12. fuck today's problem. i shouldn't have thought about it at all.
top 6 was my peak apparently, next year i'll do better for sure.

11. easiest by far. sad I had to change algo, but it was still pretty short. funny how there weren't any cycles. also the first question was so low compared to the second one.
peak this aoc was 6th. not bad for my second year, next year I'll do better. I may end up top 10 after all

10. Filtered yet again by p2. Had to look up what z3 was.
Part 1 took a disgusting amount of time because I decided "yeahhh let me do backtracking lol".

9. Part 1 was absurdly easy but me overthinking it ruined it. I kept having issues with part 2 so I ended up looking up how to do it.
Honestly, using external libraries for the most part feels like cheating to me. It's so crazy how often people still do it. Like cool, import polygon and it's done

8. I am officially filtered.

oh yeah and i probably did part 2 on part by accident 1 lol

7. really cool problems tbh, nothing that makes me want to harm myself or others (day 17 2024 still haunts me). I'm still taking far too long given how easy these problems are.
I know I should be practicing for interviews but this shit is just plain fun

6. honestly? i like how readable my solution is. I know I had to spend extra time on it, but it's fine. Ended up 15 yesterday, and today I'm starting at 9 (mainly bc a high-ranked competitor skipped today's problem...? Let's wait until they come back)

5. I don't know how many "yeah i just hate waking up early" I got in me. Managed to do it after literally nuking my whole ass environment doing the worst solution imaginable that I always seem to default to.
Got rank 10-11, let's see how much it drops. Game 6 LeBron, where tf are you

4. I am beyond washed, like it's not even remotely funny how long this took me, while it shouldn't since I have this algorithm locked in. I am blaming my dogshit sleep.
Also the "rank 12" from yesterday got lowered lol. Ended up 15, and today I'm currently at 14. Steady progress but its still so ass

3. fuck. just fuck. took a long fucking time because i was thinking on another type of implementation entirely. mine was very efficient tbh, it just looks horrendous, but I'm still fine with it.

Adding the ranking from now on, yesterday I think I got ~16 or so, today I'm rank 12. Still far.

2. i hate waking up early with a passion. first one was "quick" (7m) but took almost an hour just getting tangled up with python generators and shit. fuck.

nvm its 6. im killing my private leaderboard, on everyones SOUL but mine

I'm blaming AI and to and extent cheaters for the lack of a global leaderboard. It's most likely the biggest culprit tbh

bottan istg ts aint tuff 💔

bottan is now fully AI man, what is this response 😭<- ALSO WHY ARE EMOJIS HERE SO UGLY

it truly was. i wish i can find more people like that homura fella. my face legit went red after that interaction.

full tracking and everything, doing heart gestures and all. very cute.