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How to Become A Candidate Master within 6 to 8 months
By Morg0th, history, 4 years ago, In English

As im a noob and i have given my first contest yesterday and i was not able to solve a single question i want some really good advices and practises from people who have already achieved it please help me in my journey :)

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Try to reach Specialist within 6 / 8 month.

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If you're only trying to reach CM in codeforces (but not trying to perform well in other competitions like ICPC) you can just put in a lot of time to solve problems from previous rounds, since most problems you'll encounter before reaching Master do not require classical algorithms.

By the way, to reach CM you needs to solve at least 4 problems in Div.2 in average. If you're not particularly talented, it's a big challenge to reach CM even in 2 years.

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Practice

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    Would like to advice how I mean like from problemset or just random contests

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      When i got to pupil i had practiced USACO bronze and silver and able to solve 1400 under 30 min. I didnt follow a specific path

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