[rfoo]

That's right. I'm an okay-ish competitive programmer (around 2400 on Codeforces). I haven't played competitive programming for years (though being semi-active in the community, for problem setting etc) and last I tried I can still randomly draw a LeetCode hard, consistently solve in 10-15 minutes max.

The problem is LeetCode is SO BORING for anyone ever tried competitive programming so people usually won't do it at all.

[peyton]

It’s super weird seeing people who maybe aren’t into puzzles use pattern matching strategies they developed by practicing leetcode.