List of Problems Having Short Statements (800 to 1500)

Long, wordy statements can be exhausting, especially for beginners. So here is a list of problems with short and easy-to-read statements in the 800–1500 range, a companion to Abdullah500's list for 1600–3000.

Notes: - Every problem here has a statement of under 1000 characters (input/output and samples not counted). - Within each rating, problems are listed in order of problem ID, not sorted by statement length. - Ratings are as of April 2026 and may shift a little over time. - Short statement does not always mean an easy idea. Some of these are tricky! - The data comes from alwa97/codeforces-1000. Many thanks to the author. I picked about 50 problems per rating from there, so check that repo if you want even more.

800

1. 41A — Translation
2. 50A — Domino piling
3. 59A — Word
4. 112A — Petya and Strings
5. 158A — Next Round
6. 228A — Is your horseshoe on the other hoof?
7. 266A — Stones on the Table
8. 271A — Beautiful Year
9. 281A — Word Capitalization
10. 339A — Helpful Maths
11. 443A — Anton and Letters
12. 467A — George and Accommodation
13. 469A — I Wanna Be the Guy
14. 520A — Pangram
15. 546A — Soldier and Bananas
16. 581A — Vasya the Hipster
17. 705A — Hulk
18. 734A — Anton and Danik
19. 977A — Wrong Subtraction
20. 978A — Remove Duplicates
21. 988A — Diverse Team
22. 1030A — In Search of an Easy Problem
23. 1154A — Restoring Three Numbers
24. 1176A — Divide it!
25. 1296A — Array with Odd Sum
26. 1323A — Even Subset Sum Problem
27. 1325A — EhAb AnD gCd
28. 1325B — CopyCopyCopyCopyCopy
29. 1328A — Divisibility Problem
30. 1343B — Balanced Array
31. 1352A — Sum of Round Numbers
32. 1370A — Maximum GCD
33. 1374A — Required Remainder
34. 1385A — Three Pairwise Maximums
35. 1389A — LCM Problem
36. 1398A — Bad Triangle
37. 1421A — XORwice
38. 1472B — Fair Division
39. 1493A — Anti-knapsack
40. 1513A — Array and Peaks
41. 1514A — Perfectly Imperfect Array
42. 1517A — Sum of 2050
43. 1520B — Ordinary Numbers
44. 1553A — Digits Sum
45. 1560A — Dislike of Threes
46. 1594A — Consecutive Sum Riddle
47. 1633A — Div. 7
48. 1699A — The Third Three Number Problem
49. 1760A — Medium Number
50. 1971A — My First Sorting Problem

900

1. 6A — Triangle
2. 11A — Increasing Sequence
3. 16B — Burglar and Matches
4. 26A — Almost Prime
5. 34B — Sale
6. 44A — Indian Summer
7. 52A — 123-sequence
8. 96A — Football
9. 263B — Squares
10. 267A — Subtractions
11. 275A — Lights Out
12. 299B — Ksusha the Squirrel
13. 318A — Even Odds
14. 320A — Magic Numbers
15. 424A — Squats
16. 474A — Keyboard
17. 598A — Tricky Sum
18. 621A — Wet Shark and Odd and Even
19. 622B — The Time
20. 670A — Holidays
21. 808A — Lucky Year
22. 863A — Quasi-palindrome
23. 870A — Search for Pretty Integers
24. 892A — Greed
25. 914A — Perfect Squares
26. 980A — Links and Pearls
27. 1047B — Cover Points
28. 1095B — Array Stabilization
29. 1110A — Parity
30. 1175A — From Hero to Zero
31. 1208A — XORinacci
32. 1351B — Square?
33. 1380A — Three Indices
34. 1436B — Prime Square
35. 1462C — Unique Number
36. 1475A — Odd Divisor
37. 1475B — New Year's Number
38. 1496A — Split it!
39. 1535B — Array Reodering
40. 1612B — Special Permutation
41. 1613A — Long Comparison
42. 1617B — GCD Problem
43. 1714A — Everyone Loves to Sleep
44. 1758B — XOR = Average
45. 1927B — Following the String
46. 1985D — Manhattan Circle
47. 2033B — Sakurako and Water
48. 2035B — Everyone Loves Tres

1000

1. 1A — Theatre Square
2. 3A — Shortest path of the king
3. 29A — Spit Problem
4. 43A — Football
5. 58A — Chat room
6. 69A — Young Physicist
7. 102B — Sum of Digits
8. 118A — String Task
9. 131A — cAPS lOCK
10. 219A — k-String
11. 299A — Ksusha and Array
12. 322A — Ciel and Dancing
13. 334A — Candy Bags
14. 352A — Jeff and Digits
15. 379A — New Year Candles
16. 462A — Appleman and Easy Task
17. 476A — Dreamoon and Stairs
18. 507A — Amr and Music
19. 535A — Tavas and Nafas
20. 560A — Currency System in Geraldion
21. 577A — Multiplication Table
22. 584A — Olesya and Rodion
23. 622A — Infinite Sequence
24. 691A — Fashion in Berland
25. 753A — Santa Claus and Candies
26. 798A — Mike and palindrome
27. 887A — Div. 64
28. 1008B — Turn the Rectangles
29. 1051B — Relatively Prime Pairs
30. 1088B — Ehab and subtraction
31. 1101A — Minimum Integer
32. 1107B — Digital root
33. 1133A — Middle of the Contest
34. 1165B — Polycarp Training
35. 1174A — Ehab Fails to Be Thanos
36. 1177A — Digits Sequence (Easy Edition)
37. 1182A — Filling Shapes
38. 1211A — Three Problems
39. 1256A — Payment Without Change
40. 1257B — Magic Stick
41. 1312B — Bogosort
42. 1405B — Array Cancellation
43. 1411B — Fair Numbers
44. 1418A — Buying Torches
45. 1476A — K-divisible Sum
46. 1485A — Add and Divide
47. 1520C — Not Adjacent Matrix
48. 1695B — Circle Game
49. 1931C — Make Equal Again
50. 1968C — Assembly via Remainders

1100

1. 6B — President's Office
2. 12B — Correct Solution?
3. 43B — Letter
4. 53A — Autocomplete
5. 82A — Double Cola
6. 186A — Comparing Strings
7. 224A — Parallelepiped
8. 270A — Fancy Fence
9. 296A — Yaroslav and Permutations
10. 300A — Array
11. 349A — Cinema Line
12. 365A — Good Number
13. 382A — Ksenia and Pan Scales
14. 456A — Laptops
15. 475A — Bayan Bus
16. 501B — Misha and Changing Handles
17. 534A — Exam
18. 596A — Wilbur and Swimming Pool
19. 755B — PolandBall and Game
20. 797A — k-Factorization
21. 825A — Binary Protocol
22. 835B — The number on the board
23. 858A — k-rounding
24. 877A — Alex and broken contest
25. 911A — Nearest Minimums
26. 919B — Perfect Number
27. 1060B — Maximum Sum of Digits
28. 1117A — Best Subsegment
29. 1213B — Bad Prices
30. 1288B — Yet Another Meme Problem
31. 1327A — Sum of Odd Integers
32. 1366A — Shovels and Swords
33. 1478B — Nezzar and Lucky Number
34. 1490C — Sum of Cubes
35. 1511B — GCD Length
36. 1594B — Special Numbers
37. 1618C — Paint the Array
38. 1638B — Odd Swap Sort
39. 1656B — Subtract Operation
40. 1672C — Unequal Array
41. 1700B — Palindromic Numbers
42. 1708B — Difference of GCDs
43. 1712C — Sort Zero
44. 1739B — Array Recovery
45. 1783B — Matrix of Differences
46. 1821B — Sort the Subarray
47. 1840B — Binary Cafe
48. 1899C — Yarik and Array

1200

1. 5B — Center Alignment
2. 6C — Alice, Bob and Chocolate
3. 18C — Stripe
4. 27A — Next Test
5. 38B — Chess
6. 47B — Coins
7. 59B — Fortune Telling
8. 239A — Two Bags of Potatoes
9. 454B — Little Pony and Sort by Shift
10. 459A — Pashmak and Garden
11. 466A — Cheap Travel
12. 489A — SwapSort
13. 489B — BerSU Ball
14. 552B — Vanya and Books
15. 554B — Ohana Cleans Up
16. 660A — Co-prime Array
17. 749B — Parallelogram is Back
18. 754A — Lesha and array splitting
19. 803B — Distances to Zero
20. 842A — Kirill And The Game
21. 892B — Wrath
22. 977C — Less or Equal
23. 982A — Row
24. 999C — Alphabetic Removals
25. 1028B — Unnatural Conditions
26. 1068B — LCM
27. 1076B — Divisor Subtraction
28. 1104B — Game with string
29. 1143B — Nirvana
30. 1174B — Ehab Is an Odd Person
31. 1203B — Equal Rectangles
32. 1213C — Book Reading
33. 1315C — Restoring Permutation
34. 1352B — Same Parity Summands
35. 1352C — K-th Not Divisible by n
36. 1363A — Odd Selection
37. 1364A — XXXXX
38. 1406B — Maximum Product
39. 1433D — Districts Connection
40. 1497C1 — k-LCM (easy version)
41. 1512D — Corrupted Array
42. 1514B — AND 0, Sum Big
43. 1520D — Same Differences
44. 1541B — Pleasant Pairs
45. 1581B — Diameter of Graph
46. 1635C — Differential Sorting
47. 1681C — Double Sort
48. 1822D — Super-Permutation
49. 1826A — Trust Nobody
50. 1832C — Contrast Value

1300

1. 25A — IQ test
2. 36A — Extra-terrestrial Intelligence
3. 40A — Find Color
4. 57A — Square Earth?
5. 58B — Coins
6. 189A — Cut Ribbon
7. 203B — Game on Paper
8. 221B — Little Elephant and Numbers
9. 230B — T-primes
10. 251A — Points on Line
11. 276B — Little Girl and Game
12. 312B — Archer
13. 485B — Valuable Resources
14. 493A — Vasya and Football
15. 573A — Bear and Poker
16. 600B — Queries about less or equal elements
17. 661A — Lazy Caterer Sequence
18. 665C — Simple Strings
19. 770B — Maximize Sum of Digits
20. 844B — Rectangles
21. 876B — Divisiblity of Differences
22. 887B — Cubes for Masha
23. 965B — Battleship
24. 1016B — Segment Occurrences
25. 1029A — Many Equal Substrings
26. 1030C — Vasya and Golden Ticket
27. 1076C — Meme Problem
28. 1157B — Long Number
29. 1165C — Good String
30. 1174C — Ehab and a Special Coloring Problem
31. 1203C — Common Divisors
32. 1220B — Multiplication Table
33. 1260B — Obtain Two Zeroes
34. 1294C — Product of Three Numbers
35. 1373C — Pluses and Minuses
36. 1422B — Nice Matrix
37. 1454D — Number into Sequence
38. 1667A — Make it Increasing
39. 1703F — Yet Another Problem About Pairs Satisfying an Inequality
40. 1788C — Matching Numbers
41. 1913C — Game with Multiset
42. 1927D — Find the Different Ones!
43. 1988C — Increasing Sequence with Fixed OR
44. 1999E — Triple Operations
45. 2033D — Kousuke's Assignment
46. 2044E — Insane Problem
47. 2050D — Digital string maximization
48. 2169C — Range Operation

1400

1. 24A — Ring road
2. 26B — Regular Bracket Sequence
3. 41B — Martian Dollar
4. 111A — Petya and Inequiations
5. 180C — Letter
6. 219B — Special Offer! Super Price 999 Bourles!
7. 248B — Chilly Willy
8. 260A — Adding Digits
9. 289B — Polo the Penguin and Matrix
10. 315A — Sereja and Bottles
11. 379C — New Year Ratings Change
12. 435B — Pasha Maximizes
13. 489C — Given Length and Sum of Digits...
14. 520B — Two Buttons
15. 538B — Quasi Binary
16. 544B — Sea and Islands
17. 699B — One Bomb
18. 710B — Optimal Point on a Line
19. 762A — k-th divisor
20. 797B — Odd sum
21. 803A — Maximal Binary Matrix
22. 888C — K-Dominant Character
23. 1095C — Powers Of Two
24. 1167C — News Distribution
25. 1215B — The Number of Products
26. 1285C — Fadi and LCM
27. 1324D — Pair of Topics
28. 1351C — Skier
29. 1354C1 — Simple Polygon Embedding
30. 1355D — Game With Array
31. 1380C — Create The Teams
32. 1463B — Find The Array
33. 1494B — Berland Crossword
34. 1506D — Epic Transformation
35. 1526B — I Hate 1111
36. 1579D — Productive Meeting
37. 1606C — Banknotes
38. 1697C — awoo's Favorite Problem
39. 1749C — Number Game
40. 1772D — Absolute Sorting
41. 1790E — Vlad and a Pair of Numbers
42. 1838C — No Prime Differences
43. 1895C — Torn Lucky Ticket
44. 1918C — XOR-distance
45. 1923C — Find B
46. 1989C — Two Movies
47. 2009D — Satyam and Counting
48. 2020C — Bitwise Balancing

1500

1. 18A — Triangle
2. 22B — Bargaining Table
3. 31B — Sysadmin Bob
4. 39J — Spelling Check
5. 50B — Choosing Symbol Pairs
6. 114B — PFAST Inc.
7. 274A — k-Multiple Free Set
8. 276C — Little Girl and Maximum Sum
9. 325A — Square and Rectangles
10. 328B — Sheldon and Ice Pieces
11. 425A — Sereja and Swaps
12. 468A — 24 Game
13. 550A — Two Substrings
14. 550C — Divisibility by Eight
15. 630K — Indivisibility
16. 670D2 — Magic Powder — 2
17. 710C — Magic Odd Square
18. 742B — Arpa’s obvious problem and Mehrdad’s terrible solution
19. 746D — Green and Black Tea
20. 748B — Santa Claus and Keyboard Check
21. 845C — Two TVs
22. 868C — Qualification Rounds
23. 982C — Cut 'em all!
24. 991D — Bishwock
25. 1051C — Vasya and Multisets
26. 1101C — Division and Union
27. 1105C — Ayoub and Lost Array
28. 1133D — Zero Quantity Maximization
29. 1141C — Polycarp Restores Permutation
30. 1169B — Pairs
31. 1201B — Zero Array
32. 1213D1 — Equalizing by Division (easy version)
33. 1272D — Remove One Element
34. 1325C — Ehab and Path-etic MEXs
35. 1409D — Decrease the Sum of Digits
36. 1416A — k-Amazing Numbers
37. 1490F — Equalize the Array
38. 1516B — AGAGA XOOORRR
39. 1616C — Representative Edges
40. 1722G — Even-Odd XOR
41. 1742G — Orray
42. 1744E1 — Divisible Numbers (easy version)
43. 1774B — Coloring
44. 1809C — Sum on Subarrays
45. 1811E — Living Sequence
46. 1915F — Greetings
47. 1996D — Fun
48. 2093E — Min Max MEX

If you know other problems with short statements, share them in the comments! Happy coding!