The Super Mario Effect — Tricking Your Brain into Learning More

Revision en1, by tzuyu_chou, 2018-10-12 16:24:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vJRopau0g0

tl;dw

50k ppl were asked to complete a coding challenge. When there were points lost for wrong submissions, only 52% passed. When there were no penalties, 68% passed. Thus, codeforces contests are bad for training because of the penalties. Don't do contests to get gud.

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