Hi Codeforces!
We’re a group of passionate competitive programmers from 1337 School, Morocco, excited to announce our new project that aims to bring competitive programming closer to everyone — even those who’ve never tried solving a problem before!
What’s Our Idea?
In the CP community, we care deeply about content — problem quality, clever ideas, elegant solutions. But outside our world, many people have never even seen these brilliant problems because they’re buried in plain text, code snippets, and contest archives.
So we thought:
→ Why not take some of the classic gems of competitive programming and present them with great design to attract the broader public?
Instead of endless scrolling through social media, people could stumble upon a well-designed post with an intriguing problem that sparks curiosity.
Our Approach
We’re not inventing entirely new problems every time. Instead, we want to highlight classic problems from the CP world — elegant, beautiful problems that deserve a wider audience.
Each week, we’ll share 3 curated problems on our Instagram and X (Twitter) accounts.
We’ll design the posts to be visually engaging, modern, and easy to read, so even non-programmers feel tempted to try solving them.
Why Classic Problems?
They’re time-tested and loved by the CP community.
Many of them are surprisingly approachable for beginners if presented well.
Great design can make them feel fresh and accessible — like discovering a hidden gem.
We believe design matters if we want to reach beyond our usual community and show the world how fun problem-solving can be!
Join Us!
If you’re:
A competitive programmer who loves classic problems,
A designer excited to make CP posts look amazing,
Or just someone curious to try brain teasers instead of scrolling social media…
Follow our pages and join our mission to share competitive programming with the world!
Let’s give classic CP problems the spotlight they deserve.
Account links:
Instagram: @cpc_challenges
X (Twitter): @CPChallenges
— The 1337 CP Club, Morocco
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This seems ambitious. I'm curious to see how and where it goes.
Agree
Thanks for the support.
It looks promising! We can already find similar content featuring math problems or even LeetCode problems presented with high-quality design, but never really with competitive programming problems. I hope you guys keep going, because this kind of design will definitely take the community to another level.
Thank you so much, this motivates us to push harder.
Doubt : Would Anyone tell how to se WA in tc2 then iterating to some 47th number which is hidden it is really sometimes frustating
Seems awesome ... Let's see how it goes.
Thanks for the support.
reels would attract more people on instagram imo
It seems a good idea.
In my opinion, the design sucks. There is too much clutter, the elements are thrown together seemingly at random. The star in the background should be just removed, as well as the red arrow in the top-left corner and the stars/explosions around the QR code. Who is the man on the sticker, and what is he doing there? (Used reverse image search: it's Pythagoras. Still can't see how that relates to the problem presented.) Maybe the sticker relating to the problem or giving some small hint would be nice, but that's not the case here. What is that Problem Set phrase in a font that is literally the opposite of everything else on the picture?
Your hint is not helping in any way, but also why do you want to give hints on the same post? Put them in some separate area, so that people can try the problem on their own first, and only look at the hint if they need it.
The idea is nice, and I wish you luck, but this is just not good.
Thank you so much for your feedback. We will consider those points and try to improve the design for the better.
However, I think this post is perfect for a non-competitive programmer. It has the design of a slot machine, which is catchy, and you're naturally curious to know what it's about.
wow , i checked the problems and accounts , as a newbie the problem coupled with the cool graphics seems attractive . good luck guys
We're happy to hear that.
cool but personally id make the hints upside down and skewed or something
Seems awesome guys ! Very cool idea coming from ambitious people. Love to see where the project goes, good luck !
Thank you so much for your support.
This design looks more like a poster than a social media graphic
Actually, the main idea was to put them on the walls around the school (which we did, by the way), and then the idea to post them on social media came afterward.
Terminal design looks coooool, keep going guys.
Thank you for your support.
Like William Lin's youtube channel introduced a ton of people to CP, you should aim to create viral (short) videos, not pictures. People scroll through reels, not photos.
Studying the science of making viral videos could also be very interesting.
I agree; we're aiming to create short videos to explain those problems and show the solutions.