Advent of Code 2022

https://adventofcode.com/2022

After years of wanting to learn Rust, I decided to take advantage of a friendly competition at work to have fun and learn Rust. I typically went for the solution I thought I could implement the fastest without being overly hacky. The solutions are as is from when I wrote them, perhaps with a few minutes of tidying after. I went in with very little rust experience, just having attempted AoC for a week or two a few years back, but I started reading a lot of the docs and stack overflow. Rust hasn't been the fastest language to write, especially for early problems before I was comfortable with the syntax. However, it's been a lot of fun to write, tends to be fairly elegant, and its safety saved considerable time debugging. I've also really appreciated the performance in later problems. I never got on the global leaderboard, but came out having learned a significant amount of Rust and having had fun.

Day	Part 1: Time	Rank	Score	Part 2: Time	Rank	Score
25	00:12:30	344	0	00:12:44	299	0
24	10:49:36	6568	0	10:51:46	6245	0
23	00:58:46	1504	0	01:02:34	1366	0
22	01:09:27	1841	0	09:53:34	3563	0
21	00:24:21	2508	0	00:53:02	1556	0
20	>24h	15576	0	>24h	15132	0
19	01:30:32	814	0	01:43:13	591	0
18	00:09:46	1276	0	00:32:42	1025	0
17	01:02:00	1442	0	01:16:39	590	0
16	01:09:12	810	0	01:29:14	254	0
15	00:33:24	1762	0	01:04:00	1354	0
14	00:59:27	4499	0	01:10:35	4152	0
13	00:48:45	3425	0	00:58:04	3109	0
12	00:45:17	3322	0	00:49:06	2968	0
11	23:10:04	46891	0	23:14:21	39372	0
10	00:14:44	2354	0	00:42:01	4059	0
9	00:14:51	958	0	00:25:17	860	0
8	00:11:39	1158	0	00:28:30	1940	0
7	00:35:17	2720	0	00:52:04	3751	0
6	00:05:19	2258	0	00:05:55	1731	0
5	21:17:04	86703	0	21:57:04	85164	0
4	00:08:28	3622	0	00:12:26	3594	0
3	23:52:25	99600	0	>24h	143348	0
2	09:14:27	74600	0	09:17:57	68652	0
1	09:10:26	64729	0	09:13:46	61238	0