diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 1e82ac9978..2b6d35c620 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Code owners
 .github/CODEOWNERS      @exercism/maintainers-admin
 
+# The code sample shown in the code check when people sign up to Exercism
+docs/SIGN_UP_SNIPPET.txt    @exercism/maintainers-admin
+
 # Changes to `fetch-configlet` should be made in the `exercism/configlet` repo
 bin/fetch-configlet     @exercism/maintainers-admin
diff --git a/docs/SIGN_UP_SNIPPET.txt b/docs/SIGN_UP_SNIPPET.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..19e4e30dc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/SIGN_UP_SNIPPET.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+def most_common_word(text):
+  counts = {}
+  best = ""
+  for word in text.lower().split(" "):
+    if len(word) < 3:
+      continue
+    counts[word] = counts.get(word, 0) + 1
+    if counts[word] > counts.get(best, 0):
+      best = word
+  return f'"{best}" appears {counts[best]} times'