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I joined the chess craze during the pandemic. (Feel free to reach out for a game on lichess: @CasualHippo) Starting with the phenomenal Netflix series Queen’s Gambit, I dove into chess YouTube. It’s hard not to be full of admiration when watching masters demonstrate their prowess during simul matches or blindfolded demonstrations. Particularly being able to hold the state of the board in their mind during a blindfolded game… That was a skill I wanted to be able to learn....

When prepping for the job search, you often encounter heuristics mentioned on Blind for interview success. “Be able to solve a LeetCode medium within 15 minutes”, etc. I wanted a good tool to be able to measure where I was, in addition to what my progression looked like. This chrome extension adds a natural looking timer to the leetcode interface, tracks your valid & invalid submissions, and generates some statistics around the data....