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How do some people send their solutions on 2nd minute?
By MrOnlineCoder, history, 5 years ago, In English

I was participating in recent Round #574 (Div. 2) contest (and not really successfully :D) and was monitoring submissions/standings. What I wonder is: how do some red and other people send their complete solutions to a problem on 2nd or 3rd minute? Do they have access to the tasks before the contest? Or it's some special mode of participation or something? I need 2 minutes just to read the task and open the editor, and they finish it in that time?

Thanks in advance.

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you can guess what output wants from the examples

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read fast, type fast. I think these are biggest contributors. Reading english very fast is the biggest advantage.

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    being a russian speaker is the biggest advantage

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      Nah, you just need to read fast in English or Russian. And skip the story.

      I need 2 minutes just to read the task and open the editor, and they finish it in that time?

      Open the editor and copy your templates before the contest if you want to fight for the first submission ;p

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they send also on 1st minute,experience matters;D

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Having templates set and ready, a good internet connection that will take you to contest site immediately and skimming the problem will help. There is a difference between writing : REP(i,1,n) and for(int i=1; i<=n; i++) and other shortcuts. I think solving A within first 5 minutes is always possible though.

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    There is a difference between writing : REP(i,1,n) and for(int i=1; i<=n; i++)

    True. I always refuse to debug any code which contains the first one

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      U're making it sound like you're willing to debug a code if it's the 2nd one.

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