Hi there,

As you can see in my rating graph, I used to be a candidate master. However, since I reached my peak, my performance has dropped significantly. I had to admit that it was probably my fault, as I stopped training as hard as before.

Recently, I did horribly in the December USACO Plat. contest. Then, I proceed to absolutely bomb the next three CF rounds I participated (including today's Div. 2). Not only was I unable to solve the harder problems (D and E), I had trouble in solving C.

I'm very sad right now and I hope to seek some help from you. How should I train in the next month to get back to candidate master? I will definitely do more problems, but what strategy should I use? Should I start from 1800-1900ish problems? (Previously I've done 2100-2200+ problems in my training, but since I wasn't as good as before, should I "restart"?)

Thanks. :(