Hello people ! Today, I was thinking that I am 22 and still I did not manage to be at division 1 here in codeforces. That made me sad but also gave me a boost to practice harder in the future. Whats your age and how your own journey in competitive is going until now ? I was always wondering, there are people older than 24-25 years old who practice regularly in competitive programming ? Because cp is something fun and I would not like to stop it as I grow up because I learn so many things here.

• 5 years ago, # ^ | get a life!

  • 5 years ago, # ^ | this is life

    • 5 weeks ago, # ^ | my brother name is armaan

• 4 years ago, # ^ | i am 18 and i want to become red in 23 or 24 with the help of God :)

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | You better count on your skills and hard work :p

    • 4 years ago, # ^ | ofcours . im trying to learn every day a new thing

    • 4 years ago, # ^ | Tell that to the kids who make GM with 10 contests in 3 months.

      • 3 years ago, # ^ | Well, they put in a lot of hard work for a long time wayy before they come onto CF. Or they're just an alt.

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | Maybe god will come down and give you hints about problems and manage the setter to set the problems in the topics that you're good at.

    • 4 years ago, # ^ | Yes it works sometimes :).

    • 3 years ago, # ^ | some times a mistake waste my two or three days in a problem , where i can learn manythings in these days. also sometimes div2 a is harder for me.. i don't know that if i will be able or not tomorrow to code.. even if i will alive or not *** please respect believers

• 4 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +4 everyone could be a grandmaster

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | Seems that everyone is still master :)

    • 4 years ago, # ^ | everyone is better than me...

      • 4 years ago, # ^ | BlackSwan is worser than everyone (but I believe he can improve)

  • 3 years ago, # ^ | Not LGM then?!

  • 3 years ago, # ^ | nobody can stop you to be a grandmaster

• 4 years ago, # ^ | Congrats man

• 5 years ago, # ^ | I don't think that quitting CP helps, but in some sense you are right because you start developing a more professional thinking. This is why I like focusing on university lessons as well and study some books about maths in general. Of course it must be something related. Learning web development I don't think it helps much here though... even if web its fun sometimes!

  • 5 years ago, # ^ | study some books about maths in general For most programming careers, you don't need advanced math. I think you don't even need calculus for that matter. Learning web development I don't think it helps much here though It doesn't help in CP of course. But web development is a skill that can make yourself marketable and it can help you to do much more things than CP can do for you (e.g. you can do a e-commerce site that makes you cash every month).

    • 4 years ago, # ^ | Maybe web development has been helpful to you to get a job, but please don't disrespect CP or Math; and we are here for having fun while learning, not to become marketable.

    • 3 years ago, # ^ | You don't need books about math, but competitive math has a similar concept to competitive programming, in fact, some of the concepts, especially combinatorics, overlap quite a bit!

• 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   -43 LooOoOoOoLoL. Let's have a bet. You won't even become orange before you are 30.

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | maybe he can become apple

  • 3 years ago, # ^ | please don't discourage people here

• 5 years ago, # ^ | orange?

• 2 years ago, # ^ | That didn't age well

  • 5 weeks ago, # ^ | damn right it did not

• 5 years ago, # ^ | What's your original account (if any) where you actively take part in contests at CF? Asking for a friend. xD

• 5 years ago, # ^ | Which one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • 5 years ago, # ^ | depends on time of day xddd

    • 4 years ago, # ^ | The real MVP!!. OJTG

• 4 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 I'm 10. When do you think my rating can become 1700 or higher? me

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | Cauchysheep was 15 when he became an LGM. His school's actually kinda'close to mine, but I've never met him in real life. What a pity :(

• 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +25 Its so nice to hear from somebody that he has acquired peace with his mind. But let me disagree with the structure of brain. For sure red people have more skills on competitive and their brain is more flexible, but why is that ? What I think is because they started from young age where the brain is more flexible and they practiced really hard. Moreover they had friends or coaches who motivated them and trained them by showing to them how to practice efficiently. So yea, they have different structure but not because of dna. They just practiced more time, harder and more efficient than the rest people.

  • 5 years ago, # ^ | Please pardon me if you got the idea that I'm talking about the difference in DNA. I think that the reason is not DNA, but as the brain evolves, it has different stages. You can exploit the flexibility of a young brain to make it's structure so as you are efficient at problem solving. My brain was trained to control the muscles of my body as efficiently as possible, so I have an unfair advantage over the majority of the global population of my age in that regard =) It takes me 10 times less time to gain mastery in any new physical activity such as playing ping pong or riding a skateboard than a normal person.

    • 5 years ago, # ^ | Yea no problem. I get your opinion now and I think we both agree that its about training and especially when you are younger. I have see some studies though which say that there is no difference between being young or old in learning process, but because I am not the suitable one, if I am wrong someones to correct me. Of course I can't ask why you are saying this "My brain was trained to control the muscles of my body as efficiently as possible". I am just curious. Are you an athlete ?

      • 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +8 I have see some studies though which say that there is no difference between being young or old in learning process, but because I am not the suitable one, if I am wrong someones to correct me. I was interested on this topic some time ago and I've read a lot of the research papers on how the brain gains knowledge and also read about the difference between young and adult brains. You can also find a lot on this website: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov I am just curious. Are you an athlete? My father wanted me to become an olympic champion in swimming. I have started swimming since the age of 4, but stopped at age 11. My father was dissappointed by my performance and I later I was roaming from boxing to sambo to archery. In the final year of my school I was doing MMA and started training with weights in a gym.

      • 5 years ago, # ^ | One thing to mention here — as far as I know, there are no strong chess players who started at age 20+. However, it may also be related so some other things, like social reasons (simple example: you can probably study for 10+ hours per day when you are a child, but in adult life it wouldn't work like that, unless you are professional player already — otherwise you are supposed to have a job etc.) However, chess are much more developed compared to CP, much more popular, and strong chess players invested much more time and effort into their preparation than strong CP folks. Reaching chess GM is nowhere close to reaching red at CF; I would even go as far as to say that it may turn out being at same level as reaching LGM at CF, in terms of required resources. So it may turn out that indeed beating Petr when you started at the age of 25 isn't realistic for a lot of people :) But it is multiple levels above simply reaching red.

        • 5 years ago, # ^ | Crazy how Um_nik got into top 5 and he started at 17-18 with a strong math background of course.

          • 5 years ago, # ^ | Because programming is math + implementation. And the second part is much easier.

            • 5 years ago, # ^ | Yeah you're right, but did he know so well math or was it more logic then IMO math? I think it was logic.

            • 3 years ago, # ^ | bro how to becomes strong in maths guide me

              • 3 years ago, # ^ | Spoiler

              • 3 years ago, # ^ | My way was to have good math education in school and spend a lot of time using different methods to prove some hard math theorems. Then same methods help to create ideas for solutions during programming contests.

              • 3 years ago, # ^ | In my view, math education means you know a lot of math theories, such as linear algebra. But CP problems are more concrete and special. Does a player with good math education can do much better than a player who hasn't learn much math while having good thinking. (If we don't take account of the time they saved in learning prior knowledge). Is the theory or the thinking that they trained leading success?

              • 3 years ago, # ^ | Math education also means that you know methods of proving math theorems. Theorems by themselves are mostly useless for CP, but same methods and ideas are used in solving hard CP problems. It's possible to do CP without math. But once you'll reach the limit, because you won't be able to invent solutions for hard problems.

• 5 years ago, # ^ | Yes, I think you are right. Most of the russian guys I see here are above orange.

• 4 years ago, # ^ | And as you've whispered in my ears so shall it be my son. You are forever doomed to be blue.

• 5 years ago, # ^ | you've become red now dude !!!

• 4 years ago, # ^ | I realised you're from the same city as Hero Alom.

• 5 years ago, # ^ | And there are also 25 years old guys who are newbies.

• 5 years ago, # ^ | chen_zhe: "You are not able to defeat him if he's younger but more powerful" I'm 15,but I'm only a specialist…

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | chen_zhe could beat u ezly with his heavy weight. XD

• 4 years ago, # ^ | Uh. You're already outstanding. Only someone incredibly brilliant like Cauchysheep(dmy) would ever reach LGM with an age at 15.

• 5 years ago, # ^ | No, you're not.

  • 5 years ago, # ^ | Is this reply backed by statistics or plain human optimism and desire to make him feel good for a moment? =)

    • 5 years ago, # ^ | I was not red when I was 24,6.

      • 5 years ago, # ^ | Well, that's not statistics... =) I will pay you $1000 USD if -emli- ever becomes red. People pay to visit Burj Khalifa. I am also ready to pay to see a miracle happening.

        • 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   +57 Reply above is backed by majk's personal experience, as he became red at more senior age :) I suspect that neither Michal (or me, as I probably have similar views) nor you can't actually provide any research/evidence to support his point of view. Even for mental activities and skills in general all the scientific results are controversial and inconsistent; for competitive programming in particular there are simply no papers on it at all :) I can say once again that I don't know a single person who actively did competitive programming training for long period of time and didn't get to at least high yellow / low red color. I also know a lot of people who claimed that they worked a lot — when, in fact, they didn't. All of that is my personal experience which doesn't matter much here. It is not how science works and it doesn't prove anything. It may turn out that my experience is correct and proves what I think it proves (that reaching red doesn't require any innate talent, and it is possible for almost everyone after practicing enough), or that it is wrong and I'm missing some hidden variables here — maybe I was just lucky to only know such people, or everyone who wasn't capable of doing well quickly lost interest and stopped practicing... You can say again that you are special and not like everybody else; or, more precisely, you are ordinary — and all the red guys are special and they got magic innate gift, and that's what allows them to be red. It will be a claim not backed up by anything either :) I'm on your side here: I don't think -emli- will become red in future — but it is unrelated to his age. I have a bunch of reasons to think so, and they include, for example, the fact that I don't think he has much motivation to even try reaching red. I somewhat know him, including having several conversations in past — so... I also don't think you'll reach red, and you described it above: you're fine with your current level, as you said — "I have acquired peace of mind since that time and compete for my pleasure and entertainment". You're enjoying it, and that's the most important part :) All the CP training theory which exists at this point has been summed up relatively well already, long time ago in F.A.Q. (in PM) post. From my experience, pretty much everyone who's complaining about how they can't improve honestly believe that top guys were born with rating 2500 or so and then they became LGM after practicing for an hour per day over 1-2 years.

          • 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +2 I also don't think you'll reach red, and you described it above: you're fine with your current level If the level was bothering me it still wouldn't increase it. There are some qualitative things which I can list from a top of my head which don't change over time (no matter how much I practice): 1. Comprehension of the problem. The time it takes to have a meaningful representation of the problem on which my conscious/subconcious may start acting is enormous. Sometimes it takes me a day for my brain to form the representation, although I've solved the problem during the contest on my reflexes. 2. The generalization mechanism is broken. I need a lot more instances of the problems to be able to generalize over what I've seen. I know 2 orange guys personally, so I'm comparing it to what I've seen. 3. Short term memory is too short. In order to solve the logical problem, sometimes you need to remember like 5 steps of the implications A -> B -> C -> ... I can remember only 2 or 3. I need to constantly remind myself of what were the previous steps and instantly forget the progress that I made. 4. Long term memory is also broken. In order for learning to happen one needs to remember lessons learned. That's the only reason to practise — accumulate knowledge. But my brain doesn't accumulate it. I have re-learned segment trees (from e-maxx) at least 4 times and implemented more than 10 problems with it, but I still cannot write this algorithm down right now. I vaguely remember the idea, but its unusable for the real problem solving. There are more points to make, but I don't remember them all =) all the red guys are special and they got magic innate gift I don't think they have innate gifts. Theirs brains just developed properly for the CP activity. If I was born again and I was a father of myself I could have made that young brilliant child a legendary grandmaster =)

            • 5 years ago, # ^ | I think you are very strict with yourself. You need to be more positive. We are our thoughts and being negative is not good (sometimes being realistic is not good as well). Also why don't you follow "feymans technique" to learn something, like segment trees for example ? Maybe it will helps you remember it in the future.

              • 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 I am sorry, but you made me smile =) I am not pessimist and I don't have negative thoughts. I am not strict with myself and read about all the possible techniques for remembering staff out there. For example, there is a fact that the more senses we use, the higher the probability to recall things later. Also, the highly emotional event is very likely to reside in memory for a long period of time. Negative events are prioritized over positive events by our brains. There are a lot more things to know about memory... =) I just ran experiments with myself. I have a notebook and I tested different hypothesese. This notebook has now over 50 pages of experiments over the years =) There is also one interesting fact from my notebook. My performance degrades over time. There are problems which I was able to solve 2 years ago and I couldn't solve them now :)

            • 5 years ago, # ^ | I think , the fact that you are making notes and trying to learn how to learn ,is the thing that holding you back , you know if someone set some thoughts on his mind based on just some stupid experiments will affect him a lot , if you say that you have a broken long term memory or whatever the facts that you think you got , your brain will work based on your thoughts , you know some healthy people died only because they set to their minds the thought that they are about to die , what i want to say is that we become what we think we can become .

              • 5 years ago, # ^ | healthy people died only because they set to their minds the thought that they are about to die Sorry, I can't believe it. Can you share a link to that? if you say that you have a broken long term memory or whatever the facts that you think you got The fact became a fact after I started noticing it. In a school I thought that I am smart :) No amount of optimism will make you fly. If you train very hard and diligently for a few years and then jump from a skyscraper you'd better have a parachute. It is important to be adequate to the physical reality and understand it's constraints. Optimism and pessimism are both inadequacies. we become what we think we can become Sounds beautiful and poetic, but physics is different.

              • 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 "healthy people died only because they set to their minds the thought that they are about to die", that did often happens in wars , a lot of soldiers died through a heart attack , you can read this article . Well i'd say The fact became a fact after you are thinking that you are noticing it :p It sounds beautiful and poetic and i truly believe in it <3. we become what we think we can become.

            • 5 years ago, # ^ | Maybe I am telling you things that you have already heard. And maybe what I am about to tell you is not actually relevant to your situation. But I wanted to say something about your point 4 (which is also relevant to point 2). Are you sure you really understand segment trees? I remember having the same problem with finding bridges about 2 years ago. Whenever I had to do it, I had to look at some tutorial again. I knew some general ideas about that like "remember the discovery time of each vertex and record the lowest possible vertex accessible from that vertex" (which is a bit of a red herring if you ask me). But the thing is, I did not actually understand finding bridges. Maybe I even thought I understood. I can actually tell you what I was missing. What made everything click eventually was this: if you traverse a graph depth-first and record every edge you visit, these edges form a rooted tree. All other edges are between a vertex and one of its ancestors. Once I started to truly understand why bridge-finding works like it does, I started building intuition about it. Now I am pretty sure I will never forget how to find bridges because the concepts needed are all built into intuition. And once that happened, I also became able to use the same ideas for very different problems. I think the concepts from finding bridges are some of the more useful for graph problems. The thing is, you can't generalize something you don't understand very deeply.

              • 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 4 →   +5 That's interesting, but still I don't have a good measure for the depth of understanding. At one time I understood fenwick tree pretty well. I even tought one of my friends in such a way he could implement it on his own (although he is system administrator, not a programmer :) ). I remember I had deep pictures which showed me all the relations and how and why it works. The algo was clear for me as a sky on a sunny day. But everything fades. Now I have a shade of an algorithm that looks like that: void add(tree) { for (bit; bit; bit &= bit) { // here we increase something tree[bit] &= bit; } } void remove(tree) { for (bit; bit; bit &= -bit) { // here we decrease something tree[bit] &= -bit; } } Of course I have some more pictures in my head that relate to this algo, which I cannot draw here now, but will help me reconstruct the missing details. But the thing is I'll need to think for maybe half of the contest or just go to e-maxx and copy the algorithm. The same with gcd(). I've written it a ton of times, but I'll need about 15 minutes to reconstruct it.

              • 5 years ago, # ^ | To be fair, I don't think anyone really cares about how fenwick tree works, or about how gcd works

              • 5 years ago, # ^ | There are many levels of understanding Understand others' code in tutorial for a particular data structure/algorithm Solve ordinary problem with reference code or cheatsheet Solve ordinary problem on your own Solve intermediate problems with variations from data structure/algorithm You find what you learnt is trivial! In a data structure class most of the students get stuck in stage 2. They can describe algorithms in simple words, but they cannot implement the codes. In CP you should get into at least stage 3-4 before moving on to another algorithm. Otherwise it’s hard to solve a problem in contest even you ‘understand’ the algorithm. Say if you can construct GCD in 1 min (that not harsh) then you get a lot more time to think on other problems.

              • 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   +10 Well, I tried using Fenwick tree, GCD and oriented area just as things that I should remember "as is" and treat them like axioms. But that didn't worked out for me: I was keeping forgetting them every time I needed them and without logical understanding I wasnt able to reconstruct them. So I tried studying and playing with those topics better until I got logical understanding of them. And it helped me to not only remember them clearly, but also to understand some concepts or improvements that may be based on those topics (such as oriented volume or linear Fenwick tree initialization). Thats only my personal experience, but at least someone cares. =)

            • 4 years ago, # ^ | I don't think they have innate gifts. Theirs brains just developed properly for the CP activity. This might be true. But consider another explanation: they just solved tons of problems

              • 4 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +15 Leaves are shaking, therefore there’s wind? ;)

              • 4 years ago, # ^ | Or maybe it's an earthquake, but when there's a reasonable explanation, it's usually that.

      • 5 years ago, # ^ | majk , were you specialist when you was 24,6 ? :D

        • 5 years ago, # ^ | When I was 24,6 I didn't know Codeforces existed. On the other hand, the title "Specialist" wasn't even used back then, so ...

          • 5 years ago, # ^ | Sorry for asking , but im curious , how old are you ?

            • 5 years ago, # ^ |

              • 5 years ago, # ^ | Intresting , i wonder how you find time to practice tho .

              • 5 years ago, # ^ | quoting majk: "by dicking around for the past few months"

              • 5 years ago, # ^ | Laggy knows me well!

              • 2 years ago, # ^ | I am interested to know why do you still continue competitive programming? May be You have Job & family.Do you now do it just for mental pleasure?

          • 5 years ago, # ^ | What's your background? Why and how did you even try to reach that level?

      • 5 years ago, # ^ | I even think that it is difficult to become orange(is that color orange?) QAQ But I will try my bese

• 5 years ago, # ^ | Congrats man, you did it ;p

  • 5 years ago, # ^ | Thanks, I got lucky :P

• 5 years ago, # ^ | congrats!

• 4 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   -13 Age Facebook account That was your birth date I picked from your facebook website. If there is some mistake, please correct it.

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | You needed a calculator to calculate age?

• 3 years ago, # ^ | Just curious, how did you reach third year of university at 19? Did you skip classes in school? Or did you start going to school before you were 5?

• 3 years ago, # ^ | And, you did it!! Congratulations :)

• 5 years ago, # ^ | That's racist! It doesn't matter if you're black or white or even yellow. We're all human.

  • 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   -9

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | Why even yellow?

• 5 years ago, # ^ | UPD: I did it.

• 5 years ago, # ^ | Honestly, I am quite interested to hear your view about why you chose to do CP because it likely has no link to your work.

  • 5 years ago, # ^ | In my opinion, everyone should practice CP. Solving problems in competitive programming increases our ability of thinks. I can see a a big difference about my approach of thinking before & after I've started solving problems.

  • 5 years ago, # ^ | I think, he already answered it in the phrase "I started cp as part of preparation for interviews". Being good in CP correlates with ability to pass interviews in some well-known IT companies.

    • 5 years ago, # ^ | but then continued since its fun. How far I will push it I cannot say, but I also strive to become grandmaster What about this? I am curious about why he finds it entertaining. Because it is likely CP doesn't help him to solve his problems at work, neither would it help him to produce a product that is usable by a large consumer base (in contrast to his profession). Furthermore, it really requires a lot of time, sometimes without any progress. TLDR: Why does the OP find CP to be "fun"?

      • 5 years ago, # ^ | Some people just like to compare the length of their lance with other guys on the Internet.

      • 5 years ago, # ^ | Just a bit of background, I'm married and I have a baby now, so besides that is no that much free time for me. I'm spending around 5 hours weekly on CP, either practicing problems or competing. I don't know why I find it fun, I was always interested in many areas of IT, but algorithms and data structures especially. When I solve a hard problem or score good at competition I feel quite excited. It seems to me that I'll do CP as hobby for a lifetime, even in 30 years :-). But even with my hobbies I want to see a progress, to get better over time, it's not fun for me if I'm stagnating. Also, I think that CP helps also a lot to any software engineer to better approach any problem and understand software performance. Also, it is good general mental exercise I suppose. Why you do CP?

        • 5 years ago, # ^ | Its nice to hear that people try advanced algorithms even if they don't aim in medals but only in fun and knowledge.

• 5 years ago, # ^ | Thats amazing. I hope that when I will be 32 years old, still I will like cp so much as I do now.

• 5 years ago, # ^ | Come on!

• 5 years ago, # ^ | Good luck!

• 4 years ago, # ^ | Congrats!

• 4 years ago, # ^ | Good luck!

• 5 years ago, # ^ | Your post is the reason I asked the question. Thank you for your story and the motivation you give us !

• 16 hours ago, # ^ | Dude you are inspiring.

• 5 years ago, # ^ | I am trying hard(missing classes) for it to happen. Wow. That's some serious dedication there. Is CP some silver bullet to getting jobs in India and Bangladesh? Why do these people prioritize it above their studies?

  • 5 years ago, # ^ | Its because the companies here(in India) ask coding questions in interviews and because of that many people do cp and eventually many of us fall in love with it and get addicted to it so much that we pay any price in an effort to master it.

    • 5 years ago, # ^ | _ the companies here(in India) ask coding questions in interviews_ Really? So the companies in other countries don't ask coding questions in interviews?

      • 5 years ago, # ^ | I don't know.

        • 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 3 →   -10 Well. A search on Google + personal experience tells me the answer — yes, companies in other countries ask coding questions as well. So it turns out that your reason is a little invalid. How about saying that it is because of peer influence? (i.e. many people in your country is doing it, so everyone else just follows along). Let's have a look at the type of questions that are asked by your fellow countrymen on quora regarding CP (You know what I am talking about). Also, if you don't believe me, not many people are that fanatical about CP besides those in India and Bangladesh. See this.

          • 5 years ago, # ^ | You should have used (Competitive Programming — Topic) instead of search term to get better results: Take a look here

          • 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +3 As far as peer influence is concerned in my batch there are 120 students out of which hardly 10 students do CP on regular basis. So peer pressure is not there. Well, maybe my reasoning is invalid for the whole of India but at least it is true for me.

            • 5 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   +8 1 in 12 is a lot. Like a lot a lot a lot. (By the way this isn't actually relevant but my country has about 10 people who do competitive programming on a regular basis)

              • 5 years ago, # ^ | I study at IIT, so we are talking about 1 in 12 in an IIT!

• 4 years ago, # ^ | i hope you will

• 4 years ago, # ^ | You are Candidate master now.

• 4 years ago, # ^ | What a coincidence bro? I was going through this post and found your name. I saw you on codechef discuss platform. 19 :) Too. Would like to meet you as we live nearby, as there is not much cp environment in my college.

• 4 years ago, # ^ | are you BanazadehAria's brother

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | Loooooooollllll. Rofl, lmao lmfao

• 4 years ago, # ^ | Only in China is this not seen as a very strong achievement. In the UK being 18 and purple (me) is considered good.

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | yeah, this is definitely orzable.

    • 4 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 Maybe this person is more orzable? He is at the same age as me.

      • 4 years ago, # ^ | him being orzable does not mean you are not orzable!

        • 4 years ago, # ^ | Words of wisdom

• 4 years ago, # ^ | Why is your age a decimal?

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | It is normal we called a month as "one twelfth years"

    • 4 years ago, # ^ | So how many twelfths is 0.6?

      • 4 years ago, # ^ | about 7.2 month if I have a mathematical mind (Anyway, my birthday is in December, and it is about 7.2months to my birthday)

        • 3 years ago, # ^ | So you are so strong!!!/se/qq

          • 3 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 So let us ORZ this MAGNIFICANT person!!!!!

• 4 years ago, # ^ | 17 y.o., wanna get 1500 till summer end :d good luck to you!

• 4 years ago, # ^ | Being a legendary grandmaster is a really great ambition.

• 4 years ago, # ^ | Me too. I'm 10, I want to get into Div.1 in 2 years.

• 4 years ago, # ^ | When did he start

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | He registered 77 years ago, so he was 4848 months back then.

• 4 years ago, # ^ | Huh? I'm sure, Alex_2oo8 is about my age and I surely wasn't 7 y.o. in 2015...

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | How old are you know

    • 4 years ago, # ^ | I'm 13

  • • 4 years ago, # ^ | Man, this says so much about society

• 4 years ago, # ^ | OMG how long it's been since you started studying competitive programming?

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | Two years :)

    • 4 years ago, # ^ | Wow... wish I could be like you. I started like 8 months or so...

    • 4 years ago, # ^ | OMG You are so clever, sysjuruo. I have been learning it for 4 years and I'm 16 now, but I'm much weaker than you. How can you improve your skill so rapidly?

      • 4 years ago, # ^ | Learn from kl.XD

        • 4 years ago, # ^ | Fake! kl is much weaker than you, even much weaker than me.

• 3 years ago, # ^ | Don't worry you are not alone here. I'm 26 and I still will strive to be better everyday

  • 3 years ago, # ^ | It's never too late)

• 3 years ago, # ^ | I'm newbie now what a journey ^__^

• 4 years ago, # ^ | happy BD bro ^____^

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | Umm, I think he meant that the comments is too long that will take him months to finish it. In those months, he will turn 23. xD

  • 4 years ago, # ^ | ← Rev. 2 →   0 I'll become 23 on 13th of next month :p btw, thanks for advance wishing :D

• 4 years ago, # ^ | Now I'm 14,and study in school takes most part of my life,I think I'm as busy as you:>

• 3 years ago, # ^ | CM at 11. Kevin090228 orz.

  • 3 years ago, # ^ | What does "orz" mean? I don't know

    • 3 years ago, # ^ | It represents a stick figure kneeling or bowing with the "o" being the head, the "r" being the arms and part of the body, and the "z" being part of the body and the legs.

  • 3 years ago, # ^ | Every time someone below age of 13 is above expert, 9 times out of 10 you will realize they are from Nanjing, China. This is no exception. Just something fun to check in more future cases.

• 3 years ago, # ^ | Maybe when I get orange, I'm 41:)

• 3 years ago, # ^ | Everyone gangsta until 15 years old chinese LGM's walk in. eg. FizzyDavid was 15/16 when he became LGM.

• 5 weeks ago, # ^ | what's the value in it unless you become red yourself?

  • 5 weeks ago, # ^ | Oh nothing, I'm just kidding, when I saw the name of the blog I thought it would talk about something like that

    • 5 weeks ago, # ^ | Are you from those M guys from Omegle? It stopped so messing around here?

      • 5 weeks ago, # ^ | Don't know what are you talking about , just skip it bro

• 5 weeks ago, # ^ | at least there are bunch of GM's who managed to achieve their goals