I am very very happy today. After 92 days of consistent grind, I became an expert. I wanted to share my analogy of code forces with Cricket which is my fav sport ( and whole India's fav as well )
Take Contests as balls. Something you will get Yorkers and sometimes you will get bouncers. Just try not to get out, take singles and doubles {Try to maintain your rating} And the day you get the full toss, mark it as your day and blast a six.
Exactly that happened to me, I am good at certain topics and I am average ( for my rating ) in others
I have previously solved a lot of 1800's binary search questions.
Last Div. 3 I managed to solve the E problem since it was of Binary search. This Div2. contest I solved the D problem since it was number-theory based. Again a topic I am confident in.
The key takeaway, no matter how much you suck right now, doesn't stop giving contests. Your rating will go down, no problem. All you need is 2 contests in your domain. Just wait for them and don't stop the grind.
I pray that all of you also get to feel the same happiness as I am feeling.
Thank You for reading
Bye
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Wonderful analogy!
Thank you :)
I also started getting serious around the same time as you, and I also got blue today :)
Cheers!
Congrats! Now, Pink we are coming... Let's goooo
wow, it's a big work! My biiiig congratulations to you! I see how in few months you got from pupil to expert — this motivates a lot, especially because this is my goal now — to reach expert, im here since january, and i'm close to this E as never. Hope I'll feel same hapiness as you do now very soon!
Thank you brother. It will come just wait, stay on it. Best of luck
Congrats! :)
Thank you :)
Great work, and I believe that you must have been working very hard and practicing a lot. Hope that you could achieve a higher level soon :)
Thank you very much for such kind words.
After yesterday's contest, I was about to give up hope but this gave me strength and reminded me about how my practice schedule is weak.
I am happy for you
Could you please use spoilers? You spoiled 2 problems for me that I wanted to upsolve :(
Sorry mate :(
Really sad to come back to blue after this round...
Be happy, the lucky day is coming and soon you will be Yellow :)
Can you please tell me how to gain confidence in number theory? Basically, I am unable to gain positive changes in my rating just because of number theory, Maths, and observation-based problems.
Hi, I think you should refer galen_colin topic stream. It will help you :)
Congratulations bhai!!
Thank you :)
Thanks for posting this,I am beginner and I was feeling low from last few days about this as college being offline I am not able to practice much but your post made me believe in myself again.
You can do it bro. If I can do it anyone can. I am happy that my blog motivated so many.
Congrats!
Thank You brother
Remember me when you become red! Congratulations :)
Sure, one day <3
Congrats!
Thank you very much
I don't have any topic I'm confident in; on the contrary I know I suck at DP...
I've been trying to learn more about topics such as segment tree but I'm still stuck. Maybe it's just an excuse to not actually grind.
Practice galen_colin topic stream for a particular topic. And you will start feeling confident in it.
Take a week for a stream , questions will take time.
i will! thanks
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Congratulations and Thankss... I needed this analogy :(
Thank you bro. I am happy, my blog helped you
Heart touching analogy !!
Thanks :)
Congratulations!! Hope Someday i reach blue too
I saw your profile, you have really great one. Soon, you will be expert. Best of luck :)
Congrats something similar happened with me in past few rounds as well.