Pull Shark stuck at default — 32 merged PRs, x2 not unlocking #205942
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Hi @pradipNP I don't have the Pull Shark badge yet myself, and while searching around to figure out how to activate mine, I came across some info that might help you too. Heads up though, I'm not 100% sure about all of it — it's just what I pieced together from other threads and docs. The badges seem to update on their own schedule. From what I've read, the tier upgrades (x2, x3...) run on some background job on GitHub's side, and delays of a few weeks after hitting the milestone seem to be pretty common in other people's reports. So being 2 weeks past your 16th PR might just mean it hasn't been picked up yet. Also, it looks like not every merged PR counts toward it. The search shows all your merged PRs, but apparently the achievement system filters some out — for example if a repo later got deleted, made private, or flagged by GitHub for some reason. So the "real" count might be lower than what the search shows. Might be worth double-checking that all the repos in your list are still public and active. And one more thing that came up a lot in the threads I read: it seems nobody in the community can manually refresh achievements, not even GitHub staff replying here — it's all automated. Most people said it eventually just showed up on its own. The general advice was: if it still hasn't updated after ~30 days, open a ticket at https://support.github.com/ (pick "Account" as the topic and include the same links you posted here). That seems to be the only way to get someone to look at a specific account. Hope it shows up soon — and hopefully I'll unlock mine too!!! |
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If you’ve already merged 32 PRs, the important thing is that Pull Shark is based on GitHub’s badge-eligibility criteria, not simply the total number of merged PRs shown on your profile. I’d check these first:
Since you already have 32 merged PRs, I wouldn’t keep creating PRs just to increase the count. I’d verify a few of the merged PRs against the achievement requirements and, if they clearly qualify, report it to GitHub Support. |

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Hi GitHub team / community,
My profile: https://github.com/pradipNP
I have the default Pull Shark badge, but it has not upgraded to x2.
Expected: Pull Shark x2 after 16 merged PRs
Actual: Still default, even though search shows 32 merged PRs I authored:
https://github.com/search?q=author%3ApradipNP+is%3Apr+is%3Amerged&type=pullrequests
I crossed the 16th merged PR on 12 Aug 2026 (more than 2 weeks ago):
shamilahmdt/devtasks#453
Other merged PRs:
Achievements are enabled on my public profile. I already have Pull Shark (default), YOLO, Quickdraw, Pair Extraordinaire, and Galaxy Brain.
Could someone from GitHub please queue a profile/achievements refresh for
@pradipNP?Thanks.
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