Problem A
Pick up sticks — Problem Statistics

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Submissions	10694
Accepted submissions	2950
Submission ratio	27.59%
Authors	2547
Full solves [?]	1951
Full solve Ratio	76.60%

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Hayden Walker	0.07 s	C	2023-06-01 14:08:50
2	Hidden user	0.08 s	C	2017-05-31 09:39:01
3	Raj Niti	0.21 s	C	2022-03-26 22:43:54
4	Raymond Yang	0.22 s	C	2019-05-21 03:16:44
5	Ivan Petrov	0.22 s	C	2020-02-12 15:55:40
6	Hidden user	0.22 s	C	2022-11-28 21:22:29
7	Yuen Wei Hao	0.35 s	C	2025-04-03 04:20:54
8	pengin	0.57 s	C	2021-08-17 12:34:05
9	Steven Dominic Taniegra	0.82 s	C	2024-05-15 12:54:36

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Aaron Kendell	0.68 s	C#	2023-12-08 20:12:18
2	Hidden user	0.70 s	C#	2023-12-08 04:29:05
3	Miriam Logan	0.78 s	C#	2023-12-06 20:36:12
4	Ali Hassoun	0.79 s	C#	2023-12-02 02:29:49
5	Nolan Taylor	0.83 s	C#	2023-12-06 03:38:20
6	Hidden user	0.94 s	C#	2023-11-28 03:40:28
7	Solomon Yan	0.94 s	C#	2023-11-29 04:48:28
8	Andrei	0.94 s	C#	2023-12-02 04:04:44
9	Hidden user	0.95 s	C#	2023-11-28 05:34:12
10	Hidden user	0.96 s	C#	2023-12-01 00:45:06

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Henrik Henriksson	0.09 s	C++	2017-11-30 17:50:08
2	Jay Lim	0.09 s	C++	2019-01-30 09:11:53
3	Steven Halim	0.09 s	C++	2019-02-10 11:06:09
4	Agis Daniels	0.09 s	C++	2020-03-10 15:26:18
5	Lukas Rickie	0.09 s	C++	2022-01-24 10:49:00
6	Hamilton Wang	0.09 s	C++	2023-02-23 17:00:55
7	Peter Jin	0.09 s	C++	2023-03-23 15:37:23
8	Alexander Kravberg	0.09 s	C++	2023-07-05 00:59:19
9	Kieran Horgan	0.10 s	C++	2018-05-17 14:14:17
10	Bergur Snorrason	0.10 s	C++	2020-01-27 12:05:12

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Norbert Voelker	0.30 s	Go	2023-08-29 23:27:01
2	Haw Jia	0.37 s	Go	2024-06-10 16:50:36
3	Ola Dahl	1.21 s	Go	2023-01-27 15:52:10
4	Thomas	1.87 s	Go	2024-01-13 07:22:09

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Trung Do	1.84 s	Haskell	2025-02-06 10:05:57

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Agnay Srivastava	0.30 s	Java	2025-03-30 23:23:55
2	Hayden Walker	0.32 s	Java	2023-06-01 16:50:45
3	Shenoy Suraj Bantwal	0.44 s	Java	2023-11-18 13:57:47
4	Hidden user	0.45 s	Java	2021-10-29 05:14:19
5	Abdullah Aldalaan	0.47 s	Java	2020-07-22 22:03:17
6	Đức Phạm Hoài	0.48 s	Java	2018-10-10 09:20:23
7	Bjørn Dons	0.48 s	Java	2019-04-26 03:22:25
8	Aditya Gupta	0.48 s	Java	2022-04-01 04:48:01
9	TestingFunny	0.49 s	Java	2018-10-10 09:17:55
10	Abel Zajzon	0.49 s	Java	2023-03-31 02:27:14

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Bjørn Chr. Soltvedt	1.30 s	JavaScript (SpiderMonkey)	2024-06-28 16:58:14
2	Christian Pilegaard Cederquist	1.59 s	JavaScript (SpiderMonkey)	2023-06-27 16:31:12

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Jacob Huebner	0.53 s	Kotlin	2023-02-07 04:57:24
2	Hidden user	0.54 s	Kotlin	2023-09-18 09:50:53
3	Phường Lên	1.18 s	Kotlin	2020-04-28 05:40:30
4	Hidden user	1.19 s	Kotlin	2020-04-06 07:49:25
5	Sam Keyser	1.26 s	Kotlin	2023-08-25 20:33:36
6	Benjamin Ye	1.53 s	Kotlin	2023-10-07 06:45:48
7	Genesis Ighalo	1.74 s	Kotlin	2024-04-27 00:32:22
8	Adam Rankin	1.88 s	Kotlin	2023-10-10 02:13:34

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Anatole Leterrier	0.60 s	OCaml	2024-03-08 11:24:09

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Przemysław Kaczmarczyk	1.90 s	PHP	2024-05-17 21:59:14

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Duc Tri Dang	0.49 s	Python 2	2023-05-25 04:43:32
2	Agis Daniels	0.63 s	Python 2	2020-03-11 14:25:07
3	Sverre Kroesen	0.64 s	Python 2	2019-05-17 16:04:42
4	Hidden user	0.71 s	Python 2	2018-04-08 06:23:00
5	Andreas Björklund	0.75 s	Python 2	2020-11-24 21:54:50
6	Lars Åström	0.76 s	Python 2	2018-10-11 16:25:40
7	Grant Ballard	0.78 s	Python 2	2019-04-05 23:45:30
8	Julio Maldonado	0.79 s	Python 2	2019-04-05 23:39:55
9	Isaac Lee	0.85 s	Python 2	2018-07-13 02:36:35
10	Steven Tran	0.99 s	Python 2	2018-04-07 00:00:48

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	jt	0.54 s	Python 3	2025-03-26 21:17:48
2	bhavin	0.54 s	Python 3	2025-03-28 12:10:27
3	HUANG YUCHEN	0.55 s	Python 3	2025-01-31 14:56:37
4	Mateo Fernandez-Tyson	0.55 s	Python 3	2025-05-23 02:50:38
5	Ram Basnet	0.57 s	Python 3	2024-01-01 00:38:06
6	Terry Fu	0.57 s	Python 3	2024-03-17 03:48:30
7	Paul Levande	0.58 s	Python 3	2023-05-06 20:43:15
8	Bo Stokes	0.58 s	Python 3	2024-04-20 20:57:43
9	Benjamin Sølvberg Buan	0.58 s	Python 3	2024-04-30 20:32:07
10	Hidden user	0.58 s	Python 3	2025-03-17 04:01:35

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Trường Đặng	1.75 s	Ruby	2024-06-17 16:09:09

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	Vincent Lagerros	0.04 s	Rust	2025-05-06 17:59:30
2	Hidden user	0.08 s	Rust	2023-09-17 19:11:41
3	Bas Dirks	0.11 s	Rust	2025-02-18 07:20:04
4	Egor Kulikov	0.14 s	Rust	2025-01-14 17:37:26
5	Rolf Martin Glomsrud	0.24 s	Rust	2023-05-26 21:20:04
6	Arnav Sastry	0.26 s	Rust	2022-03-17 18:45:01
7	Jonathan Choi	0.26 s	Rust	2024-03-24 10:03:21
8	Daniel Anker Hermansen	0.32 s	Rust	2023-05-23 12:43:03
9	Sinjin	0.35 s	Rust	2023-12-07 22:55:13
10	Hidden user	0.37 s	Rust	2025-07-14 23:18:32

#	User	Runtime	Language	Date
1	arthur	0.30 s	Zig	2024-07-17 08:19:07

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Raj Niti	1095	C	2022-03-27 00:28:52
2	Raymond Yang	1299	C	2019-05-21 03:16:44
3	Hidden user	1385	C	2022-11-28 21:22:29
4	pengin	1925	C	2021-08-17 12:34:05
5	Steven Dominic Taniegra	2022	C	2024-05-15 12:54:36
6	Hidden user	2582	C	2017-05-30 07:40:26
7	Hayden Walker	2620	C	2023-05-25 18:57:20
8	Yuen Wei Hao	3310	C	2025-04-03 04:20:54
9	Ivan Petrov	4178	C	2020-02-12 15:55:40

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	traxex	869	C#	2024-05-06 16:51:07
2	Aaron Kendell	1082	C#	2023-12-08 20:12:18
3	Nathan Andrews	1373	C#	2024-10-24 19:01:31
4	wonder mkhize	1473	C#	2023-09-10 02:28:00
5	Artemy Gavrilov	1625	C#	2024-03-24 00:05:39
6	Naz	1636	C#	2024-04-04 05:21:45
7	Andy Duong	1665	C#	2023-12-07 17:53:46
8	Lucas Hood	1692	C#	2024-07-10 20:22:31
9	Nolan Taylor	1812	C#	2023-12-06 03:38:20
10	Hidden user	1814	C#	2023-11-28 05:34:12

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Mattia Marziali	393	C++	2023-11-08 02:30:05
2	Mathias Gernez	433	C++	2023-08-28 18:40:43
3	Montgomery Bohde	443	C++	2024-03-24 03:19:52
4	Yeung Man Tsung	519	C++	2022-11-25 09:29:26
5	Paul Wild	538	C++	2023-02-26 15:19:07
6	Elias Lolck	568	C++	2023-02-10 19:37:31
7	Chase Hinesman	576	C++	2018-04-07 00:01:15
8	Lee Zheng Han	589	C++	2023-04-17 14:01:17
9	Nguyễn Nhật Minh	589	C++	2024-01-15 11:10:51
10	Alfredo Beaumont	593	C++	2023-03-29 19:59:06

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Haw Jia	1479	Go	2024-06-10 16:57:18
2	Ola Dahl	1947	Go	2023-01-27 15:52:10
3	Thomas	2866	Go	2024-01-13 07:22:09
4	Norbert Voelker	3085	Go	2023-08-29 23:27:01

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Trung Do	3652	Haskell	2025-02-06 10:05:57

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Doug Goodman	1066	Java	2018-03-20 18:35:58
2	Siddharth Adusumelli	1208	Java	2023-04-06 01:50:46
3	Marc Dominic San Pedro	1242	Java	2024-09-05 04:14:33
4	Emilie Hyslop	1285	Java	2021-06-29 03:07:31
5	Hidden user	1376	Java	2023-04-12 06:32:37
6	Yuuki Sawanoi	1387	Java	2023-07-14 04:03:07
7	Eric Leow Yu Quan	1408	Java	2021-04-19 06:16:32
8	FermatingCode	1454	Java	2025-04-03 16:28:17
9	Ian Montaño Pardo	1467	Java	2025-01-02 23:25:28
10	Elaica Dela Cruz	1497	Java	2024-09-05 06:00:11

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Bjørn Chr. Soltvedt	1569	JavaScript (SpiderMonkey)	2024-06-28 16:58:14
2	Christian Pilegaard Cederquist	3107	JavaScript (SpiderMonkey)	2023-06-27 16:31:12

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Benjamin Ye	690	Kotlin	2023-10-07 06:45:48
2	Hidden user	813	Kotlin	2023-09-17 17:34:08
3	Jacob Huebner	869	Kotlin	2023-02-07 04:48:28
4	Adam Rankin	999	Kotlin	2023-10-10 02:12:27
5	Hidden user	1214	Kotlin	2020-04-06 07:49:25
6	Sam Keyser	1274	Kotlin	2023-08-25 20:34:03
7	Phường Lên	1460	Kotlin	2020-04-28 05:40:30
8	Genesis Ighalo	1753	Kotlin	2024-04-27 00:32:22

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Anatole Leterrier	1635	OCaml	2024-03-08 11:24:09

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Przemysław Kaczmarczyk	1236	PHP	2024-05-17 21:59:14

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Thomas Feld	434	Python 2	2020-08-27 16:07:52
2	Andreas Björklund	495	Python 2	2020-11-24 21:54:50
3	Haggai Liu	502	Python 2	2018-01-28 07:47:19
4	Agis Daniels	650	Python 2	2020-03-10 15:13:09
5	Sverre Kroesen	666	Python 2	2019-05-17 16:04:42
6	Hidden user	725	Python 2	2018-04-08 06:23:00
7	Isaac Lee	782	Python 2	2018-07-13 02:36:35
8	Grant Ballard	822	Python 2	2019-04-05 23:45:30
9	Julio Maldonado	865	Python 2	2019-04-05 23:39:55
10	Steven Tran	977	Python 2	2018-04-07 00:00:48

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Shashank Bhatt	266	Python 3	2023-02-11 02:01:30
2	Kelly Dance	286	Python 3	2023-02-10 19:09:40
3	Jakob Israelsen	305	Python 3	2024-03-15 18:08:51
4	Thore Husfeldt	314	Python 3	2024-03-15 17:50:40
5	Morten Clausen	337	Python 3	2023-02-04 20:41:45
6	Kévin Dubrulle	338	Python 3	2024-04-15 10:52:34
7	Oliver Chou	392	Python 3	2024-09-14 03:05:34
8	Ahmed Chamseddine	414	Python 3	2024-04-27 12:10:01
9	Oskar Haarklou Veileborg	426	Python 3	2021-01-18 18:35:37
10	Varun Asuri	426	Python 3	2023-02-24 01:20:15

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Trường Đặng	1046	Ruby	2024-06-17 16:09:09

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	Hidden user	1247	Rust	2023-09-17 17:53:28
2	Rolf Martin Glomsrud	1461	Rust	2023-05-26 21:20:04
3	Mathias Magnusson	1583	Rust	2023-01-24 19:35:50
4	Bas Dirks	1703	Rust	2025-02-18 06:51:47
5	Sinjin	2107	Rust	2023-12-07 22:56:23
6	Eric Pinter	2253	Rust	2023-02-18 21:25:12
7	Arnav Sastry	3850	Rust	2022-03-17 18:46:15
8	Jonathan Choi	4142	Rust	2024-03-24 10:03:21
9	Vincent Lagerros	4777	Rust	2024-06-02 18:19:32
10	Hidden user	6633	Rust	2025-07-14 23:18:32

#	User	Length	Language	Date
1	arthur	3331	Zig	2024-07-17 08:19:07

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