> secondarily about submitting a solution as quickly as possible if you want to be on the leaderboard. Is that right? That's probably closer to #10, as it requ

> secondarily about submitting a solution as quickly as possible if you want to be on the leaderboard. Is that right? That's probably closer to #10, as it requires being available right as the problem drops (midnight EST and 6AM in europe, IIRC), and generally mid-cycle puzzles require being very good at solving these kinds of puzzles. Last year, betaveros topped the leaderboards with a bespoke language they designed for the task (https://github.com/betaveros/noulith https://github.com/betaveros/noulith).