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Is the LGM 'Alice_foo_foo' only 12 years old?
By nitin12384, history, 19 months ago, In English

In his atcoder profile,he has mentioned that his birth year is 2010.
His Codeforces profile.

This is totally unbelievable for me, that how can someone achieve so much maturity in maths, problem-solving, analysis, deduction at so less age.

Is this some mistake that he has mentioned 2010 as his birth year?
If its not a mistake, then wont he be the youngest LGM on codeforces?

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19 months ago, # |
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No. According to Wikipedia, Alice_foo_foo is at least 16 years old.

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19 months ago, # |
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There are 12 year old chess Grandmasters.

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    chess is much easier then cp

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      done both, certainly not

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        Lmao, I can't say about chess but you clearly have no knowledge about cp.

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          19 months ago, # ^ |
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          why are you saying that on an alt :) not brave enough to use your main eh?

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        19 months ago, # ^ |
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        you're entitled to your opinion sir

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    I don't think it's the same. You don't need any previous background to start playing chess and it's a fun game that a very big amount of people learn at a young age. On top of that, the amount of reading and topics you have to learn at the beginning is fairly small, most of what constitutes the early improvement is pattern recognition.

    To even begin touching cp, you have to first know how to code and without high school or at least middle school math you won't get very far. To even become a pupil you already need to know a lot of math and programming concepts (from the perspective of a twelve year old, you don't actually need to know that much from the perspective of a high school student). Very few people learn to code from a very young age and it would be impossible for someone who isn't simply a genius to learn high school math before the age of 10. So I think the odds of anyone becoming a grandmaster in cp at the age of twelve is super small.

    Feel free to disagree.

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    18 months ago, # ^ |
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    By "There are", you mean there is two :)

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19 months ago, # |
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orz 12 years old LGM

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19 months ago, # |
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If he/she was 12, then I'm pretty sure that there would be a blog saying that he's one of the youngest LGMs

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He probably sin't but I don't think it is impossible. Tourist won IOI gold at that age, and so did Alex Song and Terence Tao for IMO golds.

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Then antontrygubO_o is 1 year old

https://atcoder.jp/users/antontrygubO_o

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19 months ago, # |
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handsome_xb is only one day's old! My classmates and I all love her!!!

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19 months ago, # |
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I did not like the blog, because this is about math, and codeforces is for programing

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First of all, the gender of this user must be male, then, his age should be around 17 years old (Just now in the third grade of high school).

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18 months ago, # |
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No, but I am

Marinush

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18 months ago, # |
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I think 2010 is just the birht year of his favourite character?

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You are right, but, Alice_foo_foo is god.

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18 months ago, # |
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You know,Chinese people don't always show their real age because we think it is private.

But some people hide it just because they want to look cute I think :)

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18 months ago, # |
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He's actually another account of LJC00118.

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