Honor

Honor represents the level of respect a user has earned from the community, based on their skills and contributions. While ranks are an indication of your skills only, honor is mostly an indication of your activity and contributions.

Honor Rewards

You can earn honor when you accomplish certain things or goals or by some actions of other users realted to your account:

• Completing a kata rewards you with some amount of Honor depending on the rank of solved kata,
• Reaching a higher rank grants you additional Honor in amount related to the rank reached,
• Authoring related activities, like publishing a beta kata, creating a translation, or having your kata approved,
• Community related activities, for example voting on kata satisfaction, rating a beta kata, upvotes and downvotes collected on your posts and solutions

You may find the exact amount of Honor points earned for all kinds of situations in the list of rewarded honor points.

Honor Breakdown

Your profile page displays a breakdown of your Honor points:

• Completed Kata is the amount of honor you gained by only solving tasks and voting them,
• Authored Kata & Translations represent the amount of honor earned doing so,
• Kumite gives the honor earned by publishing Kumite and by forking solutions,
• Comments indicates the total balance of up and down votes on your comments,
• Solution Up Vote is the sum of all the [Best Practices (TODO)] and [Clever (TODO)] votes you got on your solutions,
• Referrals is the honor earned when you invite other people to join Codewars.
• Achievements is the sum of the honor you earned when ranking up.

Leaderboards and Honor Percentile

You can determine the level of your achievements in comparison with overall Codewars community in two ways:

• Leaderboards: Codewars manages differents kinds of [leaderboards (TODO: link to leaderboards reference)] which show users with highest amount of Honor considering different kinds of situations/actions.
• Honor Percentile: Stat which shows your position relative to all other Codewars users. For example, a 20% percentile value means that 20% of all Codewars' users have more Honor points than you, and that you have more Honor points than 80% of all users. This value is calculated according to your overall Honor.

Rewarded Honor Points

Solving Kata

Level	Honor
White (8kyu & 7kyu) Beginner	2
Yellow (6kyu & 5kyu) Novice	8
Blue (4kyu & 3kyu) Competent	32
Purple (2kyu & 1kyu) Proficient	128
None Beta	4*

* Additional honor based on the level is rewarded once the kata is approved.

Ranking Up

Reached Rank	Honor
7 kyu	20
6 kyu	30
5 kyu	45
4 kyu	70
3 kyu	100
2 kyu	150
1 kyu	225
1 dan	450
2 dan	900
3 dan	1,800
4 dan	3,200
5 dan	6,400
6 dan	12,800

Authoring Kata

Events on Authored Kata	Honor
Published for beta process	3
Approved as White (8kyu & 7kyu)	3
Approved as Yellow (6kyu & 5kyu)	15
Approved as Blue (4kyu & 3kyu)	75
Approved as Purple (2kyu & 1 kyu)	375
Received an up vote	2
Received a down vote	-2

Translating Kata

Events	Honor	Description
Translation Approved (White)	4
Translation Approved (Yellow)	16
Translation Approved (Blue)	64
Translation Approved (Purple)	256

Content Curation

Contributions	Honor	Description
Assessed Beta Kata Rank	1	after a beta kata completion
Assessed Kata Satisfaction	1	after a kata completion

Comments

Events	Honor	Description
Comment upvoted	1
Comment downvoted	-1

Solutions and Kumite

Events	Honor	Description
Published Kumite or Fork	2	fork a solution of yours or another user's, or create a new kumite
Kata Solution upvoted	1	your solution gets a 'best practices' or 'clever' upvote

Misc

Events	Honor	Description
Referral Signup (first 5)	3
Referral Signup (6+)	1
Added GitHub Account	1