Codechef is not a joke, most of its participants are.

I don't mind the plagiarism(I hate it ofcourse!). They cannot stop it. What bothers me is the contest itself. Test cases for Half Sequence were a joke. Any type of bruteforce/lame ad-hoc solution got an AC. Solutions that were failing on cases with N=3 got AC's. That's how bad the testcases were.

Compete in Div1. I don't think there's too much cheating there.

• CodeChef is trying very hard to improve, that's the only website which is trying to help programmer monetarily so that programmers can do it full time.
• Problem quality has improved a lot in last few contest.
• They provide video editorials for every problems, beginners to advanced topic tutorials, for helping lower rated players.

How's this is a joke?

At least somebody said the truth.

I am utterly disappointed with yesterday's contest. I spent so much time and effort on Chef and Pairwise Distances. Then a man on youtube released its solution ,Within few minutes the submission rate went at its peak. After the contest got over every 2nd submission I could found of was using n % 4 inside loop. I was under 800 in rank before the that problem's solution was leaked and suddenly I got kicked out of 1500. The people who can't solve even 1 problem at CodeForces solved all problems up to Chef and Pairwise distances. Apparently CodeChef isn't taking any action.

That's why I left Codechef..But at CF I m feeling difficult to solve problems but after sometime I will improve I need more practice of tougher problems. :)

You'll see these 2 and 3 star coders cheating a lot but not 5 or 6 star ones, So as you go in Div 1 rarely there will be anyone who wants to drop his rank or waste the time for this non-sense stuff!! Best Solution : Get into top and away from this mess!

Most submissions for FAKESWAP have around 14.9MB, and the concepts are very similar.

If you looks at some of the submissions, you can see that some of them are oddly similar, but some of them just used similar approach.

I think the one of the best ways to check for plagiarism is to look at their profile, and look at their recent submissions.

If they submit questions in an odd order or have some odd outcomes, then it's probably plagiarism (not 100%).

For those mentioning cheaters, My advice is, if you want to learn concepts with problems and improve your CP skills, You have to continue with Codechef Contests on your own(they have nice problems that will teach you to learn new things) and ignore those cheaters.

The 4th question of div 2 was solved only by atmost 100 people in the first 2.25 hrs and then in the next 15 mins , boom 700 people have solved the problem, another 15 mins and it reached 1200 mark. I know there were participants who solved it in the last hour, but most of them cheated!

I just wanted to comment about you marking the memory usage. Note that, on codechef same amount of memory usage does not always mean something. Especially, if you dont use any arrays/data containers, and only solve the problem with variables, then i think memory used is mainly just the libraries included.

In India most of the ed-tech youtubers mention stars on codechef and some positions on codeforces means you are bound to get a good job. They are surely doing great work of creating awareness , but some people choose the easy way and copy paste in every contest on every platform and put it as achievements.

Code chef is joke .. and what is the point of copying .. It's reflects how Indians are .

I don't give a fuck to them who cheat.They can steal rating but can't steal human intelligence

MOTHER(fucker) INDIA

I was quite startled by this statement just below the contest dashboard in the contest rules section. Most users might've already seen this, but I've never been an active user there before; their recent incredible setters panel encouraged me to try it out again and I'm really starting to hold it in very high regard. But whoever is managing these rules is definitely not doing justice to the setters, admins, and others concerned. That statement is clearly just inviting chaos. If even CodeChef itself thinks that the line is thin and encourages its users to discuss the problems of an ongoing contest (provided they understand it btw), then who are you and I going to complain about it to?

Codechef is not a joke, most of the Indian coders are.

Indian coders should be banned from programming contests to teach them a lesson.

Imagine being so lazy that you can't even be bothered to make it look like your own work. Remarkable.

The reason this is happening is because during the contest some youtuber leak the solutions for views .. specially in the 10 days long challenge ... so, people just copy an paste for rating. thats one of the reason why codeforces is better.

let those people destroy their own future

why the fuck they have 3 hr contest while 2hr is sufficient ??

Rating on competitive coding platforms is no more a concern to companies. Companies conduct special coding rounds before selecting a student. So, even if people cheat on these platforms, they won't get a job just like that.

Join Division 1 — the grass is greener on the other side.

It's looking like a college assignment, everybody copy from one student.

The problem is not with the CodeChef but with the cheaters.