SpaceChem Bench: QT-1

Inputs: α Helium (He). Output: ω Helium (He) ×10. Features: Quantum tunnels (2).

In SpaceChem Bench, 16 LLMs each had one attempt at this SpaceChem puzzle, with 40 minutes to build a working solution and keep optimizing it, without seeing the community archive. 16 of 16 models solved it. No model found a new Pareto-frontier point beyond the frozen community archive.

16 / 16models solved it
15best LLM cycles (15 community)
0new frontier points

Records

ScoreCommunity bestBest LLMModel
Cycles1515DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Ties record
Reactors11DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Ties record
Symbols55DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Ties record

Community records from the community archive when we froze it on October 18, 2026. A point counts only after fresh-game replay and SChem’s precognition check.

Pareto frontier

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Every model

ModelSolvedBest cyclesBest reactorsBest symbolsNew frontier points
01DeepSeek V4.1 FlashYes1515—
02Fable 5.1Yes1515—
03GLM-5.3Yes1515—
04GPT-6 AstraYes1515—
05GPT-6.1 SolYes1515—
06Gemini 3.8 FlashYes1515—
07Gemini 4 ArgonYes1515—
08Kimi K3.1 ProYes1515—
09MiMo-V2.6-ProYes1515—
10Muse Wonder 1.0Yes1515—
11Opus 5.5Yes1515—
12Sonnet 5.5Yes1515—
13Grok 4.7Yes1915—
14Muse Spark 1.3Yes1915—
15GPT-6 LunaYes2015—
16Haiku 5.5Yes3319—

Best scores can come from different solutions. New frontier points are not matched or beaten on all three scores by any community solution.

Best model solutions

These solutions are in SpaceChem Community Edition export format and released under the MIT License. All of this puzzle’s model solutions are on GitHub and Hugging Face.

GPT-6 Astra Fewest cycles

15 cycles · 1 reactor · 14 symbolsquantum_1.15-1-14.txt on GitHub

Layout

α β ψ ω 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 → ← → ← S→ S→ IN α IN α SWAP IN α IN α SWAP SWAP OUT ω OUT ω SWAP

Running in the game

GPT-6 Astra solution running on quantum_1 in SpaceChem
SpaceChem Community Edition export (quantum_1.15-1-14.txt)
SOLUTION:QT-1,Player,0-0-0
COMPONENT:'drag-quantum-reactor-x',2,0,''
MEMBER:'instr-start',0,0,128,0,0,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-start',0,0,32,0,2,0,0
MEMBER:'feature-tunnel',-1,0,1,1,1,0,0
MEMBER:'feature-tunnel',-1,0,1,6,4,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-arrow',0,0,64,3,0,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-arrow',180,0,64,6,0,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-input',-1,0,128,1,0,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-input',-1,0,128,2,0,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-swap',-1,0,128,3,0,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-input',-1,0,128,4,0,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-input',-1,0,128,5,0,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-swap',-1,0,128,6,0,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-arrow',0,0,16,1,2,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-arrow',180,0,16,4,2,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-swap',-1,0,32,1,2,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-output',-1,1,32,2,2,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-output',-1,1,32,3,2,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-swap',-1,0,32,4,2,0,0

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Fewest reactorsFewest symbols

20 cycles · 1 reactor · 5 symbolsquantum_1.20-1-5.txt on GitHub

Layout

α β ψ ω 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ↓ ↑ S↓ S↓ IN α SWAP OUT ω

Running in the game

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash solution running on quantum_1 in SpaceChem
SpaceChem Community Edition export (quantum_1.20-1-5.txt)
SOLUTION:QT-1,Player,0-0-0
COMPONENT:'drag-quantum-reactor-x',2,0,''
MEMBER:'instr-start',90,0,128,4,3,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-start',90,0,32,7,5,0,0
MEMBER:'feature-tunnel',-1,0,1,1,1,0,0
MEMBER:'feature-tunnel',-1,0,1,8,6,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-arrow',90,0,64,4,4,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-arrow',-90,0,64,4,5,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-input',-1,0,128,4,4,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-swap',-1,0,128,4,5,0,0
MEMBER:'instr-output',-1,1,32,7,7,0,0