Questions tagged [winning-criteria]
Indicates you are either proposing or asking for clarification on winning criteria.
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Is "parallelize as much as possible" a valid winning criterion?
I'd like to propose a new winning criterion: Parallelize as much as possible. A challenge of this type is to give a code that involves parallelization.
Let \$T\$ be the running time when run on a ...
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Do [tips] questions need an objective winning criterion?
The discussion surrounding a recent well-received non-code-golf tips question has brought up an interesting question: do tips questions need objective winning criteria?
My understanding of our ...
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Off-topic questions: could we require objective winning criteria? [duplicate]
We require that challenges have objective winning criteria, for reasons that have already been covered in various questions (in particular, see the link below). However, we receive many questions that ...
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Winning criterion tag request: [minimum-distinct-chars]
There are several questions where the challenge is to accomplish a task with the least distinct characters - Example, Example, Possibly example. There's probably more, these are hard to find.
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What are the winning criteria I can use for my challenge?
I'm writing a challenge, and I'm not sure what possible winning criteria exist. I know about code-golf, but what else is there to use, and how do I score answers with those criteria?
Every single ...
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Efficiency vs Length [duplicate]
Is there any winning criteria on the site which prioritises faster code instead of shorter code? My curiosity comes from questioning if size is better than efficiency or vice-versa. I know that using ...
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How to deal with questions that do not explain their winning criterion?
Recently there's been a bit of a discussion in chat about this challenge. It was put into the close vote queue as unclear, with the main reason being that it didn't state the winning criterion in the ...
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Is "A solution wins if there's no strictly better solution in multiple measures" a valid winning criterion?
To cite a recently sandboxed challenge by l4m2:
Solution win if there's no strictly better solution, aka. no solution that take less or same amount of items in mapping table, less or same amount of ...
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How many winners can a challenge have?
I'm currently writing a challenge which forces people to work in pairs to participate in the challenge. However, this leads to the question, who wins in the pair?
I'm thinking about (ideally) having ...
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Alternative winning criterions for cops and robbers challenges?
Sometimes the classic CnR winning criterion:
Cops
If your submission has not been cracked within a week, it is considered safe. The shortest safe submission wins.
Robbers
The robber ...
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Is [answer-chaining] a self-contained winning criteria tag?
I recently saw that someone had edited an answer chaining question to have code-challenge. At first I balked at that, and after checking the first page of answer-chaining, I confirmed my original ...
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Does the OP have to explicitly state the winning criteria?
If a challenge is tagged with code-golf or fastest-code, do you really have to say that that is the winning criteria in the question? It seems pretty obvious, just by looking at the tags, right? After ...
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Winning criteria request: [time-attack]
We have never had a criteron about time making code. Do we need one? If we do, how do we calculate the time? If not, why not?
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New contest type proposal: cross-codes [duplicate]
Cross-codes is making a crossword puzzle, but with codes.
For example, We have a 10*10 (not constant, this means the size may vary for each contest) grid:
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What standard should be used for [code-golf] byte counts? [duplicate]
Some languages, like V and Charcoal use their own character systems. In the meantime, next to all languages support common (one ...
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If a question is closed due to no objective victory criterion, and has many answers already, should duplicates of it be allowed?
I recently came across this question, which is (rightfully) closed as having no victory condition. Most of the existing answers don't aim for any particular goal other than answering the question, so ...
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Why is this answer considered non-competitive?
A few weeks ago I posted this answer on a challenge. Yesterday it was deleted because "it isn't a serious contender for the winning criteria" despite getting the second best score in the challenge. ...
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Should the victory condition for a challenge always ensure that it has only a single winner?
Back when I first posted a challenge, it was closed as unclear, on the basis that – despite having an objective victory condition – the victory condition allowed ties. After searching Meta, I can't ...
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Is Brainfuck considered a serious contender
Brainf*** is far from a terse language. A (partially) golfed solution may be 1000's of bytes long. Similar to JSF***, these submissions are often autogenerated and will require significant work to ...
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Phrasing a winning criterion to avoid excluding solutions
Every so often old challenges are found which no longer meet our requirements, resulting in them being closed. Since there is renewed interest in this question it is in danger of suffering the same ...
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Challenges with categories of winners
A challenge must have an objective winning criterion. However, does this have to define a single winner, or is it acceptable for a challenge to have categories of winners? We already encourage people ...
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New tag proposal - anarchy
This is not to be confused with anarchy golf, which it is named after.
This tag means that each language has its own leaderboard, and the leaderboard will not only list the answerer, but any editors ...
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Why do we have objective winning criteria?
2 years ago, we discussed dropping the objective winning criterion requirement. No consensus was really reached. I'd really like to start that conversation again, as I feel like it is hindering our ...
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Are pure programming puzzles on topic?
The tag wiki for programming puzzle says:
A programming puzzle includes a goal, a partially completed program,
and rules outlining how the program can be modified. The program is
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What should we do with challenges with unfortunate win conditions?
This has now happened three times in recent history:
Two-zero-one-five puzzle
Stringing a Pearl Necklace
How do I get more Klotski in my life?
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Proposing new winning criterion tag: Voter-judged
I'm stepping into a hornet's nest here.
Popularity contests have been controversial. Some detractors believe that non-objective winning criteria are simply unacceptable. Others are OK with ...
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Changing winning criterion in a question
I recently posted a question to codegolf which did not have a well formulated win criterion. However, I did receive some answers to the question.
Because the question is on hold due to "off-topic", ...
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Winning Criteria vs Valid Criteria
Winning criteria determine which submission wins. For example, the following are winning criteria.
The submission with the fastest code on any reasonable desktop machine wins.
Valid criteria ...
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Make the criteria tags obligatory
There is this question:
Should we consider dropping or modifying the "objective winning criteria" requirement?
Instead, think it is better to make the winning criteria tags:
atomic-...
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Is this combined scoring rule code-golf, popularity-contest, or code-challenge?
This question has an interesting scoring rule.
calculate the score by dividing number of bytes by number of votes - lowest score wins.
One could argue that code-golf and popularity-contest both ...
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Should we consider dropping or modifying the "objective winning criteria" requirement?
Where as
The site has stableized (not to stay stagnated) with fairly low activity.
There have been from time to time questions that do not meet the requirements in our FAQ but do draw much attention ...
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Use BZIP2(sourceCode) size instead of Code-Minifiers and Character-Counts?
how about adapting the rules of Code Golf to replace less code-characters are better rules (=> code minifiers) with: the smaller BZIP2(sourcecode) the better?
I claim the true intent of character ...
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Close questions early!
Questions without winning criterion should be closed early (as 'not constructive', better, if possible, with an own category: Missing winning criterion.
Else, people start working on CG-solutions, and ...
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New Code-Golf metric: Atomic-Code-Golf
I posted this on the Puzzle Lab chat, but it didn't get much response (except for Gareth...thanks Gareth!). Thus, I'm posting it here. Please feel free to chat on the Puzzle Lab if you have input ...
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What makes winning criteria "objective"?
The FAQ says (in part)
All questions on this site, whether a programming puzzle or a code golf, should have [... an] objective primary winning criterion, so that it is possible to indisputably ...