• @myklOP
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      12 days ago

      Haha, I spent about two hours fiddling about in the debugger and drawing bad diagrams to get an answer. I just checked and it turns out that I also got my personal best ranking on it too, though I’m not sure it should count :-)

      • @[email protected]
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        12 days ago

        That just makes sense – the top-1k are competitive programmers, and today’s puzzle had nothing to do with competitive programming :)

        • @myklOP
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          12 days ago

          True, I’ve just been looking at the comments on the other place, and pretty much everyone there seems to have resorted to figuring it out manually too.

          • @[email protected]M
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            214 hours ago

            If it had been more than 4 swaps, or larger distance swaps, this could have been a nightmare challenge.