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You're sitting there proud of yourself for using a debugger and waiting a whole 60 seconds for your IDE to boot up, thinking you're doing pretty well. Then you look at the leaderboard and realize you're competing against:

• A guy who's literally on Adderall speedrunning problems with pre-written scripts

• Someone doing APL puzzles on a System/360 emulator for fun (their HTML 2.0 compliant homepage confirms they're clinically insane)

• An Eastern European dev making $200k who types faster than your brain can process thoughts

• A Linux kernel hacker golfing in languages that sound like Lovecraftian incantations and measuring performance in clock cycles

• A Chinese prodigy who's been institutionalized since age 3 and needs a PhD in discrete math just to understand their solutions

• And finally, the most terrifying of all: an IT support guy forced to solve everything in Excel VBA who somehow channels the collective knowledge of every Indian educational YouTuber ever

Competitive programming: where your imposter syndrome gets imposter syndrome.

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