Yandex Contest is a platform for solving programming problems

Create individual and team competitions. Run programming lessons with automatic solution checking

Try the demo contest

Why people choose Yandex Contest

schools, universities, competition organizers

Yandex Contest in numbers

1,500 authors
and competition hosts annually
15,000 contests
with submitted solutions annually
395,000
unique users
per year
60,000
monthly users
solve problems in the Contest
26,500,000
solutions
submitted for review annually
99.99% service
uptime per year
with a 99.5% SLA
80,000 problems
with submitted solutions
per year
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Create your own contest

1
Upload your own problems or use ready-made problem sets
2
Add the organizers and set up the rules for the competition
3
Invite participants, monitor their progress, and answer questions
4
Receive final results and download them if necessary

Competitions in Yandex Contest

from Russian school competitions to global student olympiads and private championships

Yandex Cup — annual international programming championship
Regional and municipal stages of the All‑Russian School Olympiad in Informatics
The National Technological Olympiad
Artificial intelligence and data analysis Olympiad
The «I’m a Professional» student Olympiad

Yandex Contest technologies in Yandex projects

Apply for an internship
All candidates applying for Yandex internships in IT take a test assignment on Yandex Contest
Apply for an internship
Learn with Young&&Yandex
Participants in educational projects, such as Summer schools, Algorithm training sessions, Sirius camps, and others, are selected and trained via the Yandex Contest platform
Learn with Y&&Y
Join fast-track hiring events
Choose a hiring event, decide on a qualifying contest, complete all the interviews in a couple of days, and join the Yandex team
Join an event
Study at Yandex Lyceum
The main part of the tasks that teenagers solve in development, data analysis and machine learning is checked in the Contest
Study at Lyceum
Study at Yandex School of Data Analysis
In the Yandex School of Data Analysis’s programs on data analysis, machine learning, and big data infrastructure, Yandex Contest is used to verify code assignments
Study at School of Data Analysis
IT handbooks
Free interactive textbooks for students and junior professionals with practical exercises on the Yandex Contest platform
Explore handbooks
Yandex university programs
Yandex Contest is used in joint university programs to grade homework and administer exams
Study at university programs
Study at Yandex Practicum
The tasks of the algorithms courses are checked in the Context. For everything else, Practicum has its own platform and a programming simulator
Study at Practicum
Compete in CodeRun
A developer training simulator that checks solutions using Yandex Contest technology
Solve problems
Apply for an internship
All candidates applying for Yandex internships in IT take a test assignment on Yandex Contest
Learn with Young&&Yandex
Participants in educational projects, such as Summer schools, Algorithm training sessions, Sirius camps, and others, are selected and trained via the Yandex Contest platform
Join fast-track hiring events
Choose a hiring event, decide on a qualifying contest, complete all the interviews in a couple of days, and join the Yandex team
Study at Yandex Lyceum
The main part of the tasks that teenagers solve in development, data analysis and machine learning is checked in the Contest
Study at Yandex School of Data Analysis
In the Yandex School of Data Analysis’s programs on data analysis, machine learning, and big data infrastructure, Yandex Contest is used to verify code assignments
IT handbooks
Free interactive textbooks for students and junior professionals with practical exercises on the Yandex Contest platform
Yandex university programs
Yandex Contest is used in joint university programs to grade homework and administer exams
Study at Yandex Practicum
The tasks of the algorithms courses are checked in the Context. For everything else, Practicum has its own platform and a programming simulator
Compete in CodeRun
A developer training simulator that checks solutions using Yandex Contest technology
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