How to finish a Qwiklabs \ Google Cloud lab as soon as possible? and score high in leaderboard.

[Manisha_Jain]

Hello everyone,

I've recently started using Qwiklabs or Google Cloud labs (Google Arcade) , and while I find the platform incredibly helpful for learning,, I'm interested in ways to complete the labs as quickly as possible and achieving high scores on the leaderboards.

There is world record score and then there is my score which is not half the world record score. what should I do to maximize my score

[MikaCloud]

Dear Manisha_Jain,

In order to get a higher position in the leaderboard and score high you need to learn how to do labs with the SDK and scripts on bash. Not all labs can be "speed-run" though, but many can.

You can read about SDK and CLI commands here - https://cloud.google.com/sdk

Good luck,

MC

[S_Majumder2003]

But Mika, I have seen that there are very few participants are doing all the labs (short lab or long lab doesn't matter) under only 1-5 seconds, there points are huge in the leaderboard. How could they do? @Manisha_Jain @MikaCloud @Abhishek213 @yashgoyal365 

[MikaCloud]

Hi, S_Majumder2003,

The "secret" remains the same - (1) faster authorisation (with SDK, presumably) - so, no Google Cloud Console, (2) bash scripts, and (3) practice + short-cuts whenever this is possible.  

Please find the (old) video from Qursaan (old Qwiklab player who scored in games #1 quite often in the past) that mostly explain the "secret" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOx7EdBAxQ4.

Best,

MC

P.S. This also might help - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3WQgR-2u20

[S_Majumder2003]

@MikaCloud Sounds great and those YT links are useful, and somebody create own Bash package that curl -o .... filename.sh, how can create own .sh package specially optimized package for Google Cloud?

[MikaCloud]

Well, you need to understand what each command in script is doing. What I did few years ago, I read manuals. This was (and is) the main source - https://cloud.google.com. Now you have Gemini that can help a lot. Before we did not have such luxury 🙂 P.S. You also better to learn a bit more about Linux. Bash scripts will run on Linux machine this or that way. So, Linux is the must! 

[S_Majumder2003]

Another thing I noticed some participants do long tasks in Google Cloud qwicklabs under 10 seconds and getting highest points, how to do it?