Facebook Crowns 2012 Hacker Cup Winner

snoopy · Mar 20, 2012

Facebook crowns 2012 Hacker Cup winner
March 20, 2012 2:15pm PDT

Roman Andreev of Russia has been crowned the World Champion of Facebook's 2012 Hacker Cup after solving one out of three problems. He beat Tomek Czajka from the U.S. by just one minute.

Facebook’s Hacker Cup is an annual algorithmic programming contest open to engineers from around the world. Programmers are judged on accuracy and speed as they race to solve algorithmic problems to advance through up to five rounds of programming challenges.

This year, 8,000 people from 150 countries entered the qualification round in January. Over the course of three more rounds, the contestant pool was narrowed down to 25 finalists from Russia, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and the U.S. Two months later, the finalists were flown out to Facebook to compete for the World Champion title.

The finalists were judged on accuracy and speed as they raced to solve three programming challenges in three hours. The competition kicked off at 10:00 AM PST Saturday morning. For the next three hours, the finalists tackled the problems, in order of easiest to most difficult. The contestants were able to specify their programming language and developer environment preferences beforehand, and about 70 percent chose C++. At 1:00 PM PST, an alarm sounded and the competition was over. First place and $5,000 went to Roman Andreev of Russia, who completed one problem correctly in one hour and four minutes. Tomek Czajka from the U.S. got second place and $2,000 by a margin of one minute, finishing one problem correctly in one hour and five minutes. Third place and $1,000 went to Tiancheng Lou from China, who completed one problem correctly in one hour and 44 minutes.
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