memer's blog

By memer, history, 4 years ago, In English

There's a major issue that needs to be discussed. CF problem setters need to understand that maximum people here are green or grey. They give contests mostly for the sake of learning, and not for competing. So why can't you give tasks based on some standard algorithm? I understand this will make the questions easier for experienced contestants, but giving questions on only ad hoc and greedy isn't doing any good either (I am talking about A, B, C). Please take your time to make good problem sets. Or otherwise, I am sure majority of newcomers will shift to something like leetcode, hackerrank, for CPing.

  • Vote: I like it
  • -53
  • Vote: I do not like it

»
4 years ago, # |
  Vote: I like it +7 Vote: I do not like it

The purpose of Educational Contests is to do exactly what you are requesting. And the last time a problem has a standard algorithm people were calling for the round to be unrated. Granted, that was because the solution could be copy-pasted, but that seems to be what you are asking for.

On a side note, what "standard algorithm" do you expect greens and greys to know? I doubt most of them can implement, for example, a fenwick tree or segtree by heart (heck, I probably can't) so what you'll end up with is people copy-pasting solutions from online sources.