
During primary school, my school partricipated in an international mathematics competition - "World Math's Day". The goal was to solve as many equations as you could within a minute. There were four levels. First one was addition, second was addition and subtraction, and so on. Whoever solved the most equations overall was the winner.
I was bored with the repetitive task, so I made a bot that solved equations for me. Everything happened inside a browser, and using Flash. I didn't know how to read the given equation from memory so I built my own OCR in C# which scanned the screen, cropped the part where the equation was and detected the characters, interpreted the equation and the bot typed in the solution. Here's a video on how it worked in practice. My intention wasn't to cheat, but to prove a concept, so I notified the WMD team and they gave me an award "Honorary programmer".