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I was looking through the global leader board for day 3 today and noticed that the first 100 results are all under 90 seconds, with the top 4 being under 30 seconds. How is that possible? What are people leveraging in order to accomplish this?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The timeouts are 1 minute for the first 5 attempts, then 5 minutes.

People are just really used to AoC's format and use languages/frameworks that are extremely concise

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is impressive, I think it took me more than 30 seconds to get the regex I wanted to use correct, more or less the rest of the solution. This is my first time doing AoC or anything like it so I wasn't expecting to be anywhere near the top, but the times I saw there were shocking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

There are a lot of people participating. Some of 'em are bound to be really really good, and also get lucky!