Superpermutation Almanac

n = 11

W-0044

A superpermutation on 11 symbols, found by Jakub Halfar. It beat the previous record, W-0042, by 5 letters, and was the record for n = 11 from Oct 3 until Oct 4, 2026, when W-0045 was 16 letters shorter.

Length
43,930,644
Repeated occurrences
18,816
Announced
Oct 3, 2026
Begins 0123456789A01234567890A12345678901A23456789012A34567890123A45678901234A56789012345A67890123456A78901234567A89012345678A9…

Windows

43,930,634windows of 11 consecutive letters
=39,916,800distinct permutations, all 11! of them
+18,816repeated occurrences of a permutation
+3,995,018windows that are not permutations

How it was found

Intermediate commit; PR #5 was retitled to this length at 23:05 UTC.

Checking

Total check time: 1 s, including preparation but not time in the queue.

ProgramSourceResultTime
classcheck41928cceall 39,916,800 permutations appear, by rotation classunder 1 s
bitmapcheck288b3f67agrees, by Lehmer rank1 s
wordhash94925fe4the SHA-256 of the word and of its mirrorunder 1 s
SHA-256a92c0bd0284a29856bc2bb0cdb652adf7a17f3bf11f7695c272d0c1854f97a11 Compilerrustc 1.89.0 (29483883e 2025-08-04)

Download

Download Detour (.detour) 7.6 kB, or 43.9 MB decoded

Decode to text

# check it yourself
detour decode W-0044.detour - | tr -d '\n' | shasum -a 256
tar xzf checkers-rs-source.tar.gz && cd checkers-rs && cargo build --release --locked
./target/release/classcheck 11 ../W-0044.detour 43930644
./target/release/bitmapcheck 11 ../W-0044.detour 43930644
./target/release/wordhash 11 ../W-0044.detour 43930644

Decoding needs detour; see the Detour format for how to build and install it. The checkers are in checkers-rs-source.tar.gz, which needs Rust 1.89 or later; each one decodes the file itself, so the word is never written out.

The file's header gives n = 11 and sync exponent 0. The file has 488,885 tokens: 1 START, 1 literal of 1 byte in all, and 488,883 deviations. Deviations by weight, from 1 to 11: 18,816 · 131,701 · 338,270 · 28 · 15 · 4 · 2 · 40 · 4 · 0 · 3.