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My 200 Days Streak Milestone
By AhmadShahal, 3 years ago, In English

“Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson.

Today, I have been able to complete a 200 days streak on Codeforces, Although I don't have that much of a high rating, I am getting better and I did very good in ICPC qualification contests.

If someone told me half a year ago that I will be solving problems for 200 days consecutively I would say stop this nonsense, but hey! I did it.

Wish me good luck as my next goal will be reaching Expert and a 365 Days Streak!

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your maximum streak is 112 days.

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    I'm pretty sure it's 200, I don't know why Codeforces shows it as 112 for some users.

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      You haven't submitted any problem on 31st August

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        I guess it's because of different timezones. I'm pretty sure it should be 200. Well done btw!

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          Thanks for your nice words, I owe you big time.

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        Thanks for your concern about honesty. chrome-w-M2r-YGMHzn
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          I always had the doubt why the submission heat map shows differently for different people . I finally understood today XD

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      3 years ago, # ^ |
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      Actually, there may exist a place in the universe where your maximum streak is 814. Depending on how you submit each problem and different timezones across the universe, with 0.99.. (let's assume 0.(9) < 1) probability (fmpov) there exists a place with the maximum streak being strictly greater than 200.

      Unfortunately, there definitely (with 1.0 probability) exists another place in the universe, where your maximum streak is 1.

      So don't worry about other places! Whether there is a less or more streak. Be hardworking in the place you live. Good luck.

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I have a question.Have you forcefully tried to maintain the streak or has it happent naturally?If you have done it forcefully I am afraid it's not an efficient way of practice.

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    Can you elaborate how doing it forcefully isn't an efficient way of practicing?

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      This may be different for each person, but here is my take on the effectiveness of learning. In my opinion, the absolutely best possible competitive programming training method is participating in every ranked contest. The main reason is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenaline#Memory (when you are stressed and have an adrenaline rush, insights about any solved problems are much more likely to remain in your long-term memory). And for a similar reason, the absolutely worst competitive programming training is when you are forcing yourself to solve a certain quota of problems every day regardless of whether you are feeling ill, tired or whatever. Basically, a human brain switches between these three modes of operation:

      • "I'm in danger" => the best learning effect.
      • "I'm having fun" => a good learning effect (there's even a TEDx Talk video about this).
      • "it's a boring chore and I'm tired" => a negligible learning effect.

      If maintaining daily streak is fun, then it's perfectly fine. But if it's done just for the sake of inflating some random stats, then this is unlikely to pay off. Additionally, fixating just on CF stats alone is silly. For example, if I participate in a Kickstart and/or ABC contest on some day, then the CF activity tracker showing zero solved problems for that particular day is irrelevant.

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Great achievement! Hope you'll reach your goals! :)

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Really inspiring !! .

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It's hard...

Btw wish you luck.

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You wont become an expert.

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    because he will become LGM

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    I think it's rotavirus's new account. Previously, his nickname was "Eva" and he had set name "Eva Krause". Also he was blocked 3 months ago, early-morning-dreams is registered 3 months ago. Both of you write contests good and both comment toxic style.

    By the way, I am glad you came back. CF was boring without you with the dumb blogs like "I am newbie, help me!" and blogs like this one.

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      Don't expose me lol

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      Excellent detective work.

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      Also their coding styles are very similar: [submission:117934900], [submission:123341681]. Both use ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false) instead of ios::sync_with_stdio(false), both don't use #include <bits/stdc++.h>, both leave an empty line before using namespace std, both write int l,r instead of int l, r, both use endl instead of "\n", both write return 0 (it is useless), both use such space: ' ', not " " (look at any Krauze's submission where he uses spaces), both use a combined style of figure brackets (new line before bracket or just a space). The space of search after combining all these facts becomes small.

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great work :)

hope we can see u specialist or expert soon

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damn my man is speedrunning codeforces

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Great work!!! I'm on 156,Hoping to make it to 200:)

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I've tried the same, but it's boring when you're out, for example, but you still need to keep your streak. In most cases, I only solved one problem, sometimes the simplest of the existing ones. There is too little benefit from solving problems that are too simple. I believe that in general we should solve problems more difficult than our rating. I understood that every day it would be getting sadder to interrupt the streak on purpose. In the end, I just breaked the streak due to codeforces technical issues. This is pretty disappointing, but now I feel free. Solving problems every day is good, but not if you're just trying to keep the streak going. Now I just spend more time studying)) I'll be back soon. Maybe one tough problem for a few days, or a lot of problems on the first day and rest the next, but I don't want to do such a series of solved problems anymore. Good luck to you!

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can anyone tell me how much minimum submissions we have to do for the dark green box ??

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    For the lightest green you need to submit anything, for darker than that you need to solve one problem, for darker than that you need to solve 2 problems and for the darkest green you need to solve 3 problems.

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