diff --git a/benchmarks/gbench/common/sort.cpp b/benchmarks/gbench/common/sort.cpp
index b0b8b68e06..52698199cc 100644
--- a/benchmarks/gbench/common/sort.cpp
+++ b/benchmarks/gbench/common/sort.cpp
@@ -21,11 +21,7 @@ class DRSortFixture : public benchmark::Fixture {
     a = new xhp::distributed_vector<T>(default_vector_size);
     std::vector<T> local(default_vector_size);
     fill_random(local);
-#ifdef BENCH_SHP
-    xhp::copy(local.begin(), local.end(), rng::begin(*a));
-#else
     xhp::copy(local, rng::begin(*a));
-#endif
   }
 
   void TearDown(::benchmark::State &) { delete a; }
diff --git a/include/dr/mhp/algorithms/copy.hpp b/include/dr/mhp/algorithms/copy.hpp
index fa53a119a3..6dbd9fe4e6 100644
--- a/include/dr/mhp/algorithms/copy.hpp
+++ b/include/dr/mhp/algorithms/copy.hpp
@@ -25,6 +25,17 @@ void copy(DI_IN &&first, DI_IN &&last, dr::distributed_iterator auto &&out) {
   copy(rng::subrange(first, last), out);
 }
 
+template <std::contiguous_iterator CI_IN>
+void copy(CI_IN &&first, CI_IN &&last,
+          dr::distributed_contiguous_iterator auto out) {
+  copy(0, rng::subrange(first, last), out);
+}
+
+template <rng::contiguous_range CR_IN>
+void copy(CR_IN &&in, dr::distributed_contiguous_iterator auto out) {
+  copy(0, in, out);
+}
+
 /// Copy distributed to local
 void copy(std::size_t root, dr::distributed_contiguous_range auto &&in,
           std::contiguous_iterator auto out) {
diff --git a/include/dr/shp/algorithms/copy.hpp b/include/dr/shp/algorithms/copy.hpp
index 8d59a4d99d..486228aab5 100644
--- a/include/dr/shp/algorithms/copy.hpp
+++ b/include/dr/shp/algorithms/copy.hpp
@@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ sycl::event copy_async(InputIt first, InputIt last, OutputIt d_first) {
   return dr::shp::__detail::combine_events(events);
 }
 
+template <rng::contiguous_range InputIt, dr::distributed_iterator OutputIt>
+void copy(InputIt first, OutputIt d_first) {
+  copy(rng::begin(first), rng::end(first), d_first);
+}
+
 template <std::forward_iterator InputIt, dr::distributed_iterator OutputIt>
   requires __detail::is_syclmemcopyable<std::iter_value_t<InputIt>,
                                         std::iter_value_t<OutputIt>>