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100+ 2200s Was Enough!
By AshrafSustS19, history, 14 months ago, In English

Remember this idiot? This guy has 100+ 2200 solves and two weeks ago his max rating was 1654, now he has reached CM in four contests and his current rating is 1942! Turns out 100+ 2200s was good enough.

What do you think? How did his fake 2200 submissions get him to CM. bigSchrodinger, looking forward to your wise opinion

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14 months ago, # |
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this bigSchrodinger guy is an idiot, he keeps commenting negatively everywhere

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wtf you solved 100+ 2200s and you still can't solve today's div2F? Come on, you can't be serious.

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I can't understand why some people try to get an estimate of their contest-taking ability (rating) through the difficulties of problems they solve in practice.

Both skills are very different and this blog is stupid. Nevertheless, I do find it funny how bigSchrodinger is still living rent-free in the blog author's mind.

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    Makes sense, how can there be any correlation between being able to solve hard problems and being able to solve problems in contests!

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      2200 problems in practice aren't hard for real cm lol

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        I didn't solve them after becoming CM, I did them when I was Expert. Of course they were helpful for my growth during that stage.

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          when I was Expert

          dude that was till like yesterday

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            *From February 28th till yesterday.

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              he meant you became CM in last contest

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                And I meant I have been practicing 2200s for much longer time than the time I have been consistently performing on CM level. Whatever he is trying to say, it is either dumb or irrelevant

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            Atleast he's participating in contests unlike you, who stopped after reaching CM just to preserve that precious purple color

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        What, 2200 are definitely significantly hard for a CM even in practice

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          If someone finds (his rating + 200) rated problems significantly hard even with unlimited time and no pressure, then he is overrated.

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            CM starts at 1900, not 2000. You are talking about 2100s, not 2200s. 2200s are significantly more difficult even than 2100s. I have solved plenty of both of them, I know the difference.

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              I am so glad I'm high on sugar right now, as it makes this conversation funny, rather than frustating.

              CM rating range is 1900-2100, and there's a secret technique that you'll learn more about when you reach master: Taking the average of two numbers. Using this secret technique on the numbers 1900 and 2100, we arrive at the oh-so-mysterious value of 2000.

              2200s are significantly more difficult even than 2100s

              kek

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                This is dumb, I am too old for pointless conversations.

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            :/ I am overrated :/

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            and what about people who find their own rating hard even with unlimited time and no pressure? Do we have any hope?

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    well, i can relate to the author. it works in a very easy way: solving hard problems makes you better at solving hard problems. that's it.

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Congratulations!

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Congrats! But I think the 100+ 2200s actually helped bc they make your mind adapt to thinking about harder problems and also you gained a lot of knowledge and experience from these problems. Even if you just read editorial most of the time, it would still be helpful as you can grasp the ideas from them.

By checking your code, I believe you did it the right way — getting the idea and coding it on your own (or impressively, you did it yourself). Most newbies/pupils doing this don't achieve the same thing bc they just copy or "para-code" some other solutions and/or they don't try to understand the underlying ideas in the editorial.

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    Thanks a lot, I agree with you. The biggest benefit from solving all these problems was the experience and knowledge I learnt, which helped me solve relatively lower rating problem with much more ease than before. For example, before I solved them, on average it would take me 3 hours to solve a single 1900R problem. Afterwards, it came down to one hour.

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Congratulation vaiya(brother)

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Congratulations <3

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Congrats!

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nice trend started of mentioning haters in achievement post

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I was wondering for 100 problems of 2200 rating, for how many among them did you read the editorials. What was the approximate time you spent on each problem. How was your experience going through the first few problems and the last few problems.

If you mention these it would be helpful for someone who would want to use a similar strategy.

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    Should be less then 5

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      Then why are you still CM, speed issue or something?

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        Yes, 3 hours on average isn't enough for contest. I need to bring it down to 1

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    I don't remember the exact experience, but initially it would take me entire day to solve each problem, which has right now come down to around three hours. But overall, I rarely ever solved any problems in less than two hours. The overall three hours average is excluding those problems which took me days to solve. Of course, I didn't spend whole days on the very hard problems. But these problems probably took me 8+ active hours at least. Also, since I avoid editorials, I also have many unsolved problems in my sheets. Overall 10-15% of the problems I attempted are still unsolved. But I had the most fun solving 2200s so far. Most of the problems I solved required very sharp insights and observations, and also creative solutions. The last time I had this much enjoyment was when I was solving 1900s.

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So Happy for u man <3. Best wishes for u and to ur team in the upcoming ICPC Preli contest. If you don't mind, can i ask u to tell ur teams name in the upcoming ICPC contest??

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    My teammate named our team "Late for Registration" lol. I don't have high expectations for this ICPC tho, this is only my second offline contest. So in this regard I am the least experienced in my team

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when you solve a problem do you make notes on how you solved it? like i tend to forget how i solved a problem when i revisit it after a month or so.

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    Yes, I do take notes for problems which I find important. I also have a to-do list for problems which I intend to do latter, or problems which I think I should try again.

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How can I do research like this for my account (i.e what code u use to make this)

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    You can also use these extensions if you use Chrome/firefox, CF analytics, Codeforces practice Tracker, CF predictor. Also there is a discord group by Errichto which provides lots of bot features that gives you some more options to try out

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