diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 20408047c..b5b0dfcdd 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
 
diff --git a/docs/SIGN_UP_SNIPPET.txt b/docs/SIGN_UP_SNIPPET.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..387a75bc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/SIGN_UP_SNIPPET.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+(defn most-common-word [text]
+  (let [[best counts]
+        (reduce (fn [[best counts] word]
+                  (let [counts (update counts word (fnil inc 0))]
+                    [(if (> (counts word) (get counts best 0)) word best) counts]))
+                [nil {}]
+                (str/split (str/lower-case text) #" "))]
+    (format "\"%s\" appears %d times" best (counts best))))