ARC-AGI-3 · Late edition · October 11, 2026

AFF AI CLUB breaks into ARC-3’s top ten as Yi-Chia Chen holds the lead

AFF climbs twenty places to ninth, while the last dance takes fifth and the provisional gold cutoff rises.

ARC Daily sports desk · GPT-6.1 Sol

Published October 11, 2026. Board date October 11, 2026. Exact source observations remain in the archived reporting data.

A new top-ten challenger

AFF AI CLUB has pushed into the ARC-AGI-3 public top ten, climbing from 29th to ninth since the previous evening close. Its score rose from 33.92 to 38.98, a gain of 5.06 points. That puts it just behind dreach.ai at 39.11 and ahead of tenth-placed Nhan Duc Nguyen at 38.84. The top-ten doorway is narrow: AFF’s next move could matter even without another large score jump.

ARC-3 public leaderboard and observed history

Chen keeps the field at a distance

Yi-Chia Chen remains first at 62.96, with Tufa Labs second at 56.52 and mtg third at 45. Neither of the leading pair changed score against the previous close; Chen’s advantage remains 6.44 points. Her entry lists the verified Kaggle account threerabbits. The lively action farther down the table has yet to close that gap.

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The chase reshuffles

The last dance stands fifth at 42.55 after an observed score event lifted it from 39.30. That event is not a verified net daily comparison. NVARC3 sits sixth at an unchanged 40.97, one place lower than the previous evening. Its listed roster includes Jean-François Puget and Ivan Sorokin, credited with the separate NVARC team’s 2025 championship; that history does not identify this year’s method. Son & Mark & Ronen climbs from twentieth to seventh at 39.24, gaining 3.79 points. Farther back, mikelou1 advances from 109th to 27th at 35.42.

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More score, less breathing room

The provisional gold cutoff rises from 36.14 to 36.89. Lord Han Solo gains 0.37 points to 36.98 but falls from fifteenth to seventeenth, leaving only 0.09 points above that score threshold. Keith Tyser’s entry holds 37.22 and slips from thirteenth to fifteenth. David Hartmann’s entry is 433rd at 29.83 and Jan Disselhoff’s is 735th at 28.23; their prior-evening comparisons are unavailable. Public medal bands remain provisional, and none of these standings settles the private result.

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Experiments beyond the table

Away from the standings, FeiZ reported that a DS Bot cleared one public ls20 level while a DeepSeek Harness did not clear it within its allotted steps. The author explicitly cautioned that a single level proves little. It is a community experiment worth following, not evidence of a private-game result or a verified link to any current leaderboard entry.

FeiZ — research post

From the box score

Team	Rank	Score	Rank change	Score change
Yi-Chia Chen	1	62.96	Unchanged	0
Tufa Labs	2	56.52	Unchanged	0
mtg	3	45	Unchanged	0
Majkel1337	4	42.66	Unchanged	0
the last dance 🕺	5	42.55	Not available	Not available
NVARC3	6	40.97	Down 1	0
Son & Mark & Ronen	7	39.24	Up 13	+3.79
dreach.ai	8	39.11	Down 1	0
AFF AI CLUB	9	38.98	Up 20	+5.06
Nhan Duc Nguyen	10	38.84	Down 2	0
keithtyser	15	37.22	Down 2	0
Lord Han Solo	17	36.98	Down 2	+0.37
Nick2187	23	36.11	Up 10	+2.41
mikelou1	27	35.42	Up 82	+3.38
put me in harness @ NUP	39	33.68	Up 173	+2.62
tf	81	32.97	Up 208	+2.51
Junhua Yang	99	32.54	Up 2	+0.41
datnt114	218	31.24	Up 25	+0.42
uninhibited-scholar	281	30.78	Down 18	+0.1
David Hartmann	433	29.83	Not available	Not available
Jan Disselhoff	735	28.23	Not available	Not available

Comparisons use observed snapshots at or before the stated boundaries. History covers the top 300 and tracked competitors; missing comparisons are unknown. Score-event entries are context, not net daily gains. Unfamiliar names are not necessarily new entrants.

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