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By Hail_to_USSR, history, 4 years ago, In English

Hey, I am Kushal. I am on codeforces since 2 years now. I have observed that several editorial writers just do write the way to solve the problem directly. While this satisfies me as a desperate problem solver, it does not develop my analytical abilities. It shall be noted that I am not talking about every editorial writer. There are many exceptions. Specifically, the writers can initially provide a small link, further they can provide the key idea and finally, they can give the solution in its entirety.

It should be noted that I do not recommend this method for all the problems. Of course, I am unaware, what the highly rated coders wish. However, I believe this method of writing editorial would at least help moderately rated coders.

That said, I loved few editorials written by Ashishgup. Thanks a lot Ashish.

Thanks.

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By Hail_to_USSR, history, 5 years ago, In English

Dear MikeMirzayanov,

I am writing this to request you a feature that essentially helps me comparing with other. I request some feature that shows me where do I stand.

Proposed feature:

You can make a curve with x axis representing the ratings and y axis representing the number of users. Of course, several users have used Codeforces API to make that happen but I believe their effort is spasmodic and it would be much more credible if the Codeforces provides some window for that.

I also request you to provide percentile sort of thing, the mean of ratings, median of ratings, rating needed to be in top x% of the users.

Thanks, Kushal Shah.Hail_to_USSR

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