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I want to improve from 2500 to 2800 or 3000 (if possible). What kind of method do you use to improve from here? I feel like I'm stuck at my current level, but I don't know what exactly I need to do. Any advice?
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I want to improve from 1200 to 1900 or 2000 (if possible). What kind of method do you use to improve from here? I feel like I'm stuck at my current level, but I don't know what exactly I need to do. Any advice?
USACO
same... i have been solving a bunch of hard problems for a while but it doesn't seem to help much.
Thank for you reply. I guess I will just solve more problems.
after very long analysis, you are weak at implementation & segment trees
what am I weak at?
trolling
And for me?
Bedwars
Same lol.. i can solve many hard problems like 2100+ rated but by the time i get to those interesting problems in the contest it's already too late. Btw your FFT video was really helpful, very well explained. But again.. i might never be able to see any FFT problem in contest bc i always somehow find a way to mess up problem A/B. Specialist forever TT
No way. Each participant has a nature-defined limitation they can't overcome
Ragebait 101
He isn't wrong tho. Like, nature has limited me to eating shit, and because of that, I can't overcome my 0 rating
Otherwise everyone would be a master
I've held the same view one year ago, and I used to think that it's completely impossible for me to become a Master or even Grandmaster, because I thought that I've 'trained very hard for two years' without any improvement.
then how do you know the exact value
I don't understand how you are stuck at your current level and haven't lost any rating points since becoming red. Do you measure it by VPs or something else?
How to improve to GM? :D
As a person that'll try to make a last push back to 2800 or even 3000, I'll share my opinion on myself:
Too lazy, more diligency is necessary. I'm not focused enough during contests and end up misreading a lot. Also not enough upsolving, I learned some concepts during this time but I haven't coded the solutions so sometimes it happens that I know that the concept is related to a problem without being able to apply it (for example I knew the whole idea for https://mirror.codeforces.com/contest/2135/problem/E1 during testing but couldn't solve it because I suck at reflection problems)
Too shit implementation. Too many bugs, I need to be more active in order to be sharp when implementing longer solutions.
Too afraid of what I don't already know. I must look to actively learn the things that I'm not good at instead of just accepting it. This is especially the case for the current CF meta that's drifted away from stuff that I'm good at.
You've practically just reached GM, as far as your graph shows you might get to IGM next year or so. You might already have what it takes to reach there but you've been risking a lot less rated participations than in the recent past. Just look back into your past results, you were doing a ton of contests but looking back at it your general trend was up and up even if sometimes you'd take a huge fall.
Well it's true that I'm not participating like I used to, so I will participate from now on. Though university lessons took some time, I will try to speedrun them.
Speed is very important. Hard to reach 3000 if you take too much time for Div1A~C every time.
I feel like I’ve been stuck at Pupil for quite a while now and I really want to improve all the way up to Master. What would be the best approach? Should I keep grinding problems/contests on Codeforces, or focus on structured resources like the CSES Problem Set (or something else)? Any suggestions?