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Advent of Code 2024 Week 2: this time it's all grids, all the time (awful.systems)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This morning I felt a bit burned out on AoC but thought I might as well just do some noodling around on breaks. Turns out it was

day 10

pretty dang easy

So far this is the current standing according to the finishing times of the 1st 100 answers on the global leaderboard

  1. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  2. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  3. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  4. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  5. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  6. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  7. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  8. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  9. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  10. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One look day 9 and I had to leave it until after work (puzzles unlock at 2PM for me), it wasn't THAT hard, but I had to leave it until later.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

puzzles unlock at 2PM

Almost exactly at the start of office hours for me.