Math Competition Records

How to Use This Database

Purpose

This website and database is a community effort to fight cheating in US math competitions. It aggregates publicly available results from high-integrity, in-person competitions so that administrators, coaches, and organizers can verify a student’s consistent track record.

Why Consistent Track Records Matter

Not all math competitions are created equal. Some contests have suffered from repeated, large-scale cheating — leaked exams, lax proctoring, and inflated scores that don’t reflect genuine ability. A single outstanding result on a low-integrity contest tells you very little.

What does tell you something is consistency. A student who performs well across multiple high-integrity, proctored, in-person competitions — year after year — is almost certainly legitimate. This database makes that pattern easy to spot.

When evaluating students for admissions, team selection, or awards, look for the consistent track record across high-integrity competitions, not a one-off result from a contest with known cheating problems.

For a breakdown of integrity ratings across major US math competitions, see Integrity in US Math Competitions.

Contests in This Database

This database focuses on competitions with strong integrity controls:

Contest	Why It’s Here
USAMO / USAJMO	Proof-based, expert-graded, nearly impossible to fake
IMO, EGMO, RMM	International olympiads — official results, strong proctoring
HMMT (February & November)	In-person at Harvard/MIT, strict proctoring
CMIMC	In-person at CMU, strong proctoring
MathCounts National	Nationally administered, tight venue control
PUMaC	In-person at Princeton, controlled university venue
ARML	In-person at regional sites, supervised team and relay rounds
DMM	In-person at Duke with strong proctoring
CMM	In-person at Caltech with strong proctoring
MPFG	In-person at MIT for top female high school students
BAMO	Proof-based, in-person Bay Area olympiad

Using the Website

1. Visit the site — hosted via GitHub Pages.
2. Search by student name — type a full or partial name into the search box.
3. Review the results — you’ll see every competition result on record for that student, organized by contest and year.

Look for students who show up repeatedly across multiple high-integrity contests. That consistency is the strongest signal of genuine mathematical ability.

For Administrators and Coaches

When making decisions about admissions offers, team selection, or scholarship awards:

• Do look for consistent performance across multiple high-integrity competitions over several years.
• Don’t rely solely on results from competitions with known integrity issues (see the integrity ratings).
• Do cross-reference a student’s claimed achievements against this database.
• Do weight in-person, proof-based contests (USAMO/USJMO, IMO) most heavily — these are the hardest to cheat on.

Contributing

If you have results data from high-integrity competitions that should be included, contributions are welcome. See the README for technical details on building and deploying the site.

Please report issues, official contest results, and cheating to mathcontestintegrity@gmail.com.