# Why are these people so skilled? If only I was stronger
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-these-people-so-skilled-if-only-i-was-stronger/106700
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**Created:** [November 25, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-these-people-so-skilled-if-only-i-was-stronger/106700 "2023-11-25T03:29:27Z")
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### Author:  [@Tarny\_GG\_Channie](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tarny_GG_Channie)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-these-people-so-skilled-if-only-i-was-stronger/106700/1 "2023-11-25T03:29:27Z")
A person made Minecraft in 2 days.
> **[jdh](https://www.youtube.com/@jdh)**
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> making games and taking names
Another made an entire physics engine.
> **[Pezzza's Work](https://www.youtube.com/@PezzzasWork/videos)**
>
> Welcome to my channel where I share my personal projects.
> You will find various experiments about many subjects like Physics Simulations, Raytracing and Machine Learning among others.
> Almost everything is made from scratch since I think it's the...
And then another who made an engine that literally simulates air to make sound.
> **[AngeTheGreat](https://www.youtube.com/@angethegreat)**
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> Watch me reinvent the wheel!
And another, an artificial life simulation.
> **[artificial life environment](https://www.alien-project.org/index.html)**
>
> Artificial LIfe ENvironment (ALIEN) is an artificial life simulation tool based on a specialized 2D particle engine in CUDA for soft bodies and fluid-like media. Each simulated body consists of a network of particles that can be enriched with...
This channel made… well… evolution simulator.
> **[Simulife Hub](https://www.youtube.com/@wallcraft-video/videos)**
>
> Еvolution simulation, algorithms, swarm intelligence, neural networks, AI....
> foo52ru in English.
> You can support the project on Patreon:
> https://www.patreon.com/SimulifeHub
And this team made a neural network chess engine stronger than alpha zero.
[https://lczero.org/](https://lczero.org/)
And so on.
I have selected Julia to be my tool of choice. I have many ideas, if only I was better, I’d probably have been able to finish each of them in like a week or even less.
I’m not a lousy developer by any mean, with \>100 problems solved on hackerrank, but the achievement of these people show how superhuman they are.
How do I get that good?
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### Author:  [@bertschi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bertschi)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2023, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-these-people-so-skilled-if-only-i-was-stronger/106700/2 "2023-11-25T11:01:28Z")
Don’t worry and start coding. In any new domain, you start as a beginner and build skills over time. Expertise comes from dedication and spending time (I really like Peter Norvig’s [Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years](https://norvig.com/21-days.html) post which does not just apply to programming).
Once your are an expert, you can pull off things which appear almost magic to others. Guess that in all examples above, it’s not the first game, physics simulation, chess engine etc that this people have written. Don’t stop (or never start) running just because someone is faster …
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### Author:  [@Henrique\_Becker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Henrique_Becker)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-these-people-so-skilled-if-only-i-was-stronger/106700/3 "2023-11-25T14:13:16Z")
I think this is similar to drawing skills. A good artist can create a beautiful piece in some minutes, but it has taken them decades to reach this point. So the time you take to do anything with your tools is inversely proportional to how long you have worked with them.