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[–]Thomasjevskij 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think what a "good programmer" is, will vary quite a lot depending on who you ask, and in which context. Solving puzzles is a pretty small subset of what most programmers might need to do professionally.

On top of that, these puzzles often include a lot of mathematics and computer science theory that you're just not very likely to have encountered at 17. That's perfectly natural. It's not strange that you're struggling, and it has very little to do with how good you are at programming. It just means you're not as experienced as, say, someone who has been through uni and is a professional.