Yeah, congrats Jimmy. I did horrible in the first round... I cracked under pressure, shoulda had the 1000 point answer, I was really online a couple of lines off. Oh well. Fred Couglin advanced to the first or second round. I think Sam Heald didn't enter, though he does the SRMs... Congrats Jimmy!

YOU WERE IN IT TOO? What kinds of questions were there?

Actually, if you register for TopCoder and log into the arena, you can view and try the practice problems! Give it a whirl! Remember, we had like an hour.

they closed registration

Register for topcoder, the google thing is over. Google simply sponsored that contest and are not affiliated with TopCoder. Register with TopCoder and check out the practice rooms

"really online"? ...

Really only a couple lines off =)

That's simply incredible. Awesome Job!!!

I wondered when you guys planned on fixing the spelling of his name :-p

Yeah, cut and paste error. Pretty embarrassing.

Oh, the a->å?

Åååååååååååååååh!!!

å -- How does this affect the pronounciation?

lå = law

I figured it would be pronounced like that anyway, with or without the å. Åççéñ†š å®é ¢øøl (so is memorizing the ASCII character map ;-))

8u7 D035 17 C0/\/\|>4r3 2 1337 5|>33k?? (Okay.. that sucked.)

|\|/\|-|, | 6(_)|__\-_\- |'|' |2|:/\|_|_'/ |)[]|:_\-|\|''|' <[]|\/||>/\|2|:, ßù† ¢hå®åç†é®š ã®ê çôõl †öø. 1 h0p3 n080d33 h4735 my w31rd v3rz10n 0v 1337 y00z3d 48uv.

Please translate. I don't speak hacker (yet). I got Geek_Productions's "leet speak", but I don't have the "|\|/\|-|, | 6(_)|__\-_\- |'|' |2|:/\|_|_'/ |)[]|:_\-|\|''|' <[]|\/||>/\|2|:," kind.

Well, it varies slightly from what other people may or may not be used to... for instance, I hate using |_| for U... I do (_). Easier to distinguish from in a big word. But it's still probably not too hard to read, if you just look at it right.

they may be, but spammers try to circumvent spam filters by using accented versions of the letters instead.

Oh yeah, I've noticed. But.. it still looks cool :)