Top Competitive Programmer vs. LeetCode's HARDEST Questions

Опубликовано: 31 Март 2026
на канале: Colin Galen
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A top competitive programmer from the Codeforces/CodeChef realm (with almost zero prior interview experience) takes on the hardest questions known to LeetCode to find out... how good is competitive programming, really? Is it enough to dominate even the hardest questions that LeetCode has to offer? Or will these questions be enough to stump me? Find out in this video experiment.

(yes, lowest solve rate doesn't necessarily mean hardest, but it's the best I could do, and they were pretty hard anyway)

Questions
Q1 (14.2%): https://leetcode.com/problems/strong-...
Q2 (15.0%): https://leetcode.com/problems/booking...
Q3 (15.7%): https://leetcode.com/problems/fancy-s...

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Music:

Sthlm Sunset by Ehrling
   • Ehrling - Sthlm Sunset  
(not exactly sure how to credit, the given link is dead)

Paradise by Ikson (    / ikson   )
Link:    • Ikson - Paradise  

This Is For You (Prod. by Lukrembo)
Link:    • lukrembo - this is for you  

Timestamps:
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:17 Format
0:02:15 Q1 (hardest, 14.2%)
0:23:01 Q1 - Recap
0:24:06 Q2 (2nd hardest, 15.0%)
0:53:46 Q2 - Recap
0:56:01 Q3 (3rd hardest, 15.7%)
1:04:05 Q3 - Recap
1:04:37 Conclusion