Superpermutation Almanac

n = 12

W-0058

A superpermutation on 12 symbols, found by Jakub Halfar. It beat the previous record, W-0056, by 20 letters, and was the record for n = 12 on Oct 5, 2026, when W-0060 was 1 letter shorter.

Length
522,745,356
Repeated occurrences
169,347
Announced
Oct 5, 2026
Begins 0123456789AB0123456789A0B123456789A01B23456789A012B3456789A0123B456789A01234B56789A012345B6789A0123456B789A01234567B89A0…

Windows

522,745,345windows of 12 consecutive letters
=479,001,600distinct permutations, all 12! of them
+169,347repeated occurrences of a permutation
+43,574,398windows that are not permutations

How it was found

Short high-temperature searches, relocation, loop moves and segment insertion with up to five cuts, from the 522,745,376 word.

Checking

Total check time: 9 s, including preparation but not time in the queue.

ProgramSourceResultTime
classcheck41928cceall 479,001,600 permutations appear, by rotation class3 s
bitmapcheck288b3f67agrees, by Lehmer rank3 s
wordhash94925fe4the SHA-256 of the word and of its mirror3 s
SHA-2567d8c58aeea9e2778694090ebe2b68a45eceaa332138f83907f801dcbdb7b4f64 Compilerrustc 1.89.0 (29483883e 2025-08-04)

Download

Download Detour (.detour) 44.7 kB, or 522.7 MB decoded

Decode to text

# check it yourself
detour decode W-0058.detour - | tr -d '\n' | shasum -a 256
tar xzf checkers-rs-source.tar.gz && cd checkers-rs && cargo build --release --locked
./target/release/classcheck 12 ../W-0058.detour 522745356
./target/release/bitmapcheck 12 ../W-0058.detour 522745356
./target/release/wordhash 12 ../W-0058.detour 522745356

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 = 12 and sync exponent 0. The file has 4,907,171 tokens: 1 START, 1 literal of 1 byte in all, and 4,907,169 deviations. Deviations by weight, from 1 to 12: 169,345 · 1,354,538 · 3,382,814 · 259 · 82 · 60 · 19 · 9 · 42 · 1 · 0 · 0.