Oh yeah, me neither. The competition is far too intense. What takes me hours takes the competitors minutes.

I actually made somewhat of an effort this time, made sure I was awake in good coding shape when the problem was released. Had a scaffold set up for running the code based on previous years. And I'm a pretty decent all-round coder, should be by now.

Ended up at around spot 6500.

Boggles my mind to even imagine what it would take.

You can see videos of what it takes; Jonathan Paulson makes the leaderboard often with Python and puts videos of him doing it on YouTube; he made positions 25 and 40 on day 1 this year and here is his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym1ae-vBy6g

Nice.

I can move that fast, faster even, when I know exactly where I'm going.

I imagine if I was doing this kind of problem solving all day every day it would be possible.