Kinetic Coding

Event Overview: Participants will face a series of challenging algorithmic and problem-solving tasks designed to test their coding speed, logical thinking, and optimization skills. Each round will push contestants to think critically and implement efficient solutions under time pressure. Get ready to showcase your problem-solving mindset and compete with the best minds on campus! Submissions will be judged based on correctness, efficiency, and overall performance on the leaderboard. Objectives: Kinetic Coding 2026 is designed to: Foster algorithmic thinking and problem-solving skills among students. Provide a competitive platform for aspiring programmers at the national level. Encourage participation in competitive programming as part of Shaswat 2026. Identify and recognise top programming talent across institutions. Promote the culture of clean, efficient, and optimised coding. Registration Rules: Registration is mandatory for all participants before the contest begins. The contest is open to all currently enrolled undergraduate and postgraduate students. Offline participants must register and report to the designated computer lab at IIPE Campus on the day of the event. Online participants must register via the official Unstop platform. The contest link will be shared upon registration confirmation. Each participant must compete individually. Team entries are not permitted. Participants must use their institutional email address for registration. Multiple registrations by the same individual will result in immediate disqualification of all associated entries. Registrations after the deadline will not be entertained under any circumstances. IIPE students must carry a valid student ID card to the venue. Judging & Scoring System: Points are awarded only for Accepted (AC) submissions. Partial, Wrong Answer (WA), Time Limit Exceeded (TLE), or Runtime Error (RE) submissions do not earn points. Each problem contains multiple hidden test cases that are not visible to participants during the contest. The number of test cases passed per problem will be recorded and displayed on the scoreboard. In the event of a tie in total score, the total number of test cases passed across all problems will be used as a tiebreaker (see Section 7). Each participant may submit a solution for any problem multiple times. Only the best (highest-scoring) submission per problem is counted. The scoreboard will be frozen during the final 30 minutes of the contest.