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Need Guidance
By uhhharsh, history, 19 months ago, In English

Sorry to bother you with an annoying question! I have been practicing question at 1500 rating range and i encounter many ad-hoc, greedy problems. Many a times i spend hours(at most 2 btw) on a question and i am not able to solve it.Since the question was greedy i sometimes feel i wasted a lot of time as i am not sure if i'll ever get to use what i learnt in the question again. So i am in dilemma if i should practice questions topicwise like from CSES or continue my current strategy of solving around 30-35 questions of each rating or until i feel comfortable in that range. Also should i go on a limb and do like 100 div D problems to try to get to expert in a month since i almost have a month long break from uni? Also things like number of questions doesn't matter and other things i feel don't work on me and i think having a disciplined approach like solving a certain number of questions like a task would be more helpful.

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I can't remember where I found the comment, but I believe tfg said rating doesn't matter to some reasonable degree.

So building on that, a good idea is to randomly practice questions from the $$$1400 - 1600$$$ or $$$1500 - 1700$$$ range. I don't know a good way to do this besides go filter the problemset, and add lots of problems to favorites (so you can't see difficulty). Then just randomly solve from that list.

Also, if you can't solve a problem, I think its better to just skip the question and come back to it after a while, rather than just read the editorial after $$$2$$$ hours.

Best of luck !

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