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Should I go back ?
By Rising-coder, history, 2 years ago, In English

I've started solving 1400-Rated problems about 10 days ago but I'm really struggling with them.
Most of them I needed to read the editorial to solve or I ended up not solving them at all.

Should I just keep going or should I go back to easier problems(1300-1200-etc) ?

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2 years ago, # |
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Start solving from 1000 then step by step increase the level.

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    2 years ago, # ^ |
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    I've already Done 50-problems in everything before 1400

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      2 years ago, # ^ |
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      Don't have some sort of a quota like "Once I solve x problems of this difficulty I can move up." Just solve problems that you find interesting for yourself and that you can solve, but not immediately. So if after 10 problems you feel like raiting is too easy for you, go up. If after 100 problems that raiting is still interesting for you, then keep doing it.

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Return back to 1300 a bit, if you find yourself good at it, then go to 1400 problems and forget that they are harder problems. The biggest issue about upgrading is thinking that "OK this is a problem from a higher level, it's harder to solve so I will see the editorial", thinking like this is bad bro :(

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2 years ago, # |
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Sometimes official problem rating doesn't represent their difficulty FOR YOU. For example, today I solved a 2900 rating problem 189217482 by just finding pattern for small cases.

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Official rating of a problem is decided by how much people solved it during the contest (and the rating of who solved it), so some problems (like 1775E - Уравнивание людей) has a high rating just because it's letter E or F (whose solution can be implemented by any beginner).

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Rising-coder, most of the times its just the lack of patience. I also stop putting energy into a problem if it is a little too hard, requires a bit of thinking and go watch youtube shorts or tik tok because it takes less energy.

Honestly thinking on a hard problem is not as entertaining to me. I'd rather go do something else.

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8 months ago, # |
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what about 2400- rated problems are u struggling with them? ORZ

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8 months ago, # |
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Yeah bro you can solve lower problems

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5 months ago, # |
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Why what?

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9 hours ago, # |
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same question but with 1800-2200 rated problems :(

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    83 minutes ago, # ^ |
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    Do it the way you feel more comfortable. Just practice and learn from mistakes.

    But I would advise against solving too hard problems. Try to find the correct point where it's not easy nor insane.

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      53 minutes ago, # ^ |
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      After how many minutes, i should read the editorial, if i can't solve the problem?
      what was ur technique, especially in the beginning of solving hard problems?

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