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Invitation to Dilhan's Computing Contest
By conqueror_of_tourist, history, 3 days ago, In English

Hello Codeforces!

I am pleased to announce my first (rated) DMOJ contest!

Dilhan's Computing Contest will be hosted from Tuesday, February 18th 00:00 ET to Tuesday, February 25th 00:00 ET. Participants will have a 3-hour window of their choosing to solve 6 problems.

The contest is rated for all participants.

Thanks to applepi216, conqueror_of_womais, galen_colin, Kuroni, twosquares, and YuukiS for testing and feedback for all problems, and thanks to Riolku for coordination!

Good luck, and have fun!

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hey it would be great

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For post-contest discussion (after your window is over), you can join the post-contest channel in the DMOJ Discord.

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Count me in! I! L! L!

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conqueror_of_tourist I am curious, what happened between June and August 2020? You went from regularly doing master performances in June to consistent red performances and reaching IGM in August. That is very impressive

(Sorry if off-topic)

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    I think the main thing was just confidence in my ability to solve harder problems after getting the two really good performances. I see a lot of people who don't focus as hard as they can on problems that are slightly out of their comfort zone as they think they are 'too hard' — which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as with reduced focus they can't solve the problem.

    I also think that a lot of it was just variance in topics (as I am generally better at math problems), and my jump in performance wasn't as large as the rating graph makes it look (I had plenty of master perfs near the end of 2020).

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