Bro, I also participated in this google kick start round A but in my first 6 min i am only able to solve the 1st problem and other problem take more time ...... Bro your speed is amaze..... Can you give me some tips and tricks.
William solved an entire question in less than 2 minutes. I wasn't even able to read the first sentence of the question. I am graduating with a CE degree in less than 6 months, and it is scary to think that people like this guy exist. Good job man
He practiced >10 hours a day for this stuff. After ruthless repetition you understand the patterns these questions have and you can find the solution to a problem in literally seconds You can do anything anon. You are that guy.
Who is "the guy?" your claim isnt supported by enough evidence and is way too vague to be taken seriously. I have decided to close this post. Without enough context there's not much we can do.
What amazes me the most is how rapidly he understood the question and came up with the answer. Some people are built differently and he is one of them.
nah, stackoverflow is mainly for web devs and "real" programming ,this is competitive programming its like math exercices but with coding you dont even need stackoverflow its logic and problem solving more than any thing
Mom: Really wtf your brother needed only 10 minutes when he solved the Millenium prize problem. You need to study harder or else you will fail in life!
Honestly, this video inspires me. Every time I come back, I think of how much my knowledge has progressed compared to when I first watched it. I am still eons apart from the skill William Lin displays in this video, but man, it truly is fantastic to see how a lot of practice can take you far.
Same, the first time I watched this video I thought I was watching him type messages in alien language. Now if I pause i can actually read through the logic and understand what all he is doing but still so impressive how fast he came up with solutions
@@techbytes5 Dude, exactly what happened to me. I started learning C++ because of this video, and now I can understand some stuff. But before, it just looked crazy asf.
@@SouradeepSD yeah, but it wouldn't be faster. he is basically telling the best in the world what to do in what he is the best in the world in. there is no one faster in competitive programming than Lin.
For those feeling discouraged, it's simply the rule of 10000 hours. Do something for that long and you become good at it. This man, has devoted his time to master competitive programming since high school. Ask him to throw a baseball, dribble a basketball, or play advanced music - probably won't be able to. It's all what you and how much time you devote and how hard you work. So props to him, but it's not impossible. We all have this ability and potential.
@@coronaklledmebot4856 it;s figurative, just means you need to spend a lot of time doing it. If you can't spend time on it, you can't get any better. You're not born doing this.
@@twanrs programming is all about practice. If you start before going to school, you’ll be years ahead of your competition. Don’t worry about becoming one you’ll do that for sure if you stick to it. Just keep practicing, take courses do challenges etc.
Bruhh! Seeing the video is only 17mins and contest being 3hrs I thought this is a fast forwarded and clipped version, never thought he coded all of them in 17 mins. What a beast !
This is unbelievably impressive, however it's important to point out that William (and other's who solve algorithms in competitions like this) know exactly which solution to apply to each problem. For example at 2:50 you hear him say "this looks like a Knapsack problem". Knowing what the problem is means he can much more quickly use an "out of the box" structure to solve that problem - for example Knapsack problem's can be solved using Dynamic Programming. Knowing that you need to use Dynamic Programming to solve a problem means you can instantly begin structuring your solution before you even finish reading the problem (as William does). To outsiders it will look like he is just coming up with a solution there and then. Although this is partly true, the basis to his solutions are from understanding what the problem is asking - to dumb it right down, he sees that the hole is a square, knows he needs to construct a square peg and knows how to structure this quickly. Not to take anything away from William, again this is unbelievably impressive. But dont feel like you cant ever be this good or understand problems like this - you can, you just need to learn how to see what area of programming the problem is targeting and then learn which solution to apply to that area :)
This is what competitive programming (aka preparing for cs olympiads) looks like. He got gold (and first place) in 2020 and silver in 2019 in the IOI (international olympiad in informatics), aka he's a beast. These problems were... incomprehensibly easy for him, compared to IOI problems. I only got to the national stages in my country and went to some smaller international competitions and I still had to work hard. I can't even imagine what he went through to become like this. This guy spent hours and hours each day to become this good, and he deserves a lot of respect.
Out of interest, How do you find these competitions? I'm a current lower year Sixth Former and I want to do comsci in university. That being said, I believe these competitions will act as an opportunity for and towards my education. Thank you
@@jonathanlu8984 I assume you're in the UK because you say sixth form? Does your school not do BIO (British Informatics Olympiad)? Unfortunately, I think the deadline for this year's has just passed.
@@Avanta1 yeah it appears so Alongside UKMT I only really notice these competitions after doing the Bebras challenge Hopefully I can recuperate the losses by doing a few university based essay competitions, but it wont amount to stuff like BIO or UKMT :/ EDIT: So are you a fellow comsci student too, since you stumbled across this video
@@jonathanlu8984 What universities are you thinking of applying to, and what year are you in, if you don't mind sharing? I'm going to uni next year, so I could try give some advice about the application. Edit: I assume year 12 right?
@@Avanta1 indeed yr12, and based on my current grades from winter mocks, (A* A B) High tier: Warwick, Durham, bath, Southampton Current tier: Exeter, st Andrews, loughborough, Lancaster Low tier: De montfort and northampton Do you've a LinkedIn of sorts I could connect with?
How do you even waste 17 minutes figuring out if you're currently using a dark theme? You must be blind or something, then. In which case using certain theme wouldn't matter much.
For me it’s not the programming itself that’s crazy (even though it’s still on another world of skill) it’s the fact he just completely understands the paragraphs of problems in not even 5 seconds
For some people it is just more convenient working on one. For me as well. On my first job I had two monitors and noticed how I hated to move my neck. Also I didn't want to get distracted from the light of the second monitor. Alt+tab gang forever
The only thing, that gives me hope, is the fact, that he is the best of all other contestants. Imagine, if he would be not first but somewhere around 100th
@Abaddon Fail Пунктуация в английском вообще довольно спорная вещь. Она, безусловно, существует в академической науке, в литературном языке, но на практике она или вообще не используется или используется крайне интуитивно. Даже в лонгридах на всяких реддитах и прочих соц.платформах люди с нативным английским частенько пренебрегают правилами. На самом деле одна из фишечек живого языка.
@@georgevoknerech228 yeah don’t worry about punctuating things too correctly as long as it’s all readable and understandable but only if you are online. Anything formal you need to punctuate perfectly.
@@georgevoknerech228 That is false for anyone who is in college, while in Russia it is taught in school. English has all the same punct. rules as Russian, but there is also an Oxford comma. So, complex sentences need to have a comma, same about but, but not one and, but needed for many and. Also same about :, ; and --.
Idk if I’m more impressed with how quick he solves the problems, or his reading comprehension. Would take me at least 3 minutes to read the question, what a beast
Yeah my...well...every mental skill required to do well in programming is low...But even outside of programming, I've always scored frustratingly low at reading comprehension. I feel people understand things in text that aren't even written; you're just expected to infer and read between the lines...and I often feel I'm the only one among my peers who doesn't see the invisible text that everyone else does
Same bruh I’m took computer science as my major but I drop so I chnage it to IT. I’m planning drop it again so I’m planning chnage to business administration or information system and operation
@@jv1192 dude, competitive programming is not required for getting good jobs at good it companies (in majority of cases). the reason is that competitive programming requires different skills from the real world (you will never ever have at your job a binary string, with some operation defined on it, asking you to maximize / minimize some quantity). don't quit because you don't know some **esoteric** algorithms. to be clear, there are some jobs where you need to have some strong as search engine - programming or high performance computing, but they do not constitute the majority of the job market out there.
@@ksidnis9648 what jobs do not require you to move as fast as him? I’m confused as to what job I should be working towards because I only know HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, C#, and a little python/java
@@3dblingcmg762 first of all "only" knowing those languages are very good and will probably give you a job already and second of all i don't think companies really care about how fast you write except you have to atleast be able to finish small projects within 1 hour. So if my predictions are correct you can basically get a job depending on how good your knowledge within HTML, CSS, Javascript and c#, and if you get a job within those languages a tip is just continue learning python / java or any other language that you want to learn. (I am no expert nor do i have a job but i think my information is correct and never stop believing in yourself) (and sorry if i made some grammar mistakes or typing mistakes)
Mom : Hurry up William. We are leaving in 20 minutes. William : Be right there mom. Lemme just program minercraft physics, establish amazon, and program mark zuckerbergs hairline
For somebody who doesn’t code, this is like living as a peasant in 1200CE and having a time traveler explain Bitcoin to me. I’m so far beyond confused that I’m not even impressed because I truly have no reference frame.
@@znspyder cmon man, I don't know why would someone need to google how to do for or while cycles, since that is the most basic thing in any programming language. Not to be ignorant, I can see why someone, who hasn't seen a programming language can think that. Awesome, on the other hand is that he could solve these problems under 20 mins.
In all seriousness, this video actually inspires me in some kind of way. I mean, I've come across this video dozens of times a while back and I remember not being able to understand anything!. But after learning for a while, I could understand more of what he's doing now compared to myself not knowing LITERALLY NOTHING back then! Just keep on grinding!
Alt tabbing is faster than two monitors. It loses in everything else, except speed. If you have a project youre working on for 2 weeks, then 2 screens (or more) is much better. But if youre literally in a speed coding competition, alt tabbing is a winner.
preparation+vim, it's not magic. I can't type as fast as that guy as my brain won't learn hjkl typing but I can think in code as fast as be does, it's just a question of writing code every day. It starts to feel similar to playing a musical instrument for me at some point. The hard part is coming up with the correct algorithms for the task at hand which this dude excels at.
@@danielrazulay can you explain what correct algorithm actually means , I'm new and every comment in here is just demotivating and discouraging. I'm not giving up tho.
@@Manishsingh-uw5mo different ways of accomplishing tasks in code (ie sorting, searching) can have varying runtimes (learn big O notation and upper / lower bounds) and memory usage. The goal of optimizing code is to balance the smallest runtime with the smallest amount of memory used, although these days run time is much more important than memory usage (because computers today can work with so much more memory through larger ram / cache sizes).
@@albertye527 YES! Finally someone using vim for those, see so many ppl using weird editors for competition. -1 for Windows tho, but I guess when you spent your entire day solving problems you may be too lazy to try something new :)
@@grunge-616 if you don't even know what's vim, how can you say that something is better than it lol And fyi, windows and macos are just the two biggest desktop operating systems, not the only ones.
@@grunge-616 Oh shut up, you're only embarrassing yourself. Vim has been one of the best editors for about three decades by now and even today modern editors like this trendy, janky thing called VS Code can't even match the flexibility. But what did I expect from someone who thinks there's only Windows and Mac OS.
The problems are pretty easy you'll get used to logical structuring of problems as time goes on. The thing is in a commericial environment these types of developers are always a pain to work with. Remember at work readability is > everything else for 99% of the stuff you would work on as a software engineer.
@@badderborroda4972 it's also worth to mention that writing long variable names especially more than once it's just a waste of time when you're running against a clock. he always uses the same constants and function names across all challenges so that he can do stuff in a mnemonic way. here the focus isn't about readability but getting the implementation right.
I just started my coding journey, and I have absolutely no idea what he's doing. One day, I'm going to come back to this video and work these problems out myself.
@@melit.791 first few will take an average person like 2-3 years to get on the level of understanding if he has just began coding and will study competitive programming
He isn't wrong, these problems are indeed easy if you have some good experience with competitive programming. What separates him, is that he's able to cook up the algo slightly faster, and is very good at translating it into code quickly. Nice work!
Google global truth project and read "the Present" to see the truth about life/death. Nothing is more important than checking it is true, especially pgs 1-4
Now I’m asking myself if I should still Pursue my IT course for college. Maybe I should just get a business or science and arts degree. Because of this video
I am a first year IT student, and I must say that I don't understand a thing as well. But I feel like if there's a documentation and comments it will be understandable.
This man went through something that made my vision blurry after and i might need glasses and has the audacity to say "i thought it would be harder" there are some smart people in this world
when I first start coding in C++, I use return 1 at the end of my main function. So the evaluator bot at the competition I was in keeps telling me that my code has errors or wasn't able to run, even for my hello world program. It wasn't until after the competition that I asked my friend that he told me that any returns other than 0 in C++ mean error. So, that is the story of me debugging my 1 line Hello World in C++ for 2 hours.
Just saw your codechef profile.I am really amazed!!You are a good inspiration bro..I read the comments when I saw a comment that you are only 17 years old,i was shocked....very nice work bro...
Come back after learning programing for 6 month. Before studying in university, i don't know what he doing but its look so cool. Right now i understand (its just understand, dont ask me to try solve the problems) , but i need to pause read the questions first for 10 minutes. He freaking beast
If you're wondering what this video is about, be sure to check out ua-cam.com/video/ueNT-w7Oluw/v-deo.html !
That's Amazing 👏👏
I love the power of your deduction. I get to realize I need to train my data processing speed.
where did u learn to code? Im trying to learn over quarantine. want to pursue a career in coding when I get older
@@venkateshthirunagiri85 noob levels
Bro, I also participated in this google kick start round A but in my first 6 min i am only able to solve the 1st problem and other problem take more time ......
Bro your speed is amaze.....
Can you give me some tips and tricks.
This video actually makes me feel better. Because I used to think I was wasting my potential, but now I realize I never had any potential at all
LMAOOOO
Shut up men, u really got it
Threw me off guard
Think the same
Copied
when he said "these problems are pretty easy" i cried.
😂exactly. Me too
@teachmehowtodoge look at timer, he solved all in live
Don't wanna sound racist but he Asian haba
Uros Drapsin true that 🤣
every problem is easy once you are trained to solve them
They give him 3 hours and this dude just wins it in 17 minutes
Don't worry, he has trancended humanity to become something that powerful.
Don't forget he said "I thought the problems would be harder"
William solved an entire question in less than 2 minutes. I wasn't even able to read the first sentence of the question.
I am graduating with a CE degree in less than 6 months, and it is scary to think that people like this guy exist. Good job man
Man you just have to ruthlessly practice, you don't get to his level without some form of pain. I assure you.
us bro us
@@maozedongaming I think its also safe to assume that william is also just cracked as is
Well I did solve the first question in same time as Willam, however I am not even 1 percent the programmer he is
He practiced >10 hours a day for this stuff. After ruthless repetition you understand the patterns these questions have and you can find the solution to a problem in literally seconds
You can do anything anon. You are that guy.
You know he's not normal when dude isn't using dark mode
@@Mightic agreed with the discord part, literally cringed when i saw my friend using light theme xD
Light is actually more optimal.
This guy is using gvim and it just looks like that by default
I still use discord light mode cuz i dont like when the texts become white instead just a preference ya kno
I'm just lazy to bring dark mode into gvim. Just a studious process. That's why I keep it in light mode. Perhaps same reason for him
@@c4g3dB34st haven't tried it but it might just be :set bg=dark
Works in graphical nvim at least.
This inspired me to give up on coding
Lol
Lol same, I'm an IT student and I don't understand what he's doing
Yeah, I learn now computer science in university
Instead try mastering it
😂
This is the guy who answers all Stack Overflow questions
lmao
Haha
Who is "the guy?" your claim isnt supported by enough evidence and is way too vague to be taken seriously. I have decided to close this post. Without enough context there's not much we can do.
Rob what a bender 😂👍
Rob LOOOOL
Us : “AI is scary”
AI : “william scares me more”
😂😂😂
Lol
@@debjit811 ayanokouji scares me more
That is true
When you feel useless as a programmer, come here and feel even worse
Lol
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
True 😂
I'm a first year IT student.. and I feel already useless
William: Wins google kickstart in less than 20 minutes
Meanwhile me after 20 minutes:Ok I'm done reading the first problem
true
And lets see what we can get from google LOL
True 🤣🤣
Just 20 minutes? I took an hour just to read the first sentence
Come on. The first problem is pretty easy to understand. But I would need a lot more time to code it.
I feel like a grandma who's looking at his nephews use a phone
I want to like this but its at 420
@Anthony Lopez there's always an Asian better than you lel
Anthony Lopez he’s memeing, but you’re clearly fun at parties, should’ve known off the bat since you’re a programmer LOL
@@SomberSora bat! Get it? Asians and Bats?
Ok I'll stop.
@@ferax4598 No he means chinese and bats
This guy's 1 TB homework folder is actually homework.
hahahahaahahaha, you win bro, you fucking win.
im crying 😂😂
😭😭😭😭😭😭
😂😂😂😂
BROOOOOOO
wouldve been able to code like that if it wasnt for my knee injury
was an arrow hit your knee?
@@veddopanji2582 dude worked out for new iPhone
This comment had me laughing at my hardest
Yes i do code with my feet too
shydo360 damn if it wasn’t for my foot I’d be coding rn
And meanwhile, it takes me like 5 minutes to think of a variable name.
XD
Relatable
that made me laugh so hard
As a foreign speaker, very often I have to use google translate to name things XD
Lol
So Hollywood movies didn’t lie. People like this exist
Let me just hack into the main frame... and... IM IN
@@bruhhh9791 LMAOOO
Robots* like this
Its like those site where you just smash random keys and it looks like you are actually writing code but this guy is doing it for real.
I think these people are from anime mangas
What amazes me the most is how rapidly he understood the question and came up with the answer. Some people are built differently and he is one of them.
Do leet code 150 problem set..you will be able to do the same.. Trust me.
*I think his native language is C++*
Lol
You think?
And then you learn that he did Java before this...
I think his native language is *the keyboard* XD
Mashallah tbark Allah alhamudillah inshallah better astgfrallah
Underrated
This guy doesn’t need stackoverflow,
He is stackoverflow
He uses stack underflow
@@jimmea6317 bruh
he is the reason why stack is overflowing
His stack never overflows
nah, stackoverflow is mainly for web devs and "real" programming ,this is competitive programming its like math exercices but with coding you dont even need stackoverflow its logic and problem solving more than any thing
Mom : Hurry up William. We are leaving in 20 minutes.
William : Be right there mom. Lemme just win this Google Coding Round really quick.
@@2c7s his mom would be more like: "why do you need 20 minutes for that easy warm up?!"
Mom: Really wtf your brother needed only 10 minutes when he solved the Millenium prize problem. You need to study harder or else you will fail in life!
@@drcommondrate12 😂😂😂 your brother already solved p= np hurry up and figure it out!!!
I am your 2.5k like 😊
😂😂😂
Honestly, this video inspires me. Every time I come back, I think of how much my knowledge has progressed compared to when I first watched it. I am still eons apart from the skill William Lin displays in this video, but man, it truly is fantastic to see how a lot of practice can take you far.
Same, the first time I watched this video I thought I was watching him type messages in alien language. Now if I pause i can actually read through the logic and understand what all he is doing but still so impressive how fast he came up with solutions
@@techbytes5 Dude, exactly what happened to me. I started learning C++ because of this video, and now I can understand some stuff. But before, it just looked crazy asf.
he is the type of dude to create a whole entire messaging app just to send someone a message.
@@shrekek nobody cares
:))))))
Lmao
@@shrekek funny how you're the cringe here
crush* not just someone😂
alternative title: "making everyone feel stupid asf for 17 minutes and 10 seconds"
Lol
@Junaid were still useless, but we still usefull
I am in class 10
I can do this
it only took 5 seconds for me 💅
Once I heard this: "You can´t feel stupid about something you haven´t been taught yet"
imagine how much faster this guy could have been if he didn't alt-tab like 5 million times
I hope thats a joke
what are you talking about?
@@icd.f44.9 he means if this guy had a 2nd monitor so that he dint have to switch tabs then he could have finished earlier.
@@SouradeepSD yeah, but it wouldn't be faster. he is basically telling the best in the world what to do in what he is the best in the world in. there is no one faster in competitive programming than Lin.
His alt tabs weren't losing him time, I think that turning his head was not faster
*You know what's more satisfying?*
*Knowing that you will never be this good and can quit trying to be like this.*
yea this is insane
I want to see him from a different angle, like a model to follow.
legend has it he said str firstWords “hello world” when he came out the womb
Comedy
@@v_eh indeed
Age = ((float)0.1)
@@johnmicheal5925 float Age = 0.1f;
Public class hello
{
Public static void main (string args[])
{
System.out.println ("hello world");
}
}
this guy writes a for loop in 2 seconds and here i am trying to find where my brackets are
:D
maybe if you didn't have a weeb pfp you wouldn't be so dog shit at coding
@@mrspoopy3227 ooof that hurts ...ma soul
Mr Spoopy kinda racist tbh
Mr Spoopy but anime is good lol I don’t see anything im not bad at coding and I love anime
wtf did you just read and understand the Allocation problem in 5 seconds? That's incredible...
He probably just stopped the time not a big deal for a god like him...
@@TopBagon 😂😂
He kinda sounds like you cary lol
Actually that first problem wasn't too hard to understand in that time
cary
For those feeling discouraged, it's simply the rule of 10000 hours. Do something for that long and you become good at it. This man, has devoted his time to master competitive programming since high school. Ask him to throw a baseball, dribble a basketball, or play advanced music - probably won't be able to. It's all what you and how much time you devote and how hard you work. So props to him, but it's not impossible. We all have this ability and potential.
and there s no 10000 hours rule
@@coronaklledmebot4856 it;s figurative, just means you need to spend a lot of time doing it. If you can't spend time on it, you can't get any better. You're not born doing this.
Facts
No
Backhanded compliment
this is like my girlfriend, i dont understand but i like it
😂😂😂
lol
Yeah and I dont have one
😂😂
Absolutely 😂😂😂
I have no idea what's happening here but still watched for 17minutes straight.
Relatable
Same...
If this was medical then atl i could understand a little bit
why are you wasting your time?
@@maskedman8368 its intriguing. He wants to understand
As a software engineer student, these problems are actually quite easy, the impressive part though, is how fast he's coming up with a solution.
Do you recommend any online courses?, i just started with c++ but i would like to be a software engineer student as well :)
Yeah I've only taken 1 semester of C++ and I could easily solve all of these problems. It would take me a lot longer though.
Its because he's asian
@@twanrs programming is all about practice. If you start before going to school, you’ll be years ahead of your competition. Don’t worry about becoming one you’ll do that for sure if you stick to it.
Just keep practicing, take courses do challenges etc.
Yep, I am impressed how fast he writes the code
Bruhh! Seeing the video is only 17mins and contest being 3hrs I thought this is a fast forwarded and clipped version, never thought he coded all of them in 17 mins. What a beast !
This dude hacked the UA-cam algorithm to get this in my recommended
Even I feel the same🤔😂
Why this comment dont has more likes?
Same
Hacked? He's the guy who made it...
Not too shabby
This is unbelievably impressive, however it's important to point out that William (and other's who solve algorithms in competitions like this) know exactly which solution to apply to each problem. For example at 2:50 you hear him say "this looks like a Knapsack problem". Knowing what the problem is means he can much more quickly use an "out of the box" structure to solve that problem - for example Knapsack problem's can be solved using Dynamic Programming.
Knowing that you need to use Dynamic Programming to solve a problem means you can instantly begin structuring your solution before you even finish reading the problem (as William does).
To outsiders it will look like he is just coming up with a solution there and then. Although this is partly true, the basis to his solutions are from understanding what the problem is asking - to dumb it right down, he sees that the hole is a square, knows he needs to construct a square peg and knows how to structure this quickly.
Not to take anything away from William, again this is unbelievably impressive. But dont feel like you cant ever be this good or understand problems like this - you can, you just need to learn how to see what area of programming the problem is targeting and then learn which solution to apply to that area :)
Very well said!
thanks for the explanation!
thanks, after reading your explanation i feel less of an ape. damn this will guy is fast
I cant even read that fast. Solving problems & writing code real quick -> no problem. Reading 5 Sheets of paper -> 10 Minutes :D
@@tmwilliamlin168 may i ask did u take cs degree for uni? i am on my 1st year and this just seems unreal.
this may seem impressive, but its actually a ruse. he is a machine; he doesn't even use a dark mode IDE...
MADA MADA
ImAwsome under rated comment
I know it's a joke but usually people switch back to light mode during recording because it's easier for the viewers to read.
Dark mode is trash
Wait, so, dark mode is a thing?
bro mad respect. Keep doing what you are doing. As a coder myself I can see how insane this accomplishment is. Greta job!!!!
This is what competitive programming (aka preparing for cs olympiads) looks like. He got gold (and first place) in 2020 and silver in 2019 in the IOI (international olympiad in informatics), aka he's a beast. These problems were... incomprehensibly easy for him, compared to IOI problems. I only got to the national stages in my country and went to some smaller international competitions and I still had to work hard. I can't even imagine what he went through to become like this. This guy spent hours and hours each day to become this good, and he deserves a lot of respect.
Out of interest,
How do you find these competitions?
I'm a current lower year Sixth Former and I want to do comsci in university.
That being said, I believe these competitions will act as an opportunity for and towards my education.
Thank you
@@jonathanlu8984 I assume you're in the UK because you say sixth form? Does your school not do BIO (British Informatics Olympiad)? Unfortunately, I think the deadline for this year's has just passed.
@@Avanta1 yeah it appears so
Alongside UKMT
I only really notice these competitions after doing the Bebras challenge
Hopefully I can recuperate the losses by doing a few university based essay competitions, but it wont amount to stuff like BIO or UKMT :/
EDIT:
So are you a fellow comsci student too, since you stumbled across this video
@@jonathanlu8984 What universities are you thinking of applying to, and what year are you in, if you don't mind sharing? I'm going to uni next year, so I could try give some advice about the application.
Edit: I assume year 12 right?
@@Avanta1 indeed yr12, and based on my current grades from winter mocks, (A* A B)
High tier:
Warwick, Durham, bath, Southampton
Current tier:
Exeter, st Andrews, loughborough, Lancaster
Low tier:
De montfort and northampton
Do you've a LinkedIn of sorts I could connect with?
William: wins google kickstart in 17 minutes
Me: wastes 17 minutes making sure it’s dark theme
gold
Lmaaaaaao
How do you even waste 17 minutes figuring out if you're currently using a dark theme? You must be blind or something, then. In which case using certain theme wouldn't matter much.
@@grunge-616 r/woosh
@@marceloaugusto633 Agree,think it flew miles above his head
For me it’s not the programming itself that’s crazy (even though it’s still on another world of skill) it’s the fact he just completely understands the paragraphs of problems in not even 5 seconds
tbh he's probably done these problems hundreds of times but just in different formats. Its about pattern recognition at this point
@@philipeafroboy1 agrred
@@philipeafroboy1 so like math but on steroids
Asian level 😄😄
@@philipeafroboy1 agreed. I didn't even finish the first paragraph and he starts alt tabbing and writing like crazy
He's the guy answering all your questions in Chat GPT
Give this guy a second monitor, he could have finished earlier.
he more than deserves it
True
For some people it is just more convenient working on one. For me as well. On my first job I had two monitors and noticed how I hated to move my neck. Also I didn't want to get distracted from the light of the second monitor. Alt+tab gang forever
for me its easier to just use alt tab because its fast then lookin to the side if my setup
@@zerberus1097 yes yes alt tab gang
The only thing, that gives me hope, is the fact, that he is the best of all other contestants. Imagine, if he would be not first but somewhere around 100th
@Abaddon Fail мб, но пунктуация в англ особо не нужна
@Abaddon Fail Пунктуация в английском вообще довольно спорная вещь. Она, безусловно, существует в академической науке, в литературном языке, но на практике она или вообще не используется или используется крайне интуитивно. Даже в лонгридах на всяких реддитах и прочих соц.платформах люди с нативным английским частенько пренебрегают правилами. На самом деле одна из фишечек живого языка.
@@georgevoknerech228 yeah don’t worry about punctuating things too correctly as long as it’s all readable and understandable but only if you are online. Anything formal you need to punctuate perfectly.
@@georgevoknerech228 That is false for anyone who is in college, while in Russia it is taught in school. English has all the same punct. rules as Russian, but there is also an Oxford comma. So, complex sentences need to have a comma, same about but, but not one and, but needed for many and. Also same about :, ; and --.
@@lolerie same in portuguese(brazil)
His typing is even faster than my copy paste coding :,,)
@Keith Mak 🤓🤓🤓
@@morningstar00 you’re in a coding video bruh,u sound stupid putting “🤓”, when that can be applied to the whole video
You guys are sooo funny 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂
@@iammas1683 mam wtf, chill out you barely know which language it is
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
*congratulations! You’ve completed the Asian beginner programming handbook*
Idk if I’m more impressed with how quick he solves the problems, or his reading comprehension. Would take me at least 3 minutes to read the question, what a beast
Yeah my...well...every mental skill required to do well in programming is low...But even outside of programming, I've always scored frustratingly low at reading comprehension. I feel people understand things in text that aren't even written; you're just expected to infer and read between the lines...and I often feel I'm the only one among my peers who doesn't see the invisible text that everyone else does
@@akpokemonYeah same it's probably autism idk
Its a skill. Gotta work on it. Once you do youll realize how smart you get@@akpokemon
I think most likely he must've solved a relative problem before.
@@akpokemon totally feel you bro
Keyboard: I don't feel so well...
"If you think u are good at something, remember, there is always an Asian dude that's better than you."
😂😂😂
True af🤣
Haha, Akita's phrase
Me who's asian but can't do what he does:
ur pfp it the goat
That Speed is just insane. I literally can read the Question and u solved the hole Prob in that time, i read half of the Prob
He types so fast that I can't even type wrong letters that fast.
Edit: A lot of the comments are saying about how I can type faster... ITS A JOKE!
True
Copy pasta....
bisqwit >> all
lol
So fucking tru
*came here for inspiration but I left with depression*
😂😂
Same bruh I’m took computer science as my major but I drop so I chnage it to IT. I’m planning drop it again so I’m planning chnage to business administration or information system and operation
😂😂😂😂😂😂
lmao
relate so much
He : starts typing
My dad : who's drilling in ur room!!
😂😂😂😂😂 respect!
It should have been his dad lol
lol
NO POWER TOOLS DALE!
that sounds oddly specific... did that actually happen?
Bro, I'm literally just starting to learn programming and seeing you work is insane.
I might quit trying to learn programming. This looks too tough. Are you learning coding with a boot camp btw?
@@jv1192 dude, competitive programming is not required for getting good jobs at good it companies (in majority of cases). the reason is that competitive programming requires different skills from the real world (you will never ever have at your job a binary string, with some operation defined on it, asking you to maximize / minimize some quantity). don't quit because you don't know some **esoteric** algorithms.
to be clear, there are some jobs where you need to have some strong as search engine - programming or high performance computing, but they do not constitute the majority of the job market out there.
@@ksidnis9648 what jobs do not require you to move as fast as him? I’m confused as to what job I should be working towards because I only know HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, C#, and a little python/java
@@3dblingcmg762 first of all "only" knowing those languages are very good and will probably give you a job already and second of all i don't think companies really care about how fast you write except you have to atleast be able to finish small projects within 1 hour. So if my predictions are correct you can basically get a job depending on how good your knowledge within HTML, CSS, Javascript and c#, and if you get a job within those languages a tip is just continue learning python / java or any other language that you want to learn. (I am no expert nor do i have a job but i think my information is correct and never stop believing in yourself) (and sorry if i made some grammar mistakes or typing mistakes)
Hows it going
Mom : Hurry up William. We are leaving in 20 minutes.
William : Be right there mom. Lemme just program minercraft physics, establish amazon, and program mark zuckerbergs hairline
Underated
lmfao
Tf 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@nour3660 it's a stolen comment
everyone gangsta till the asian dude start typing in R2-D2
hahahahahah
😭😭😂😂😂
what does this mean?
@@gandiaulaad1155 thanx brudda
h
I want to upvote this comment but I'll keep it with 666 likes
For somebody who doesn’t code, this is like living as a peasant in 1200CE and having a time traveler explain Bitcoin to me. I’m so far beyond confused that I’m not even impressed because I truly have no reference frame.
Dude, it's the same for some of us people who do code
I've been coding for a year and I literally don't understand a single thing, it's basically an alien language
I literally just started coding a couple days ago and i get exactly where ur coming from
He’s quite literally the second best coder in the world right now 🤐
there is not a single variable we can understand here
It's literally like muscle memory and instinct, this guy's an athlete in his own respect
-How fast can you code?
-Yes.
It's so dope watching someone be this good at something. No idea what he's even doing but the intent and focus is pretty cool.
Man, I feel like coding is your native language.
Yeah, im pretty jealous he can type this without googling
@@znspyder cmon man, I don't know why would someone need to google how to do for or while cycles, since that is the most basic thing in any programming language. Not to be ignorant, I can see why someone, who hasn't seen a programming language can think that. Awesome, on the other hand is that he could solve these problems under 20 mins.
In all seriousness, this video actually inspires me in some kind of way. I mean, I've come across this video dozens of times a while back and I remember not being able to understand anything!. But after learning for a while, I could understand more of what he's doing now compared to myself not knowing LITERALLY NOTHING back then! Just keep on grinding!
Imagine if this guy just had a second monitor.
Frrrrr
No because turning his head and moving the cursor takes time
Alt tabbing is faster than two monitors. It loses in everything else, except speed. If you have a project youre working on for 2 weeks, then 2 screens (or more) is much better. But if youre literally in a speed coding competition, alt tabbing is a winner.
alt + tab, is faster than looking at a second monitor
Luckily he doesn't otherwise he would break his neck going back ans forth
It's not just his typing thats incredible it's how fast he analysis the question and starts turning it into code
preparation+vim, it's not magic. I can't type as fast as that guy as my brain won't learn hjkl typing but I can think in code as fast as be does, it's just a question of writing code every day. It starts to feel similar to playing a musical instrument for me at some point. The hard part is coming up with the correct algorithms for the task at hand which this dude excels at.
@@danielrazulay can you explain what correct algorithm actually means , I'm new and every comment in here is just demotivating and discouraging. I'm not giving up tho.
@@danielrazulay yes bro he also was a beginner at one point but he made his way through by practicing loads. That's why he's so good now
@@Manishsingh-uw5mo different ways of accomplishing tasks in code (ie sorting, searching) can have varying runtimes (learn big O notation and upper / lower bounds) and memory usage. The goal of optimizing code is to balance the smallest runtime with the smallest amount of memory used, although these days run time is much more important than memory usage (because computers today can work with so much more memory through larger ram / cache sizes).
@@eliasm2594 thank you for the info.
Google: 3 Hours only
William: 20 minutes max, take it or leave it.
Me: 1 day, take it or leave it
@@skullrazor DAMN Xd
@@skullrazor Me won't submit any code, TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.
@@mintesnotmelese6552 print ("me not know programming")
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
@@notavailableatthemoment7623 Take it, But not literally :)
I’ve been programming for over a decade and man, I don’t think I’ll ever reach this level of awesomeness.
when u type so fast that erasing the whole line is faster than replacing one incorrect letter
vim is magical
@@albertye527 YES! Finally someone using vim for those, see so many ppl using weird editors for competition. -1 for Windows tho, but I guess when you spent your entire day solving problems you may be too lazy to try something new :)
@@bratezoran2102 vscode is better lol tf is even vim? Plus apple is yuck. I don't see the problem with using Windows.
@@grunge-616 if you don't even know what's vim, how can you say that something is better than it lol
And fyi, windows and macos are just the two biggest desktop operating systems, not the only ones.
@@grunge-616 Oh shut up, you're only embarrassing yourself. Vim has been one of the best editors for about three decades by now and even today modern editors like this trendy, janky thing called VS Code can't even match the flexibility.
But what did I expect from someone who thinks there's only Windows and Mac OS.
i didn't even bother reading the questions, just watching and dying inside. WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING IN THE PAST 4 YEARS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
The problems are pretty easy you'll get used to logical structuring of problems as time goes on. The thing is in a commericial environment these types of developers are always a pain to work with.
Remember at work readability is > everything else for 99% of the stuff you would work on as a software engineer.
هههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههه مثلك والله
@@badderborroda4972 it's also worth to mention that writing long variable names especially more than once it's just a waste of time when you're running against a clock. he always uses the same constants and function names across all challenges so that he can do stuff in a mnemonic way. here the focus isn't about readability but getting the implementation right.
Mom: -Can you go to the store?
You: -Yes, wait 20 minutes, I'll win Google Kickstart.
Not a single clue on what’s going on here but this just looks amazing can’t believe a human is capable of doing this it’s out of this world 🤯🤯
The fact that there are 10x better coders than him like Gennady, benq etc is mind boggling
No way this is real, he didn't say "I'm in"
lol
I see what you did there
Those keyboard were accurate though
This aint movie crap bruh
We should also see code flash on his eyes
One gb of ram should do the trick.
I just started my coding journey, and I have absolutely no idea what he's doing. One day, I'm going to come back to this video and work these problems out myself.
now?
@@melit.791 first few will take an average person like 2-3 years to get on the level of understanding if he has just began coding and will study competitive programming
Awwwn how lovely
You will never be able to. Sorry but, go home kid.
@@dizumadhukalya7750 why 🥲
This man has memorized literally every keyboard shortcut ever created
necessity is the mother of creation.
its called a shortcut for a reason.
we dont memorise it because it looks cool.
we need it so we use it.
Eh . When you do drill it enough- it just becomes muscle memory.
Asians my friend, Asians.
hhhhh asians are amazing people
18 minutes a day. That's all it takes to be better then 95% of the world in any discipline (100 Hour Rule).
Now, I'm motivated. Never seen someone as good and as fast as this. Inspiring..
what my parents see when I redownload the drivers
This is so satisfying to watch even though you have no idea what is happening
Same, m8!
Big brain time
ArchGamer let us know
What my dad thinks I can do:
What I can do: „Hello World“
I don't even know what he is using, the only thing I have used is python
@@yournan7249 c++ I'm pretty sure
Yea he is using C++
🤣🤣🤣
feel like hackerman
He isn't wrong, these problems are indeed easy if you have some good experience with competitive programming. What separates him, is that he's able to cook up the algo slightly faster, and is very good at translating it into code quickly. Nice work!
Alternate title:
*17 minutes of keyboard ASMR*
Hell yeah, brother.
Google global truth project and read "the Present" to see the truth about life/death. Nothing is more important than checking it is true, especially pgs 1-4
@@daveevad5227 Interesting read.
What Keyboard is this ? (-:
That's EXACTLY what I said!! I'd SUB!! LOL 😂
I pause my video , so that his fingers could rest.
😂😂😂😂
LOL
Lol
This is underrated
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"In whatever you do, there's an Asian better than you"
Haha lol😂
Who's half your age
@RCC not in football.
@dipsrocx ever heard of Sunil Chetri?
Roses are red, violets are blue
There's always an asian better than you
I feel like potato after watching this... People like you are saving us. Thank you for that.
this man will stay employed when all of our jobs are replaced by bots.
he will be the one coding those bots
Poor guy. While we travel and relax he will work with the bots :(
@@user-mi4yc7pr3x what
@Ayy lmao ok 40h per week. And we travel and have fun :(
@@user-mi4yc7pr3x he is having fun while coding, what's your problem x) ?
I don’t even know what he’s doing
SHAUNA VAYNE hacking into the fbi headquarters
he's fighting corona bro just read his freaking code
he is just looping into loops shifting numbers and just read the code :D
What is a fellow vayne doing here in top lane
he just 1v5 penta with no items
Him at the final: "It was pretty easy"
Me: "right"
i changed content of this comment so no one will know how i got so many likes
Black theme is missing
@@puffy729 and he's not wearing a hoodie
Needs more intense matrix GUI and breaking the mainframe
and the green text also
More like what an anime would have been if there was an anime about programming
For a non-coding person, this was weirdly intense yet satisfying to watch.
for an aspiring programmer this was incredibly sad to watch
@@vigneshsaravanakumar613 why? ( i dont know code or anything )
@@denial6146 he is being inspired to give up on coding
I study information technology. Anything but coding is good for me. But i keep on watching coding videos
@neilawoken because u will never be good as him.
This should be titled " How to get depression in 17 minutes"
true
Feelsbadman
Now I’m asking myself if I should still Pursue my IT course for college. Maybe I should just get a business or science and arts degree. Because of this video
could’ve never been more true
😂
He even has a Matrix wallpaper on his browser. A true coder.
This guy types code faster than I randomly smash keys in anger.
True
As an IT student, i’m ashamed that i don’t know anything that he’s doing.
Same bruh I feel like a sham
Same
kinda scared i might not get a job after seeing this loool
I am a first year IT student, and I must say that I don't understand a thing as well. But I feel like if there's a documentation and comments it will be understandable.
I m from bca bro 1 sem ongoing so dont understand which language he is swriting
He's the guy in the programming group project who do all the coding by himself while the others member only do the paperwork
This man went through something that made my vision blurry after and i might need glasses and has the audacity to say "i thought it would be harder" there are some smart people in this world
I come here once in a while to remind myself how much of a fraud I am
I think I'm guilty of this crime too and should resign at my software dev job 😂😂
@@TacticalxRecon
what are you guilty of?
Discord Mod’s typings when an E-Girl joins to the server:
Lol
ahahah good one
dont worry kitten, daddy is getting home soon
That's great!! Lol
Top comment god...
I was told programmers are not like hackers in the movie !!! This guy is a living example !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a final year CS student, I am finally motivated enough to give up on my career which hasn't even started yet. Thank you for doing this!
His first words as a child:
*std::cout
forgot std:: at endl there mate
just type using namespace std; at the top of the code and you can forget abt the std:: stuff
@@lelediternak1786 yea, i dont use c++ anyway, so i was kinda guessing :v
@@canhle3970 tnx
@@legendarytwister3656 no problem, mate!
Him: Winning Google Kickstart in 17 minutes
Me: Debugging my 1 line Hello World in C++
when I first start coding in C++, I use return 1 at the end of my main function. So the evaluator bot at the competition I was in keeps telling me that my code has errors or wasn't able to run, even for my hello world program. It wasn't until after the competition that I asked my friend that he told me that any returns other than 0 in C++ mean error. So, that is the story of me debugging my 1 line Hello World in C++ for 2 hours.
@@jianliang6124 holy crap man😂
@@jianliang6124 nice story. Deserves a Netflix adaptation.
One line I get it that was pretty funny
Just saw your codechef profile.I am really amazed!!You are a good inspiration bro..I read the comments when I saw a comment that you are only 17 years old,i was shocked....very nice work bro...
Come back after learning programing for 6 month. Before studying in university, i don't know what he doing but its look so cool. Right now i understand (its just understand, dont ask me to try solve the problems) , but i need to pause read the questions first for 10 minutes. He freaking beast