just like it

to be more effective in mentality , and improving the design thinking also ,to be more fit in interviews over that , it's enjoyable <3

I treat it as a sport rather than a school subject, so I always have the motivation.

getting a job :""""

To improve my problem solving skills, and because I enjoy learning new algorithms and programming techniques.

You play to win the game

I just like competing and solving problems. My goal is always to better than I was last time.

Take it as a sport. I find pleasure participating in contest, competing with my friends. Exploring new things and solving related problems are just satisfying to me.

validation

To wipe out all impure lifeforms in the Orion sector.

Because I'm addicted

I want to know how good can I be

to solve AB in half an hour & get depressed on later problems for the remaining 1.5h.

game

I like solving puzzles,this is just like a sports to me like football,thus i'm always motivated and want more.

Because the attack titan must keep moving forward.

It's really useful bro my way of thinking has completely changed with this skill and my programming skill also has improved I think any thing in this life can make you get bored sometimes but take deep breaths and keep doing it if you get tired or get bored try to minimize your efforts or take break but don't stop

Hope the best for you

Sorry for my weak English

Maybe i can be india's first lgm that's why

Just like this thing like,pure addiction. Who knows,after first knowing all this six years ago but didn't have the chance to get closer,now I'm a college student ready to do something big,finally.

To protect the world from devastation
To unite all peoples within our nation
To denounce the evils of truth and love
To extend our reach to the stars above

money

i used to play games a lot ... now i do both of them

4 fun

I enjoy it and its good practice for informatics olympiads(EJOI,IOI,etc.)

Maybe I can be Bangladesh's first Lgm that's why

As a Chinese coder, I used to compete in order to get into a top university. It was a lot of stress and I had no fun at all.

I eventually failed and now I come to another country to continue my education. Surprisingly, I found out that I started to enjoy CP. I've acquired peace of mind and I am now competing for pure pleasure!

Sincerely, I hope everybody comes here to learn and grow. Stop caring about things that are irrelevant (jobs, schools, things like that). You'll find yourself improving faster.

I'm ratist

I attribute ~30% of my motivation to train for programming contests to my love of problem-solving and the remaining ~70% to my love of competition. I've found programming contests to be an unusually satisfying competitive outlet for two main reasons:

1: The path to improvement is relatively clear. In many competitive activities, improving your abilities is much more difficult because it's not clear when you make a mistake, let alone how to improve for the next time. Many strategy games are a good example of this--when you lose a game, it's often difficult to attribute the loss to one specific mistake that you can avoid in the future. Learning to identify your mistakes is thus often a key challenge in becoming a great player.

In contrast, when you make a mistake in a programming contest, either by failing to come up with the solution to a problem or by making an implementation error, you (a) receive direct feedback showing that you made a mistake and (b) can review the editorial/debug your solution to figure out what you should do differently the next time you run into a similar problem. This creates a very satisfying feeling of constant improvement; aside from a spell in ~2017-18 when I had no idea how to properly practice, I've rarely felt hardstuck during my competitive programming career.

2: There is a robust competitive landscape that consistently offers attainable goals. Even at the Div. 1 level, competitive programming contests happen around once every two weeks on average (much more frequent than the math contests I competed in back in high school), so it's typically easy to stay motivated to train for the next competition. Moreover, I've almost constantly felt like a meaningful goal was within reach: at the start of my career I had no expectation of ever becoming an LGM, but once I started focusing heavily on CF in early 2019, making GM seemed very doable. Once I was a GM, IGM didn't seem so far away, and after my IGM promotion round I realized that making LGM might actually be feasible. Now, I'm motivated to win my first Div. 1 round, to enter the top ten on the rating leaderboard, etc.

Of course, it also helps that I enjoy the problems (and I've come to enjoy the problem-solving process more and more as I've improved, partly because harder problems are often more interesting and partly because I usually enjoy things more when I'm better at them). I also suspect that my competitive programming accomplishments have been very beneficial to my career, but that has never been a primary motivation to participate in contests. (In general, I've found that the long-term benefits of competitive programming, and of many other activities, are hard to predict in advance, so I try to spend time doing things that (a) I find fun, (b) I'm at least somewhat good at, and (c) are likely to improve me in some way.)

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