A breakdown of where you can go to participate in golf challenges right now (Active Challenges), and where you can find stores of golfed code to learn from (Visible Solutions):
| Category | Active challenges | Visible solutions* | Language(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code Golf Stack Exchange [site] | Golf site | ✔️ | ✔️ | Any |
| Code Golf Codidact [site] | Golf Site | ✔️ | ✔️ | Any |
| Binary Golf [site] | Golf Site | ❌ | ✔️ | Executables |
| ByteHeist [site] | Golf site | ✔️ | ⏰ | 9 |
| CSSBattle [site] | Golf Site | ✔️ | ❌ | CSS |
| EMKC [site] | Golf site | ❌ | ✔️ | 17 |
| anarchy golf [site] | Golf site | ✔️ | ⏰ | 116 |
| code.golf [site] [wiki] | Golf site | ✔️ | ❌ | 62 |
| Jugly [site] | Golf site | ✔️ | ❌ | JavaScript |
| Golf Horse [site] | Golf site | ✔️ | ❌** | JavaScript |
| VimGolf [site] | Golf site | ✔️ | ? | Vim |
| week.golf [archive] [archived solutions] | Golf site (defunct) | ❌ | ✔️ | 35 |
| PHPgolf [archive] [tips] | Golf site (defunct) | ❌ | ? | PHP |
| codegolf.com [archive] | Golf site (defunct) | ❌ | ❌ | Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP |
| CodinGame [golf] [Clash of Code] | Programming challenges site | ✔️ | ✔️ | 27 |
| Kattis [site] | Programming challenges site | ✔️ | ❌ | 54 |
| advent-of-code-golf [2022] [2023] [2024] [2025] | Repository | ❌ | ✔️ | 10+ |
| Golf Bot [github] | Repository | ✔️ | ✔️ | Any |
| PerlMonks [site] [blog] | Language forum | ❌ | ✔️ | Perl |
| Perl Golf History [pdf] | Book | ❌ | ✔️ | Perl |
| Google Code Golf Championship 2025 [leaderboard] [repository] | Competition | ❌ | ✔️ | Python |
| PyContest (December 2005) [leaderboard] | Competition | ❌ | ✔️ | Python |
| r/codegolf [sub] | Subreddit | ? | ✔️ | Any |
| Replicube [steam] | Videogame | ✔️ | ⏰ | Lua |
| Dwitter [site] | PopCon Golf Site | N/A | ✔️ | Javascript |
| js1k [site] | PopCon Golf Competition | ❌ | ✔️ | Javascript |
* For sites with time-limited problems, solutions will only be revealed after the problem timeframe ends. A site's community may prefer that solutions to some problems are not actively shared, even after they are revealed. When unsure, check the site's preferred etiquette.
** Some contestants have shared (partial) solutions, links are on the competition site
Other competitions/sites where golf happens
- https://golf.cucats.org/ (Contest hosted by IntGrah w/ Cambridge Uni, site looks to be down, is there a solution archive anywhere?)
- https://mao.snuke.org/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20061125123402/http://www.nerdparadise.com/programming/ninja/index.php
- https://dmoj.ca/
- https://www.spoj.com/ranks/SIZECON/
- https://caped.ferenczi.eu/
- https://cses.fi/problemset/list/