After a long rollercoaster ride, I finally hit 1608 and reached blue!
Started from the very bottom at 396, and after countless ups and downs—especially that endless loop between 1300–1400 where I kept bouncing back (1514 → 1488 → 1400 → 1355... you know the pain)—it somehow happened.
I’m still far from being a good coder (DP still scares me), but this is a nice milestone. If you’re stuck in gray/green/cyan right now, just keep solving and don’t obsess over the rating. It will come.
Thanks to the whole community for the resources and motivation. Next stop: probably dropping back to 1500 in the next contest
Onward!
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finally purple man my hands legit shivered while submitting e man today i fked up a modulo out of panic lmao
Same here — couldn’t get C to pass, and when I finally tried E, I blew up on a $$$2^x$$$ computation too.
Congratulations! Btw, did you read all the problems before solving? Or do you only read the next problem after trying to solve the previous one?
I am like 99% sure something is up with your submissions (cheating?!)
Why would you submit C1 10 minutes after solving C2, when C1 is an intermediate step of solving C2. I find this very weird. Mind explaining why? Why would you write a completely new solution when you already solved the problem?
Yeah I actually have my mid sems going on i went on a call with my teacher I can attach the proof to it with the exact timeline if you want
Give me your discord or smth I'll give you my vsc compilation time along with solved on my canva and for the part why c1 has completely different solution is cause I solved c1 first and submitted c2 first I kept waiting for the queue to clear where I got a call from my professor just give me your discord or tg I'll send you my compiler activities in that time zone
Just explain why you make a new solution for C1, after you solved C2 already.
I solved c1 first and then c2 I just submitted c2 before
Read my edited reply and if you still don't believe I'll send you everything from call history to vsc activity of writing both the codes in two seperate files
Look, so you don't waste our time and yours
When a normal person sees a problem and comes up with the solution to The Hard Version and get Acc comes up, submitted in the ez one the same code
he doesn't go and write a new solution ?!
I wrote c1 first I submitted damn c2 first man if i cheated I wouldn't be so dumb to submit harder one first it's just I am surrounded by so much chores during exam time I submitted that first and came back to my table and then submitted c1.cpp file that why I said if you don't believe just give me your any of the socials I'll send you my vsc proofs compile time and everything
doesnt exactly work in this case because C1 and C2 are different problems (and not the same problem with different constraints)
It's kinda work, if you submit C2 first, changing the code back to C1 is just a single line change:
Difference: