Being fond of geography and travelling. I find myself comparing different countries all the time. Now being a participant in the algorithm invitational. I couldn't help making some statistics about the leader board that I think every one would love to see. I spotted the number of contestants from each country on the leader board and found them as follows: ((--Argentina 2 -- Austria 3 -- Australia 2 -- Brazil 4 -- Canada 6 -- Switzerland 1 -- China 37 -- Germany 15 -- Ecuador 1 -- France 6 -- Greece 1 -- Hong Kong SAR 2 -- Hungary 5 -- Indonesia 2 -- India 4 -- Italy 4 -- Japan 27 -- Korea 4 -- Lithuania 5 -- Latvia 3 -- Mexico 1 -- Netherlands 1 -- Norway 1 -- Peru 1 -- Poland 19 -- Romania 9 -- Russia 5 -- Singapore 1 -- Slovakia 1 -- Thailand 1 -- Tunisia 1 -- Turkey 1 -- United Kingdom 2 -- United States 14 -- Viet Nam 4 -- Serbia and Montenegro 3 --)) One interesting thing I noticed is that China comes the first in number and quality as well ... the leaderboard leader is from China (Let's give him a big hand :D). Furthermore, several of the toppers are from China, too. Remarkable numbers are seen in China, Japan, Poland, Germany and USA. Of the most significant countries on the board comes Viet Nam with only 4 leaders. However, they are all above the 50th and three of them are real toppers. I really like viewing the leader board. Don't You?!

Last night has been a very exciting one for me with Herbert and I am spending the whole morning on it today ... I could solve up to the 11th level ... I am gaining experience and familiarity with Herbert ... solutions are taking less and less time ... However optimization is talking LOOONGER time ... :D ... I hope I can do better .. the same to you all HERBERTers :D

This is my first blog entry on theSpoke.net. I have always been too lazy to blog. However I have been motivated by the excitement I felt when I started participating in the Algorithm invitational. I haven't been participating because of my exams. I ave solve 3 levels only and they took me a lot of time because i keep trying to optimize for a looooong time ... I hope I will fnd myself a place on the leadr board .. maybe the 1000th .... :p