Hi Codeforces,

I am taking this opportunity to announce HackerRank HourRank 17, a 60 minute contest where the fastest coder wins!. The contest will be held on 16:00 UTC Thursday, 2nd February, 2017. You can sign up for the contest here. Contestants will be given 4 problems and 1 hour to solve. I recommend all of you to read all the problems as each problem contains some interesting subtasks. Top 10 global winners will get cool HackerRank T-shirts. Note that contest will be rated for all users.

By this time you can probably guess, i am author of this contest and i promise you all to deliver an interesting problem set with something for all. I really want to thank danilka.pro for testing all the problems and helping me to come up with nice problem set. My special thanks to Shafaet for giving me another opportunity and motivate me to work hard for this contest. Also, thanks to svanidz1 for presolving the contest and providing his valuable feedback.

Scoring will be posted right before the contest and editorials will be published right after the contest.

Hope to see you participating.

Good Luck & Have Fun.

UPDATE 1: Score Distribution 15, 30, 60, 80.

UPDATE 2: Contest will be started in less than 15 minutes.

UPDATE 3: Drum roll please and top 10 winners are:

1. RomaWhite
2. xllend3
3. uwi
4. jonathanirvings
5. abcdef6199
6. [user:vm450]
7. satyaki3794
8. zscoder
9. rajat1603
10. [user:hoigamn_xing]

Please feel free to comment your codeforces handle. I will update the post. Any more comments and feedbacks are welcome.