You can beat 99% of people by
…preparing the night before
…showing up early
…leaving only when the job is done right
…remembering peoples names
…following up
…improving one thing each time
It’s not about being fancy. Doing the basics every time is what makes you advanced.
Congratulations to @buybackoff for parsing 1 Billion Rows in an astounding 2.9 seconds (4.5 GB/s using .NET 8 on my Xeon Mac). That's going to be a tough one to beat!
Scoreboard at: github.com/praeclarum/1brc