20/20 Hack September

9 day programming marathon

The contest has ended

Speed . Accuracy . Efficiency

Are you ready to crack 7 more mind-boggling challenges this month?



The contest hosts 7 challenges which are progressively harder to solve. You'll have to 'unlock' each problem to view and solve the next one for a chance to win a cool prize.

The Prizes

  • Top 10 contestants from global leaderboard will win exclusive HackerRank T-shirts.
  • Challenge winners : Top contestant from every challenge leaderboard will receive a book.
  • Daily winners : A contestant who scores highest that particular day will win an exclusive HackerRank T-shirt. Please note this isn't the same as being first on the leaderboard.


Challenges


The contest hosts 7 challenges. Here are the names of the challenges:
  • GridLines
  • Chocolate Game
  • Help Mike
  • Sherlock Puzzle
  • Question classifier
  • StarFleet
  • Sherlock and The Beast


Editorial from 20/20 Hack August

20/20 Hack August had 1641 participants out of 3487 who signed up for the contest.
Editorials for Mark & Toys, Signal Tower, Ticket, Journey to the Moon and Kth Parent have been published


Rules

  • Refer to the scoring documentation here
  • This contest will appeal to programmers who're interested in Algorithmic and Artificial Intelligence challenges.
  • HackerRank admins decision will be final
  • Please refrain from discussing strategy during the contest.
  • Any case of code plagiarism will result in disqualification of both the users from the contest. We've a fairly good plagiarism detector that works at the opcode level.
  • You can code directly on our interface. We support 20 major languages. You can have a look at the environment in which we run your code


20/20 Hack August Winners