Superpermutation Almanac

n = 13

W-0065

A superpermutation on 13 symbols, found by Jakub Halfar. It beat the previous record, W-0061, by 114,042 letters, and was the record for n = 13 on Oct 6, 2026, when W-0067 was 313 letters shorter.

Length
6,747,802,875
Repeated occurrences
1,798,297
Announced
Oct 6, 2026
Begins 0123456789ABC0123456789AB0C123456789AB01C23456789AB012C3456789AB0123C456789AB01234C56789AB012345C6789AB0123456C789AB0123…

Windows

6,747,802,863windows of 13 consecutive letters
=6,227,020,800distinct permutations, all 13! of them
+1,798,297repeated occurrences of a permutation
+518,983,766windows that are not permutations

How it was found

Pantone's construction on a new selection: 23,808 closed trails instead of 252,000.

Checking

Total check time: 2 min 7 s, including preparation but not time in the queue.

ProgramSourceResultTime
classcheck41928cceall 6,227,020,800 permutations appear, by rotation class46 s
bitmapcheck288b3f67agrees, by Lehmer rank40 s
wordhash94925fe4the SHA-256 of the word and of its mirror41 s
SHA-2563487f57aa0dee700b63b66768bf7e7c190f542efc051ef4646f1d20f2dd3d076 Compilerrustc 1.89.0 (29483883e 2025-08-04)

Download

Download Detour (.detour) 402.7 kB, or 6.7 GB decoded

Decode to text

# check it yourself
detour decode W-0065.detour - | tr -d '\n' | shasum -a 256
tar xzf checkers-rs-source.tar.gz && cd checkers-rs && cargo build --release --locked
./target/release/classcheck 13 ../W-0065.detour 6747802875
./target/release/bitmapcheck 13 ../W-0065.detour 6747802875
./target/release/wordhash 13 ../W-0065.detour 6747802875

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 = 13 and sync exponent 0. The file has 57,704,733 tokens: 1 START, 1 literal of 1 byte in all, and 57,704,731 deviations. Deviations by weight, from 1 to 13: 1,798,297 · 16,143,368 · 39,755,590 · 2,250 · 699 · 1,187 · 435 · 1,324 · 528 · 723 · 121 · 204 · 5.