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Code Challenge

A 4 hours online competition about coding addressed to young coders

Info

March 21, 2024
16:30 – 20:30 CET
2-4 people per team
€ 10.000, € 4.000, € 3.200

It's the Challenge Day!

Are you a student or a professional into coding?

Use your favourite programming language to compete against developers from all around the world solving algorithm-based puzzles.

What's the challenge about?

The Code Challenge is an international team-based coding competition, powered by Reply since 2019, consisting of an algorithm-based problem to solve in 4 hours, starting from an input file format and few scoring rules.

STANDARD ED.
Open to all code enthusiasts aged 16 or older, with hard logical mathematical problems to solve by writing an algorithm in any programming language.
REPLYERS' ED.
An exclusive edition dedicated to Replyers, with a specific leaderboard leading to unique prizes and opportunities in Reply.
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Join before it’s too late

To play the challenge registration in a team is needed.

Register by 20th March, 23:59 CET, choosing the category that best fits for you.

While registering, tell us the name of your University to join the University Students' League and try to win a Reply Arcade Game or a financial donation for a research project.

Are you a high school students from 14 to 19?
Discover the Code Challenge Teen edition

Form your team online

To compete you have to form a team from 2-4 members.

  • If you already know some good coders, create your own team and invite your friends.

  • Otherwise search for and meet new teammates from all over the world on the Discord server.

⚠️ If you don’t join any team, your registration won’t be completed and you cannot take part to the challenge.

Learn with AI and get ready

No matter how good you are at coding, learning is always the key for improvement. Access exclusive learning material to get ready for the next challenge.

Breaking news
This year discover how 🤖 Artificial Intelligence can help or not in solving the challenge problems and test your AI skills during the competition.

Have fun while coding!

On March 21, at 16:30 CET, we’ll publish the problem statement on your challenge page and you'll have 4 hours to play.

A leaderboard will be regularly updated to show how your and other teams are performing.

Test what you learned about coding with AI to climb a dedicated leaderboard and have more chances to win unique goodies.

Win unique prizes

One week after the challenge day the final leader board will be published and all finalists for each category notified.

Each member of the winning team will get a reward of:

🥇 € 10.000
🥈 € 4.000
🥉 € 3.200

Afraid of the low positions? Register to the University League and the AI League to have more chances to win special gadgets.

Test your AI skills during the challenge! 
Try to win unique goodies joining a dedicated leaderboard.

Why taking part

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Improve your knowledge
while having fun
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Connect with talented
Replyers
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Build your international
network of friends
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Earn your spotlight
and win unique prizes

Thanks to the Code Masters

The challenge has been designed by a team of 19 coding experts from Reply (the Code Masters), that will support you the day of the challenge.

Marco

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Stefano

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Maurizio

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Giuseppe

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Thierry Massimiliano

Live IT

Gaspare

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Mirko

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Marino

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Chiara

Healthy it

Gianmarco

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Francesco

Blockchain IT

Giacomo

Healthy IT

Luca

Healthy IT

Claudio

Healthy it

Daniel

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Andreas

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Jorn

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Saif Ben

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Sirian

Open IT

Thanks to the Code Masters

The challenge has been designed by a team of 19 coding experts from Reply (the Code Masters), that will support you the day of the challenge.

Card picture

Marco

Reply
Card picture

Stefano

spike digital it
Card picture

Maurizio

Live IT
Card picture

Giuseppe

Concept Engineering IT
Card picture

Thierry Massimiliano

Live IT
Card picture

Gaspare

Reply
Card picture

Mirko

Cluster IT
Card picture

Marino

net it
Card picture

Chiara

Healthy it
Card picture

Gianmarco

Blue it
Card picture

Francesco

Blockchain IT
Card picture

Giacomo

Healthy IT
Card picture

Luca

Healthy IT
Card picture

Claudio

Healthy it
Card picture

Daniel

Canvas DE
Card picture

Andreas

Canvas De
Reply logo

Jorn

Canvas DE
Reply logo

Saif Ben

Canvas De
Reply logo

Sirian

Open IT

Thanks to the Code Masters

The challenge has been designed by a team of 19 coding experts from Reply (the Code Masters), that will support you the day of the challenge.

Card picture

Marco

Reply
Card picture

Stefano

spike digital it
Card picture

Maurizio

Live IT
Card picture

Giuseppe

Concept Engineering IT
Card picture

Thierry Massimiliano

Live IT
Card picture

Gaspare

Reply
Card picture

Mirko

Cluster IT
Card picture

Marino

net it
Card picture

Chiara

Healthy it
Card picture

Gianmarco

Blue it
Card picture

Francesco

Blockchain IT
Card picture

Giacomo

Healthy IT
Card picture

Luca

Healthy IT
Card picture

Claudio

Healthy it
Card picture

Daniel

Canvas DE
Card picture

Andreas

Canvas De
Reply logo

Jorn

Canvas DE
Reply logo

Saif Ben

Canvas De
Reply logo

Sirian

Open IT

Any doubts?

How will we get updates about the Reply Code Challenge?

You’ll get some emails before and after the challenge, so check your mailbox regularly. You can always message the Reply Code Masters during the challenge via chat if you have questions.

What should our source code look like?

Your team can use publicly released libraries and tools, but your solution must use original code. To be valid, every submission must include a file containing the source code of the program you developed to generate the output. Each source code file must be a UTF-8 plain text file or an archive of UTF-8 files.

Who wins?

At the end of the code game, the Reply Code Masters will review and validate the best scoring submission from top-ranked teams on the leaderboard. The Reply Code Masters’ decisions regarding the rules of the coding competition are final.

Join our community of challengers and start to code.

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