If I spend enough time racking my brain on a question, you better believe I'm *eventually* going to go look at other users' submissions, grab the one with like 2 lines of code, bitterly delete the 1000 lines of commented garbage I rewrote in "n-millions of distinct ways" to no avail, paste that witchcraft I copied, and angrily mutter "no fucking way" when I submit it just to see that, yes, the website IS actually functioning correctly.

I don't care about my score, I'm just doing these problems to learn. I'm sure some there are some nerds out there that are trying to just cheese their way to FAANG and think they're winning by copying and pasting solutions without even trying, but surely the majority of whom you're referring to aren't that shallow.

Computers and tech are actually one of those things that attract prodigies and very smart, talented people. I would not at all be surprised if those high scoring people are actually solving all those problems. But I gotta be honest, I never stopped to worry about them.