>>78619
Don't be sorry, the other thread was a shitty joke. I'd say anyone who can get through a full Advent of code is in the single digit percentiles in terms of "programming" ability. It's a vague term, programming, but be proud that you have and have developed the intelligence and other skills needed to solve problems.
Most of my leaderboards were from being a fairly fast typist and doing simple early days in one pass, and from doing later days in weird ways that happen to work as opposed to more robust solutions that algorithmcels lean towards that take longer to implement, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. If you were about doing them year on year then I expect literally anyone could have got on the leaderboard at least a few times, what's more impressive is getting on it consistently.
Godspeed with the rest of the days btw.