Comment by mattbillenstein
Comment by mattbillenstein 2 days ago
Realize in anything, there are people who are much better than even the very best. The people doing official collegiate level competitive programming would find AoC problems pretty easy.
>The people doing official collegiate level competitive programming would find AoC problems pretty easy.
I used to program competitively and while that's the case for a lot of the early day problems, usually a few on the later days are pretty tough even by those standards. Don't take it from me, you can look at the finishing times over the years. I just looked at some today because I was going through the earlier years for fun and on Day 21/2023, 1 hour 20 minutes got you into the top 100. A lot of competitive programmers have streamed the challenges over the years and you see plenty of them struggle on occasion.
People just love to BS and brag, and it's quite harmful honestly because it makes beginner programmers feel much worse than they should.