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Is it a good idea?
By larush, history, 10 months ago, In English

So this isn't the usual blog about a newbie/pupil complaining. Over the past year or so I've solved many problems (~850), and I'm happy about that. Recently I've been doing a lot of ProjectEuler, and I thought to myself " Wouldn't it be fun to go to an OJ and try to solve each and every problem? ". You may obviously think a green dude's gone crazy. But in order to progress in CP, I really feel that I should grind some website's problems.

Obviously as Um_nik mentioned in his blog (sorry for the tag Alex), codeforces may not be the best place to start as a beginner, so I'm thinking of heading to TIMUS or another OJ, and grinding the problemset, learning new things if I can't solve problems. I've felt kinda stuck on codeforces, and maybe a break from " rating 1500 search on CF ", and " each and every problem from OJ 'X' " will help me.

So, the question: Is this a good idea?

(P.S. If yes, what could be a good OJ for me :P ? )

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Have you tried CSES? If not then that will be an awesome place to start with. You can also try Atcoder. It introduces new concepts in almost every other task.

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    Yes, Agree!! CSES problem set is very good, I have tried. It has new concept in every question and AtCoder problem statements are not complex to understand as compared to CF.

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    CSES is a very good OJ for standard problems (e.i. when learning a new topic or something U can solve some standard problems on it ) but is it enough for a div4 coder to reach expert skills ?? I don't think so

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Try doing newer problems, the ones you did recently are mostly quite old. Also it might be a good idea to do problems a bit higher than what you usually do, for you that's 1600 based on what you said

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do luogu. it is the best

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    That's because Chinese is essential for searching previously created problems lol

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      how to solve luogu in english?

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        Waiting for globalized luogu (I don't know it will be globalized or not, but please be patient QwQ)

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i like spoj and also qoj is really good. orz Qingyu

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I doesn't matter from where you starts you should focus on your goals , if you will be doing hardwork than you can even start as a beginner on USACO as well.

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