Hello everyone,
We are back with the winner-list of this month’s algorithm challenge. For the first time we have ties at 2 places in the rank-list for India
Winners :
Top 5 (India):
1st – Harpreet Singh (5.557)
2nd – Satyam Shekhar (5.116)
3rd – Gaurav Agarwal (5.000)
3th – Anshuman Singh (5.000)
5th – Anil (4.116)
5th – Pradeep B (4.116)
Top 5 (US):
1st – Wenyu Cao (6.919)
2nd – pmnox (6.902)
3rd – Josh Metzler (6.284)
4th – Balakrishnan Varadarajan (6.127)
5th – Chris Narrikkattu (5.000)
Stephen Merriman requires a special mention for having secured the first place over-all
Statistics:
All problems are now available in the practice area and the solutions are public. The test cases for the problems are now available. As the test cases for the problem Mosaic are really huge, we are uploading two sets of test cases. The test cases here are for problems other than Mosaic, while the entire set of test cases including those for the problem Mosaic are available here.
A few interesting statistics for the contest follow :
| Length of Contest | Unique Visitors | Unique Participants | Total Number of Submissions | Percentage of user who have solved at least one problem |
| 10 days | 10,482 | 219 | 2950 | 22% |
| Country | Total Participants | Average Score per User |
| IN | 171 | 0.310 |
| US | 22 | 1.879 |
| Rest of World | 26 | 2.206 |
Feedback:
We removed the submission limit on the challenge problem this time as the problems were considerably tough compared to the ones in the previous contests. We agree that some of the problems had a very strict time limit and this issue will be addressed in the future contests.
Also, if you have any kind of feedback related to the contest or otherwise, feel free to comment.
Regards,
Aniruddha.
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