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Welcome to the comma.ai leaderboard! We designed these challenges around real problems we've faced while building and shipping openpilot. We hope you enjoy them. If you do and score well, you'll probably enjoy a job here. * Submit your solution here * Multiple submissions are allowed * Non-competitive scores will not be published * is an employee or intern score * Active challenges are still expected to be difficult * Archived challenges are (mostly) solved problems

🔗 PCBGolf challenge  PRIZE · 2026-10-13T00:00:00-07:00

make the tiniest PCBA you can

Score = PCBA bounding box volume (mm³) + 50 × number of vias + 5,000 × number of copper layers. Lowest score wins.

$1,000 cash prize for the lowest score by October 12, 2026.

🔗 video compression challenge

lossy video compression challenge

👑 challenge prize winner

💡 new approach

📖 best write-up

score name link
0.162 semantic-pose-HPAC_CPR1_polished #135
0.166 cpr1_cbq_matched8 #133
0.172 semantic-pose-HPAC_CPR1 #130
0.187 rhnerv_latent_polish #128
0.190 qlp_exactgrid #129
0.191 qlp_exactgrid #127
0.191 hnerv_qlp #125
0.191 rhnerv_comma #112
0.192 hnerv_fec6_fixed_huffman_k16 #110
0.193 hnerv_ft_microcodec 👑 #101
0.195 hnerv_lc_ac 👑 #103
0.195 hnerv_lc_v2_scale095_rplus1 👑 #102
0.195 hnerv_lc_v2 💡 #100
0.197 hnerv_muon_finetuned_from_pr95 #98
0.198 kitchen_sink #105
0.199 hnerv_muon 💡 📖 #95
0.206 rem2_HNeRV #96
0.209 belt_and_suspenders #106
0.229 vibe_coder_final_boss #97
0.229 apogee #107
0.231 qhnerv_ft_best #104
0.249 hpac_coder_hybrid #91
0.258 adaptive_masking_joint_frame_model #85
0.260 qzs3_range_joint_r258 #92
0.274 jas0xf_adversarial_neural_representation 💡 #86
0.275 adaptive_range_mask #84
0.280 qrepro 💡 #90
0.288 qzs3_range_mask 💡 #81
0.315 qpose14_r55_segactions_minp #79
0.315 qzs3_tile_delta_r147 #77
0.316 qpose14_qzs3_filmq9g_slsb1_r55 #67
0.320 henosis_qz_n3z_r25_clean #65
0.321 flatpup #93
0.325 qpose14 #63
0.331 unified_brotli #64
0.333 quantizr 💡 #55
0.344 qpose14_poseq6 #76
0.368 ph4ntom_drv #74
0.375 fp4_mask_gen #62
0.382 selfcomp #56
0.481 roro_perframe_hnerv #119
0.602 mask2mask 💡 #53
0.717 tomasdousek #71
1.236 codex_metric_yshift_av1 💡 #60
1.891 neural_inflate 💡 #49
1.914 svtav1_dilated_ren #58
1.944 roi_v2 #48
1.947 av1_roi_lanczos_unsharp #31
1.979 svtav1_av1grain_10bit #51
1.981 damir_bearclaw_002 💡 #30
2.005 roi_gop300_c34 #43
2.020 v4_qp_aq2_roi 💡 #44
2.033 av1_crf31_bicubic #52
2.052 svtav1_cheetah #24
2.070 svtav1_45pct_unsharp20_direct #27
2.083 svtav1_gop360_binomial_unsharp #26
2.083 av1_sharp1_adaptive #23
2.086 svtav1_45pct_unsharp 💡 #20
2.158 svtav1_spline_fg22 #37
2.200 svt_av1_lanczos_fg #18
2.553 h265_g16_512x384_veryslow #21
3.323 optimized #22
3.833 delta_codec 💡 #61
4.390 baseline_fast #1
5.086 damir_bearclaw_003 #39
25.000 no_compress #0

🔗 commaVQ compression challenge  ARCHIVED

losslessly compress 5,000 minutes of driving data
score name method
4.0 pmazumder3927 arithmetic coding with commavq-gpt2m
4.0 JPL11 arithmetic coding with commavq-gpt2m
3.7 mune-io arithmetic coding with commavq-gpt2m
3.4 szabolcs-cs self-compressing neural network
3.0 SAT-oO arithmetic coding with GPT
2.9 BradyWynn arithmetic coding with GPT
2.8 adelkordi42-png arithmetic coding with GPT
2.7 ylevental arithmetic coding with GPT
2.7 ksd3 arithmetic coding with GPT
2.6 pkourouklidis 👑 arithmetic coding with GPT
2.3 anonymous zpaq
2.3 rostislav zpaq
2.2 anonymous zpaq
2.2 anonymous zpaq
2.2 0x41head zpaq
2.2 tillinf zpaq
2.2 ylevental zpaq
2.2 nuniesmith zpaq
1.6 baseline lzma

🔗 harness tester challenge  ARCHIVED

find as many bugs as you can in our custom wire harness tester

$1000 prize - first submission with >21 bugs found CLAIMED by LK!

$1000 prize - highest score by 6/22 (must be >22) CLAIMED by AnasMalas!

bugs name
24 AnasMalas 👑
24 LK 👑
23 Milind220
22 BradyMeighan
21 leosteinberg 👑
21 ProtonDev-sys
21 DoubleGate
20 probablyanasian
20 delat
20 i2cjak
20 kumpulak
20 daulet
20 maddiedreese
19 johannes-ece
19 everythingapplejj
19 MichaelIbrahim-GaTech
18 MastroGippo
18 dzid26
18 LukasCollishawM
18 reformedot
18 kaileh57
18 zacks-lab
18 UberMetroid
18 un-tag
18 JX5S
18 Champsmatter
17 s-bashar
17 gatordevin
17 HueCodes
16 ruselec 👑
16 ashrey
16 1kuna
16 eyonce
16 abhay
16 eerwitt
15 bjkayani
15 0rln
15 kattaliraees
15 epowell40
15 ganeshpimpale
15 shellshock9001
15 vedantsaran

🔗 design challenge  ARCHIVED

design a UI to communicate openpilot's confidence to the user
name design
davidcalifornia design
utkarshgill design
hyusap design
salfolio design
dahsmartgirl design
kalipeng design

🔗 controls challenge  ARCHIVED

design a controller to steer a (simulated) car
score name method
6.880 RyanL2 👑per segment direct quadratic optimization
6.880 hypery11 👑per segment direct quadratic optimization
6.880 pmazumder3927 👑per segment direct quadratic optimization
7.083 Vansh404 online simulator probing with rng reset
7.228 Yezus69per segment optimized actions
13.593 auriium2per segment MPC
16.372 Ashray-gper segment optimized actions
17.791 tfpghPGTO+BC distillation
19.620 Hi9173online simulator probing with rng reset
21.435 Chep-koechper segment optimized actions
29.371 nurikserikbayevper segment optimized actions
29.549 hypery11per segment optimized actions
33.595 JasonMo123CEM MPC+BC transformer
35.967 haraschax MPC+much compute
39.348 ksd3 per segment MPC
41.730 dynm per-segment optimized blended controllers
42.206 utkarshgill PPO+MPC
44.320 kaileh57 Gauss-Newton MPC
45.756 bheijdenPPO
46.92 Janaa19per segment PID+FF with CEM
48.08 ellenjxu custom feedback controller + evolution
48.474 TheConverseEngineer tube MPC + 2dof PID
48.57 Quantizr custom feedback controller
49.264 dumanah MPC w diffusion style annealing
50.192 truefit-ai custom PID + evolution
50.608 CheckmeowwwT PID w FF
50.633 jonoomph ML PID
50.716 felsager  👑 custom feedback controller
51.483 AnmolDeshmukh Adaptive preview PID+CMA-ES
52.114 Jerenemy Residual preview MPC
52.506 izzunnafis custom feedback controller
53.050 Josemedinan custom feedback controller
54.708 ch33nchan adaptive PID
54.709 freeklinssen adaptive PID
55.485 garrettpall custom feedback controller
55.739 clouds1729 custom feedback controller + evolution
56.586 AnmolDeshmukh PID w FF
56.849 armanjr PID w FF
57.670 YasinSonmez PID w FF
58.57 YashDYD custom feedback controller
59.317 Parth171 custom feedback controller
59.811 avangerp custom feedback controller
59.853 haraschax custom feedback controller
59.862 tristan-yk PID w FF
60.993 srikanth-444 PPO
61.783 xfqbuaa custom PID
62.462 0xmmo genetic algorithm
62.971 zachhaidari PID w FF
63.793 fabP258 DOBC
64.042 avlord PID w FF
66.165 CheckmeowwwT PID w FF
67.329 ninohdasilva PID w FF
67.355 kofteee adaptive PID
68.055 matthiaspetry custom feedback controller
68.942 Officially-Siddhant custom PID
69.100 Vansh404 custom feedback controller + bayesian optimization
74.440 diegoruizpon custom feedback controller
75.688 Sanjit1 custom feedback controller
76.644 jaumebalust PID w FF
76.723 gcosentino PID w FF
77.365 ZiZizou custom PID
77.411 chinmayi-r >PID w FF
78.590 hpoonawala PID w FF
78.593 Havee005 PID w FF
78.862 hbarkh PID w FF
78.868 yiannisha bayesian optimization
79.316 chinmaymirji PID+TD3
79.360 ffmiruz MPC
80.828 donymorph custom PID
83.568 jonoomph8 custom PID
88.774 Pranav-Malpure custom PID
90.893 atharva10764 custom PID w FF
91.130 integ01 MPC
95.724 adhintz auto-tuned PID
98.703 QuangTran1608 slsqp
100.445 pau-mensa bayesian optimization
102.184 NikhilGangaram custom PID
110.254 baseline PID

🔗 calibration challenge  ARCHIVED

predict the direction of travel (in camera frame) from provided dashcam video
score name
5.33% fredyshox
9.4% Boris
10.0% krikarls
11.4% Ritam
18.5% bongbui321
18.7% Nathan
19.0% MartinEthier
19.0% louislva
19.6% arshsinghal6
19.6% Yasin
20.0% RoyVorster
20.0% Roman
20.22% Armandpl
20.5% Herman
24.8% gijskoning