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You: - fairly average software dev - claims not to be competitive, but secretly dreams of landing on the leaderboard at least once - uses a full IDE; wastes a minute right out the gate waiting for it to start - still parsing the problem statement while others are already submitting answers actually uses a debugger when things aren't working Your competition: "Hackerman" -InfoSec major - sits at his P'C on a near-lethal dose of Adderall waiting for the timer to hit 00:00 - has automated scripts for pulling the input and submitting solutions, and his own library of helper functions for every imaginable problem class - knows your IP at all times "/-mhfwalters" - research scientist at Intel does puzzles for fun that are harder than any job you will ever have - so utterly bored with the problems that he creates increasingly ridiculous self-imposed restrictions to keep things interesting - solved last year exclusively in APL on a System/360 emulator, and still finished 9th on the global leaderboard - personal homepage is HTML 2.0 compliant "wjhbr" - software dev from undisclosed Eastern-European country, making 200k/yr for a company you've never heard of is in literally every coding competition Twitch stream is just a Vim terminal and the sounds of a mechanical keyboard - types faster than you can read or think "Tharg" - Linux kernel hacker specialization in compiler design - is golfing in some esoteric language nobody has ever heard of can mentally transpile any code he sees to assembly -measures his solutions' performance in actual clock cycles ”” - overworked Chinese university student, double majoring in theoretical physics and chemical engineering - has been locked into various educational institutions since he was 3 years old only time outside of school is for piano lessons can literally only see the relevant parts of the problem statement - you will not understand his solutions without a PhD in discrete mathematics "Samir Nagheenanajar" outsourced IT support technician does puzzles because he has nothing better to do during his shift - forced to solve in Excel because he isn't allowed to install other software - can reveal the face of God using only VBA - rumored to possess the combined knowledge and power of all Indian educational YouTubers
