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Community contest

June Contest. New solutions, exclusive merch

Publish new LaTeX solutions to Savchenko problems through June. Everyone who publishes a solution automatically takes part. Two full merch sets and caps go to the month's best authors.

1 Jun 2026 — 3 Jul 2026 2026 · contest ended
406
new solutions in June
Community goal 400
Goal reached — raffle unlocked
17 participants
The community reached 400 solutions. Two extra merch sets will be raffled among all participants with at least 10 points.
Leaderboard
# Author Solutions Points
1 79 229.5
2
Nazar Silver
Belarus
89 210.25
3
Dzmitrij Iodko Bronze
Belarus
86 200.625
4 21 67.5
5
Sergey Kuleshov Bronze
Russia
22 52.125
6
Igor Kravchenko Bronze
Russia
27 43.5
7
Adler Bronze
Russia
15 24
8 11 24
9 13 20.25
10
stepan Bronze
Belarus
8 17.25
11
Rastsislau Bronze
Belarus
9 16.5
12 2 3
13
Joseph Le
United States
2 3
14
physicist
Kazakhstan
2 2.5
15 1 1.5
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Eugene Dubrovin organizer
Ukraine
18 27
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Aliaksandr Melnichenka organizer
Belarus
1 3.375
Prizes Exclusive
Grand
Full set

Cap, hoodie and shopper. To the author with the most points this month.

Silver
Full set

Cap, hoodie and shopper. For second place by points.

Bronze
Cap

A branded cap for everyone who reaches 15 points.

Raffle ×2
Two full sets

Cap, hoodie and shopper — two sets. Drawn randomly among all participants with at least 10 points. Leaderboard position does not matter: any active author can win.

Editor's Pick
Best solution of the month

Cap, hoodie and shopper. Selected by editorial decision: one solution that stands out for clarity, depth of derivation, or difficulty of the problem. Awarded independently of the leaderboard — volume does not determine the winner.

Merch produced in a limited run by Creative Depo. This run is exclusive and will not be reprinted.

Platform hoodie, cap and shopper Platform shopper Merch batch in packaging
Scoring rules

Full version, June 8. A point is awarded for a solved problem — not for an edit, not for a language version. One Savchenko problem is one unit, regardless of how many times you edit it or in how many languages.

  1. Credit unit
    The credit unit is the (problem, author) pair. The first publication of a complete solution earns points once. All subsequent edits to the same problem by the same author add no further points.
  2. Base point
    The first complete solution to a problem — derivation and reasoning in LaTeX — earns 1.0 point.
  3. Multipliers
    Stack multiplicatively (see table below). Example: an English-language first solution for a previously unsolved problem in chapter 12 gives 1.0 × 1.5 × 1.5 × 1.5 = 3.375 points. Awarded once, at first publication by this author.
  4. Translating your own solution
    If you already published a solution for a problem and earned points, translating it to another language earns +0.5 points. No multipliers apply. One self-translation per problem — 0.5 points, once.
  5. Why translation is 0.5, not 1.5
    Solving a problem in English from scratch creates new content — that earns ×1.5. Translating your own existing solution adds a language version, not a new derivation. It is real work — hence 0.5 — but not equal to the original derivation — hence not 1.5.
  6. Translating someone else's solution
    Not credited. Zero points.
  7. Problem already solved by another author
    Your alternative solution earns the base 1.0 points, without the unsolved-problem multiplier — the problem was already covered. Alternative solutions are welcome.
  8. Solutions published before the contest
    Problems solved before June 1 are not counted. However, if you translate your own pre-contest solution to another language during the contest, that earns 0.5 points under rule 4.
  9. Incomplete solutions
    A solution without derivation or reasoning, or consisting only of a final answer, is not credited. Publish a draft and complete the derivation — it will be credited on the next review.
  10. Review
    Solutions are spot-checked for compliance — especially translations (rule 4) and derivation quality (rule 9). Non-compliant solutions are removed from the score.
Multiplier table

Applied to the base point, stack multiplicatively. Only apply at the first publication of a problem by this author.

CategoryMultiplier
Base solution1.0
Previously unsolved problem×1.5
Chapters 9, 10, 12, 14 (under 50% coverage)×1.5
Solution in English×1.5
Self-translation of an already-credited solution+0.5
Upcoming recalculation
The current system awards points for every edit and every language version separately. This is a scoring bug. After the fix, the leaderboard will be recalculated per the rules above. If anyone's score changes, it is a correction to the fair value, not a penalty.
How to take part

No extra buttons. Publish a new LaTeX solution and you are on the board. Not sure where to start? Open the list of unsolved problems.

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Where the idea came from

The contest was proposed by emixter in the platform chat. We shaped the format so every active author has a real shot at a prize.