Blog of Lars Quentin

Impossible List

First Online: 2022-04-16 Last Updated: 2026-03-08

Introduction

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Academic Goals

• Finish my Bachelors Thesis (15.12.2022, DOI)
  • Finish my Bachelors Degree (08.03.2023)
• Finish my Masters Thesis (09.09.2025)
  • Finish my Masters Degree
• Publish my First Paper (14.12.2024)
  • Publish my first primary authorship

Programming Goals

• Publish my first real life project (06.03.2023, it's Ankiding!)
• Publish my first library (14.08.2022, see nchainz)
  • Publish my first useful library
• Give my first programming talk (09.02.2022)
  • Now give it in real life (26.04.2022)
• Win my first Hackathon (25.05.2019, Spacehack!)
• Watch all cppcon back2basics at a given time
• Contribute to the Linux Kernel
• Do a 80 hour programming week, inspired by Nick Winter

Competitve Programming related Goals

• Get the Leetcode hat
• Compete at a competitive programming contest (12.11.2022)
  • Compete at 10 contests
• Codeforces Ratings
  • Specialist
  • Expert
  • Candidate Master
• Have all Advent Of Codes completed (at one point in time)
  • Finish 2015
  • Finish 2016
  • Finish 2017
  • Finish 2018
  • Finish 2019
  • Finish 2020
  • Finish 2021
  • Finish 2022
  • Finish 2023
  • Finish 2024
  • Finish 2025
• Finish one advent of code live when it happens
• Do 100 Leetcode questions
• Have a 7 days leetcode streak
• Complete USACO Guide
• Complete Neetcode 150
• Complete the CSES Problem Set
• Complete all exercises in Cracking the Coding Interview

Fitness and Health

Cardio

• Run a 5k in under 30min
  • Run a 5k in under 25min (09.09.2022, Sparkassenlauf, 23:01)
  • Run a 10k in under 1h (15.01.2023, in 54:55 on a treadmill) (05.05.2024 official)
    • Run a 20k in under 2h (04.05.2025, 1:55:15)
  • Run a 5k in under 20min
• Complete a timed half marathon (15.07.2022, 03:03:51)
  • Complete a timed full marathon
• Run at a formal event (09.09.2022)
• Complete the Goggins 4x4x48

Strength

• Reach 1/2/3/4
• OHP
  • 0.5 plate (17.03.2024)
  • 0.75 plate
• Bench
  • 1.5 plate
• Squat
  • Get atg squat without helper
  • 1 plate (31.01.2026)
  • 1.5 plate (04.02.2026)
  • 2 plate
• DL
  • 2 plate (18.03.2024)
  • 3 plate Deadlift
• Other
  • 1 Muscle Up
  • 50 push ups in a row
  • 10 pull ups in a row (20.07.2025)
    • 20 Pull Ups in a row
  • Complete The Sally challenge

Skills

• Learn Rope Skipping (22.10.2023)
• Learn the handstand

Other

• Get visible Abs

Fasting

• Do a 24h fast (23.03.2023)
  • Do a 48h fast (21.10.2025)
  • Do a 72h fast
    • Do a 5 day fast
• Do 7 day streak of 16-8 fasting
  • Do 30 day streak of 16-8 fasting
• Do a 7 day streak of OMAD
  • Do a 14 day streak of OMAD

Streak

• 100 days of no smoking (11.04.2023)
  • 365 days of no smoking (01.01.2024)
• 100 days of no soda (15.12.2023)
• 100 days of no caffeine (15.12.2023)

Other goals

• Publish my first Youtube Video (Master Theorem Visually Explained, 18.09.2022)
• Get completely rid of my lisp
• Get up to date with One Piece