Comment by gwbas1c
1 day ago
I think if you always follow the same abbreviations, they'll be readable to you.
Remember, these are throwaway programs; not something that you need to worry about someone else maintaining, or something you need to worry about opening up 5 years later.
I've been a judge at a few ICPC contests. We always double-checked first solves for any of the problems by hand.
The coding style demonstrated here is extremely common with high-level competitive teams.