Gennady Korotkevich Biography: The Unstoppable King of Coding | Tourist's Journey to 4000 Elo

[@whyItIsHappening]

As per his wikipedia page - "His parents, Vladimir and Lyudmila Korotkevich, are programmers in the mathematics department at Francysk Skaryna Homiel State University. At age 6, he became interested in his parents' work. When he was 8, his father designed a children's game he could use to learn programming." He definitely put in the effort to reach where he is today, but a fair share of credit goes to his upbringing. I would say his parents did a brilliant parenting. Huge respect for them too.

[@b088mohdzaid5]

Yes, that’s where the gap begins we only see the achievement of a person without knowing his background.

[@MishaChorniy]

Broken life to make high school teachers to proud of him..

[@Discoverer-of-Teleportation]

He started coding in 2003, first participate ioi in 2006😢😢 And we in 2018/19/20/21 and that too also in adult age when too much responsibility on us ....😂😂and gennady started at age 8 when no responsibility and learning power maximum then😢😢 15 year advantage from us

[@Discoverer-of-Teleportation]

16 year advantage from us 😂😂😂fuck

[@heypsycho]

in conclusion give up

[@lancetv4826]

This dude breathes code.

[@KewalTailor]

Competitive code*

[@khzzzzzzzz]

​@@KewalTailorI assure you this guy have more opportunities to work, than any react (or any framework expert).. every good competitive programmer ends in companies like google etc

[@KewalTailor]

@@khzzzzzzzz not always, you need solid projects for that

[@Jamesman2070]

@@KewalTailor development is way easier than competitive coding

[@KewalTailor]

@@Jamesman2070 you think that cause you have pu*sy projects in mind, those don't take even a week to develop, whereas there are some absolutely BANGER projects in my mind that will be REALLY difficult and also interesting to develop

[@ЕгорМалько-б7ш]

Tourist was my teacher in ITMO University back in 2020 💪💪

[@its385]

Was he in teaching assistant or doing fulltime after graduating from ITMO?

[@MarenSajdaras]

Gennady is the Top G of competitive programming, absolutely an inspiration for others

[@zuhayersiddique6430]

But can he center a div

[@yashwantrana6855]

😂😂 it was funny en

[@unknownymous2955]

he will google it

[@akashpatil1638]

😂😂

[@daddy-w6o5]

he will ask chatGPT

[@yashwantrana6855]

@@daddy-w6o5 Gemini tooo for checking which is better

[@amanjha5883]

Average competitors in my hackathons be like💀💀💀

[@Trendi_Vibes]

Is the hackathon mendatory to become master in coding ?

[@obrutus]

I came to his profile late within my CP journey, but when I did, it put a next level of inspiration within my journey. Gennady Korotkevich (tourist), a man with great skills.

[@broadestsmiler]

HANK!!! HANK!!! DON'T USE THE ACRONYM FOR COMPETITIVE PROGRAMMING!!! IT WILL GET YOU ARRESTED!!! HANK!!!

[@ege8240]

bruv dont use that acronym 😂

[@car_dot110]

Cp?

[@23BCP361HarpalP]

However much effort you put in , however much hunger you have , an intermediate talent cannot compare to tourist talent after all especially one that also works hard

[@v-7815]

People like him are born. It's like saying if you study hard enough you can be as great as Einstein, Tesla, Newton. It's always good to keep a healthy dose of realism instead of perpetuating the whole you're just not "hungry enough or invested enough". Some peoples brain are just wired differently

[@RandomGuy-yf4wf]

Why are you so sure?

[@amyrlexiion4688]

It depends how much we're willing to sacrifice + how motivated we are. Most of these people have both. If we lack one of these, we'd never reach that level and it's really up to our choice.

[@whole-mz4yu]

@@amyrlexiion4688 he won at 11 in his first competition, that says it all.

[@ersinerdem7285]

yeah its like having a faster CPU plus working hard by enjoying it. How can you compete with that with a slower CPU even with hard working.

[@RandomGuy-yf4wf]

@@ersinerdem7285 structure of your brain changes when you (don't) use it. Structure of your CPU doesn't change as you use it.

[@slantingclock9679]

Im surpised no one is asking how exactly he managed to get this far and how he manages to remain successful.

[@lawclerksanbar3790]

This.

[@HelloThere-xs8ss]

bc hes a genius. he was born gifted. hard work factored in but even if he were lazy, he would have been good.

[@slantingclock9679]

@HelloThere-xs8ss preciate the response but there has to be some way a non genius can compete right

[@zwwz1424]

@@slantingclock9679nope😊

[@harshvardhansingh4830]

@@slantingclock9679 a non genius can compete , get good , perhaps great.....but he/she wont ever reach that kind of dominance in cp

[@zshn]

Remember when they said, hard work beats talent 99 times out of 100. This is the 1 time it loses. Gennady is talented.

[@alaskabane5340]

talent + hard work will beat either

[@DeepanshuGautam-c5b]

Gennady is not just talented. He has put in the time and effort more than anyone else. He has worked the hardest in this one particular field, that's why he is the undisputed greatest ever.

[@dollypandey9139]

​@@DeepanshuGautam-c5bHe actually hasnt worked the hardest in competitive programming. In an interview posted at code forces website gennady told the interviewer that he only practiced CP and IOI problems for 3-4 hours a day!!!!!

[@DeepanshuGautam-c5b]

@@dollypandey9139 Do you know what discipline, consistency, persistence mean? Do you really think it's easy to devote 3-4 hours of your life everyday for decades straight? No one has ever devoted this much time to these problems, that's why he's the best. He wasn't the best straight out of the womb.

[@sagarock1012]

stop thinking like this it only make you feel you have only certain limit to youreself, he must have put lot of effort and perservarance into it , he dedicated his entier life to the craft.

[@SonOfGod-i2c]

Some people are just born to do something and they figured it out and gave it everything.

[@naivedyam2675]

Tbh 2600 problems is too less for a person of this rank. This proves he is far more brilliant than an average guy

[@alek4001]

It's only on CF. He had solved thousands before coming to CF.

[@nagendra6945]

​Point ​sir @@alek4001

[@nagendra6945]

Point

[@nagendra6945]

I do not know when I am going to catch a certain level in the world of programming 😢

[@hspace007]

When Gennady makes a syntax error in the code, the compiler apologizes and corrects itself in the next version

[@curious_one1156]

Tourist is the Ramanujam of CP. No level of hunger can make anyone match him. Of course, there is no surprise that he is one of the hardest working CPist too. Now Gennady should work as a computer scientist. Adopt to a different game.

[@mightytitan1719]

are you stupid , computer scientist are different gravy. solving questions in a time limit doesn't make you a scientist but solving impossible problem in lifetime does !!

[@tamilangamer7901]

No one is compared to the Great Srinivasa Ramanujam, He derived his mathematics solutions without any proofs with the help of goddess saraswati. so you are comparing a God and King in his kingdom

[@dawnafterdark1010]

As a programming newbie born and raised in Belarus I can say that's a huge motivation. My dormitory neigbour looked like him, lol

[@DamianL-o4e]

He's 30 years old now and his parents were programmers both.

[@williambreeze2659]

Interesting video! His parents really hooked him up!

[@Bedfford]

Nice! a prodigy indeed. It would be very interesting to know what their major contributions are to the development of new algorithms and to the development of world-class software.

[@gepliprl8558]

There in the utility classes/functions. Internally they're written using some advanced algorithms. Or I misunderstand your question

[@virajashar8217]

The contest in which he appears, everyone wishes to come 2nd🤣

[@aleksdeveloper698]

There are different types of coders, but this guy seems like a competitive coder, not like a senior developer who has to read someone else's code and create what a client needs.

[@Kairat_Tech]

His memory span is indeed big enough to be better than most Senior Devs. You are omitting that those "seniors" are the reason obsolete software exists. They were creators and know the locations where it is wrong/broken/unmaintainable.

[@therealg4197]

@@Kairat_Techbetter than them at what exactly? You’re clearly a junior. As a senior dev, there are things like mentoring, architecting, pushing features and breaking down tasks. Being a senior doesn’t just equal writing code. A lot of competitive programming people won’t stand out because most of software development is not writing algorithms it’s just maintaining software most of the time

[@silvermig]

If you are young is possible, but as an adult you can't stay in the eat-sleep-code-repeat loop for too long.

[@nagendra6945]

True

[@douglasdrumond]

2:04 He didn’t finish first five times. As you can see in column “rank”, he finished 20th in 2007, 7th in 2008, and 2nd in 2012. He finished first three times. In knowledge olympiads, such as IOI, IMO or IPhO, there are ranges of medals. In IOI2007, the first 25 won gold. I don’t get where “five” came from, since it was stated in the rank that he was first three times and if you had mistakenly assumed that gold meant first, it would have been six times. Still impressive, nonetheless.

[@PaffDerbobiss]

stop throwing shade you jealous n00b

[@ritvikreddy3959]

It is not actually "I am not hungry enough" , it is "I am not good enough to do anything"

[@PieceOfInternet]

to center a 'div' would prove a challenge for him for sure

[@lain1314]

CEO of CP

[@thang1144]

Oh my... That's horrible

[@FictionHubZA]

Excuse me what?

[@Man1Yoyo]

@@FictionHubZA competitive programming

[@muthukumar.r7918]

What is mean by CP?

[@delq]

FBI open up

[@rohitchandak2482]

Your inspiring words! I became your 1000th Subscriber!!!

[@segaGenesis24]

"I too can be like the top performer in if I work hard enough. Natural talent and IQ isn't a thing because we are all made equal in the image of God" You're in for a massive dose of reality check if you believe in this horsecrap.

[@ege8240]

if you believe creation or design you need reality check. iq term has been disproven as well. read the actual research proposing iq term, which was just a way to propose segregation btw. you are no different than a flatearther, denying facts .

[@segaGenesis24]

@@ege8240 Where did I say I believe in creation? You have low comprehension ability. English must not be your first language or you are autistic. IQ being a segregation test is midwit tier info any toddler can find on youtube. So, if you are basing your metric of Intelligence off that stupid trainable test then we are in a completely different page. To me talent/IQ is the ability to efficiently and precisely extract signal from noise. There are people who innately or due to their upbringing better at it than 99.9% people. An average person cannot get to their level no matter how hard they try. They should be more practical and realistic.

[@daddy-w6o5]

He doesn't cope when he's sad, he codes.

[@D_402S]

This guy is the final boss of all C-programmers on earth

[@abhishekparmar4983]

and still not a single named software in his name, i'd love if he would create something like linux, the world could really use say a new opensource webrowser which does not rely on chromium

[@DhairyaMehta1234]

✅✅✅

[@historyandelse9]

Work on yourself first before undermining other's achievement, he's competitive programmer, best one. He choose that because he enjoys it, you wouldn't even be 800 on codeforces yet you're talking like it's nothing. Same if I told some surfer go catch some fish and be useful. Pathetic people.

[@Sazzlytle]

exactly

[@bossgd100]

Webkit u mean

[@xingzheli7431]

He has a publication for a genetics algorithm.

[@naratipmath]

Why I never heard an applaud to my relentless pursuit of excellence becoming a primary school teacher or plumber or plasterer.

[@thabisokobe9224]

bro 18 with 18+ years of coding experience a hiring managers wet dream

[@lawclerksanbar3790]

What motivates guys like that? I get natural problem solving talent but how do they keep going... achieve these elite level?

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

He was probably solving math problems from age 7 in some math focused private school. Then, when your brain is set on something and after 5-10 years it becomes easy for you, you simply can't switch to other things, as that would require more effort than continuing your current trajectory.

[@georgiosdoumas2446]

You have to be able to not care. The ecological disaster of Earth? Dont care. The injustice and corrupt politics of your country? Do not care. Pollution in your city? Do not care, do not participate in anything social, do not read history, do not read literature , just occupy your brain with math and coding. I wonder if people like him (Gennady) will ever do something similar to eg Linux kernel , or to what Richard Stallman did in the 70ies (gnu open source applications) . These people I suppose are very self-centered and only want to focus on themselves and their progress on that specific thing (competitive programming) they do not even care to use software to solve real world problems.

[@lawclerksanbar3790]

@@JamesSmith-ix5jd I heard his parents were professors aka computer scientists and neuroscientists or something along those line and that's how he got into Programming via their parents University professor friend from age 3... I get it, it's easy for him because of how long he's been doing that but he's probably competing with people who are also Like doing DP for as long as they can... but his motivation to keep the top spot & elite level focus is something that amazes me...

[@haha-eg8fj]

It became a habit to him. It's like eating breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday. You may occasionally skip a meal, but you definitely crave for more when you are hungry.

[@ukrohasist]

GOAT, without any doubts

[@ashishdeshpande7256]

So is it true that if I start learning C++ today, in the coming 30 years I can beat him ?

[@mzrubgwofcnghsomcvf]

no, while you are getting better he will also be getting better.

[@anasazeem2005]

Most probably no. Why bother though? Compete with yourself.

[@Subh371-i8o]

You are not beating him in million years lol. He is just unbeatable at this point.

[@notmewooshme9916]

OP, the replies in here might hurt you but I am happy that they are not misleading you by saying "yeah you can, just be hungry..blah blah"(like the video does, selling false dreams). It's best to keep yourself as standard for beating at anything that you wish to do. Thanks.

[@ashishdeshpande7256]

I was just fucking around. I'm trying to imply that one should pursue what they are naturally good at, and these things can generally be observed at a very young age.

[@samitalhalut1521]

One thing I can't agree with you is that I can have everything but not God gift. Oh come on , those who have born with GOD gift shows remarkable things. While we the average people just go on with the flow. We can strive for excellence but that's our limit. Sad 😔 but the world isn't Fair 😭

[@Pras0106]

USA : we have gpt o1 to code Russia : hold my Gennady

[@Albert-nu9ur]

tried to google where is he working now? i wonder what position he occupies at what company and how much he make. maybe got his own app?

[@davidjacobs7966]

gracias por la inspiracion.

[@banchanbet4524]

imma get traumatized if this dude sit next to me and solved 7 problems under 20 minutes

[@srikanthan1000]

He would be perfect to play Tom Riddle in HP.

[@awatanshsahay7570]

can anyone explain me how he has reached this extraordinary level ?

[@shawonhussain07]

Account registered 15 years ago!! Then how before 20 ??

[@mayukhawasthi8156]

I believe he's 29 now

[@AKG58Z]

​@@mayukhawasthi8156yes around that age

[@AKG58Z]

This video is in making for 10 years 😂

[@PsychicRogueGaming]

Easy when your dads an engineer and teaches u,further easy when you've literally instructors/coaches along to practise and sharpen it.but yea,takes effort.Good job

[@prathampatel1740]

you seriously can't be taking away credit just because his dad was an engineer lmao, the dude has 6 consecutive gold medals in IOI, and the youngest winner ever, that only happens if you're actually a genius

[@dollypandey9139]

​​@@prathampatel1740Yeah preach!!!! People in the comments section be like if only my dad and mom were engineers i would have been the next GennadyK!!! People would cope rather than accept the reality that not everyone has the same IQ/Talent/Brain power.

[@prathampatel1740]

@@dollypandey9139 fr, this dude said "Easy when you're dad's an engineer", it's lowkey insulting tbh

[@matheusdecampos430]

Impostor syndrome hits hard loL

[@Lmfnd01]

Good thing he didnt have to worry about a place to stay, food to eat and clothes to wear. Just code all day.

[@NarayanSahu-xd9qb]

dude is not an inspiration, he's a benchmark .

[@divine203]

That's nice, but can he solve two sum?

[@CSKnowledge007]

blindly

[@kitebeachinnbeachinn2888]

I admire him and thank you for the advice! Now let us be honest can he create a sofware linux and/or git, like Linus Torvalds did? Being an Olympyad Target Shooter does not give you the skills of a Soldier. Maybe this not the case but a good competitive programmer can be a terrible software engineer!

[@DennisTran14]

Do u really think coding is all about being a software engineer ? If that's the case, you should stay in your well.

[@kitebeachinnbeachinn2888]

@@DennisTran14 It is ok as I mention I admire him.

[@notmewooshme9916]

All that lecture about hard work is partially true. First off everyone must find what they enjoy doing and what they are naturally talented at, then hard works comes automatically and doesnt seem to you like you are working hard for it since you are enjoying it. Some random guy may put 24/7 to coding for next several years but will he able to achieve Gennady has so far? Not even close.

[@VinayVarshiganSJ]

Dude thinks in Binary😎

[@containedhurricane]

The unstoppable kings of coding would be ChatGPT and Devin AI

[@frontback4574]

It depends upon the exposure he get he is indeed lucky

[@jagmohanmandre7447]

Magnus Carlsen of Coding

[@dollypandey9139]

@@jagmohanmandre7447 Nah he is Gennady

[@ninj493]

"you are not hungry enough" , the only way to beat this igga would be to die , Get a rebirth and start programming at the age of 5 or so there's like no other way around same goes for if you want to beat some chess GM

[@sentientartificialintelligence]

chess grandmaster is pretty much achievable at any age. you only need 2500 FIDE rating. being a superGM(2700+) or one of the world's best is a different story

[@dawid2517]

@@sentientartificialintelligence "only"

[@alexgabriel5877]

@@sentientartificialintelligence no its not achievable at any age lol, very very unlikely that an adult can become a chess GM dude there are more billionaires than GMs

[@dollypandey9139]

The only way to beat this guy is by having a IQ of 170+

[@ninj493]

@@dollypandey9139 yeah forgot to add that sh1t too 😢

[@mohneeshsharma]

this guy would've scored same feats if he was a model ngl

[@DK-ox7ze]

What is he doing now?

[@AKG58Z]

How exactly did he learn everything?

[@tom_marsden]

What actually is competitive programming?

[@johnsmith-ro2tw]

Gennady Korotkevich : "every ranking says i am the best programmer in the world. I can confidently use any language out there" Bob, Manager of that SaaS company selling HR dashboards : "You have less than 10 years exp on React, plus you failed to answer that ReactJS question. Sorry, we'll have to pass. You're not qualified in my opinion"

[@SeRoShadow]

if education wouldn't be poluted with obsolete subject matters: fictional literature, religion, drawing, music, sports, etc ... and focus societal needs: science, math, biology, phisics, chemesty, technology, etc ... cases like these would be common occurrence but alas, common folk dont get to decide what is taught and evaluated in schools

[@bogdanpopescu1401]

you are retarded

[@anishdey1189]

but can he write a for loop in all programming languages existing😁

[@mahesh-e4g]

he is the goat

[@huda_without_hudi_96]

He is him

[@ru2979]

He is just the Margnus Carlsen of Coding world.

[@aemde]

Why this guy is so Vitalik Buterin alike

[@tonisplit1642]

what is his Leetcode Profile?

[@AttackTitan008]

He probably uses Arch btw

[@mahesh-e4g]

make videos on other coder too

[@Jafar801]

Every Russian says the same "you need to be hungry"

[@218Flows]

He's the other guy they are interviewing after you

[@raresrares761]

now you are ready for an internship

[@alpha123-i1w]

Great

[@lesterdelacruz5088]

I could've done that, if I had a father 😥

[@harrazmasri2805]

this guy reads documentations for dinner

[@wood6454]

morpheus he might be the one

[@Hifeh1]

ChatGPT personified

[@maganrakhra3209]

what if one is 26 already tho

[@mishra.pritam]

its A sport and no relation with actual software dev

[@xGARIDx]

Wunderkind who is not Asian

[@modolief]

I think you're not pronouncing his name correctly.

[@ankurpareek980]

He is 30 years old. 1994. Don't spread misinformation pls

[@fr5229]

He was a champion before turning 20. Where’s the misinformation

[@universeguide1996]

Someone miss the info

[@nachiketrakhonde6454]

No bro it is legit

[@user-dc9zo7ek5j]

The video is misleading in a big way. Being good at competitive programming is not the same as being good at programming in general. Kids who can calculate large numbers using imaginary abacus, are not necessarily great mathematicians. Born talent plays a big role when doing tasks in a constrained environment (like time bounded coding sessions). Yes, working more and more is key towards being better, however there are limits that we reach and they are visible against people that are born with certain characteristics that make them better for this task.

[@Alan-bu2hi]

Post more lil bro

[@radoncreepgaming2604]

sheldon?

[@riefqikml]

All big tech companies critical problems solved by this guy btw.

[@andreypopov6166]

Are all the bug tech. real-life problems related to competitive programming? For example youtube MySQL DB sharding...

[@riefqikml]

@@andreypopov6166 I’m not sure about sql and database because that is not included in competitive programming.

[@therealg4197]

@@andreypopov6166 it’s so obvious that some of these comments are from university students or juniors devs.

[@kitebeachinnbeachinn2888]

For clarity! "Being an Olympic target shooter does not give you the skills of a soldier, just as being a good competitive programmer does not guarantee that you’ll be a good software engineer!"

[@dhanushc5744]

that discipline and hardwork will take you farther than a regular person on youtube will ever reach.

[@158shinigami]

but can he impress a non tech-savy hr interviewer?

[@Il_panda]

yet they get payed so low, feel bad for him, only 421,072.61$, i think the main difference is the understanding of math

[@UdbhavAshish-g3k]

Magnus Carlson of CP

[@shivamathiya8384]

What amazes me He is not wearing specs

[@Discoverer-of-Teleportation]

Same ...mevi yehi sochta 😮😮

[@Discoverer-of-Teleportation]

Itna critical calculation kase kr leta hai uska brain 😮😮 without any pressure

[@pharmokan]

JEN EDDIE

[@janaSdj]

GOAT

[@edith_anunderratedgamer3194]

gennady glolovkin

[@AjayKumar-id7mb]

Next Mark Zuckerberg

[@redfinance3403]

POV: Your IQ is 170

[@That_Girly_Gamer]

Pretty true. His success is not only hardwork but, his IQ too.

[@dollypandey9139]

​@@That_Girly_GamerIt's mostly IQ and has very little to do with hard work in an interview posted at code forces website gennady said that he studied for CP for only 3-4Hours a day in the initial IOI years .

[@That_Girly_Gamer]

@@dollypandey9139 Oh. I didn't know that. But, it makes sense.

[@therealg4197]

@@dollypandey91393-4 hours a day is a lot of time though. You say it as if it’s nothing. The best athletes from different sports train around that amount or less. And he’s been doing this for over 15 years.

[@mndtr0]

And all of that to be replaced by AI and become obsolete soon... =(

[@NineInchTyrone]

IQ 130+ minimum. Opens many doors

[@13TrafalgarLaw]

Do not fool yourself old kids and managers or average engineers or even if you in top 10% engineers. He is not result of hard work or excellence. I know more people who workk harder and persue excellence equaly as he. It is raw native talent.Like you cannot touch a piano or you were the last in the school in football, arts or strength no matter how many years you played or trained unstoppable i am sure you never saw a Messi or a Beethoven or a Rafaelo or a F.Gauss. Stop fantasizing other factors, it is genetics.