FreeJinG's blog

By FreeJinG, history, 3 years ago, In English

Hello codeforces community,

As the new year is coming, We will soon be able to change our handle to a new one.

Can you change your handle to some used handle ?

For instance, if I want to change my handle to freezing, and the user has been inactive for 2 years, can I not somehow claim the handle ?

Thanks.

UPD: You can refer to this blog, thanks voidXD for helping out.

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By FreeJinG, history, 3 years ago, In English

Hello Codeforces community,

I am currently in my last year of high school, still undecided on what i would like to do in university.

I wonder, is CP (Competitive Programming) fun to most of you ?

Originally, i decided to keep doing CP in university and pursue ICPC, I didn't even aim for World Finals, just a guy trying to get better in what he does. But lately, I have been experiencing stress from doing CP, specifically, I managed to get a medal in my country's National Olympiad, and is currently going through the selection process to IOI, and from this selection, I felt stressed to do CP, though i still enjoyed doing casual CF and Atcoder rounds, I found myself in a position where I don't feel like doing CP anymore.

Will ICPC be a painful process ? Or is it a fun grind to most of you ?

Thanks.

UPD: Thank you for the responses, it has definitely given me some insight on what to do next.

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By FreeJinG, history, 3 years ago, In English

Merry (Early) Christmas Codeforces community!

We are excited to invite you to TOKI Regular Open Contest #17!

Key details:

Finally, we would like to thank:

Please register to the contest, and we hope you will enjoy the contest!

UPD: The contest is over :)

Congratulations to our top 10:

  1. tourist
  2. maroonrk
  3. kotatsugame
  4. Tiramister
  5. antontrygubO_o
  6. tute7627
  7. nuip
  8. penguinman
  9. saketh, pwild
  10. neal

Congratulations to our first solvers:

You can access the editorial here (English version available on page 7)

The problems can be upsolved here

Thank you for participating and we hope to see you on the next TROC!

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