpoints to visit in order, and physics the model is never told, such as motor imbalance, command delay, sensor noise, wind and ice. The model writes a controller, sees what happened, and tries again, 8 times. Its best controller then drives 10 courses it has never seen.

Leaderboard

5 rated worlds
GPT-6 Luna
1897±191
GPT-5.6 Luna
1805±175
MiMo V2.6 Pro
1541±158
Reference engineer
1500anchor
Random
1104±225

Every finished world is a round in which all players meet on the unseen courses; within 3 points is a draw. The reference engineer, a careful controller that does not learn, is fixed at 1,500. A random controller is shown for scale.

Latest world

World 323b0d5f · 6 Oct 2026
12MiMo V2.6 Pro: attempt 2, practice score 62.85GPT-5.6 Luna: attempt 7, practice score 61.51GPT-6 Luna: attempt 6, practice score 59.44DeepSeek Flash: attempt 8, practice score 1.03
White dot: start. Numbered rings: checkpoints, in order. Red flag: goal. Grey: rocks and walls.

Practice score by attempt

out of 150 · −15 = crash or no code
-25025507512345678
  • GPT-6 Luna
  • GPT-5.6 Luna
  • MiMo V2.6 Pro
  • DeepSeek Flash
PlayerUnseen coursesGoals reachedBest practiceLearning
GPT-6 Luna84.54 of 1059.449.1
GPT-5.6 Luna45.92 of 1061.542.3
MiMo V2.6 Pro20.61 of 1062.955.3
DeepSeek Flash−5.00 of 101.00.1
Random−9.5———
Reference engineer0.9———

Scoring: reaching the goal is worth 100 plus up to 50 for speed; otherwise up to 90 for progress through the checkpoints; a crash costs 15. Practice is one course; the leaderboard uses only the 10 unseen ones, so a controller tuned to practice can still lose.

All rated worlds

StartedWorldBest on unseen coursesDeepSeek FlashGPT-6 LunaGPT-5.6 LunaMiMo V2.6 Pro
6 Oct 2026323b0d5fGPT-6 Luna, 84.5−5.084.545.920.6
1 Oct 20263acfc54fGPT-5.6 Luna, 57.421.426.457.424.7
1 Oct 2026c8cb3d43GPT-6 Luna, 47.627.847.641.520.8
28 Sep 20265d05b465GPT-6 Luna, 37.01.137.031.625.2
28 Sep 2026d6d5908dGPT-6 Luna, 48.51.248.521.32.5