Superpermutation Almanac

n = 13

W-0067

A superpermutation on 13 symbols, found by Jakub Halfar. It beat the previous record, W-0065, by 313 letters, and was the record for n = 13 from Oct 6 until Oct 8, 2026, when W-0068 was 169 letters shorter.

Length
6,747,802,562
Repeated occurrences
1,798,294
Announced
Oct 6, 2026
Begins 0123456789ABC0123456789AB0C123456789AB01C23456789AB012C3456789AB0123C456789AB01234C56789AB012345C6789AB0123456C789AB0123…

Windows

6,747,802,550windows of 13 consecutive letters
=6,227,020,800distinct permutations, all 13! of them
+1,798,294repeated occurrences of a permutation
+518,983,456windows that are not permutations

How it was found

Further improvement on the new selection; the final title of PR #8.

Checking

Total check time: 1 min 47 s, including preparation but not time in the queue.

ProgramSourceResultTime
classcheck41928cceall 6,227,020,800 permutations appear, by rotation class44 s
bitmapcheck288b3f67agrees, by Lehmer rank29 s
wordhash94925fe4the SHA-256 of the word and of its mirror34 s
SHA-256d494685a45519ef18ef961c75ef913b1073b498b876471edb16bea69e241e282 Compilerrustc 1.89.0 (29483883e 2025-08-04)

Download

Download Detour (.detour) 400.2 kB, or 6.7 GB decoded

Decode to text

# check it yourself
detour decode W-0067.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-0067.detour 6747802562
./target/release/bitmapcheck 13 ../W-0067.detour 6747802562
./target/release/wordhash 13 ../W-0067.detour 6747802562

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 57,704,152 tokens: 1 START, 1 literal of 1 byte in all, and 57,704,150 deviations. Deviations by weight, from 1 to 13: 1,798,294 · 16,143,376 · 39,754,917 · 2,311 · 706 · 1,228 · 472 · 1,334 · 552 · 699 · 99 · 159 · 3.