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[HackerRank] Weekly 14th edition
By shashank21j, 9 years ago, In English

HackerRank presents 14th week of Weekly Contest.
The week long contest will begin on on 9th March 16:00 UTC. We’ll put your coding skills to the test with 5 interesting challenges.

Each day you get to solve a challenge whose difficulty level increases as the week progresses. Challenge score will decrease by 10% every 24 hours. To solve the final challenge, you're given an entire weekend.

Tie-breaking rule: For each challenge, we calculate your solved time, t. [t = submit — open] where submit is the time you submitted the solution, and open is the time you opened the challenge. This way, you do not have to worry about solving the challenge as soon as it becomes available.

Top 10 on leaderboard will get a cool HackerRank T shirt.

You can visit the contest page in order to register.

Week 14

https://www.hackerrank.com/w14

Happy Coding!

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great

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Hi shashank21j, this is a suggestion regarding the Weekly contest. Since there is a concept of preliminary and final testing, wouldn't it be a good idea to allow hacking of solutions? Like Codeforces, you lock your submission(preventing any future submissions for the problem) which grants you access to see other people's codes and if it is wrong, you can challenge it. If you challenge successfully, you get +50 and -25 otherwise. What do you think?

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    In my opinion, this idea will not work for this type of contest:)

    With +50/-25 values it will turn out in challenging contest, instead of problem solving competition.

    And even if we'll balance values a bit — this still sounds bad for me. Usually we have ~1000 solutions for easy problems, probably few hundreds of them are wrong (especially when pretests are weak), so one can make few hundreds successful challenges... But this person need to be online all the time — to check all recent submissions. So it will be just how much time do you have? contest.

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    I agree with I_love_Tanya_Romanova
    A feature like that sounds good but only in short contest. But i feel CF is doing it really well and HackerRank doesn't need to follow the same features.
    HackerRank will create it's own innovative ways of competing

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      I see, it was just a random idea that popped into my mind :)

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