I think you have some delusions about competitive programming. Now lets debunk them. If you looked at the Putnam results this year, a good amount in the top 50

I think you have some delusions about competitive programming. Now lets debunk them. If you looked at the Putnam results this year, a good amount in the top 50 were competitive programmers (let alone top 500 which was filled with names on Codeforces). This is just America and Canada which aren't the strongest countries in the world when it comes to competitive programming. There is a significant amount of medalists in IMO who won gold medals at IOI. Now 1) is definitely true. In the last ICPC, no team could solve D (including the winning team consisting of an IMO gold medalist, despite 19 tries). Here is another example of a tough problem. It was so difficult that the solution to this problem was a published math paper! https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/109707#comment-977862 https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/109707#comment-977862 Now to debunk copying and pasting library code. Take a look at this blog. https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/112021 https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/112021 If you think just using some library code is competitive programming that takes 10 minutes to solve and mapping to some well known algorithm you most likely have never done it to any serious extent. In that case, provide more informed opinions then saying it is the same as leetcode.