I've just discovered this question on Quora: What is the story behind your username at CodeForces?. I guess it'd be pretty interesting to hear stories from top participants. For instance, my handle's history is already described there.
This blog is dedicated to everyone who don't have Quora account, so you can share your histories and comments here.
I personally would love to hear stories from tourist, rng_58 and YuukaKazami from current top-10.
For me also interesting handle eatmore, and in codeforces there are many unusual handles
I have a suggestion for his nickname — it sounds like ITMO (if you read it in Russian, or like a single word in English).
That's interesting!
aaa really! cool!
My suggestion: He likes Egor too much :D
And yes my username, simple, I am not creative for something better.
Egor's name is Egor so no story behind this username i guess!
clue: he didn't mean Egor's handle ;-)
I also remember there being a team named SPbSU: DrinkLess. I always wondered if they are related somehow.
As far as I know, DrinkLess was invented as an opposite to 'EatMore' (referring to ITMO, however, not to Evgeny Kapun).
UPD: eatmore answered this in details here
'ami' is a bangla word meaning 'me'. did u chose the handle knowing that?
No, I didn't know that. It's just the way my wife calls me sometimes. I don't think it has a meaning in my language.
But you know, I first wanted to use handle rmn, but it was already taken, so maybe that person did choose it because of that :)
Cool One :D !!
That is exactly what he said when I asked him about it in person.
I think this one will be more interesting: jqdai0815 I could only figure that it's palindrome :)
Now it's jqdai0815, means "Wang Xiuhan (sunset) is the best one".
My personal guess: tourist — it was just favorite word, rng-58 — number its somehow connected with lucky numbers, WJMZBMR — just random) And what is you story?
I guess that rng = "random number generator" and 58 is just a number generated by that generator :D.
But why sky58 also have '58' as a suffix?
Hmmm, maybe he wanted to be as cool as Makoto :D?
There's reasonable backgrounds of the number 58 in rng_58 and sky58. Both of the two coders went to the same grade of the same high-school. Students in the school often uses "the N-th class" to express the grade and the graduation year (whether they are competitive programmers or not.) They were the 58th class student, so they use '58' as a suffix.
once i saw one asking rng in arena what's the secret beyond the handle he answered the whole name was randomly taken.
Here?
I just realized my handlename background is so similar to rng_58 and sky58. I am in the 69th class student (junior high school), which is 11-years younger.
"69" in E869120 means 69th class student, and "120" means the student number in the same class student, and "69120" also means my student ID in the school.
What about the '8'? XD
By the way, what are the stories behind many of your usernames?
I was able to find four of them: EnumerativeCombinatorics, EnumerativeCombinatorics, EnumerativeCombinatorics, EnumerativeCombinatorics.
I guess, EnumerativeCombinatorics by analogy with rng_58 and E869120 means that you graduated in 2012 and your id in the class was 1 (is it correct? :) ) but what about other usernames?
Wow, you're very good at finding my old names. Let me explain a bit.
I use other different names on Twitter, MathMash or other websites. On Twitter, I masquerade as Virtual Sakha Republic. (Барҕа быйаҥнаах Сахам дойдута~)
Hmmmm, I always thought that "rng" meant "arrange", and it was something like "arrange 58".
BTW, 'r' is pronounced "ar" and 'n' is pronounced "en" in English. That's the reason.
And what does your name Swistakk mean? :)
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Awistak ?
Indeed, it's as misof suggests :P. I just thought about it in primary school without any deeper reasons and sticked to it :P. Marmot was kinda cool animal in those days, because of one of Milka's advertisements and a saying "a świstak siedzi i zawija je w te sreberka" (from that ad also) which almost everybody still recognizes, but I'm very surprised that I can't find a polish version of it (here is French (I guess) version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b40F820rGJw).
Btw, "świstak" starts with "ś" not "s", but on international sites polish letters are often not allowed and "świstak"/"swistak" are pretty often taken so I added additional "k" and use it often even if those are not taken for sake of consistency.
Thanks to your explanation I have finally managed to remember how many 's' and 'k' you have. Though even after reading it I can't stop thinking about mountains and cheese when seeing your handle.
Right! We might be seeing a pattern developing: compare Swistakk, Zlobober, Burunduk1, Burunduk2, burunduk3, enot110, BaconLi, Ra16bit, littlesheep2012,FattyPenguin, liympanda, White_Bear, marat.snowbear, Fcdkbear (in English: marmot, beaver, three chipmunks, raccoon, farm animals, flightless bird, and four bears)
versus
Tiger, lynx.cpp, A.c.lion, chEEtah, panther.uz, AC-wolf, HaRiSK, Singledog, farizazmip, eagle93, Shark, and of course Bredor.
Defensive animals appear to be doing better...
P.S. What is the reason people build zoos?
P.S.: so that they could see various animals without going too far.
Am I considered as a bird? :D
Yes, you are a bird who is good at changing direction quickly, but bad at walking on the ground.
Finally I found the source of his name origin. As I said, I'm sure that 58 came from his grade in junior high school and high school.
"rng" part is short for "ringo", which means an apple in Japanese (almost every Japanese coders know it and we call him "ringo-san"). When he got in his junior high school's mathematics club, he and his friends decided to make their handle name one of fruits. He chose apple ( ringo ). Judging from some source, other students took "mikan" (satsuma orange), "nashi-ringo" (pear + apple, though I've never heard of nashiringo ) or "budou" (grape) as their handle names.
Hey My name is Bodnariuc Dan.
My username its Dutzu and its my nick-name.
Funny story is how i got my nickname.
Since i was little relatives called me "Danut" (its like a form of "Dan" wich is my name),
But i had some pronunciations problems when i was little, and every friend that i met understood that my name is "Dutzu" instead of "Danut".
Now everybody knows me as Dutzu , nobody uses my real name , Not even my mom ,teachers,friends.
This is at least part of the inspiration behind tourist's username: "I also like traveling, as my handle suggests." TCO 2014 Meet the Finalists
Due to my poor English, I thought tourist as "terrorist" for a long time. Because his performance is really terrible, which can beat any problems.
I wanted a username starting with 'X'. I googled some popular online usernames and saw something called "Grimmface" and thought it was really cool. My favourite vegetable is Tomato.
A proper Prefix of (Grimmface) + A proper suffix of (Tomato) gave Grimmato.
Xenny was just my own addition, that fulfilled my desire of having a username starting with X :P
Hence, Xennygrimmato.
I can play flute pretty well, so I played at some school events, like New Year and so on. "Dudka" is a common russian/slavic word for flute. So one day my classmate Ilya decided to make a crossword about everyone in our class, and I was labeled there as "Golden dudka of Russia (dudka master)." IIRC. So I use this nickname everywhere I can, because it's unique and cool. Also I have a matching title "Master dudkamaster".
Dudka is common russian word not only for flute)
Also, Dudka — my last name)
Some Guy Took My Handle
... and hence you have this awesome handle!
Oh Shit ! Psyho is at Codeforces But Some Guy took his handle :P !!! The Story is so Awesome !
And qwerty787788 ?
I guess because it was pretty easy to type with the keyboard?
I wanted something hard to pronounce
As my handle too. When I joined university, no one can pronounce "hedgehog" correctly first time.
More interesting is my former ICPC team name (in 2002-03): HACMOPK (in English: something like "rhinitis"). But this was an abbreviation (in Russian: "Непобедимый Альянс Студентов Мурманской Области и Республики Карелия")
I am very much interested to know the actual decryption(?) behind this -> peter50216 name!!!
I am very much interested to know the actual reason of your name!!!
My lill racist friend...
this symbolizes weird looks , the combination of 0 and o represent weird " eye looks " means everyone is amazed by his performance .
Its 0 o and O. Even if I agree to your answer, how does he remember that ?
he doesn't his browser does
His origin name is peter50216. He and tmt514 changed their name to strings consist of '0' 'o' and 'O' at the same time, but tmt514 changed his name back this year. I didn't ask them so I don't know what that mean either, maybe just for fun.
Yeah, the handle is just for fun. I intended to change it back this year, but completely forgot about that until the magic-handle-changing-time is over :(
Do not miss your chance this time!
Thanks for the notification! :)
You are welcome :)
If we take O,o as zero, 0 as one, then we get
1010110010010100and meanwhile, $$$(1010110010010100)_2=(AC94)_{16}$$$,so maybe he did 94 problems on some online judge.(JUST PERSONAL OPINION)I was looking for something standard.
kobe bryant fan
I used to love maths when I was young so I thought of nickname kingofmaths but then I decided that kingofnumbers is nicer instead of directly saying maths , I use it everywhere on the web so if you want to know whether I'm on some website or not just search for kingofnumbers
Hi, am Pushkar Singh and my roll number in CS dept. at IIT is 27 :)
My nickname comes from the days when I used to play World of Warcraft. I used a very annoying strategy called stun lock to kill other players. If executed perfeclty, your opponent can't do anything except to sit and watch. My real name is Stan and people started calling me Stuno :) Stunlock in action
Same here, I used to play with Druid class in World of Warcraft so much that people started calling me druid instead of my real name
My favorite football club is Dynamo Kyiv, and my first name is often associated with bears in Ukrainian and Russian languages. I am not proud of my handle, it is quite hard to pronounce and it does not make a lot of sense, but I like it anyway :)
I just noticed that your handle is actually Fcdkbear and not Fckdbear.
Unfortunately, you are not the first one to make this mistake :(
Yep, I always thought that you like some sort of beastiality too :D
So eventually it is a really good thing that there is a place where I can explain the true meaning of my handle. Thanks, yeputons :)
And I thought your username came from fuc**d bear :D
Heh, the truth turned out to be even more shocking.
The next season of ICPC competitions will possibly be my last one year taking part in it as a contestant. Which means it's the last chance to gain myself a ticket to the World Final. So I changed my handle into "HandIeNeeded" when magic happened, reminds me all the time to work harder and calm down.
If U reverse my Handle, U get what I mean.
and dreamoon_love_AA ?
Maybe it came from Doraemon :P
My name just come from dream + moon. I originally want to use dreammoon as handle, but the first site I register exist somebody use that name. Then I delete one of duplicated 'm' and my handle become dreamoon.
It can be permutated from doraemon is just a terrible coincidence >_<
Maybe she is a true fan of Aerosmith famous song called 'Dream on', and by noticing how the singer sings this expression, it would be sth like 'dream ooon!'. awesome song.
Maybe you meant he?
JUST is a shortcut to: Jordan university of science and technology.
Yousef is my first name.
If I have the chance to change my handle in all the OJ sites, I would choose something cool.
I always wondered why a lot of Jordanian users write "just" before thier name. :D
And our teams are the same too, mine this year is JUST_AClimitExceeded :D
You're having a really cool handle now, dude xD
I used to play Crysis online and I had small server called "EXM". KG means Kyrgyzstan.
Yes you guessed it correct ,my handle isn't about encoded-colour-compression but Sasha-Grey , Meh :P
y u no choose I_love_Sasha_Gray den?
1)Its sasha gr E y >_<
2)Coz i dont love her but respect her , after spending an informal week there & it seems I_respect_xyz is not in CF trends , Hence.
Forgive me for not googling her frequently :/
Well Swift is an abbreviation:
Swift was in f***ing theatre.
It's recursive and it never ends :D
JK! As you can simply guess from my avatar, I like Swift programming language, not Taylor Swift :D
Like GNU :)
MY Big Dream is to became a games developer, so I love games too much especially Hitman games and I would like to develop one of the Hitman series and I would like to give it a name: Hitmen BBa were BBa is a short for Black Blood agent .. :)
I think winux user name is based on : WINdows + linUX
Or, possibly, Windows + GNU/Lin ux :D.
May be :D
and subscriber, -XraY-, TankEngineer, ACRush and Endagorion?
yeah, it is really hard to guess what ACRush comes from, please someone tell us
Hhmmmm, yes. It's a really cryptic name.
I'd also like to know where Petr comes from. That's a mystery too.
Petr is a popular name in Russia, and Petr's real name is Petr Mitrichev :)
I think he was kidding :)
what about tourist? Maybe Gennady was touring different countries winning different contests :P
I always thought that it's smth like "zerg rush"... Just "ACcepted rush" instead :) But I'd like to know real story too!
In an interview with TC, ACRush actually said something like this. I could not find the link though. AC definitely stands for accepted afaik.
I think now it all finally makes sense: Acrush: the boyband of girls winning hearts in China
I think ACRush may just means he wanna get AC quickly. ps: AC is a abbreviation of Accepted, at least in China.
What's the difference between this comment and GintokiSakata's reply so the contribution changes has this many differences?
Nothing but writer's rating.
I just want to be a quiet purple balloon diving in the comments area, now that being asked,(Actually in the game, I'm available only in Friday, Ignore me :P)..... wait! Why I choose that to be my ID !? That is thought-provoking...
My nickname is thought to be pronounced like dee-shad-seven (sadly, my friends usually pronounce it like deeshadt). In 2014 I've heard a song called 'digital shadow' by Miracle of Sound and I really liked it. Also I didn't like my nickname then. So I took 'd' for digital, 'sh4d' for shadow, put an underscore in the front and a '7' at the back and got a new nickname :D
I was studying in 10th grade in high school when I first got Internet access at home so I had to choose the nickname to represent my web identity. At this time we were reading famous novel "War and Peace" by Lev Tolstoy on our Russian literature classes. One needs to mention that this novel depicts life of Russian noblemen in the beginning of 19th century and back at the time French language was very popular among Russian elite so a lot of dialogues in the book contained French words. One of them caught my attention and also described me well in my opinion — as you already guessed the word was "caustique" and in the book it can be found here.
just wanted my handle to sound something geekish.
Found rtheman very interesting. (My batch mate)
Name : Ruchir Thaman -> nick: r(uchir)the(a)man
And JuanMata . Kept his nick even after Mata joined United.
(He is a Chelsea supporter I guess)
according to his ask.fm page:
What is the meaning of "WJMZBMR" . Is it a chinese warrior name or a random string ..? random string
It's heard that this name is a cute acronym or a random string..
Maybe it's just an acronym of a random string...
Alan Turning and his enigma machine. I am fascinated by his work so that's my username.
Nuff said
Personally I would like to hear story from ffao.
I know that "ff" stands for Fernando Fonseca, but I don't know about "ao". All I know is "ao" means at/in/on in Portuguese.
I think that "ff" is really because Fernando Fonseca, and "ao" it's because when he entry on the university his nickname was "Fonsecão". Obs: In portuguese the use of "ao" at the end of the world is for give the idea of big.
His name is "Fernando Fonseca Andrade Oliveira", i think this is the reason
Kinda boring, isn't it? :)
Once I tried to change it to something pronounceable, but my friends protested because they like this handle for some reason, so I kept it.
I used to be fan of ozil when he was in Real Madrid. Then he switched club and started playing bad and I had to add some random characters before and after his name.
My birthday is on November 16. 64B in decimal is 1611.
Many people, even my friends think I chose this username because I like Prince Of Persia games or movies.
But in fact: At first I chose CoderOfPersia (because I'm Persian), then I found PrinceOfPersia more interesting than that.
It's interesting to listen story about Zlobober username.
We were big fans of our math teacher at school. For some reasons (I don't remember them) our class gave him the nickname "Zloy bober"(angry beaver in English). And it seems that after some years Max just took this cool nickname:)
All these days in CF, I have been pronouncing this name as 'Zlobber'. -_-
So it is Zlobober then. :|
I always pronounced it zloblober... :-"
this cooler than the original name, I think
What about Xellos?
It's based on what I'm like.
Is it related to this Xellos? His trolling techniques are much more subtle than yours ;)
It is, and shitposting != trolling :D
My name — naranja — means orange in Spanish.
I hope to be orange on CF.
And I have been learning Spanish for some time.
I would really like to know story behind cgy4ever
I'm guessing the cgy part is because cgy4ever's name is Chen Gao Yuan.
Thats true!
4ever -> forever (I'm using "sbin4ever" in google, and my "4ever" means "forever")
I think that the story behind tourist is this:
He has been to many countries to participate in IOI (7 years in a row) and also other competitions.
When he was setting his username, he must have known that he is going to be a tourist during the next few years as he has been great since childhood (he won a silver medal at age 11)
My handle is extremely normal
I regret it
My handle comes from my name Nazarbek. I did some word-crime and used digit instead of letter.
If you've ever played an online FPS, you've probably been accused of using an aimbot. Wayne is a stupid german pun. I don't know why I keep using this name when I haven't played a shooter in months...
If you've ever played an online FPS, you've probably been accused of using an aimbot.Not if you are a total n00b xD
Oh, by the way, I am not talking about myself. I camp a lot, so I get a good kill streak(along with a lot of abuses) :D
My nickname is kind of cypher :)
P: eno ysae na tub ,haeY
I recommend this: "JawwvJboJd"
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My nickname doesn't need explanation.
It's just:
Here in Brasil it is known as a vodka brand :D
This is.... I can't find words for this:D
Need to find this vodka in Russia!
My name is Levon Oganesyan :D easy, yeah?
the movie MATRIX
I just stilled an account in an online game and it's name was Tenison...
I liked it so i used it... :/
What really does it mean? :\
I always wondered what's the mystery behind I_love_Tanya_Romanova's username.
Yeah, who keeps such a cryptic username? :/
His previous nick, Lebron might have been because he is a basketball fan or that he might be as tall as LeBron James :) he is 6'4" LeBron James is 6'8". But when I asked him he said there is a different story altogether.
no mystery Tanya Romanova was a russian beauty . She was also a bond girl.
Wow, your intelligence is appreciating.
I am receiving some related messages every week and already got 3 or 4 A2A about this question on Quora, so I'll probably drop few lines.
This nickname is not some sort of joke or prank or anything like that. Also there are no hidden meanings in it. It have nothing to do with fictional characters. romanova is a real person.
To prevent any wrong assumptions based on this nickname (as it is probably misleading a bit, and because of parallels with I_love_Hoang_Yen) — no, I don't have a girlfriend. Also I think that there is no reason for more detailed answer; I am afraid that it may only harm some other people.
As you can see, there is no mystery behind my nickname. And there is nothing special behind it. Except the most special girl in the world.
And about my "old" nickname (still used at a lot of sites — TopCoder, Codechef etc.), as gkeesh7 correctly pointed out, it is related to LeBron James. It is ~10 years old :) At that moment I was a small boy and a fan of basketball, and I don't even remember clearly when I used this nickname for first time. Probably it was in some computer game like NBA2005 or NBA2006. But LeBron James is my favorite player, that's true.
Oasis — Live Forever ... My favorite song.
Blur — Bugman is better :)
Bloodhound Gang — Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo is also good, but it is too long :P
...and too vulgar :P
When I was a little boy, I saw a jewelry store called "Adamant". My child's mind liked this word and it became a name for the hero of my imaginary fairy tale. Years later when I acquired the Internet access I remembered this word and decided it would be pretty good username.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Zero
one of my favorite novels.
The second one.
luismo has been my nickname since I was in high school, it stands for Luis Manuel.
I actually wanted to put my username : "thrasher" but unfortunately i had a misspelling when entering that on codeforces
very interesting ... o_O
Maybe I was 14, and i were going to English classes. In one of the lessons, there was a "spooky house" and the imagination of something spooky, seemed like nobody should know what is going on there, and I like to be Spooky :D
My nickname is harry_potter_7 because harry potter is my most interesting character in my chidhood xD
your nickname is harry_porter_7
I just like wizard ;) which is abandoned in our society :(
But i want to be a ACceptedWizard ;) :P
This is my handle's history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATdaP-8r3A&feature=youtu.be&t=27s
"And you sir are extremely .. bald"
It is the nice history I read. So funny !
THE climber
Never had a chance to climb an actual mountain, through.
First time when I registered in sgu I had to choose a nickname and I chose "cpu". I had this username in almost every code related website I knew. But after a while it became so common between people I know to call me cpu. Actually I really like my own name and I don't like it when people call me by nicknames all the time! And also cpu has only 3 letters which violates some sites' rules of having at least a 4-letter-username. So I started to use a very complicated handle... "mOna" :)) Sometimes I make it much more complicated for sites which asked me to use at least a 6-letter-username and use "mona.m"! :{ :))
I thnik- tourist is because-he is simply not from this world!
But what is the reason behind yeputons?
As this blog says, it can be found here
My nickname was offered by my friend. When we were in school we really enjoyed watching the Simpsons. And there was a series in which Simpson's grandfather used deodorant for veterans of the Second World War. And because it was long ago, this deodorant called oldoldspiсe. My friend offered me the nickname. Sorry for my bad English.
I have heard that YuukaKazami is short for a Chinese sentence:
Wo Ji Mo Zhuang Bi Mi Ren.
and it means:
i am lonely,zhuangbility,and fascinating...
just a joke!
Wo Jiu Ma Zhun Bei Ma Ren
My username: s2KingCoders2 — It's my dream, King of all Coders!
you want to kill tourist? :D
Awesome :D that's the only way u can be the king of all coders :)
I would say — not only tourist, but at very least half of the community.
My username was selected 5 years ago..... It was a cancerous child's nickname in internet gaming...... I loved him so much....... He died 5 years ago....... :(.......
Initially I wanted to take the nick "I_love_Codeforces", but the nick already existed :(
My handle named harry_porte_7 because I used to like Harry Potter. His is my most interesting actor. 7 is the number of Cristino ronaldo's shirt when he was MU.
They're two AMFs of different generations.
HELLO EVERYONE !!! When I started on codeforces , four years ago, I looked amazing coders. Here started my dream , be the best of the world,it could sounds funny, but it is not impossible. So I created my username like ecapia , which have a real importance for me:
CHAOUS = CHA + OU + S (concatenate three strings)
CHA = CHAMPION
OU = OUR
S = SILENT
IT MEANS , OUR SILENT CHAMPION Someday I will get it
GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN EVERYONE !!
ENJOY YOU THE CONTESTS !!!
My name is actually Ephim. But once at school our teacher asked some other guy and called him Ephim. Then I wanted to reply two things: that guy wasn't Ephim but I was. Those thoughts have accidently combined and "I'm not Ephim" came out. All my classmates turned into laughter, so I decided it to be my feature. Hence I'm notEphim.
And my name is John, surname Malkovich, that's why I am msagimbekov :)
i think you got your name wrong
guess what? just i am not a cp now......
I'm from Dushanbe(Tajikistan) and Dushanbe translated from Persian means Monday, that's why I'm mondayguy =)
My name is Hussain Hussain which means: (hussain*hussain) = (hussain)^2 = sqr_hussain
The actor who i like most is Harry potter. So decided to name my handle following his name. 7 is a interesting number, which I like much more than the rest numbers. So I added 7 at the end of the handle. :V
OK, dude, we got it, you like Harry Potter and number 7 :)
BTW, I just realized that your handle says harry_porter_7.
Thank for your insight :3!! The story behind this is that I had been remembering wrong that name for a long time by the time I was in high shool. I have just recognized it too. XD the original issues which made me understanding wrong is from my pronunciation. I was pronouncing por-ter, not pot-ter :V
In spring of 2009, my team was preparing for the World Finals. As part of the preparation, we attended a training camp in Urozero. That year, only six teams were there: two teams from ITMO, two teams from SPb SU and two teams from Petr SU. We were asked to name our teams, and someone from my team picked the name Eat More, because we are from ITMO (ITMO sounds in Russian almost like Eat More in English). Then one of the teams from SPb SU named themselves Drink Less, as the opposite to Eat More.
Two years later I was the only one from my former team who still could participate in ACM ICPC, so that team was no more. I was looking for a nickname for myself and I thought that eatmore is a good choice. Both my former team mates already used different nicknames, so I thought that they wouldn't have a claim on eatmore nickname.
That's it about my nickname. For me, it is interesting why team Burunduchki (Burunduk1, Burunduk2, burunduk3) chose to name themselves like this.
My username is SXISZERO,SXISZERO=SX+IS+ZERO.SX is the initials of my chinese name.As Steve Jobs said:Stay hungry,stay foolish.I agree with him,So I use this username.
PPTX: "My username is SXISZERO"
Wait, what?
WJMZBMR is actually just a random string that CLJ generated, he probably liked the look of it, so he chose it for his username :D
Yes, CLJ said "it is a random string" when I asked him last year. And what is really funny is that we can understand it as "我家妹子不骂人" in Chinese, whose Pinyin is "Wo Jia Mei Zi Bu Ma Ren", which means "My girlfriend never abuse anyone" ;-)
I think nobody will understand your comments except Chinese..
"我家妹子不骂人" in Chinese means "my girlfriend will not be angry" in English. and the pronunciation is "wall drug may geo bull mark ren" Here is the International Phonetic Alphabet:/wɔ: dʒʌg mei dʒi bu:l mʌk rən/
Is LXLWDGY a randomly generated string?
Actually, it's not XD it means “亮瞎了我的狗眼”, which is a little difficult to translate to English, but if literally interpreted it means "so shocking it blinds my god damn eyes"
how i can register for contests???
you can only register DiV 2 Now.
whats the story behind your name phantom11
I think he is a fan of dota. and his favarite hero is Phantom assassin having excellently powerful ultimate.
My handle is EdenHazard, because he is a brilliant player. But my avatar is Mehdi Taremi, the killer of asian clubs!
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I'd like to know what is behind the username Deemo
For me that is the abbreviation of my name and the registering time,ha~ha~
KFC,McDonalds welcomes you~ :)
My handle is aslf010990 this because my name is azael sebastian lucio florido, and my birthday is the day 01 / 09 / 90 :D
Wow your birthday is 01/09/1990 so I wonder why your ranting is still low? I guess you graduated about 3 4 years ago. btw: I would like to know your situation currently. :D I can be the same like you @@
I'm about to turn 25 years old, I graduated in June 2013, study degree in computer science, my rating is low because I started too late in the competitive programming (though not is an excuse), the first contact with area was when I studied the 4° years of college (the college where I studied has 8 years of being created, so also was the first contato with sports programming for the whole school), I participated in a regional, I was very wrong, then on I try to improve every day, do not really know where to start because my knowledge was very low, so I saturated with information, I began to search for any type of information they had concerning the programming, but only sought and I do not analyze, about two months ago i download a book data structures in java and I began to read it, I feel I have improved a little, but not enough to improve my rating, I am working hard to be a better person and better programmer.
:D I personality refer you the book Introduction to Algorithms is a book by Thomas H. Cormen. Once you master some significant algorithms of this book you will be able to do much more in competitive programming. xD I am now also interested in competitive programming again. And I hope can do something better in the future. :v
thank you very much for the recommendation, now I would like to ask you some questions: How old are you? Why you are green if you came to be magenta? Why you say you are interested in competitive programming again, perhaps you were not interested?
I am 27@@. I really like contest programming. I do like to complete people :v now I am going to come back with some gaps of my life. But I dont care, I really dont want on a day, I say to myself if I had been 27 I would have been coded. :D:D
Well I don't remember about the techwiz part of my nickname(tech is for technology, wiz is for wizard, but I have no idea why I chose these words, maybe because I've always loved technology), but 911 is after Porsche 911 Turbo, my favourite car(and not the 9/11 attacks :P).
I think everyone knows the story of my username.
I don't no
consider maths as my lover
U mathsexual bro?
new vocabulary get√
You do meth, eh?
I_love_Hoang_Yen The story from his love? :">
I was at lesson of history or geography in school when I need to choose username. And the teacher was telling something about homo habilis and homo sapiens. So with the proud that I'm homo sapiens I choosed my nickname :-)
I thought you name/surname is Sapiens and you are homo. JK :D
You are not just homo sapiens you are homo reddus
I always thought that everybody loves the underdog.
i dont know wherefrom my handle came ^^
once i saw my current handle in my dreams being red it was before we could change our name(new year) in new year i was like YOLO and chose this name thinking i would become red rated and after a while magic came i did become red but not red rated :((
My handle = my name. There isn't anything interesting)
Seem tourist or rng_58 could never reveal their storis. I have seen they online in near ago :V
what about SnapDragon?
maybe because of Qualcomm processor ? :P
It was just Counter-Strike nick. There was too many gamers in Russian pub who used "JKee" in nicknames and other symbols which you can find in my nickname now. Those players really annoyed me, and I tried to find some trolling nick for them. So, I produced this nick. If you read this like those gamers, you can read "железо", it means "iron". Some month later I found this nick attractive, cause it was my first solution of non-standard problem.
What about sdya and Seyaua? Probably "sd"=="Sobolev Dmitriy" and "Se"=="Sobolev Eugeniy", but have no idea about "ya" and "yaua"...
"ya" means Yakovlevich (patronymic name) and "ua" probably means Ukraine.
Just curious, is pokemon the inspiration of your handle?
I was inspired by a word I learnt from a TV series that I loved the most!! :) Soon, that became my handle
Darooha, what is the story behind your handle? :)
There is no 'notify when someone mentions me in a comment' function on Codeforces, isn't it?
Yep, that's why I've wrote him a PM. BTW, do you think it will be a useful feature? Should we implement some policy dropdown in profile "Get email on mention/Get email on mention by friend/Do not get email on mentions"?
For sure. It's quite common on other websites (including this syntax: @MikeMirzayanov), and some new users expect it to work.
By the way, 'friends' are asymmetrical on Codeforces, and I think it's worth mentioning somewhere around the dropdown.
Could it be possible to let author of the comment choose whether mentioned people should receive notifications? Sometimes, it is intended (like in your question), but sometimes it is completely unnecessary (like here: http://codeforces.me/blog/entry/18249#comment-231483 ). But I guess that blocking mentions should be still possible, because otherwise tourist would be flooded :D. Though I guess that it would make implementing significantly more complicated and some problems like "author wants notify and mentioned guy blocks notifications" appear.
@utherto mention and[user:uther]otherwise? :PAny updates on this feature? It'd be nice to have such notifications.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=daroo
The Hindi/Bhojpuri word for liquor, normally used by people from Bihar in India and the people in Guyana and Trinidad and other asian immigrant communities. A word only true Indian gangsters use.
It's quite appropriate for me. But the truth is that I basically just made it up when I was in high school. :)
---Danny
This is too funny ! XD
In Persian, 'Daroo' means medication/drug. Also we use 'ha' to make singular nouns, plural. So 'Darooha' means drugs :D
you made my day
I was big fan of hackers and was planning to consider hacking as profession. Then someone told me if you want to become toplevel hacker ,then you must know basics of coding. And then I created an account here which made me to become fan of coders and leave hacking.
It is interesting what story is behind helThazar.
It appeared around 15 years ago when I was young and spent a lot of my time with computer games :) And it is actually a combination of three words hell + health + hazard = helThazar (they merged together in one to make it sound better).
What about Gassa ??
When I was young (perhaps ~6 years old), I invented some stories to play them in my head. Some named characters appeared often in the stories. The nickname is a compilation of the names of these fictional characters.
zombieII what about u :v ?
I like superheroes, specially Batman. I was playing Batman Arkham Origins a lot when the option to change username came.
There is a famous PSP game "zero no kiseki" produced by a Japanese enterprise Falcom. "Zero" just means zero. "No kiseki" means the track of something. I grab the word "track" from it and put it behind "zero". Because "c" and "k" have the same pronunciation in the word "track", so I delete the last "k".
What about chrome ? :)
How about the new star jqdai0815?
Maybe someone challenged him to become an awesome competitive programmer?
It may be related to his photo?
I am a fan of 'd'ark type pokemon and monkey 'd' luffy from one piece. 'mehrab' is my middle name and '06' is my birthdate (6 january) . dats all. pretty boring :v
I also use another username "ridslk22" in some other sites (uva, codefights etc) . Dat came from my favourite player kaka's full name (ricardo izecson dos santos leite kaka) and his ac milan jersey no 22. I even wanted to change the user name after joining codeforces. but found out they let u set the handle only once anyway :v
yinghualuowu the Chinese language
Since this topic was revived by some comment, I guess I will just put this here.
I wanted a username X such that X is compact, easy to remember(so usernames like goutham1290837123 was not a good idea) and more importantly, if someone Googles X, everything should be about me, which means it has to be unique :D
Now, the first page(and most of the second page) of Google search is completely about me. Success! \o/
One of my inspirations was the word "Google" itself. It is short, sweet and nobody really forgets or mispronounces such a word. Kudos to the founders. I wish I could remember how I came up with "xorfire" for X :(
My nickname at videogames was always "sergio" (my name, yes, not very original) because I started playing them on a cibercafe where your nickname had to be your real name because strange rules.
I started to put the RG suffix because the Quake III RailGun weapon. But RG is also "Rodríguez Guasch", which are my surnames.
Also, when I started to play online games on my own computer sometimes I used "srg" as a nickname because:
srg = SeRGio srg = Sergio RodriGuez srg = Sergio Rodriguez Guasch
The time when I started competitive coding, I just began playing Counter Strike for the first time as well. Being in Computer Science too, my handle goes likecs.
On new year's eve when we were allowed to change our handles, I wanted a cool username. I tried everything from Obama to bazooka, but everything was reserved. I tried tweety thinking that it's definitely reserved, but turned out it wasn't! I changed my handle to tweety only to reserve it not because I really know what it is :P (I only hear people talking about it). And since it turned out to be a yellow bird, I thought it would give me more motivation to become a Master. :D
I choose this username because I was math-smartest student in my school, I often help/teach my friend doing math task, sometimes I even help my teacher solving hard math problem. Now in my university my math skill is not that awesome anymore, but I already feel comfortable with this username, it always make me remember the old me (me when I was in high school) :)
I used to play a lot of call of duty back then. The best guy I met was anh1l1ator. He was totally pro :D .
It was new year's eve when we were allowed to change our handles. Me and my girlfriend were hanging out together that night and we listened to Flo Rida — Whistle. I liked that song so I wanted to change my handle to Whistle so it can remind me of my girlfriend every contest :D
After two days she dumped me but the Codeforces magic was finished -_- Damn it.
I changed my handle to rekt_n00b because it accurately represents my coding ability and also sounds and looks pretty cool...
My Godfather's name. He died the day I created the account.
My training will be savage as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSW4H8OpnPM
well, before telling my story.
my name is bakir (bakr , bkr)
when i was in high school i take a math course in a culture center near my home , so before i telling the teacher my name, he was call me toni , i always wondering why he call me toni and when he call me that i go to him after finish and tell him don't call me toni i am bakir not toni , next day he retruned to call me toni again and again, the point is everyone in this course called me toni , so my name became toni and no body knew me as bakir , i used the name many time also when i entered the university i used it between my friends. finaly i decide to marge it with my name to be bkrtoni, my name in any thing on internet
so my handle will always be bkrtoni :)
sorry for bad english i hope it was nice story :)
U spoke from your heart friend, that was more important.
I'm also wondering why Ce Jin chooses jcvb. Does it really means Jin Ce Very Big? (In Chinese OI, big sometimes has the same meaning as 'strong')
codeforces
shear ignorance of creatures called humans.
Reading a book of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Karamazov Brothers) there is character called "Zosimo".
I think some users have to write new stories :)
My username is "100pi". 100 is also called cent. So its Cent-pi sounding similar to Senpai. All the anime lovers would know what this means.
Notice me Equinox!
I just did :)
any body would like to hear the story behind this sexyprincess91 :D
a lost bet? :D
Its just my nickname my friends call me followed my birthyear :/ I wish it had some deep meaning.
I created my username being inspired by crypto-currencies bubble inflated in 2013. Bitcoin's price was skyrocketed above 1000 USD in 2013 (and by the way, last week it went above 1000 USD again). At that time, I discovered a lot of forks of bitcoin with yet-another names with coin suffix (like Dogecoin). Some of them has amazing properties and not less amazing price chart.
So I created my username omgcoin (kinda — Oh My God Coin) hoping that my rating chart would skyrocketed one day and looks like crazy alt-coin price chart.
Unfortunately, despite all my efforts my rating chart is flat and boring while real alt-coins go up and down during that time (I'm referring to [Eth]ereum).
Ahh, it is so easy to create handle)
Simple, first letters from my name, AmirReza PoorAkhavan. Although now Arpa is my official name, no one calls me with my real name, they call me Arpa instead.
I really want to know story behind Errichto and Deemo and PrinceOfPersia.
UPD. Oh, I missed PrinceOfPersia's comment above.
UPD2. Deemo has changed his name to Deemo, I can guess story behind Narenji58, Narenji (\närenjē\ ) means orange (color) in persian, and sounds like rng (\är en jē\ ), I think he wants that his account name sounds like rng_58.
Deemo is a mobile rhythm game, maybe because of that Deemo took that handle.
My nickname has no meaning at all, it's a bunch of letters. Years ago I wanted to create something that is available in all websites/platforms — so it couldn't be a name from books for example. The only condition was that it should be pronounceable in Polish.
In november 2016 I participated in MIPT training camp (my first training camp) and on 11 November I walked with team the Perm SU Indigenous from the dorms to the canteen. I met Bohdan before (at some onsite contest) and for other teammates I presented myself like "Hello guys, I'm blue" or something like this... During the walk, I suggested a shorter way to the canteen and Bohdan said "Blue Optimized Our Way" (btw, we spoked in russian, so I translated it in english). When I got the chance to change my nickname I wanted to have something with "Blue" (something that reminds me that I'm trash), as a result, I remembered this situation.
Maybe best prog rock album of all time,
Urban dictionary says:
deadwing A person who has been compromised or proven themselves unreliable, untrustworthy, a liability, and generally useless
So I think it's the best choice
At last found an old Porcupine Tree albums' fan on codeforces.
Funny coincidence, was listening to Lazarus right when I saw this :D
It's normal. I don't even find in real life :v
I always find rock fans who has never heard of
The most underrated folks ever
+1
mbrc
Cheer up , a legendary grandmaster too :v
Yeah, sounds like my Stupid Dream came true. :D
Hope there are old opeth fans too :D
personally I don't have enough words to describe them
For my handle E869120, I have two reasons:
This also means that E869120(16) = 243700000(10), and this is so impressive for me.
I thought a lot before setting my username. I wished it should be unique and it should have some meaning. So, I came across Siriuslight. It means light of sirius, which is the brightest star in universe.
2019: sorry is the first word of song "Возможно" by Мы
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ok, i wrote now
I always thought the tourist handle comes from the movie The tourist (although it's a love story, I recommend to watch). He registered 7 years ago, the movie was out in 2010. The guy in the movie was behaving very bashfully, like he is the biggest loser, but actually, he was the biggest boss — he was rich and the hottest woman fell in love with him — twice!
Too good to be a human. He's an alien. Hence, 'tourist' on Earth. xD
He registered on topcoder with the same handle a lot earlier.
Right. 2006. You blew up my theory :)
rhezo ?
Inspired by Rhaegar Targaryen :)
It was back in 2010 when I had Nokia 1600
I used to play carrom and cricket on it. But highscore had a 3 letter restriction of username. I tried a lot of combinations. I really liked dam and since sehgal is my lastname, so my username is dam_sehgal
I got name "paulinia" during a physics camp, all credits to Baklazan. It's from my name, Paulina
ayush is my real name, tiku is my nickname and 5 is just a random number :)
My name is aman. Minutemen + aman = aminuteman( someone who can solve a problem in a minute :P)
but your rating doesnt justify it
From Marvel Comics. Adamantium is a fictional metal which known as the substance bonded to the character Wolverine's(a mutant) skeleton and claws
I am a farmer or, as we say here in Argentina, un campesino. People also call us gauchos, so that's for the first part of my name. As for the second part, my first name is José, but my coworkers call me Josecito (its diminutive). I feel identified with it, so I decided to put that instead of my real name. Also, by including gaucho in my handle, people would instantly know where I'm from and picture me with my laptop on the field, while my cows graze around me and my little horse watches me code with his cute big eyes.
Im not good at cooking :)
Well, mine is quite simple. My first name is John and I'm a huge fan of Star Trek
My English name is "matthew" (which was given by my mom because (at least she thinks) it sounds like my Chinese name Mao Xiao). I was born in the year 1999. Thus there is "99".
I think mine is self explanatory. Perhaps sqrtdecompton should share his story ;)
I'm a fan of both making bad puns and lazily writing NsqrtN solutions to NlogN problems, couldn't turn this handle down :)
My name is Bassam Ramadan and my username : BaSSam_RaMaDaN this mean that i will present one of professional in programming and problem solving in the future :)
I am an expert at making bugs, that's why my handle is kingofbugs
I really loved the series "Dexter" (not Dexter's Laboratory). Like him, I dont get most of the people of our society. Anyway, I kind of regarded him as a "Psycho Killer" and thus my username is now what you are seeing.
I kept my username "fastboot" because of two reasons : 1.)Before starting CP I knew how to flash a custom rom on a android smartphone "only" using the fastboot mode it sounded nice so I used it. 2.)I just hate slow booting time :).
I believe Chinese and Indians will get what I want to say. :)
My name is Natalie and I have an affinity for Dr. Seuss's writing :)
Scream my handle when yo mom's not around.
i like rice
Errrrrrrrr
I would be interested to know stories behind usernames of AIM Tech employees that prepared the last round, more specifically — Kostroma, yarrr and former username of riadwaw which he still uses on AtCoder — riadwaw.
I have some possible explanations myself but none of them seeems plausible to me.
Kostroma is the name of the Russian city so Kostroma must have some strong connections to this city but as far as I know he is from Izhevsk ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯
I always thought that yarrr is one of the characters in the Sesame Street but when I googled it I couldn't find any connection — only this article in Urban Dictionary came up.
When I googled "RiaD-WaW", the first result I got was this hotel in Marrakesh. The hotel is pretty good but is it really connected to his username? ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯
I've enjoyed this stupid song one time going to summer camp at school. This song probably won't be enjoyed by Polish btw.
RiaD is Russia-Izhevsk-Alexey-Dmitriev, ha.
yarrr is just some random name used by Alexey on his Hovrino local forum.
Hope I'm not violating the law on the protection of personal data at the moment.
You got me there.
Btw, 399 is the number of Alexander's group in the university. Yep, he has good imagination only in solving problems and searching for appropriate memes :)
Thank you for the thorough explanation.
Addressing the comment below by Golovanov399 and my own needs (I was also not able to listen to this song on Yandex.Music), I found Youtube video for this song — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGAcPTA5HGo.
Talking about connection of Polish to Kostroma, here's the legend — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Susanin#Legend. But there's only one line in this song about the legend, otherwise the song describes how enjoyable the city of Kostroma is :)
Actually, after listening to this song I want to go to Kostroma — it must be a nice city :)
Hmmmmm
your handle sucks
I would like to know about LHiC, SpyCheese and mnbvmar. Strange usernames :D
my name is mohamed sobhy ,, and i was born in July , That's it..
My Chinese name is Yifan Bao , and Yifan sounds like "even" in english. So my nickname is evenbao
V E R Y + B I G + D I C K = BVIEGRDYICK
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mine is so simple my name is Yahia and aihay is just yahia but flipped
YAHIA | AIHAY
— Ой, мне было лет девять, когда его выбрал, не больше. Точно помню, на моих лыжах было написано слово tourist, и оно мне понравилось. Вообще мне еще повезло, что я выбрал себе такой приличный ник. Знаю ребят, которым позже пришлось брать новые имена, потому что старые были ни в какие ворота. — tourist Источник
well, i once used a nickname "david_x". But as u know, i am a Chinese, and everyone started to call me "david". So i decided to pick a long name so nobody would remember what it is and have to call me the real name :/
Plus, i liked the algorithm Dijkstra, so i picked this since the inventor's name was long enough. :)
My handle is the mascot of the USA Computing Olympiad. Literally, every single USACO problem is about Bessie or Farmer John in some way. As far as I know, the USACO camp used to be held in Wisconsin where there was nothing but cow farms for miles, which is how Bessie and Farmer John came to be.
When I made this account I was sure that this handle would have been taken but I tried it anyway and that's how I ended up with this.
My Chinese name is You Yufan, but there are too many "yyf"s, like Anguei and _twilight, or even the Dota 2 player, so I use the other part —— ouuan.
One time I asked my friend tell me random word and I added random letter as first.
Sword Of The Morning, a pretty badass name as it sounds relates to a character in Game Of Thrones, Sir Arthur Dayne, regarded as the most skillfull swordsman in the history of Westeros.
My username was made up by wanxiaowei. He actually combined the name of ACRush (the most distinguished one in our country) and mathlover (the most distinguished one in our university), in order to show respect to them.
I'm a lolicon.
Any guesses?
Mohit+Eminem=mohinem 17ms at suffix denotes Eminem's dob (17 October 1972).
My username is gzy_ioi_2020_ak, because gzy will ak ioi2020.
what's gzy handle?
Jayce132
Well,I am going to register another user with the username "Loveti". It is a permutation of word "violet" and of course,violet is my favourite flower. I once thought about "Loveit",but I think that "Loveti" is more lovely on the pronunciation.
My username is It5t, because I want to be as strong as Itst. But it seems like i can't reach GM :(
As I could think of bruteforce solutions before anything else
Well, I admire hos.lyric very much, so I decided to edit her username a bit to get my name. I turned up with Lyrically. But one day, I searched on AtCoder and accidentally browsed into her profile. Well that's when I found that I accidentally thought exactly the same as her because her CodeChef and TopCoder usernames are all Lyrically!
Actually I was wondering what was your story when I see your (my?) name on OJ. Thanks for sharing!
I like blue haired anime girls
Mine is a nickname from 5th grade lol
I wanted to make my username unique and related to coding. And I'm very much interested about mystery. That's why I put 'spy' before 'bit' and I became the "spybit".
You got the suitable username I had ever seen
Mine is kind of the opposite of my name and the 1 is due to the CS GO player s1mple and the legendary quote from a commentator: One in his name number one in the game. Wanted to replicate that, not only the name!
As for these usernames, the meaning is very obvious WrongAnswerOnTest2 WrongAnswerOnTestCase2 WAOntest2
or others like TLE or MLE (in any abbreviation) which are related to the common verdicts on submissions
was inspired by richard feynman but i misread his spelling And for a long time i thought it was correct until my friend pointed me out
this was fenny, man
I would like to know the story behind the handle 035966_L3
It's from a game that developed by me. It has several levels. A lucky player passed Level 3 (the meaning of "L3") by getting 35966 points (the meaning of "035966") in May 2020. Sadly, the game has been closed in July 2021.
mashed keyboard when I was 13 and kept it since
just FBI
Feysa
Bogdan
Ivanovych
It's my favorite food.
Chaskas are generally made from white corn kernels that have been boiled and softened in water, which typically contains salt and epazote.The ingredients can vary; toppings for chaskas include (but are not limited to) combinations of lime juice, chili powder or hot sauce, salt, cotija cheese, and mayonnaise.
Real Meaning
copying my idol (ianisam)
My name is Naman and 1213 is a special number because of three things: Prime Number I was born on 13/12/2008 Last 4 digits of number plate of my car are 1213
From my side algo means algorithm and plutus is the greek god of money. So algoplutus means someone rich in algorithm. If any suggestions please do tell me before 10th Jan.
Favorite WWE star: Seth Freakin Rollins Favorite Player: David Beckham
Username Story: Seth Rollins middle name + Beckham's jersey number = freakin23
actually i didn't notice any intention!
Inspired from Sparky Master
The only platform where I got my actual name as username.