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Difficulty
By ojassoni0221, history, 2 years ago, In English

Hello Everyone, Recently I have been practicing 1200 rating question. And the thing I came across is that all rounds under 700 ,The question with 1200 rating are easier as compared to rounds above 700. Is it the case or its just in my head?

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You're right. It's normal. But if you are familiar with 1600 rating questions, you won't feel like this anymore.

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I don't think it is in your head. Style has changed.

It is now common to give "easy" tasks that become simple once you find a clever observation, and the implementations are usually very short. These are harder than the more straightforward older easy problems. This doesn't show up in difficulty ratings because a lot of people have gotten good at solving these by guessing. A solution is easy to guess if the implementation is trivial.

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    Also, adding to the "guessing" part, some constructive problems look hard but the pattern gets too easy after you bruteforce the answers for small values. examples include 1712B - Woeful Permutation.

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      2 years ago, # ^ |
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      True, although this has little to do with being constructive.

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