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By Alex.Svanidze, history, 2 years ago, In English

Hey,

I was interested in how rating changes on Codeforces due to having an interesting circumstance yesterday — I participated in Div.4 contest(30 Aug) and got +137 rating. My previous rating was 1283, now it is 1420. After that, I accidentally found another user who got +188 rating. His previous score was 1289.

The part I don't understand is how Codeforces distributes scores, since I placed 333rd and he/she placed 394th, yet he received more rating than me while I was ahead on the scoreboard.

No offence to that or any other guy. I just want to know how the score distribution works; Thanks!

EDIT: I'm not sure why am I being downvoted for, but I found out it's caused by 'newcomers to codeforces' system, explained here

  • Vote: I like it
  • +3
  • Vote: I do not like it

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2 years ago, # |
  Vote: I like it +5 Vote: I do not like it

Don't focus on such things. Grind.

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2 years ago, # |
  Vote: I like it +24 Vote: I do not like it

Maybe that person was giving one of their first 6 contests. In the first 6 contests rating changes behave differently. See this post.