Hello Codeforces community !

I am glad to announce the first HackerRank HourRank round! The contest will be held on 15th October 2015 at 15:00 UTC. You can sign up for the contest here. Top 10 winners on the leaderboard will receive a HackerRank T-Shirt.

Problems have been set by Shafaet Ashraf (Shafaet) and Aleksa Plavsic (allllekssssa). Competitors will have 1 hour for solving 4 problems with variable scoring distribution. Contest are rated for all HackerRank users.

I want to thank whole HackerRank team for support and opportunity to organize the new format of competition. Especially I want to thank Shafaet, he is really great guy and his help and contributon in contest preparation are incredible. Also I want to thank wanbo and svanidz1 for testing tasks. I hope that this will become a traditional competition and we'll hang out in one of the following HackerRank contest :)

We are waiting your comments and suggestion about contest :)

Good luck and see you on Thursday !

UPD1: Score distribution : 30-40-60-80

The second and third problems have binary score.

UPD2: Contest starts in 15 minutes. Are you ready to become first HourRank winner ?

UPD3: Contest is finished. Editorial is published.

Congratulation to winners:

        1.[user:I_love_Tanya_Romanova]

        2.  [user:Kostroma]

        3.[user:anta]

        4.[user:Lewin]

        5.[user:  HellKitsune]

Thank you for participation. I hope you enjoeyed in problems. I wish to hear more comments about task and contest. I will try to correct something in future if it is wrong. Thank you again and see you on next HourRank contest :)