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Type of site | Competitive programming |
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| Available in | English, Russian |
| Country of origin | Russia |
| Owner | Mikhail Mirzayanov |
| Created by | Mikhail Mirzayanov |
| URL | codeforces |
| Users | 600,000 |
| Launched | April 10, 2009 |
| Current status | Active |
Codeforces (Russian: Кодефорсес) is a website that hosts competitive programming contests.[1] It is maintained by a group of competitive programmers from ITMO University led by Mikhail Mirzayanov.[2] Since 2013, Codeforces claims to surpass Topcoder in terms of active contestants.[3] As of 2019, it has over 600,000 registered users.[4] Codeforces along with other similar websites are used by some sport programmers, like Gennady Korotkevich, Petr Mitrichev, Benjamin Qi and Makoto Soejima, and by other programmers interested in furthering their careers.[5][6][7]
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Codeforces — a Russian competitive coding site with contestants from around the world
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- ^ "Codeforces results 2017". codeforces.com.
- ^ "The jocks of computer code do it for the job offers". Bloomberg. 25 September 2015.
- ^ "Are programming competitions a good use of time?". wordpress.com. 23 December 2016.
- ^ "Student of CSE Dept. becomes Candidate Master in Codeforces". www.lus.ac.bd. 26 April 2018.