Hello everyone,

I'm pleased to invite you, especially these ones of you who are starting with competitive programming, or like to practice with easy problems, to compete in a brand new contest RookieRank by HackerRank: https://www.hackerrank.com/rookierank

The contests starts in 4 hours (July 26 2016 at 6PM CET), and there will be 5 problems to solve, starting from very easy ones up to a few just slightly harder. I'm the author of 4 of them.

Moreover, there will be two separated leaderboards. One especially for all first time competitive programmers, i.e. these who are not listed on the Algorithms Leaderboard yet. The point is, that if you are just starting on HackerRank, you will compete with other people with similar experience.

Big thanks to shashank21j and adamant for help with preparing the contest.

Good Luck!

Hello all coders and programming enthusiasts!

I want to invite all of you to participate in the last Qualification Round of India Hacks 2016, which is organized by HackerEarth.

This is the third and the last one qualification round. If you missed or didn't qualify in the two previous rounds, this is the last change to advance to the semifinals.

Qualification Round 3 takes place on January 17, 04:30 PM CET (click to check your timezone). Top 1000 participants with non-zero score will advance to the main contest.

The prizes in India Hacks are quite nice, including a trip to San Francisco, many tech gadgets and a lot of goodies for top 50 participants. If you want to grab any of them, or you just like to compete agains a lot of other programmers and you haven't qualified to the main contest yet, reserve a time slot for this round!

I'm a tester of the problem set and a conductor of the contest. There will be 5 problems in the contest and you'll have 3 hours to solve all of them. In addition, a partial scoring system will be used in all of them, which means that you'll get points for each correctly solved test file in any problem.

Big thanks to Baba, subway, aditya1495 and hellgeek for creating the problems, to belowthebelt for technical assistance and to I_love_Tanya_Romanova and Errichto for proofreading and solving the problems, and for all their suggestions.

Since this is the last qualification round, problems won't be very hard, so if you're going to participate, you may assume that submission time might be a big factor in the final standings.

Have fun and good luck to all of you.

See you on the leaderboard, hopefully at the top of it :)

UPDATE:

The contest is over and all submissions and editorials are public now, check them out if you want. Special congratulations to Kostroma for being the one who solved all the problems first and to all 15 participants who managed to complete the whole problem set during the contest.

Hello Codeforces!

December Easy Contest by HackerEarth is taking place on December the 3rd at 5:00pm CET. Contest duration is 3 hours.

There will be 5 problems to solve, all algorithmic ones, especially targeted for beginners. However, I'm pretty sure that any participant will find them interesting to solve :) All the problems have partial scoring and ties are resolved by penalty time.

As the tester and editorialist for the contest, I want to thank the problem setter aditya1495 and admin belowthebelt for preparing the contest. It was nice to work with you guys as always!

As a tradition in Easy Contests, the top 5 beginners (1st year or 2nd year) will receive HackerEarth T-shirts.

Good luck and see you on leaderboard!