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By ZeroToRed, history, 4 hours ago, In English

Currently, my ratings aren’t impressive at all, and to be honest, I still lack many basics. I’m slower than most of the people I interact with, I overcomplicate simple tasks, and sometimes I spend hours on tasks that others can handle in minutes. But I’m done trying to compare timelines.

There are those who only care about ratings, rankings, and accomplishments. They don’t consider how these accomplishments are achieved — by struggling submissions, by being frustrated, by remaining consistent, and coming back after poor results.

I do have a significant goal with coding and competitive programming. But now I realize that a goal itself is irrelevant without gaining something from the process. It lies in discipline, problem-solving skills, patience, and determination.

Let’s see where this path takes me.

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    Don’t. Waste of his time, unless he is genuinely interested in it he will get nothing out of it. Learn basics like greedy, brute force, fundamental number theory… The most advanced concept I had to use to get out of newbie is LCM. 85% of DP problems are rated >=1600, the rest are usually either solvable with greedy or not too difficult to figure out even if you don’t know any “patterns”

    Instead of wasting your time with 30 minute videos, this is all you have to know until ~1500:

    If a problem is solvable by solving a subproblem, you might be able to use DP on it. This can be done by storing a base value for a subproblem that you already know the solution to and using it to build up to the actual problem you are trying to solve. Try: 2208C][PROBLEM:2225C - Stamina and Tasks, if you need an example you can check editorial for one of them

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      no offence, this is good advice....

      buttttttt

      youre barely green after 6 contests thats sorta embarassing icl, but yeah dont watch dumb videos and dont read dumb edis just use ur brain (thats advice to the other guy im too lazy to write 2 comments)