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By hung8A, history, 5 hours ago, In English

It's been exactly two years (as of this blog) since the day I registered this Codeforces account, and also two years since the day I started cp. It's about time I look back on what I have achieved on this platform.

Solving ABC fast in Division 2's nowadays is more like a requirement than a goal for me, and instead of staring at C for about an hour getting no ideas, now I can (sometimes) do up to Div.2D's. I also improved a lot on stuff like dp, graph algorithms (dfs, bfs, stuff like that), which to me is a massive win, especially when this time last year I would barely understand the problem statement.

I also managed to stay consistently in Expert rank for the most part of the year, the only low being sometime around April. It was also amazing that I managed to hit Candidate Master once, which was (probably) a very big fluke, but I also had many great contests, and some not-so-good ones. Overall, I'm satisfied with all the progress that I've made.

Some highlights this year: R938 (very good performance on a Div.3), R942 (Math-forces), R968 (ft. a 115th minute D2 AC), R897 (where i solved E1, E2 and not D), R964 (my first Div.4 AK).

Probably no big goals for the next few years on this platform (except maybe a Div.3 AK), but I will still try to give it my best when I can.

Thanks for reading, and happy coding! :) (p/s: If anyone's wondering, I'm doing fine now. A new schoolyear starts in a few days, hopefully everything will be for the better.)

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By hung8A, history, 12 months ago, In English

It's been exactly one year (as of this blog) since the day I registered this Codeforces account, and also one year since the day I started cp. It's time I look back on what I have achieved as a random tryhard kid on this platform.

I started this journey having known basically nothing about coding (other than basic syntaxes) and wanted to become among the very best (like tourist). At first I thought everything was easy (as I only did 800 problems), but the fact that I failed to do C in the first ever division 4 contest I had made me change my mind really quickly. From then on, it was a journey of doing contests, reading editorial, trying my best to actually understand up to C-D, learn from it, and repeat.

I actually rarely do upsolving, just hanging about in the problemset finding fun and easy problems to pass the time. By now I have known some basic things like prefix/suffix sums and binary search, but never enough for me to really think that I actually deserve the Expert title. Having a lot of experience with math contests and logical thinking, I generally can come up with solutions fast, so I guess that's in some way an advantage.

Starting out as a kid who would do anything to improve my rating, now I have focused more on the important part of contests — trying to solve as many as possible and not care much about these rating points. I don't have plans to go to any big cp olympiads in the future though, for now it's just self-improvement and giving my best.

Thanks for reading and have fun coding :)

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By hung8A, history, 16 months ago, In English

There is an account (unrated) spamming random blogs with random contents and it is hiding all the useful blogs.

These are brand new accounts, just made to spam, with only 1 problem solved.

Can someone please look into this and take actions?

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