Hello everyone, everyone's favorite zzzzsust19 here. As you may not see, I have been going through a rough time. So, I want to discuss and contemplate about the difficulties I am facing and try finding out what's going wrong. You see, I have spent a lot of time in competitive programming. It's already been 3 years since I opened this account, basically that means I have over 3 x 365 x 24 = 26280 hours in competitive programming. But compared to my time spent in CP, I clearly haven't made enough progress at all. I spend hours after hours behind thinking about what I am doing wrong and why I am not a Grandmaster yet but am struggling to find an answer. As you can guess by my profile pic, I spend a lot of time sleeping and dreaming about becoming grandmaster in Codeforces. In my mind, I already am the best philosopher and the best Grandmaster in codeforces. But reality fails to reflect that. I also asked the CP community several times "How to become GM". You see, doing CP is like playing Kabadi, everybody gets together to pull down the one person who is trying to achieve something. So clearly the community doesn't appreciate my quest for becoming a Grandmaster in Codeforces.
You may notice that I haven't practiced a single problem in past 4 months. It's because I believe in smart work, not hard work. Hard work is for dummies who can't think clearly enough, complicating simple matters. Isn't it right guys? I also went through severe depression throughout my last month and did contests anyways, because mental illness is clearly not a thing and I definitely don't need to see a therapist.
But despite my best efforts, I am not a grandmaster yet. Clearly, I am doing something wrong, right? So guys, how to become GM?
Idk if this is a troll or not.
Read https://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/98621. Think about if you're actually practicing or you're fooling yourself. A quick test that you can do: choose some hard problem that you solved a few months ago, if you're actually practicing you should be able to solve it again without looking at the editorial.
You've barely participated in contests, why would you expect rating gains without participating? You're almost at the same contest number as I had when I got to div1, but I did that in around 4 months instead of 3 years. I also did many times more virtual contests, practice on long contests and solving random problems at that point. Your estimation of "hours in competitive programming" is very off, you're not even close to doing it 24/7 otherwise you'd probably have solved all problems in codeforces already or close to it.
I know how it feels i tried everything and spent 24*3*30 (3 months) programming but to no avial i am still notpupil i dont know what am i doing wrong im so sad waaaa i even started to do math (with a) bevause of my severe skill issue syndrome
"My best efforts"
"I haven't practiced a single problem in past 4 months"