"BEATS 100%" ???

Anybody else noticed the huge influx of new "beats 100%" posts? I myself in Python also suddenly got several times that were faster than any times I had ever gotten before. I asked and was told that indeed the judge was recently upgraded and it's now faster. New times also aren't immediately added to the statistic (but only once a week or so?), so currently the times achieved on the new faster judge are compared with times of the old slower judge. And as always, times can vary quite a bit even when you submit the exact same code twice, especially in Python, so there's luck involved.

I just grabbed the most recent 2607 topics as listed on the Recent page and did some statistics:

 0 days ago, 29 out of 239 titles said "100%"
 1 days ago, 24 out of 168 titles said "100%"
 2 days ago, 26 out of 174 titles said "100%"
 3 days ago, 33 out of 187 titles said "100%"
 4 days ago,  4 out of 143 titles said "100%"
 5 days ago,  5 out of 127 titles said "100%"
 6 days ago,  0 out of 152 titles said "100%"
 7 days ago,  0 out of 115 titles said "100%"
 8 days ago,  1 out of 166 titles said "100%"
 9 days ago,  0 out of 149 titles said "100%"
10 days ago,  1 out of  96 titles said "100%"

Looks like it started 5 days ago and really got huge 3 days ago.

Anyway... now that you know that your solution probably isn't really better than everybody else's, you can stop making a fuss about it as if it were.

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