Winning Google Kickstart Round A 2020 + Facecam 

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When you feel useless as a programmer, come here and feel even worse

I feel like a grandma who's looking at his nephews use a phone

Us : “AI is scary” AI : “william scares me more”

William solved an entire question in less than 2 minutes. I wasn't even able to read the first sentence of the question. I am graduating with a CE degree in less than 6 months, and it is scary to think that people like this guy exist. Good job man

You know he's not normal when dude isn't using dark mode

So Hollywood movies didn’t lie. People like this exist

This guys 1 TB homework folder is actually homework.

Idk if I’m more impressed with how quick he solves the problems, or his reading comprehension. Would take me at least 3 minutes to read the question, what a beast

*I think his native language is C++*

And meanwhile, it takes me like 5 minutes to think of a variable name.

This video actually makes me feel better. Because I used to think I was wasting my potential, but now I realize I never had any potential at all

For those feeling discouraged, it's simply the rule of 10000 hours. Do something for that long and you become good at it. This man, has devoted his time to master competitive programming since high school. Ask him to throw a baseball, dribble a basketball, or play advanced music - probably won't be able to. It's all what you and how much time you devote and how hard you work. So props to him, but it's not impossible. We all have this ability and potential.

wouldve been able to code like that if it wasnt for my knee injury

William: Wins google kickstart in less than 20 minutes Meanwhile me after 20 minutes:Ok I'm done reading the first problem

Honestly, this video inspires me. Every time I come back, I think of how much my knowledge has progressed compared to when I first watched it. I am still eons apart from the skill William Lin displays in this video, but man, it truly is fantastic to see how a lot of practice can take you far.

bro mad respect. Keep doing what you are doing. As a coder myself I can see how insane this accomplishment is. Greta job!!!!

They give him 3 hours and this dude just wins it in 17 minutes

this guy writes a for loop in 2 seconds and here i am trying to find where my brackets are

I know its 2 years ago, but congratulations man. I felt the joy and excitement through the screen :D

Bruhh! Seeing the video is only 17mins and contest being 3hrs I thought this is a fast forwarded and clipped version, never thought he coded all of them in 17 mins. What a beast !

This inspired me to give up on coding

when he said "these problems are pretty easy" i cried.

*You know what's more satisfying?* *Knowing that you will never be this good and can quit trying to be like this.*

That Speed is just insane. I literally can read the Question and u solved the hole Prob in that time, i read half of the Prob

alternative title: "making everyone feel stupid asf for 17 minutes and 10 seconds"

This guy doesn’t need stackoverflow, He is stackoverflow

What amazes me the most is how rapidly he understood the question and came up with the answer. Some people are built differently and he is one of them.

What a speed, mind blowing 🤯 and hats off to your coding practice 👏 👌

This is the guy who answers all Stack Overflow questions

William: look at what I can do in C++ His Dad: C++ why not A++

Now, I'm motivated. Never seen someone as good and as fast as this. Inspiring..

I'm most impressed by how you didn't need a pencil with a piece of paper for this. Although, maybe that, and splitting the screen may have granted you an even faster performance? You're truly inspiring.

he is the type of dude to create a whole entire messaging app just to send someone a message.

legend has it he said str firstWords “hello world” when he came out the womb

The questions arent that complex and hard but the amount of time this guy takes to solve them is fucking god like. I usually spend around 2 hours or so trying to write my program in pseudocode and then I can move onto the language I want to move onto...

so here i am again... watching the same recommended video of all the years, without even knowing what is happening but enjoying it. 😋

*came here for inspiration but I left with depression*

This dude hacked the RU-vid algorithm to get this in my recommended

You guys are saying the impressive part is how fast he came up with a solution. I didn't even read the first sentence of the problem and he already started writing.

What the! , I just have spent about 15 minutes understanding the question . And this guy nailed it in less than 5 min✨️

Mom : Hurry up William. We are leaving in 20 minutes. William : Be right there mom. Lemme just win this Google Coding Round really quick.

"If you think u are good at something, remember, there is always an Asian dude that's better than you."

It's literally like muscle memory and instinct, this guy's an athlete in his own respect

The SPEEEEEEEED, both reading and typing, like even typing normal words i don't get close to his speed, also what i find interesting is how he just codes mostly top to bottom, when i'm programming i'm jumping all over the place the entire time, very impressive over all

this is like my girlfriend, i dont understand but i like it

His typing is even faster than my copy paste coding :,,)

There's 1 minute left of video and I still cannot process what he has done, amazing.

Not a single clue on what’s going on here but this just looks amazing can’t believe a human is capable of doing this it’s out of this world 🤯🤯

I have no idea what's happening here but still watched for 17minutes straight.

Imagine if this guy just had a second monitor.

The way you type is so satisfying

This man went through something that made my vision blurry after and i might need glasses and has the audacity to say "i thought it would be harder" there are some smart people in this world

Give this guy a second monitor, he could have finished earlier.

everyone gangsta till the asian dude start typing in R2-D2

I’ve been programming for over a decade and man, I don’t think I’ll ever reach this level of awesomeness.

Bro, I'm literally just starting to learn programming and seeing you work is insane.

William: wins google kickstart in 17 minutes Me: wastes 17 minutes making sure it’s dark theme

"In whatever you do, there's an Asian better than you"

This is making me motivated but also extremely depressed at the same time, knowing that I'm stuck on the first 15 leetcode problems

Come back after learning programing for 6 month. Before studying in university, i don't know what he doing but its look so cool. Right now i understand (its just understand, dont ask me to try solve the problems) , but i need to pause read the questions first for 10 minutes. He freaking beast

He types so fast that I can't even type wrong letters that fast. Edit: A lot of the comments are saying about how I can type faster... ITS A JOKE!

this may seem impressive, but its actually a ruse. he is a machine; he doesn't even use a dark mode IDE...

bro this is extremely charming to see someone writing code like this , this is extraordinary just extraordinary . Im a junior S.E

I feel like potato after watching this... People like you are saving us. Thank you for that.

Man, I feel like coding is your native language.

Keyboard: I don't feel so well...

Personally, I'd love to see an explanation of your problem-solving process throughout this video in another video! I'm VERY new to CS, and working in C, and I don't understand a good bit of what you're doing with binary operators and other command lines.

He even has a Matrix wallpaper on his browser. A true coder.

He : starts typing My dad : who's drilling in ur room!!

I don’t even know what he’s doing

Your skills are amazing!

Geez, I'm a newbie at coding, and watching this video leaves an excellent impression to pursue my coding journey. Motivation acquired!

I pause my video , so that his fingers could rest.

wtf did you just read and understand the Allocation problem in 5 seconds? That's incredible...

man.... you're a monster in this computer, how fast are ya? congrats! greetings from 2022!

I'm waiting for your success bro🎉❤

-How fast can you code? -Yes.

As a software engineer student, these problems are actually quite easy, the impressive part though, is how fast he's coming up with a solution.

I think im not an expection here of not knowing what the hell those codes mean but still watching it because it is satisfying!

He's the guy answering all your questions in Chat GPT

Google: 3 Hours only William: 20 minutes max, take it or leave it.

His first words as a child: *std::cout

Hi Lin, Congratulations on winning the A round. Can you solve leetcode problems and explain the approach?

wow, you are a coding genius! thanks for waking me up, like fr you typing actually woke me up xD.

For somebody who doesn’t code, this is like living as a peasant in 1200CE and having a time traveler explain Bitcoin to me. I’m so far beyond confused that I’m not even impressed because I truly have no reference frame.

Mom : Hurry up William. We are leaving in 20 minutes. William : Be right there mom. Lemme just program minercraft physics, establish amazon, and program mark zuckerbergs hairline

Bro finished reading and writing the solution by the time I was done reading the first sentence. Impressive stuff

this man codes like he has an hour to live its insane, i wish to be this good one day

when u type so fast that erasing the whole line is faster than replacing one incorrect letter

No way this is real, he didn't say "I'm in"

Him at the final: "It was pretty easy" Me: "right"

I was looking for a beginners video to code cause I want to learn coding. but I came across this kid and now I changed my mind 😂😂😂

imagine how much faster this guy could have been if he didn't alt-tab like 5 million times

Alternate title: *17 minutes of keyboard ASMR*

Dude I just smashed my pc while solving easy level array questions, seeing him do this gives me existential crises.

This is unbelievably impressive, however it's important to point out that William (and other's who solve algorithms in competitions like this) know exactly which solution to apply to each problem. For example at 2:50 you hear him say "this looks like a Knapsack problem". Knowing what the problem is means he can much more quickly use an "out of the box" structure to solve that problem - for example Knapsack problem's can be solved using Dynamic Programming. Knowing that you need to use Dynamic Programming to solve a problem means you can instantly begin structuring your solution before you even finish reading the problem (as William does). To outsiders it will look like he is just coming up with a solution there and then. Although this is partly true, the basis to his solutions are from understanding what the problem is asking - to dumb it right down, he sees that the hole is a square, knows he needs to construct a square peg and knows how to structure this quickly. Not to take anything away from William, again this is unbelievably impressive. But dont feel like you cant ever be this good or understand problems like this - you can, you just need to learn how to see what area of programming the problem is targeting and then learn which solution to apply to that area :)

what my parents see when I redownload the drivers

*congratulations! You’ve completed the Asian beginner programming handbook*

You know dude is not human when he use light mode and that spooky light green matrix colored tab