ARC-AGI-2 · Early edition · October 12, 2026

Schweighofer breaks into ARC-AGI-2 gold as Tufa Labs holds the lead

Kajetan Schweighofer gains 11.25 points in the morning comparison and takes twelfth. Tufa’s 88.06 remains the target, while recorded improvements lift ARC Raiders and Majkel1337.

ARC Daily sports desk · GPT-6.1 Sol

Published October 12, 2026. Board date October 12, 2026. Exact source observations remain in the archived reporting data.

A new name inside the gold places

Kajetan Schweighofer supplied the morning’s clearest verified net move near the front: an 11.25-point gain to 47.92 and a climb from 27th to 12th. That carries the entry into the 15 provisional public gold places. The overnight wire reported a larger 13.89-point gain from an earlier rolling-day starting point; both observations describe the climb, but only 11.25 belongs to this edition’s morning comparison. ibyyue now sits 16th at 41.81, level with the gold score threshold but outside the ranked band. A score tie does not guarantee a place.

ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history · Kajetan Schweighofer breaks into ARC-2 gold

Tufa keeps the field at a distance

Tufa Labs remains first at 88.06, with rabbithole second at 80.56: a 7.50-point margin. Yi-Chia Chen follows at 77.22 and nvbanana at 77.08. None of those four scores changed in the verified morning comparison. The current Tufa roster includes Dries Smit’s verified driessmit1 account; the roster establishes his presence, not who produced a particular submission. Schweighofer’s surge changes the chase for public gold without dislodging the leaders.

ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history · Public professional account profile · ARC-2 public roster observation

Eighth and ninth raise their marks

Recorded score events give ARC Raiders and Majkel1337 useful momentum. ARC Raiders improved from 60.00 to 62.08 and closes eighth; Majkel1337 moved from 48.33 to 52.50 and closes ninth. Their midnight comparisons are unavailable, so neither event should be presented as a verified net morning gain. Keith Tyser’s keithtyser account appears on the observed ARC Raiders roster, alongside dzjiann, mitubant and ngyzly. That is a dated membership observation, with no inference about authorship of the gain.

ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history · ARC-2 public roster observation

The wire’s longer view

The overnight desk first filed MINAGI and later used its updated name, Aneesh & Yash. Those are two names for the same competition entry, not two separate surges. Its recorded score event took it from 30.14 to 40.14. The early wire had it 19th; Schweighofer’s later advance left it 20th in the saved trail before the issue close. Another filing revisited mrkmakr at 36.67 and 29th, and Burton Lancaster at 35.83 and 33rd. Their score gains were already recorded on October 11, before this morning’s baseline. They remain relevant field context without adding fresh overnight gains to the tally.

ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history · MINAGI leaps from 862nd to 19th on ARC-2 · Aneesh & Yash surge from 862nd to 19th · mrkmakr and Burton Lancaster surge into ARC-2 top 33

The leader’s explanation is still to come

In its October 10 public reply to Mike Knoop, Tufa Labs said it had begun working on ARC-AGI-2 by accident and would share more after the deadline. That is the team’s account of its path, not a disclosed solution or a method established by this desk. The public lead is measurable; the decisions behind it remain a story to pursue when the promised details arrive. Public medal positions remain provisional, and the morning close does not imply that every pending submission has completed evaluation.

Tufa Labs — community post · ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history

From the box score

Team	Rank	Score	Rank change	Score change
Tufa Labs	1	88.06	Unchanged	0
rabbithole	2	80.56	Unchanged	0
Yi-Chia Chen	3	77.22	Unchanged	0
nvbanana	4	77.08	Unchanged	0
_hans	5	69.03	Unchanged	0
ALbert RUehlman	6	67.36	Unchanged	0
Dawid Kopiczko	7	62.92	Unchanged	0
ARC Raiders	8	62.08	Not available	Not available
Majkel1337	9	52.5	Not available	Not available
matu997	10	50.83	Down 1	0
Kajetan Schweighofer	12	47.92	Up 15	+11.25
Jack Cole	23	38.61	Down 2	0
復活の混テキスト	36	34.72	Down 1	+0.28
Mithil A Vakde	41	33.89	Down 1	0
Mark Barney	620	30.97	Not available	Not available
Son Pham	879	30.14	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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