Notable ascensions

However impressive an achievement an ascension might be, not all ascensions are created equal.

Conducts

• A wishless genocideless polyitemless polyselfless illiterate atheist weaponless vegan by marvin: RGRN post
• A wishless genocideless polyitemless polyselfless illiterate atheist weaponless foodless game by Tenaya: RGRN post
  • Another wishless genocideless polyitemless polyselfless illiterate atheist weaponless foodless by thewumpus: NAO dumplog, TTYrec (parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
• A pacifist extinctionist wishless genocideless survivor by Ben Hiles: RGRN post
• A zen samurai by marvin: RGRN post
• The 4 possible zen roles (Samurai, Wizard, Rogue, Tourist): RGRN post
• A foodless atheist survivor by marvin: RGRN post
• A foodless atheist true polyselfless (i.e. no "feel like a new (wo)man") survivor by Robert R Schneck: RGRN post
• A foodless atheist speedrun with no gaining of nutrition by futilius: RGRN post

Speedruns and score runs

Gametime

• A 2391-turn bones-free ascension by Maud: NAO dumplog, ttyrec
• A 2185-turn ascension by nht, helped by pudding bones: RGRN post ttyrec
• A 2135-turn ascension by Maud, helped by bones stuffing: NAO dumplog
• A 2130-turn ascension by SpeedyCat7, helped by bones stuffing: NAO dumplog writeup

Realtime

• A 1:03 ascension by Sayo: NEU dumplog, ttyrec

Score

• The first recorded MAXINT game on NAO (not an ascension!) by Zadir ^{[citation needed]}
• A MAXINT ascension in 7:15:12 by Adeon: devnull game info
• A 64 bit MAXINT ascension in 17h 25m 16s by Berry: nethack.eu game info

Other

• A racial ascension set by Harold Hill: RGRN post
• A MININT turns ascension by Khaos (-2147483648 turns): NAO dumplog
• An unspoiled ascension by Timothy Nodine: RGRN post
• A bag full of ascii art slime molds by zgedneil [1]
• A bag full of ascii art slime molds by Adeon during /dev/null 2009 tournament screenshot
• The first true multiplayer AceHack ascension, by ishanyx and PaRaD0xx on acehack.eu (defunct server):
  • xlogfile entries
  • ishanyx: dumplog ttyrec
  • PaRaD0xx: dumplog ttyrec
• DeathOnAStick's gem polypiling madness on NAO.
• stth's super-extinctionist ascension: 255 kills of all monsters where that's possible. 819 wishes used, most of them to wish for figurines of shades, djinns, sandestins, chameleons, and statues of mail daemons. Even included a bag of ascii art slime molds. Dumplog
• smartbot3, lawful female dwarven Valkyrie on acehack.de, apparently the first ascension by any bot, dumplog, ttyrec and other data.