A contest on ConnectToCampus is not graded on how fast you typed. Your submission is run against the test cases the problem ships with, and your score is the share of them your code passes. **What that means in practice** - A solution that handles the sample input but fails the large case scores below a slower one that is correct. - Partial credit is real, so submitting a working brute force beats submitting nothing. - The clock only decides the tie-break. **Reading your own result** Open the submission and look at which cases failed, not just the total. One failure on an edge case is a different lesson from six timeouts, and the next problem you open should be chosen from that difference.
