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I wanted to become Master in my 200 rated round, but...
By C137, history, 6 years ago, In English

Before Today's round I took part in 197 rated rounds, and I was hoping to mark my 200th round by becoming a master, however my hopes failed as I became master in Today's Round <3 <3 <3

I have been doing CP since February 2015, more than 5 years. Finally today I reached master, I wanted to share this blog with you because I see a lot of times some users say I am not advancing, my rate doesn't change, I am stuck in rate... Believe me in the end everything will change, just be patient and keep believing in your self ;)

You can take a look at all ups and downs in my graph, I didn't reach this level easily, It just takes time.

Happy coding all, I hope you will reach what you want soon.

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Congrats and good luck

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Congratulations

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Congratulations

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Oh! I soooo needed this.

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When you're Div. 1 ONLY, it makes a huge difference. I think you'll find that out soon enough. I got my first Master a year ago and only now I'm starting to advance further.

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    Yes I am expecting difficulties, That's why I intend to quit rated rounds for a while.

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      No, don't quit. Writing rounds is the best you can do at this point (either virtual participation or real rounds).

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        No you got me wrong, sure I will continue doing virtual and Div.2 rounds, I just need to start the round with Div.1 B not Div.2 A like I used to, In this stage I guess solving fast is very important.

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      quitting, and enjoying your color is pretty nice.

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Congratulations.

Would you please tell me your practicing approach ?? Like, how many hours a day you trained yourself, what types of problems did you solve on a regular basis?

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    Just change to Mortey Profile Picture to Rick Sanchez :D

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    Just kidding, anyway here is my approach:

    • First part of my training was about learning new topics, I used LightOJ for this, this site has a very organized categories, when I want to learn something new for example game theory, I used to google and read different articles about this topic but the problem with such articles they just suggest interesting and hard problems for practice, in LightOJ you can find problems in every level, from the standard easy problem, to medium and hard in the end. I used this method in my first 2-3 years, however anyone can make it in much shorter time.

    • Second part was about practicing things I already know, that was a little more difficult, every time I wanted to solve problems I got bored after ~30 minutes and I end up reading the editorial, to solve this problem I started to take part in more rated rounds, in rated round you can't stop because your rating will drop much, and you don't have editorial to read. This method worked well with me as now I have much time to think in hard problems, of course upsolving after the contest is over is very important.

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My great coach I'm so proud of you , congrats and I hope to see you as a red coder soon .

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loser. I needed exactly 100 rounds

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Feels weird to see you without the purple color, anyways congrats!

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Congratulations

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I want to have a lot of likes, pls

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Congratulations for becoming a MASTER

I hope and I will become an EXPERT in this month <3 Thanks for your inspirational blog that motivate me so much <3

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congrats coach, i hope you become red soon

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It's just rating inflation

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i hope I will be master and further in near future :v

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Does having a girlfriend affect the CF rating ?

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Don't worry, you can still become Master in your 200th rated round!

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