MikeMirzayanov's blog

Goodbye, 2024. Hello, 2025!
By MikeMirzayanov, 2 months ago, In English

Goodbye, 2024. Hello, 2025!

Dear Santa Claus,
Please make 2025 a happy year—not just for me, but for everyone. We all need this.

Hello, 2025!

And of course, we have our traditional gifts!

Change Handle Feature

Hurry! Until the 10th of January, you can change your handle (but only once)! Note that you can roll back the changes or request another handle change only after a year. Choose wisely!

You can change your handle to a new one that hasn’t been used by anyone else, or to one that you’ve previously used. Links to your old profile will automatically redirect to your updated profile.

Again this year, if you’ve participated in at least 10 rounds, you can request the handle of an inactive participant. This means the participant must have had a period of activity on Codeforces lasting at most 180 days, and this activity must have occurred in 2020 or earlier. The inactive participant must not have posted comments, messages, or similar content, and they must not have participated in more than 2 contests. In such cases, the handle will be automatically renamed, and the original owner will be notified via email. If the original user requests their handle back, we will roll back the change and restore your previous handle.

If you’re unable to change your handle, it means some of the requirements have not been met. Please do not ask me to intervene manually. I especially dislike requests such as, "This is my second account; I took an interesting handle myself." I'm not Santa Claus!

Speaking of handles, I always reminisce about one particular story. Once, a user sent me this message: "Please change my handle from I_love_Valya to I_love_Sveta, as I no longer love Valya..."

New Year's Masquerade of Colors and Ranks

The traditional magical tab has appeared in your profile settings. Happy New Year!

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nice bro, codeforces go ahead

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where is tourist in magic

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lmao I saw the background and refreshed 5-6 times and thought it was a bug until I looked closely and saw the snowflakes.

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    Have to change my Dark Reader mode to "Filter" instead of "Dynamic" to make the background less intrusive :(

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      There you go :)

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        This is REALLY awesome!

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          does it work for you all the time? as soon as I refresh the page, the snowflakes come back :(

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            For most of the time. However, I once found out that the per-site rule had disappeared, and I had to add it back again. I wonder if it's a bug in Dark Reader.

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            You may even include a bit of code in your userscripts (maybe in tapermonkey if you use it).

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              i added the dark reader extension and changed it to filter for codeforces, got rid of it for me.

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:)

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Advance Happy New Year 2025 to the amazing Codeforces community! Wishing you all a year full of high ratings, better problem-solving skills, and exciting learning opportunities. Let’s make 2025 incredible!

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Every year codeforces has this gift. But this year it will be more interesting because of the 'tourist'.

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where Tourist

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    Tourist is not actually a rank in Codeforces. You see, Codeforces didn't design a title for ppl who have 4000 or above rating (prob because Mike didn't think anyone would get it).

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Let's Go! Happy new year to everyone.

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How can I change my rank to Tourist?

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    I guess Tourist Rank has such an aura, that we can't even feel it with Santa's magic...

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    get 4000+ rating

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wanna change to Tourist

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I hope at the end of this year i reach expert

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i forgot my password, how do i change it

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Great news btw.

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finally, the only thing that makes Holidays feels like HOlidays has come!

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    That is a 2 year old meme pal

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      shit I remember seeing this one last year

      fun fact: this meme is half of his comments

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Santa is real!

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Am I the only one who checked these accounts ?

I_love_Valya

I_love_Sveta

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Let me make a final Legendary comment for this Legendary Title at a Legendary Rating. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________

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It would be great if you could change handle to the occupied one if the owner of the said handle is blocked

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Hope that everything will go well in 2025, and I wanna be a MASTER. Codeforces goes ahead, and hope everyone can be better next year.

But all in all, HAPPY NEW YEAR, bro.

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    All the best :) I hope you work hard and reach master, even if you don't be happy that you got that far and happy new year in advance :))

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I can't use "reyleigh" even thought the person who is using (reyleigh) this is inactive since 2020 please fix this. Tagging Sir MikeMirzayanov.

EDIT : It's fixed thanks Sir MikeMirzayanov.

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My name is omega now >w<

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Looks good

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Merry Christmas!

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suggest any hazardous threatening handle name (innovative)

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not even santa can make me turn into a tourist

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Excuse me, how to request the handle of an inactive participant.

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Happy New Year!!!

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    The image is cut off. Clearly, that says legendary grandmaster, 8407.

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No unrated??

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Fine , Happy new year to everyone :)

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The next contest will be a huge mess

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Why I can't change my name to "near"? It looks like all the conditions are met. Can you change my nickname to this one, please?

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Thank you and love you Mike! Happy New Year!

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where is tourist

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Thank you I can finally be my true colour! Happy new year

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Now, I can comment anything and my comment will gets upvotes.

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thx mike

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wow!

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This is the magic of this magical community.

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Happy New Year!

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Tourist masquerade when

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For those who are thinking about user "I_love_Sveta"

Check out that post and comment...

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MikeMirzayanov Can we take username of a disabled user ?

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Sorry for tagging MikeMirzayanov, I can't change the name Raven even through that user has inactived for 12 years (~2011,2012)

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    Me too. I tried to change to the handle "Mosaab", and it is inactive, but it failed.

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why no Headquarters in Magic?

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Why can't I make it tourist:/

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Finally I don't need to study anymore to be a grandmaster

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Happy New Year!

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Good luck to all users!

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I want ....

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MikeMirzayanov, How do I request the handle of an inactive user Mosaab? as it says "This handle is currently in use".

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    were you able to change?

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      No, I do not know why really, and it is not only me, but many users also face the same issue.

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i tried to change my handle to a handle of inactive user that participated in 2 contests and he didn't open his account since 2014. what is problem??

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When the badges for supporting Codeforces(15 years) appears?

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merry christmas and happy new year.. and yeah ronaldo is the goat :)

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Hello I am trying to take a username that is inactive from 5 years with no contests. But when i try to enter it in the handle section it says "handle currently in use". Why it's happening is it because somebody else has requested for that handle ?

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It would be great if you had put feature for changing colour and rank in April's Fool week MikeMirzayanov as it is difficult to trust the comments and blog

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I am the lowest rated LGM rated in the last 6 months!

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letss gooo !

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Taking the expert rank because everyone else is GM now won't make you special.

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MikeMirzayanov still having great ideas. Thank you so much, sir.

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wow I am legendary grandmaster now with the help of magik ✨

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Happy New year !!

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As every year: 2022 2023 2024 and 2025:

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I'll work hard in 2025!!

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low i am a legendary gm at 1000 elo now

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I thank some random Bangladeshi guy for saving the username for me!

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The santa hat Mike is wearing seems photoshopped

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Yes! Thanks for the gift sir, now I can temporarily change my color to match my target for this year.

Also a small change to handle is nice, thanks a lot.

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Finally become LGM this 20 days.

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Will the color of our rates disappear? ;-;

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But why there is no rank of "tourist" in magic?

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    No one is more deserving other than tourist himself

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WHY NO TOURIST RATING HERE?????

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How can I change my rank to Tourist?

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    Send me 1 bitcoin and I'll help u with that!

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How can I change my color?I need link

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Happy new year! CodeForces will be better!：）

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How to request a new handle btw? I don't understand

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how can I roll back the original handle?

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can I do Tourist?

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I like this magic!

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I can't use "Prakhs" even thought the person who is using (Prakhs) this is inactive since 2011.All conditions are being met, he has no comments or activity and has participated in 1 contest only. Please fix this. Tagging Sir MikeMirzayanov

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good feature, sir!

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"Please change my handle from I_love_Valya to I_love_Sveta, as I no longer love Valya..." MikeMirzayanov being savage.

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Thank you Mike!I finally become Legendary Grandmaster!

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I want tourists rank

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You must do a special magic to LGM.

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happy new year guys :)

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i am unable to change my handle to Pluto, even tho the user has been inactive for 10 years. please look into this MikeMirzayanov

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Nice

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now I have a legendary grandmaster

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Could I please have the handle cat? Its owner hasnt logged on for 8 years and I'd really like it :)

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Even Santa can't make us TOURIST – we can earn it only through sheer hard work.

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letgo!

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nice

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Happy New Year!

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Seem that Santa's magic is not enough for us to become a tourist XD!

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Be careful guys, new Legendary Grandmaster is in the town.

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why we can't change to unrated

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Hello guys, merry Christmas(also the Eve) and the New Year is around the corner. I also hope you can be happy all the year!

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merry christmas guys

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Nice

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testing

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This 2025 I will be a candidate master !!!

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Can someone help me with why am I not able to rename my handle to 'ashray'. I wasnt even able to do it last year T_T. the account with that username is inactive, no comments posted, no blogs, and last visited the platform 6 years ago MikeMirzayanov

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happy new year everyone!

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I was getting message as
Your handle can't be changed because you haven't participated in enough contests so what's the minimum number of contests you have to participate in order to change the handle?

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Is this rated or unrated?

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Seems tourist is much stronger than magic.

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is Santa makes us tourist

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I wish everyone good luck and success

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Happy New Year, CodeForces! :)

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MikeMirzayanov Hey, just a reminder that magic was supposed to be removed on the 10th unless I've misread the blog :)

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Here are the statistics on how you used magic this year. Shortly before the magic rollback, I gathered the following numbers.

By ranks:

Rank Count
legendary grandmaster 18582
newbie 11836
candidate master 7899
expert 6577
specialist 5723
master 5705
pupil 5205
grandmaster 4245
international grandmaster 3379
international master 3328

By colors:

Color Count
legendary 18582
gray 11836
orange 9033
violet 7899
red 7624
blue 6577
cyan 5723
green 5205
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