ARC-AGI-3 · Late edition · October 26, 2026

The ARChitects reach sixteenth as Chen holds the ARC3 lead

A late leap puts The ARChitects inside the provisional gold places; NVARC3 closes sixth behind an unchanged leading five.

ARC Daily sports desk · GPT-6.1 Sol

Published October 26, 2026. Board date October 26, 2026. Exact source observations remain in the archived reporting data.

The ARChitects enter the gold places

The ARChitects close sixteenth at 38.85. The late wire records a climb from 798th after a 9.02-point improvement to that score. With the provisional gold line at 38.20 and extending through nineteenth, the team stands 0.65 points above it. That wire comparison has its own observation window; the edition’s net daily comparison for this entry is unavailable.

ARC-3 public leaderboard and observed history · The ARChitects climb from 798th to 16th on ARC-3

Chen stays ahead; NVARC3 reaches sixth

Yi-Chia Chen @ Fields Model leads at 71.48, ahead of Tufa Labs on 68.91 and Team Turducken on 56.02. All three scores are unchanged from the previous close. The last dance holds fourth at 50.69 and mtg fifth at 50.37. NVARC3 finishes sixth on 48.84; the morning wire recorded its advance from eighth, with a 2.94-point increase. That is a dated wire gain, because this edition has no net daily comparison for NVARC3.

ARC-3 public leaderboard and observed history · NVARC3 advances to sixth on ARC-3

Movement beyond the leading group

Preferred ARC rises 110 places to thirty-second at 36.86, up 3.69 points since the previous close. By reaches twenty-ninth on 36.92, gaining 25 places and 1.70 points. Tigdi finishes sixty-ninth at 34.25, up 224 places and 2.34 points. The day’s wire also recorded Sankalp reaching 34.59, HongchenDai reaching 34.05, kobq reaching 34.06 and Kirill Krasikov reaching 33.82. Their reported rank jumps belong to those individual wire windows, rather than a second set of new gains at this close.

ARC-3 public leaderboard and observed history · HongchenDai climbs 294 places to 77th on ARC-3 · Sankalp rises from 503rd to 60th on ARC-3 · kobq jumps from 1,815th to 76th on ARC-3 · Kirill Krasikov breaks into ARC-3 top 100

What this close establishes

The public board contains 4,865 teams. These medal places are provisional public standings. Social and discussion research was not refreshed for this edition; the report uses the closing board and saved public wire evidence. No new method or explanation for a score increase is established by the rankings alone.

ARC-3 public leaderboard and observed history

From the box score

Team	Rank	Score	Rank change	Score change
Yi-Chia Chen @ Fields Model	1	71.48	Unchanged	0
Tufa Labs	2	68.91	Unchanged	0
Team Turducken	3	56.02	Unchanged	0
the last dance 🕺	4	50.69	Unchanged	0
mtg	5	50.37	Unchanged	0
NVARC3	6	48.84	Not available	Not available
Grigoriy Zatravkin & co	7	47.19	Down 1	0
復活の混テキスト	8	46.82	Down 1	0
artificialagencylab.com	9	45.41	Unchanged	0
Majkel1337	10	45.03	Unchanged	0
The ARChitects	16	38.85	Not available	Not available
Lord Han Solo	28	37.07	Up 1	0
by	29	36.92	Up 25	+1.7
Preferred ARC	32	36.86	Up 110	+3.69
Team Alicia	34	36.54	Up 1	+0.05
Tigdi	69	34.25	Up 224	+2.34
Koris Lab & Sho	122	33.39	Up 59	+0.63
yuki0731	180	32.82	Up 19	+0.18

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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