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Can't get confident on my thought process, how do you get proof for a solution during contest?
By 18DaysLeft, history, 7 weeks ago, In English

I have been struggling at around problems of 1200-1300 difficulty for a month, and ever when do i get the intuition to approach the Problems it just seems like it is a fluke and not a solid logical approach. A standard approach for proofs of such to solidify my approach would be nice.

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18 days left for what ? apocalypse ?

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    18 days were left for October or August. I don't remember. Made the account then.

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Just trust your intuition. I almost never prove in-contest.

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    Yeah i guess

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    Hey, what topics do I need to master for specialist?

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    mustard with fries is nasty

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      It's really good actually. You should try it sometime :).

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        In my country we rarely eat fries, so i would not know. you know intuition thing happened again, This problem in this one i had to look at test cases to get close to solution.

        Starting to think that i may be retarted.

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    my intuition sometime say to my: "yeah, you can use always use a greedy instead of this dp", i know this is wrong, but for make sure i have to find the case that greedy fail, this is my case, i dont belive at all my intuition :/

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      probably i need more experience for having a better intuition

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Been through and I think you can get over it only by practice. Solve questions with your intuition, it may go wrong but atleast you will construct thought process

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