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Advices to reach candidate soon ):
By FTS_Problem_C, history, 4 years ago, In English

Hello codeforces!

About 10 months ago,I reached Expert after two years of practicing (well , I wasn't really practicing then )

But since being an expert , I nearly didn't miss a contest unless I wasn't able to participate , but I'm still going up and down in expert (and sometimes specialist too) , and I reached a rate more than 1800 only once, although I have some contests with a master performance.

And unfortunately, I accepted Ali_ZaiBug 's challenge that if i don't reach purple before the first of November(which is very soon) , he will upload a post on facebook laughing on me ):

Well, I don't really care about the post, but I want to reach purple before 2023.

So can I have some advices please ?

Thanks !

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Best of luck and My target is to reach expert till december

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Read my book

My book

It won't help

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Anyone up for a challenge to become Candidate Master before end of 2022?

UPD: Find the list here

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The best solution is to sell your laptop and look for a new hobby that is completely outside the field of computers. because this field is not suitable for weak people like you. I won't be able to bully much since I'm an expert now unfortunately :(

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You may find this useful.

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I want to reach expert by the 2023 , hope both of us can succeed

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This won't be life changing or something all of a sudden but an important tip is to practice more questions around and over the mark you are trying to reach.
For example I see you have an absolutely huge number of 800 questions solved, and only ~15 questions rated 1900, that number should be a lot higher. You should do much more 1900 — 2100 rated problems.
The difference between a person struggling to reach/stay 1900 and someone who is stable at 1900+ is the ability to consistently (and for extra bonus, quickly) do problems rated upto 2100, so a good step towards your goal is — Go out, upsolve ALL the problems in recent contests which fall in this range, give virtual contest and make sure whether it's during or after the virtual, that you solve upto D, and E if it's $$$\leq$$$ 2100

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where is our challenge?

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Reject Baccalaureate, Embrace Olympiad

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may you get your answer only after you tell me how to reach expert.

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I think virtual contests + upsolving are the way to go since you are inconsistent with your performance, I also suffer from this problem since I don't do contests that often. so I'll be using this strategy for the next month if you would like to join me :)

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Go solve hard problems, a lot of them

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Maybe its because, you've solved very less (>1600) rated problems on CodeForces.

As I have seen in YT videos of some high rated participants, they recommend 40 problems of each rating level till (your target + 200). That would be 40 problems each of rating 1500 to 2100.

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Don't take part in combined rounds.

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Dude's rating nosedived after the blog

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