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I Made It! I Become a Candidate Master!!!
By cwz2024, history, 4 weeks ago, In English

About a month ago I accidentally become a CM after a rating roll back with bug, that certainly can not be counted.

But now I really become a CM! Although with extreme luck (*^ω^*)

I learned C language in Jan 2023, started CP 2 month ago (wishing to join the XCPC team in my university) and learned how to program in cpp and how to use STL just 6 weeks ago, and I made it! I'm in purple now!

I have never been absent from any codeforces round after March 28th, even if some of them was unrated for me, because I was so eager to improve. But for today's Div2, I'm going to stay behind :) Although I have solved a red interactive problem in last Div2 round and there seems to be at least 2 interactive problems in the 5 problems of today's round, I can't take the risk of losing my purple name in 24 hours orz

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Congratulations! Although, of course, I'd still advise you to do today's round. You'll regain CM in no time, even if you do lose it, so don't worry.

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Do you mind sharing how you got so good at CP with just 2 months of experience? Do you have a strong math background or have you just been grinding topics? Thanks!

Sorry, I forgot to say, but congrats!

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    Actually not just 2 months of experience. The C programming lessons in my university is just like CP (but with much less difficulty), we will have a contest every Thursday night in IOI rules, and the difficulty is lower than div4 round. And after finishing the lesson in that term I worked as a tutor of this lesson, and provided problems and tested the problems. So after nearly a year of this kind of "CP", when I started real CP 2 months ago, I'm already at an expert level.

    And it is true that you don't need pretty much advanced data structures to reach expert because when I started CP 2 months ago I have nearly no knowledge of them, and that didn't prevent me becoming expert within 4 rounds.

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      So basically all you needed was creative thinking and math? :orz:

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        Probably. And maybe some simple dp and greedy methods as well:)

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      So you're just insanely talented?) UPD: I misread your comment a little bit)) But given your fresh start in cf, I still think you have talent in cp))

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And i failed badly.. Failed to clear E sadlife Congrats btw

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    I need to make sure my alarm clock is on next time :laugh:

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Congrats!

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