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By rahulgandhi1970, history, 20 months ago, In English

I joined an organisation called CPHelper recently which leaks all codes first and rest of the leakers just buy from them and sell again. Before you start judging me and spam downvotes, let me be clear why I considered doing so.

Before that, CPHelper is an organisation which has a lot of CM and Master rated coders (even some famous ones you can't imagine) who write the solution and get paid for doing so (about 10k INR per code from C onwards). I wrote C today but poisoned it by using an unnecessary unordered_set in my implementation which passed all pretests. Now if the system tests have a that particular test case which uses hash for unordered sets all the C++ users who copied my solution will be hacked. It all depends on authors if they include that test case. Anyone who gets hacked by TLE on C is an evident cheater.

Also, my sole intent for joining CPHelper is to leak poisoned codes so that cheaters can atleast get hacked because Mike is anyways not banning them anytime soon. But I can't do it every time because not every problem have that kind of implementation where I can trick them. But I will try to use as much brain as possible to poison my implementation in such a way that it can't be recognised by a someone less than a genuine CM atleast.

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Meanwhile me thinking that I am too dumb as an recent expert that I couldn't even solve C while newbies solving till F

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Glad that you're not determining whether they are cheaters by conducting a CENSUS.

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not gonna work everyone will cheat again

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Pretests and system tests on codeforces are the same, with an exception of successful hacks made by participants during the round.

So unless you actually hacked your solution from an alt (or from a cheater), it will not fail on system tests.

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    that's sad. I was unaware of it. is it possible to run that test in plag check and get those accounts skipped? i am 100% sure almost all the codes using it cheated from my poisoned solution in some way or the other because no one who even understands the solution idea would use an unordered set for lookup when the parent array is already sorted and they can use binary search stl for it. it's more than enough of an evidence for cheating.

    also it's nearly impossible to hack a cheaters solution from an alt because we can only hack in our rooms in div 2s.

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      The plag check is ran after each round and it will catch the cheaters. It's just that many people on cf complain about cheaters even before it's ran...

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I think some of them may study codes,write their codes and check if it's correct,then they get a huge positive delta.

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I'm proud of myself for reaching Specialist in yesterday's contest, despite competing against cheaters and overcoming the challenge!

To those who cheat: Your rating may rise, but your skills won’t. In the end, you're only fooling yourself. Real growth comes from solving problems, not stealing solutions.