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Only the arrogants will downvote this :)
By _kite, 4 years ago, In English

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Don't try to "learn" too much things, you should focus more on improving your thinking ability.

Of course learning is important too, but it should be progressive (no need to learn complicated tools when you're below blue) and only a minor part of your practice. CP is about problem solving, not pure knowledge restitution.

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Only the arrogants will downvote this :)

I think not. Everyone who comes across this will most probably downvote this. There is no practice strategy that guarantees you to get anywhere. All you gotta do is keep on going until you make it. Until then, like they say and I quote "Practice, practice and more practice" :)

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This might surely help you in achieving a more structured and organized way of practising and setting goals :) Credits goes to the respective author. Here's his blog.

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Well yes practice is the only way to go about it, but also practicing with a plan is better than going randomly solving lots of problems. Looking at your weak areas, your math skills need to be a little bit higher, you can start solving math related problems a little bit higher than your average rating, so lets say your avg rating is about 1000 then you need to be solving 1200 problems (you can also read discrete math books little by little you will be stronger in math). Also setting milestones is a good motivation to keep you going, so your first milestone should be stable pupil, once you are stable pupil you set another milestone to be stable cyan coder, then all the way to become whatever you want. IMO setting a very high goal without milestones is gonna get you nowhere and you will be frustrated and give up on your goals.

and also looking at this graph, you solved only 11 problems of rating 1200 which I think is too little. solving easy problem will not increase your rating as you are only solving problem near your rating.

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