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What are your hobbies outside of competitive programming?
By farmersrice, history, 6 years ago, In English

Just curious as to what you guys like to do. Personally, I enjoy playing go/chess and a variety of other games, and listening to music that has 0 correlation with my actual life. (hmu if you want to play go or chess)

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  1. Sports: table tennis, badminton, football

  2. Escape rooms (apparently I visit Polish site with escape rooms database more often than any other website even though basically nothing is changing there)

  3. Video games. Recently I got severely addicted to Rocket League (if anyone here plays it as well hit me up on Steam (I'm Swistakk there as well)), but I am devoted fan of Captain Claw as well (2D platform game from 1997)

  4. Listening to Taylor Swift

  5. Various kind of competitive puzzles, for example like solving sudoku as fast as possible but other kinds (kakuro, tapa, akari, hashi and many many more), since sudoku is hella boring (I'm not that good though, but I really enjoy them)

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    Do you know about http://www.gp.worldpuzzle.org/content/puzzle-gp? They hold puzzle competitions about once a month (unfortunately, this year's season is over), you can find a couple familiar names from CodeForces in the standings.

    EDIT: Somehow I missed you, guess my Ctrl-F skills are not that good.

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      Yeah, I've seen it ;). You got much better results than me ;). However I didn't get a chance to participate in many of these, something like 2 or 3 so far only.

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    You should not listen to modern pop songs.

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      Thank you for this wonderful piece of advice, I will stop doing that from now on :P

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    Good luck in WSC and WPC!

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    Captain Claw brings back all kinds of memories! Does it run on Windows 10?

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      Sure it does! Go to https://captainclaw.net/en/downloads.html and download the newest version (first link). If at any point you get some warning about hypothetical threats and viruses and so on then you can safely ignore them (they sometimes pop up since this is fan modified version where some machine code was changed, but everything is completely safe). If you need some help with setting tit up then go to our Discord (link on the left side) and mention @MentionForClawHelp.

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    What kind of Taylor though?

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      All kinds =). Of course I like some of her songs more and some of her songs less, but I generally listen to all of them.

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    Listening to Taylor Swift！+1

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    Listening to Taylor Swift

    At least I share 1 red hobby. Oh yeah!

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      Reading that comment was first thing I did today after a "Lover" alarm woke me up <3

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        And the last thing I heard last night before I fell asleep was.. . "it's a love story.. Baby just say yes!! " <3
        From newbies to reds, Taylor Swift and her songs are loved by everyone.
        I think she deserves an orz here.
        Taylor Swift orz

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1) trolling on forums

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1) Pocket Legends

Been playing on off for a few year.

I have the username "thebatbearx" which is a nooby seeming username, but when im on my phone I destroy unsuspecting pvpers. Like some people attack me for no reason other than my noob seeming get up (I often take off my "pro" gear and put on uglier outfits to bait people) and get stomped.

Also, I once effectively 1v2 some skrubs (who thought they were so cool because they were teaming) by hiding behind indestrucitble obstacles (trees lol) to regen my health/buffs while they kept coming at me one at a time.

Haha, good days. I quit again though.

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    I think someone should propose a contest whose theme is about dota2.

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      I've set 5 problems about Dota 2, but they all are in different contests.

      It's very hard to create a set of interesting problems on one specific theme simultaneously. So I'll update this list when I create another problem about Dota 2.

      Also, ashmelev is known for his gaming-related problems — I think he has something to add here.

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        Nice to see problem set related to dota2.

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          At Kharkiv Winter Programming School 2014 my contest problems were mostly related to Dota2. Just see gyms 100374 (junior league) and 100375 (high league). I hope you enjoy samples for problem H :)

          However problem L has buggy tests still...

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        I've did the second one before. That one is amazing!

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Rock climbing (mostly indoors)

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Am I the only one who watches movies?

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Speedcubing, for instance I can solve rubik's cube in less than 10 seconds. https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/persons/2013KUMA15

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    Cool!

    It would take me one hour to solve one face of the cube, leave aside the whole cube. ;P

    I would rather make some portrait sketches and read quora.

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      Can we see some of your art?

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        Sure but I don't collect them. But still, if you want to see, send me your photo I will sketch it and DM you.

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    How do you solve cube by foot?

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      We make use of the ground / stackmat, we don't hold it properly by our feet.

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Where's my PUBG fam at?

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  1. Playing and Watching Football(The famous one)
  2. Playing Computer Games(Have completed more than 50 Games). I also play fortnite(the_law10).
  3. Listening to EDM Music(Daft Punk)
  4. Reading about Indian History :)
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Waiting to die.

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Sadly, living one sided love

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    Oh, I also forgot to mention that i love to tell PATH242 things about her favorite 5-sized girl band.

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      i think what u meant is *telling menna123 every thing about my favorite girl band that she'll never like no matter how hard i try xxD

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        C'mon, don't lie yourself anymore, you are listening to that band day and night.

        Why are you still lying to yourself. Everyone believes me, because of my reputation.

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          I don't really like lying so i rarely lie, and i'm straight so it makes sense that i would like boy bands more than girl bands xxD

          ps: that doesn't mean that i don't like girl bands, i just prefer boy bands and solo female singers xxD

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Lately I enjoy CTF competitions just as much as cp ones. It's just that community is not as big as cp for now. I would totally suggest it to anybody here.

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  • First and foremost, spending time with my cat (pictured). Not sure if it counts as a hobby.
  • Sports: Weightlifting, playing and watching basketball. Sometimes I try to run.
  • Games: Currently lots of Rocket League and Puyo Puyo. I also enjoy single-player stealth games; I'm a big fan of the Metal Gear series and recently have been playing through The Last of Us.
  • Outdoors: Camping, hiking, backpacking, photography. Less of this since moving away from California to New York City a couple months ago.
  • I'm learning how to make espresso right now after recently obtaining the necessary equipment and some books.
  • Music: Mostly hip hop, indie rock, indie pop. My most listened-to artists on Spotify from last 6 months: Glass Animals, Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Kanye West, Arctic Monkeys, Young the Giant, alt-J, Foster The People.
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    I suggest playing Splinter Cell if you are interested in Single Player stealth games

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      I suggest Deus Ex, Dishonored, Styx, Beyond Good and Evil as well.

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    Damn! u got a really good music taste

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1) trolling on forums 2) masturbating 3) magic the gathering

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rap

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    My father has been smoking ever since he was 16. A couple months ago he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He said, if this post ('rap') got 50 likes, he would quit smoking. Please help! :'(

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Stargazing

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eat, sleep, watch anime : )

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Pornhub.com

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I sometimes write some songs and do some acting in movies but main hobby is competitive programming.

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Aerial hoop! It's never too late to try joining the circus. <3

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I like middle- and long-distance running (my best distances are 800 and 1000 metres, but can run up to half-marathon).

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jwozniak likes Rock Climbing, Juggling, Lockpicking, and Being Tall.

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  1. playing football, cricket, basketball.
  2. watching movie.
  3. listening taylor swift, arijit sing, atif aslam.
  4. travelling, hiking.
  5. reading books.
  6. drawing.
  7. want to learn photography.
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smashing 2k pub with mr.i_speak_for_the_trees

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  • Playing Guitar Hero
  • Playing the real guitar
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  1. Playing go(Yes, the go in AlphaGo, I learnt it since I was 5 years old, and I believe now I'm just a few steps away to become a professional player. However, I'm now much more into cp now XD)
  2. Dota2 (Why not?)
  3. Listening to music(mostly jazz hip hop)
  4. Watching animes(I'd recommend Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. Real great animes :)
  5. Reading books (mostly literary/philosophic books, some of which helped a lot through the years
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    Any book recommendations?

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      I think it's rather a personal thing... but I'd recommend Le mythe de sisyphe(The Myth of Sisyphus in English) by Albert Camus.

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1.Day dreaming

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