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There are a lot of people who've only solved a single problem, and the ranking will tend to cluster people from the same timezone together (even if they eventually solve more problems)

Also, competitive programming contests are really popular at Indian schools, so a lot of these could be HS students (nothing to back this up, though - they don't publish this information)



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