Although some people appear a few times at the top 10 positions, I think the majority of the best solutions for each puzzle aren't done using any automated process.
Some people are probably that good at solving these kinds of problems.
I think its just training. Fast reading (or should i say scanning for input/output data) and having code snippets ready for most popular cases/algo. ;)
I certainly expect there to be highly competitive people. I just didn't realise how good they could be!
Do you think they have some kind of automated processes for parsing the example input and answer and finding a solution for it?
I don't think they can be spamming the submit with random values until they get a hit, because the throttling seems quite robust.
Although some people appear a few times at the top 10 positions, I think the majority of the best solutions for each puzzle aren't done using any automated process.
Some people are probably that good at solving these kinds of problems.
I think its just training. Fast reading (or should i say scanning for input/output data) and having code snippets ready for most popular cases/algo. ;)
Ah! I hadn't considered about having snippets ready to go. I bet that would help a lot.