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Quixey Challenge Results Are In!

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Jordan

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Thank you to everyone that participated in the April Quixey Challenge! 

It was the 1st national Quixey Challenge and had the highest number of challenge participants to date!

Here are some results for all those that are curious about the challenge results…

5 Challenges – Fix a bug in 1 minute. Win $100.
325 registered for a challenge
14 solved a bug in under 60 seconds (4%)

C_programming_languageChallenge # 1
Coding Language: C
Participants: 100
# that solved in under 60 seconds: 6
Fastest time: 39 seconds

 

coffeescript_logo_Readyforce_quixey_challegeChallenge # 2
Coding Language: CoffeeScript
Participants: 27
# that solved in under 60 seconds: 0
Fastest time: N/A

Python_logoChallenge # 3
Coding Language: Python 3
Participants: 77
# that solved in under 60 seconds: 0
Fastest time: N/A

Challenge # 4
Python_logoCoding Language: Python 3
Participants: 56
# that solved in under 60 seconds: 1
Fastest time: 59 seconds

 

Quixey_challenge_Java_logoChallenge # 5
Coding Language: Java
Participants: 65
# that solved in under 60 seconds: 7
Fastest time: 13 seconds

 

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks for playing! 

Stay tuned for details on the next coding challenge! 

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Readyforce and Quixey Team Up To Host Nationwide Coding Challenge

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Jordan

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It has been a couple of months since the last Quixey challenge gave coders the opportunity to find and solve a bug in 60 seconds to win $100 but good news… the Quixey Challenge is back!

Readyforce and Quixey have teamed up to give coders from around the country a shot at bug solving glory.


We wanted to bring the Quixey challenge back in a big way, so today we are happy to announce that the 1st nationwide Quixey Challenge will be happening Sunday, April 28th!
The nitty gritty details are below.

There is a limited number of spots open so sign up today to reserve your spot!

SIGN UP HERE


When: Sunday, April 28th

The challenges will take place at 12 noon, 3pm, 5pm, 6pm and 9pm (all times pacific)

The Quixey Challenge is a 100% free coding challenge and takes less than 10 minutes to participate in.  Find and solve a bug in under 60 seconds and win $100. It’s that simple.

There will be a total of 5 challenges throughout Sunday with a limit of 100 participants per challenge.  To sign up and reserve your spot you must register here: ….it takes less than 15 seconds.

You can only participate in 1 challenge per day but feel free to register for whichever time is best for your schedule.  The challenge is limited to 100 participants and registration is on a first come, first serve basis so please register ASAP.

After registering, there is a practice area for you to get used to the format of the challenge and sharpen your skills.

The challenges will all vary but will be in one of the following programming languages:

  • Python 3
  • Javascript
  • Java
  • C
  • Coffeescript

 

Take a look at the screenshot below for an example of what a challenge looks like:

Quixey_Readyforce_coding_challenge_screenshot

Remember: 100 spots per challenge, available on a first come first served basis.

REGISTER HERE

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Hacker Tour Last Stop Coding Challenge Round Up & Giveaway Winners Announced

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Sara Mooradian

After visiting 25 campuses and meeting over 5,000 students this past fall, Readyforce wrapped up the 2012 Hacker Tour with the ‘Last Stop’ inter-collegiate coding challenge.  Partnering with HackerRank, we invited students from all over the world to write their best code in order to make their ‘bots’ compete in a virtual maze.  Think Tron meets Pac-Man.

The Schools

Over 500 students from more than 83 different schools registered for the coding competition.  MIT had the most students registered with 33 coders, followed by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne with 31, Auburn University with 18, University of Michigan had 17 and Princeton with 16 coders.

The Prizes

At stake in addition to top honors and bragging rights was cold hard cash: $1,500 for 1st place, $500 to 2nd and $200 to 3rd place.  But those that didn’t finish in the top three spots didn’t walk away empty handed.

In what some argued might be the best conciliatory prize ever, students in fourth through sixth places battled for Romo, the smartphone robot from Romotive.   Still those top 25 scorers received received 12-months free from Firebase and those in the top 50 received $20 credit from uber.  A nice haul for the top 50 students that participated!

 

The Final Scoreboard

Top honors went to Kevin Davis of Auburn University who along with his fellow War Eagle, David Shuckerow rocked the campus into the wee hours of the night in order to claim major bragging rights for Auburn. There’s a great back story here that David shared with us and Mashable wrote a great article on it.

The Final Standings

Place Name School
1 Kevin Davis Auburn University
2 Kevin Whelan University of Virginia
3 David Briemann Hochschule Darmstadt (University of Applied Sciences) – Germany
4 David Shuckerow Auburn University
5 Joao Goethe University Frankfurt – Germany
6 Jared Beaudrot Clemson University

 

Giveaway Winners Announced!

To celebrate the end of the Hacker Tour, we announced at the end of the coding challenge that we would be giving away an  iPhone 5 as well as 10 swag packages.  The entries were counted and verified and the contest winners are:

Grand Prize:

Sayed S.

10 HackerTour Swag bag winners:  

Marianne J., Giuliana G.,  Lixuan Z., Roopak V., Donald H., Vandit K., Neelesh S., Patrick C., Adrian T., and Olga S.

Congratulations to all the lucky winners!

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Last Stop Hacker Tour Coding Challenge Almost Over! New Prizes Added!

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Sara Mooradian

Time is Running Out!

We’re in the final stretches of our Last Stop Hacker Tour coding challenge with HackerRank and have had an amazing turnout and participation. With approximately 36 hours left, we’ve added even more new prizes to the already awesome takeaways. There’s still time to enter for a chance to win and the top 50 scorers are all taking home something awesome.

Coding challenge ends Sunday 12/2 at midnight.

New Prize from Firebase

 

Firebase, the scalable real-time backend for your web app, is awarding 12 months of their $249/mo package to the top 25 scores. This is on top of  uber awarding the top 50 scores with $20 credits!

Fourth through sixth place scorers will also take home Romo, the smartphone robot from Romotive. Have you seen this thing? It’s sweet!!!

Romo the smartphone from Romotive

 

The top tier prizes are cold hard cash. First place scorer on the leaderboard will take home the grand prize of $1,500, 2nd place gets $500 and 3rd gets $200. So if you code, you really should enter because your odds of winning something awesome from some fantastic startups is pretty good.

But hurry! The contest ends Sunday 12/2 at midnight.

Click here to enter: www.hackerrank.com/hackertour

 

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