ARC-AGI-2 · Early edition · October 27, 2026

Nguyen reaches thirtieth as Tufa holds the ARC2 lead

Nguyen adds nearly four points overnight and Tatu Helander climbs eleven places; the top ten hold position as the final-selection deadline approaches.

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Published October 27, 2026. Board date October 27, 2026. Exact source observations remain in the archived reporting data.

The challengers move; the leaders hold

Nguyen reaches thirtieth on the ARC-AGI-2 public board after an overnight gain of nearly four points. At 61.94, the team is moving toward the upper field while the leaders hold their ground. Tufa Labs remains first at 88.06, ahead of Yi-Chia Chen’s separate ARC2 entry at 84.72 and Domdolus Tolus at 82.08. None of the top ten changed rank or score across the morning comparison.

That leaves a gap of more than three points between Tufa and Chen. The chase below is active, but this morning’s evidence supplies no fresh breakthrough at the summit. These are public standings, not the final private result.

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

A crowded approach to the top thirty

Nguyen’s 3.75-point overnight improvement lifts it four places from the comparison observation, from thirty-fourth to thirtieth. The wire had already reported Nguyen and Rick reaching the top forty the previous evening. Rick was fortieth in that report; that dated observation is not a claim about its place at the morning close.

Yanming (Owen) Dong supplied another substantial overnight move: the wire reported a rise from forty-sixth to thirtieth at 61.53. That was an earlier observation, before Nguyen’s closing improvement; it should not be read as two teams occupying the same current slot. Tatu Helander’s morning comparison is clear: eleven places gained to sixty-eighth, with 41.25.

Nguyen in this report is team 16600664. It is a separate entry from Thanh Hau Nguyen’s team, currently displayed as “ảc,” which remains seventeenth at 69.17. The latter sits just below the observed provisional gold score of 69.44; ARC Raiders follows in eighteenth at 68.75. The private board will settle final medals.

ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history · Nguyen and Rick advance into ARC-2 top 40 · Yanming (Owen) Dong rises to 30th on ARC-2

A queued run still needs a final-selection place

Competitors waiting for a score have a practical deadline question to settle. In an October 23 reply preserved in the desk’s public research, Kaggle staff member María Cruz said submissions made before November 2 at 23:59 UTC can continue scoring afterward. A pending run must nevertheless be selected among the two final submissions before that deadline. This is ARC2 guidance.

The discussion also asks which leaderboard controls the grand-prize threshold. Cruz says the private board and invites Greg Kamradt to clarify; the participants’ questions do not establish that ARC Prize has issued a contradictory ruling.

This delayed Early edition retains the scheduled morning evidence: standings observed before 6 am Eastern, compared with the observation just before UTC midnight. Social and discussion research was not refreshed for this recovery. The requested methods follow-up on Thanh Hau Nguyen and Arshjot Khehra carries forward: the saved sources do not establish a new technical recipe, and a score alone cannot supply one.

ARC-2 public leaderboard and observed history · Darren Amadeus Martin — Question on Grand Prize and Private Leaderboard

From the box score

Team	Rank	Score	Rank change	Score change
Tufa Labs	1	88.06	Unchanged	0
Yi-Chia Chen @ Fields Model	2	84.72	Unchanged	0
Domdolus Tolus	3	82.08	Unchanged	0
nvbanana	4	81.39	Unchanged	0
rabbithole	5	80.83	Unchanged	0
Majkel1337	6	76.81	Unchanged	0
ALbert RUehlman	7	75.56	Unchanged	0
Dawid Kopiczko	8	75.14	Unchanged	0
Ravi Teja Chilakala	9	74.17	Unchanged	0
ｶﾎｳｼｭｳｾｲ	10	73.47	Unchanged	0
ảc	17	69.17	Unchanged	0
ARC Raiders	18	68.75	Unchanged	0
Nguyen	30	61.94	Up 4	+3.75
nvnn	39	55.97	Unchanged	+0.97
Arshjot Khehra	46	52.5	Down 1	0
ARC Mutants	65	41.81	Unchanged	0
Tatu Helander	68	41.25	Up 11	+3.61
Mithil A Vakde	124	33.89	Unchanged	0
Jan Disselhoff	2209	21.67	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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Nguyen reaches thirtieth as Tufa holds the ARC2 lead

The challengers move; the leaders hold

A crowded approach to the top thirty

A queued run still needs a final-selection place

From the box score

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