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Latest News May 12 5:52AM EST 

The winners page is now online. Find out more about our winners and read their contest stories! We've also posted some statistics and commentary about the evolution of the contest and an analysis of some of the code

Per Rutquist is our overall MATLAB Golf Champion. He came away with two first place finishes and two second place finishes. We'll send him a MATLAB Jacket.

Congratulations to all of our first-place finishers: Guy Shechter, Imre Polik, Stijn Helsen, Per Rutquist, Claus Still, François Glineur, and Nicke. You will each receive a MATLAB toolkit.

You can now download the full testsuites used in the contest from the File Exchange.

If you'd like to hear about the next contest, sign up for our Contest Announcement mailing list. To subscribe send e-mail to lists@mathworks.com with subscribe contest-announce in the body.

All holes: frequencies, palindrome, encryption, infection, heaviest, pathfinder, and snake.



Welcome to MATLAB Golf

The objective in the game of golf is to reach the hole with the fewest strokes. In MATLAB golf, the objective is to go from one variable (the tee) to another (the hole) with the fewest keystrokes.

Example: How many positive elements in vector a?

One approach (score = 19):
b=length(find(a>0))
A better approach (score = 10):
b=sum(a>0)

The winner is the contestant who solves the problem with the fewest characters (not including spaces, newlines, and semicolons).

See the rules for more information.

Schedule

The time structure of this contest is different from previous contests since there will be multiple challenges. Each challenge will run for a 2-hour time slot at 10AM and 3PM EST on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Hole 1: Frequencies
Tuesday, 10AM-12PM EST.
Winners:
  1. Guy Shechter
  2. Julian
  3. Mark Bartsch
Hole 2: Palindrome
Tuesday, 1PM-3PM EST.
Winners:
  1. Imre Polik, Stijn Helsen
  2. Per Rutquist
  3. shameless_1
Hole 3: Encryption
Tuesday, 4PM-6PM EST.
Winners:
  1. Per Rutquist
  2. christian ylämäki
  3. jed pack
Hole 4: Infection
Wednesday, 10AM-12PM EST.
Winners:
  1. Claus Still
  2. Niilo Sirola
  3. Porpeta
Hole 5: Heaviest
Wednesday, 3PM-5PM EST.
Winners:
  1. François Glineur
  2. François Glineur
  3. Mohsen Nosratinia
Hole 6: Pathfinder
Thursday, 10AM-1PM EST.
Winners:
  1. Per Rutquist
  2. Per Rutquist
  3. wak
Hole 7: Snake
Thursday, 3PM-6PM EST.
Winners:
  1. Nicke
  2. John Arthur
  3. John Arthur

Prizes

The winner of each hole will receive a MATLAB toolkit. If you win more than one hole, we'll send you something else. We'll determine the overall winner by giving points for the top three entries on each hole: 3 points for first place, 2 points for second place, and 1 point for third. The grand prize is a MATLAB jacket.

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