CodinGame
Shares rank 7 of 8 coding practice platforms by recommenders
Recommended for coding challenges with an external editor and fun, battle-based objectives. No criticism was recorded.
Recommended for coding challenges with an external editor and fun, battle-based objectives. No criticism was recorded.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
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
Fun battle-based objectives
“I have also been having a lot of fun with”
Comment from 4 Mar 2026 in “Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015)” “It has similar battle based objectives”
Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: 1v1 coding game that LLMs struggle with” Allows coding with external editor
“It's doing many things the right way, like allowing coding with an external editor”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 on Hacker News Close to what people want
“This is close to, if not exactly what I was looking for!”
Comment from 30 Oct 2026 in “We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry”
Other coding practice platforms people recommend
The four most recommended other coding practice platforms, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LeetCode | 50 | 63 | 44% | 11 | — | — |
| Project Euler | 45 | 6 | 88% | 5 | 12 yrs9 owners | Approved |
| Advent of Code | 31 | 5 | 86% | 6 | 4 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| Codecrafters | 14 | 3 | 82% | 4 | — | Approved |
| CodinGameThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
4 of the 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“This is close to, if not exactly what I was looking for!”
“It has similar battle based objectives”
“I have also been having a lot of fun with”
“It's doing many things the right way, like allowing coding with an external editor”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.