hello everyone, I am writing this to ask and tell . I am doing problems like regularly on codeforces and atcoder .well but these things still don't help my intuition a week or two before i started to scrape out problems from icpc world finals and regionals too which remained unsolved by teams at the time of contest . It is taking me too much time but i don't get stressed i just take my pen and paper scribble some solutions and try to code it .Everytime I think i am close to getting solution actually makes me realise how far I am . Also I deliberately don't look or go to editorial because I think looking into solutions or reading an approach will ruin my work of two weeks making and working on my own solutions. Now I wanna ask is my approach to fine or am I doing it wrong .I would be happy to advices and also open to critics . Also it is my first blog on codeforces so yeah please be a bit lenient.
Thank you for reading this .
While I understand I am not in position of giving good advices, but I think that going way above your level isn't practice, its just making your brain tired and wasting time, real growth happens through smaller steps. Maybe you should care about those problems now that you think are approachable and not some ICPC level problems that weren't solved by the qualified teams.
And I also remember a piece of advice a chinese legendary grandmaster (kevin i think), he said to grow, just be consistent and practice by tags.
well , it is not abt your position to give good advice, your comment is valuable still . and yeah i also remember the advice to just be consistent .