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Is it important?
By Just_LOL, history, 4 months ago, In English

Sometimes I stuck in div2 B and can solve C easily than B. Is it important to practice 800-1300 rated problems also to maintain the speed? How many those problems need to be practiced daily? What is your strategy?

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I believe doing one problem in 800-1300 daily will help u maintain the speed

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Solve Div.4 contest once per week or more(you will solve all problems). Should help. I'm not doing these problems but Div.4 has all of them from 800 to 1700. So it is very good training for current rating and they are also balanced very well and you don't need to think what rating/topic you need to choose.

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i also have the same question, i am stuck at B in contests.

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I had been in a very similar situation. Even nowadays I feel B/C not easy from time to time. But I seldom practice problems with low rating, the only practice I've done is during contests. So I think you could just participate in more rounds, and use your training time to deal with harder problems.

I think the important things is, it's not worthy to practice problems of a level all the way until you can solve all problems of their level. If you solved C but didn't solve B, then good, learn the trick/observation you are missing and carry on. Don't let it disturb your scheme.

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