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Dear Editorial Writers,
By Hail_to_USSR, history, 4 years ago, In English

Hey, I am Kushal. I am on codeforces since 2 years now. I have observed that several editorial writers just do write the way to solve the problem directly. While this satisfies me as a desperate problem solver, it does not develop my analytical abilities. It shall be noted that I am not talking about every editorial writer. There are many exceptions. Specifically, the writers can initially provide a small link, further they can provide the key idea and finally, they can give the solution in its entirety.

It should be noted that I do not recommend this method for all the problems. Of course, I am unaware, what the highly rated coders wish. However, I believe this method of writing editorial would at least help moderately rated coders.

That said, I loved few editorials written by Ashishgup. Thanks a lot Ashish.

Thanks.

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I do not believe that reading other people's thought process helps to develop problem solving skills at all.

Also your username is idiotic.

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    Reading other people's thought process actually helps.

    Also this isn't fft.

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      You can't read other ppl's thought during contest.

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        What's your point? We are talking about editorials, which are published after the contest ends.

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          Because there is no editorial in contest.

          So develop your own way of thinking is my point.

          If you can't do that and decided to read editorial which is "out of nowhere", I think you are not at that level of thinking. Most of the time it is not author's fault that you are bad.

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    Why won't it improve problem-solving skills?

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      I know some people think that if they read a grandmaster's thought process they will slowly learn to think like a grandmaster. But I've got to tell you: the most important thing, and maybe the only really important thing is experience. The reason why some people are so good at solving these problems is they have spent a lot of time struggling with these problems, for hours on end. This is where this thought process comes from. You can not replace it by trying to "absorb" some minute amount of someone else's mind. I don't think that reading some thought process can even aid you in a meaningful way.

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    I should use my freedom of speech to say that you are using your freedom of speech for idiotic reasons.

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I feel that an editorial is supposed to clearly explain the problem in a way simple to understand.

If I want to solve it by myself I can do so, I can get hints by observing other peoples code or quick look into the comments sections. Or read the editorial for say, only 30 seconds, things like that.

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