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The yearly competitive coding puzzle event in the form of an advent calendar starts very soon: 25 days of programming challenges. Each day from the 1st to the 25th of December, a new 2-part puzzle is released. Completion of a part awards one a star. Last year I got 11 out of 50.
I’ll paste my personal leaderboard (for the 2023 set) here:
--------Part 1--------- --------Part 2---------
Day Time Rank Score Time Rank Score
6 >24h 94062 0 >24h 92558 0
5 >24h 92827 0 - - -
4 >24h 120471 0 >24h 108185 0
3 15:45:52 65508 0 >24h 107975 0
2 >24h 102830 0 >24h 103521 0
1 18:34:47 134604 0 >24h 136745 0
The competitive aspect is in trying to be one of the first to solve a puzzle - the first 100 get points. I wasn’t going for speed last year, nor am I focusing on speed this year.
I’m giving it a go, at my own pace.
I’ve prepared a repo for it:
https://github.com/sackeyjason/advent-of-code-2024
My plan for this year:
Some programmers use this an opportunity to test out a new language. Other have made competition-oriented languages to give them an edge at tackling these puzzles quickly.
I’m just using plain good old JS.
I’ve prepared a function to load text files into memory. I’ll add other util functions as I go along.
More AoC updates to come.
I did the first few days. Then took a break.
Here are my results:
--------Part 1-------- --------Part 2--------
Day Time Rank Score Time Rank Score
6 >24h 71360 0 >24h 65456 0
5 19:27:40 68231 0 19:29:04 58251 0
4 09:19:02 47336 0 09:56:23 42274 0
3 03:39:24 34809 0 03:49:20 27518 0
2 03:37:35 31789 0 15:15:44 68253 0
1 05:07:52 28489 0 05:22:38 27277 0
A strong start. Then it got a bit tiresome. I plan to give it another go next year.