Brood War Bench
Ranked 10 of 10 AI benchmarks by recommenders
A StarCraft Brood War bot benchmark people praise for measuring real-world AI speed and skill, with replays and runnable games.
A StarCraft Brood War bot benchmark people praise for measuring real-world AI speed and skill, with replays and runnable games.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Real-world task as AI benchmark
“This is a very interesting benchmark, and I think it has a lot of potential to make the speed of a model quantifiable.”
Comment from 20 Sep 2026 in “Brood War Bench” “I like this as a concept - taking a very real world task and checking whether it works.”
Comment from 20 Sep 2026 in “Brood War Bench” “This is a great idea for a benchmark.”
Comment from 19 Sep 2026 in “Brood War Bench” Replays viewable and runnable games online
“Was very impressed that it was a replay playing that you can scroll around in and select units.”
Comment from 20 Sep 2026 in “Brood War Bench” “you can run your own games on bw.swerdlow.dev”
Comment from 20 Sep 2026 in “Brood War Bench”
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The four most recommended other AI benchmarks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | 62 | 46 | 57% | 11 | — | — |
| LMArena | 39 | 40 | 49% | 11 | — | — |
| ARC-AGI | 22 | 24 | 48% | 8 | — | — |
| OCR Arena | 11 | 4 | 73% | 4 | — | Approved |
| Brood War BenchThis page | 7 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“This is a very interesting benchmark, and I think it has a lot of potential to make the speed of a model quantifiable.”
“I like this as a concept - taking a very real world task and checking whether it works.”
“Was very impressed that it was a replay playing that you can scroll around in and select units.”
“you can run your own games on bw.swerdlow.dev”
“I think the bot is VERY impressive and has already managed to beat several top Korean pros”
“It mostly wins with incredible micro (kinda has to, it's macro kinda sucks).”
“This is a great idea for a benchmark.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.