About this blog

In Teza Round 1 (Codeforces Round 1015, Div. 1 + Div. 2), I finally reached the stage of Candidate Master. Candidate Master has a special meaning to me. May be I saw it as my official introduction to the programming competition. And now I have reached it.

This blog post is about my memories and reflections on reaching CM, as well as some of my own experiences.

My journey to CM

My first codeforces round is Codeforces Round 886 (Div. 4), and I solved 5 problems in this round. Perhaps thanks to the experience of high school math competition (my high school math competition career was not outstanding, and finally only the provincial second prize), getting Pupil and Specialist was easy to me. After 6 rounds, my rating was 1281. A month later, I reached Specialist.