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Is listening to Twice boosting cp skills?
By stefdasca, history, 6 years ago, In English

Ever since tzuyu_chou started advertising Twice at round #497, an increasing number of people have got to hear about this band, and it seems that for most of them, it was a great deal in their competing skills.

Even though at first I was reluctant about how can a K-pop band, especially Twice can improve people's CP skils, but after seeing that many guys with K-pop related accounts performing great made me start listening to Twice too and soon after this, I managed to get Master for the first time ever, after struggling in purple for a long time.

The examples can continue, so is listening to Twice really boosting cp skills?

I'd like to hear other successful stories too, so that i can be sure that my skill gain is not just a result of hard work.

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6 years ago, # |
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I watched one of their youtube videos few minutes before the skyglow contest and I ended up winning the round! not sure if there is correlation though (maybe it just relax you a bit and therefore improves your performance)

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    That's interesting, winning a round after listening to Twice

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Yes, it seems to be true :)

Ever since I started listening to Twice around September, I finally made 2600+.

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    I'm glad it's not just me who feels the positive effects of listening to Twice

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I agree with what you wrote. I used to listen to Twice and reached mid CM from Expert. But when I stopped listening to Twice, I dropped to Expert again. Now I am listening to Twice again, let's see if I reach CM again.

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    That's sad to hear, but at least you seem to get some of your losses back, now that you are listening to Twice again

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    nice

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вы должны слушать такие песни:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEF7VYX1xzQ

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Yes listening "twice" is really amazing ... I listen it and got 1st place in my college coding competition!

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What is this Twice?

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    a famous kpop band

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      Can it make me CM?

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        if you listen to twice enough, yes

        But listening to twice doesn't substitute hard work, it only stimulates performances

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        Yes, listening to TWICE can help one get to CM :)

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Best community ever. Shit posting like this gain contribution, like this contributes to the community in any way. BTW, kudos to tmwilliamlin168 for still having cyans believe tzuyu_chou isn't an alt of his.

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Please delete this article. This should remain as a secret tip of Korean red coders.

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I thought I was the only one that found out about Twice through CF...

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Will the effect be reversed if I listen to Twice, twice?

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OK, we all have finally found out that listening to Twice really boosts cp skils, but what about another bands like BTS or Blackpink for example?

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    According to my current experiences,

    BTS seems not to be a good option, but sample size is not big enough GustavK PATH242

    Blackpink fans seem to benefit from it(I also listen to Blackpink), and i also know this guy too, who seems to perform good 17500

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      I started listening to BTS and reached CM, but I've only done one contest since I started so the sample size might not be- so this proves that listening to Kpop in general improves programming skills

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Is tourist competing boosting CP skills? Ever since he started competing, my CP skills have rapidly increased.

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    Is Stanislav Cherchesov coaching Russian National team boosting CP skills? Ever since he started coaching, my CP skills have slowly increased.

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Yes, but only very slightly.

I have heard from sqrtdecompton that listening to Havanna boosts way more (so much he got a gold medal in recent IOI), and have confirmed it with rigorous testing and mathematical proof.

Of course, proof is left exercise to the reader.

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I can only confirm that listening to Tunak Tunak does not boost competitive programming skill.

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Thank you. It worked. I listened to twice before yesterday's contest. And the result is in front of you. I am guessing you listened to it too, considering your performance in the contest.

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listen to twice and i got blue after a long time struggling in specialist <3

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Lol. Listening to women moaning boosts my CP skills by 10 fold. Try it!

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Just won a div3 after listening to twice for 48 hours non-stop.

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Any Once here?

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I started listening to anime openings 24/7 and after a week I finally reached master. Think Twice has a similar effect

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İ started to listen to twice and my rating has increased about 250~ and became master. Thank you for your advice. I <3 twice. kalimm is POSET.

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I do not listen to Twice, but because so many people have started doing it, my rating has started going down. Please, codeforces, ban this performance-enhancing cheat from being allowed in competition. It is not fair for people like me

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Life is meaningless, The void will get us all, Hate will prevail.

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Are you guys seriously saying that listing to a particular band will improve Competitive programming skill? This is it?

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I tried it for today's contest and IT JUST WORKS MAGICALLY!!! (+170)

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I didn't listen to twice and now I have -270 in 2 contests. :(

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Adds are getting smarter

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ONCES hwaiting!!!

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Please support Twice by listening to their new song on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHB85vDuow

Help them win song of the year for the fourth time in a row!

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I will try .

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Jennie Blackpink and Lisa Blackpink will get angry if they see this post.

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Listening to music in general probably helps, but we need to eliminate survivorship bias and confirmation bias in order to know for sure.

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I don't know about listening twice but reading twice definitely has increased my rating.

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I listened k-pop for some minutes before the contest and my rating went down in two consecutive contests and I became pupil again :/

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    Oh God. Why downvotes? Just told what happened on listening to twice. I didn't say anything bad I suppose :(

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Reds must have listened to Twice all day.

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It would be good for me if twice was in complete English. Is there any other band like twice that is completely in English?

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Seriously asking, Is tzuyu_chou Tzuyu herself? Or is it just a fan?

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    It's me, Tzuyu.

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      How do you get the time to practice? I mean musicians have concerts, recording and stuff. :|

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        Better question -
        How do you get the time to participate? I mean musicians have concerts, recording and stuff. :|

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      Prove it.

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        Competitive programming is very popular in the kpop industry. Twice's MbakChaeyoung and Gfriend's JungYerin are active on codeforces too.

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          But one and only Chou Tzuyu is LGM. Chou tzuyu orz.

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          But how can we be sure that she is tzuyu an not an imposter? From all I know until now, she can be anyone.

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            If you are not sure then you know the answer. Anything about Tzuyu is not going to be secret, not at least while Nayeon is there...

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      Then how come nowhere in the internet or media this ability of yours is mentioned?

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    A lot of people improve just by listening to Twice so guess what happens if your part of it...

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For me it is quite the opposite, after I listened to kpop, I lost 10 iq points. I guess I could have them back now.

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I got to know twice earlier this year thanks to youtube and now I am dying for new year to come, so that I can change my handle to "...".

Let's not reveal it now, but it's related to twice. Idk if that's going to make me yellow but Imma go for it anyway...

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Removing my comment as I got any downvotes, Sorry everyone. :(

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    Just go to youtube and search for twice. All of their songs are legendary anyway.

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The thing is after reading all the comments I am a little convinced that twice may do the trick.But there is an issue.Issue is their songs don't match my musical taste and I am not enjoying listening.They are a great band,I have no doubt in that.But I am not sure if I don't enjoy the songs fully how it can be helpful in helping me improve my cp skills.

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I made International Master by listening to "Yes or Yes" on loop. However, there also was a time I did poorly while listening to Twice. The music probably has a relaxing effect which might have a slight positive correlation on performance, but make sure you're listening to songs you know very well. Otherwise, you'll end up getting distracted by the lyrics -- especially when Jihyo is singing ;)

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    Boy!!!Their some songs are really good..I did not like a few.But the others are good ones

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twice-shwice. Listen to Atif Aslam. You will forget everything else.

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If you love listening to deep voice and god-tier drop, this is one of their new song :)

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