What is the easiest GitHub achievement to earn for beginners?

[d2hoann]

I recently discovered GitHub achievements and wanted to learn more about them.

There seem to be many achievements like:

• Pull Shark
• YOLO
• Pair Extraordinaire
• Quickdraw
• Galaxy Brain

For someone who is still new to GitHub and open source:

1. Which achievement is the easiest to get?
2. Which ones are actually meaningful for a developer profile?
3. Are there achievements that recruiters notice more often?

I'd also love to hear how other developers earned their first achievement.

[d2hoann]

For beginners, I think these are the easiest achievements:

Easiest achievements

• Quickdraw → create and quickly close an issue or PR
• YOLO → merge your own PR without review
• Pull Shark → get PRs merged

More meaningful achievements

In my opinion:

• Pull Shark shows real collaboration
• Galaxy Brain shows community participation
• Starstruck is valuable if your projects gain attention

My first achievement

My first achievement was Pull Shark after merging a small documentation PR into one of my repositories.

[InternJava]

For beginners, the easiest GitHub achievement is usually Pull Shark. 🦈

You earn it simply by getting a pull request merged into a repository.
Even a small documentation fix, typo correction, or README improvement counts.

Other beginner-friendly ones:

Quickdraw → close an issue or PR very quickly after opening it
Pair Extraordinaire → co-author commits with another developer
YOLO → merge a PR without a review (easy in personal repos)

But honestly, the most meaningful achievement is not the badge itself — it’s the activity behind it.

Recruiters usually care more about:

consistent contributions
real projects
clean commit history
collaboration in teams
meaningful PRs/issues

Achievements are more like “fun signals” than serious evaluation metrics.

[d2hoann]

Yesssss!

[Anonymous605]

I think Quickdraw is the easiest one to get