Roller Coaster Designer (rollercoaster3)

418 teams scored 28665 points on this task, for a maximum score of 100, an average score of 69 and a median score of 65.

Highlights

  1. Banfi, Vimercate is the institute with the most points (815).
  2. Lombardia is the region with the most points (5735).

Statement

Eduardo is designing roller coasters. A roller coaster track consists of N sections, numbered from 0 to N-1. Each section is of one of four types (represented by a character): (1) [\bullet] `D' -- Downward section: increases speed by 9 km/h. (2) [\bullet] `U' -- Upward section: decreases speed by 11 km/h. (3) [\bullet] `H' -- Horizontal section: does not change speed. (4) [\bullet] `B' -- Boost section: increases speed by 10 km/h. A carriage moves along a track, occupying one section at a time. It starts in section 0 with an initial speed of 0 km/h. A track design is called plausible if, after passing section 0, the carriage's speed remains strictly positive at every section -- including after the last one. This means that the first section must be either D or B; otherwise, the speed would become zero or negative. Eduardo's current track design is represented by a string S of length N, where each character denotes a section type...