Hello Codeforces,

Recently, I've been scouting around profiles and looking at the number of questions specialists and experts solved. I realized that most specialists and experts have solved under 300 questions. This is really discouraging and demotivating because I have personally solved over 600 problems but I have just reached specialists.

I would like to know whether experts and specialists are practicing coding using a different platform, or do they have a more effective of training than just solving as many problems as possible. Also, please provide me with effective training techniques that helped you improve in competitive programming.

Much thanks!

Edit: Thank you to everyone who replied and provided me with useful tips. I will definitely use all of your tips!