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Still a newbie. Any help?
By vohrab1896, history, 4 years ago, In English

Hi CF community I have been a newbie from quite a long time and performing at a highly low rate. I want to do CP but loosing much motivation now but still want to keep this as a top priority and not give up because of which I can't switch to anything else thus ending in a very dead end loop. I know this answer is "practice". No other substitute. Upsolving questions till D still taking a lot of time to think. Sometimes I think too slow and because of that not able to complete question in small time. Because of that I have to look at the editorial. Nowadays, a single D question is taking my whole day. I am doing questions daily. I know I am not effective. It is a dead end loop. Can't figure out. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

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I think You should practice https://a2oj.com/ladder?ID=4 And https://a2oj.com/ladder?ID=5 Problems For better Growth A2 Online Judge

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What about, instead of solving harder problems, try solving easier problems first, but with more speed?

That's one of the things that E869120 mentions in his tutorial, and I find it effective. Try it out.

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Personally, I think newbies should do some competitive math before resuming competitive programming. Most of the A and B problems on Codeforces and really just mathematical thinking and a few lines of code.

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    Math background is indeed important, and solving math problems indeed helps, but isn't doing competitive math a bit too much?

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      Competitive math in the US entails really everything from AMC 8 to IMO (maybe Putnam). AMC 8,10,12 aren't that hard...

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Hey man, I can tell you my strategy, you see I was a specialist for a long time but then I started practicing without worrying about my rating and just enjoyed the problems. Now I can easily maintain expert. I will suggest you to solve 1000-1100 problems for like 20 days and then proceed to 1200-1300 problems for 20-30 days.

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Contigo help him :)

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Still an unrated. Any help?

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    Participate in a contest which is rated for you. :D

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Try to solve problems in difficulty range from 1000 to 1200. Give virtual contests periodically.

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You should believe in yourself not just practice. If you think about problem that it`s easy and realy believe in it you would solve it much faster. Trust me, it realy works that way.

And yeah i am the kindest person on the cf :3

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