diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 9386b8d..46d7e08 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # 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
 bin/fetch-configlet.ps1     @exercism/maintainers-admin
diff --git a/docs/SIGN_UP_SNIPPET.txt b/docs/SIGN_UP_SNIPPET.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..33df817
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/SIGN_UP_SNIPPET.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+function most_common_word(text,    words, counts, n, i, best) {
+    n = split(tolower(text), words, " ")
+    best = ""
+    for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
+        counts[words[i]]++
+        if (counts[words[i]] > counts[best])
+            best = words[i]
+    }
+    return sprintf("\"%s\" appears %d times", best, counts[best])
+}