[thallium205]

But if you're in a competitive environment that requires speed, why would you write for readability?

[saagarjha]

Because you’ll end up debugging the code an hour later when it fails on an edge case?

[kevmo314]

The really good competitors won't make that sort of mistake...

[jack9]

Because you probably have to re-read some, if not most, of the code while working through a solution.