Gates
Tutor grounded
Modules
New here? Begin with the Starter Trail — a few short steps where you do something with your hands in the first minute. Every module after that climbs the same six rungs: something you already know, then the new idea as a picture, and only then the symbols. No equation appears before the diagram that gives it meaning. The maths chapters are a Toolkit: open them only when a step asks for a refresher.
Drag one dial and watch an outcome cancel
This is the whole of quantum computing in one control. Two routes reach each outcome; the dial sets the phase between them. Turn it to π and the two arrows to |0⟩ point in opposite directions, add to nothing, and that outcome stops happening entirely. Everything on screen is computed by the same engine that runs your circuits.
A classical probabilistic bit has no phase, so nothing you can do to it will make two routes to the same outcome cancel. That single difference — not "trying every answer at once" — is where quantum speedup comes from.
Practise
Each puzzle checks the circuit you build by running it. Many different circuits can work, and using fewer gates scores higher. There is nothing to memorise, and you can try again as often as you like.
Circuit challenges · circuit golf
Build a circuit that produces a target distribution.
We run your circuit to check it. Fewer gates scores higher.
Coding challenges
Write or fix real Qiskit code in the editor.
We run your code to check it.
Put it in order
Arrange the gates in the correct sequence.
We build your order into a real circuit and run it to check.
Steer the Bloch vector
Add gates and watch the arrow move toward the target ring.
We check how close the arrow lands to the target.
Fill in the code
Complete the missing line of code.
We run it to check. More than one answer can work.
Concept check
Answer a multiple-choice question about a concept.
A wrong pick is just a step: each one shows you a common idea and why it is not quite right.
Your progress
Each concept has a score from 0 to 100 that moves a little after every answer you give. It shows where you are right now, not a grade. A concept you have not started just says "Not started yet".
Ideas fade a little if you do not visit them for a while. These are ones you had got right, ready for a quick refresh.
Every concept in the course, drawn as a map. Faded ones open up as you work through the ones they build on.
Instructor view
One class, 24 students, six concepts. You appear in the roster live — the row marked "You" reads the same mastery scores the learner view writes. The other 23 are sample data, generated from a fixed seed so the class is stable.
How many students are below Working on each concept — click a row to see the count.