I gave up at the day 03, trying to quickly understand the wall of convoluted text at 6 a.m. without coffee as "hobby" was too much for me. Then As I were no longer in the tops of our internal leaderboard, I just leaved it and move on.

At least I wasn't sleep deprived the whole month like my coworkers.

Exact same for me.

That’s fine. It’s just not for me I guess.

It might have been your state of mind?

I spoke to a couple of other people that did the previous years, and I found it myself, it was significantly "easier" this year. Let me be clear, not "easy", but "easier" :)

I agree about reading it twice or thirce or quadrutrice (ice, ho ho ho), sometimes you're reading it and all you want is "just tell me what to do!"

Upto Day 16 or so I would have agreed, but the difficulty really ramped up in the last week. Part 2 of Days 21, 21 were much harder than anything I did last year IIRC.

I agree with both these observations. The problems felt easier this year than the last (which is the only other one I've done), but the last week or so they got not just difficult, but complex in a not-so-fun way. I do plan to tackle them slowly over the next few months though, when I have time (and after I'm finished with [Rosalind](http://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/)).

I found them less tedious this year. Maybe not easier, but some times earlier years I've felt that I know how to solve a problem, but it's so many cases to consider that I won't bother coding them all up (probably means I could've solved them more cleverly, though). This year it was more straight forward. Except getting rotation in day19 right I guess, which I didn't bother.