Good luck and hopefully you really go through with this. I can't count the number of times I've seen people post similar things and then not do a competition ever again.

Also special props for setting a goal of 2000 and not "become red". While I still think it is a pretty hard goal, it seems more achievable, though it differs for everybody.

Good luck! Although my answers to your questions were not very helpful ...

I have completed my 1-year training phase and reach CM in the latest contest. I hope that you could to in the next year. The most valuable thing that I learn is that "If you are ready, you'll know", so just be patient and diligent. Hope this helps!

Good luck! This is a great idea, I'll try to keep up :)

Keep grinding and good luck! I wish I had time for such challenges :(

Unlike others I've seen, you seem to have done your home work and has got a solid plan. All the best!!!

Good luck! I was green on CF a year ago, you already have a better start than me since you solved more than zero problems in your first round, and didn't attempt div1+2F after WA on A. There's a interesting(and long) journey ahead. I personally found it beneficial to learn the most common topics, you can ignore rare topics at first if you are just aiming for rating. For ex. I've hit 2000 without any basic knowledge of geometry except pythagorean theorem.M̶y̶ ̶g̶o̶a̶l̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶b̶e̶c̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶g̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶s̶h̶i̶t̶p̶o̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶.

These are negligible if you are part of a CP community where you can find stronger programmers to help you when you’re stuck so don’t worry too much.

Does there even exist such a CP community in the first place? I only know a community called the downvote community.

Awesome goal, go for it! I also wish to hit pupil one day!

998kover became an international grandmaster in a year, just for the motivation:)

I wish you the best of luck! I started taking CodeForces more seriously around 7 months ago, when I was rated 1540, and I just reached 2000+ today, so this is definitely a realistic goal. However, even though I have reached 2000+, I still feel like there is so much to learn. As kostia244 mentioned, focus on the basics and the most common topics. If you are using C++, knowing the STL really well helps a lot, but also, sometimes, there is no specific algorithm/data structure which will apply to a problem and you just have to be creative about it.

I think problem C from Round 601, Div. 2 is a good example of this. Personally, I have never seen a problem like this before, but by making my own test cases and thinking through the problem, I was able to create my own ad hoc solution to the problem and it worked. At least for me, I think practicing these kinds of creative, ad hoc problems were the most helpful in reaching a rating of 2000+. Of course, knowledge of graph theory, number theory, and general mathematics/geometry has helped me in quite a few problems, too, but, at least for now, I have been able to get away without being too good at dynamic programming or data structures like lazy segment trees.

Congrats!

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