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Hand and Brain Competitive Programming
By EugeneJudo, history, 3 years ago, In English

In chess there's a variant called Hand and Brain where each side consists of two players. The first decides which piece to move (the brain), and the second decides where to move it (the hand.) I was thinking whether this is extendable to competitive programming. The brain solves the problem, and the hand has to implement it just from what the brain tells them (must not be too detailed.) How crazy does this sound?

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ICPC be like

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*The first decides which finger to use and the second decides which character to type

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https://codeforces.net/gym/102460/standings/participant/66785589#p66785589

Yes

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    Is it fun?

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      Sort of. Also as in hand and brain chess, it's more fun when pairing up people with different levels of skill.

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Are you Samay raina fan or what? :)

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That was my ICPC team (the smartest teammate was an awful coder, so he was forbidden to touch keyboard).

I think quite a lot of ICPC teams use this strategy.

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blindfold competitive programming when?

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    I have been part of such local fest competitions where you code but your display monitor is absent. (so yeah basically blindfold equivalent)

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