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Hi Project Euler Team,

I’m following up regarding my account being permanently unlisted. I don’t fully understand the reason, though I see the message refers to unrealistic or ingenuine solve times.

Looking back, I realize there may have been situations that looked unusual. For example, I’ve sometimes submitted multiple answers in a short period. The reason is that I’m still in high school (15 years old), and at school we use software such as GoGuardian that blocks many websites. Unfortunately, these filters aren't perfect and prevent access to sites like Project Euler or math competition resources (e.g., HMMT, amctrivial.com). To work around this, I often take screenshots or pictures of problems beforehand so I can solve them offline during school hours and then submit several solutions once I have access again.

I also started Project Euler a few years ago with my brother, and I believe I had two older accounts that I lost access to. Because of that, when I created this account, I sometimes reused my old C++ code files to re-run and resubmit solutions. I understand this might also make my solve times appear unrealistic.

I want to emphasize that I do not condone cheating. It frustrates me as well, especially since I’ve seen how dishonesty can affect competitions like the AMC. I’m still learning, but I genuinely want to grow through the discussions, forums, and this community. If it would help, I’m more than willing to provide my code for any problems as verification.

Thank you very much for your time and for any clarification you can provide.

I set your account to private now. If you want you can change this to public.
Apologies if I haven't done this immediately after your post in the other thread.(viewtopic.php?p=73026#p73026)
Could you tell me why you thought it a good idea to open a second thread for the same subject? Pushing the first thread up again would have been enough.

My apologies, I wasn’t sure how administrators typically receive messages on these forums, so I felt starting a new thread to share my personal experience would be more appropriate than adding to a similar one. I truly appreciate your understanding, especially given the frustration that comes with addressing cheaters.

Hello! I haven't been too active on PE in the past month. I have only solved 2 problems (20 days in between), yet I have been re-permanently unlisted. Is there a reason why I was permanently unlisted again?