CP trainer — new tool for training

Revision en34, by michao, 2025-10-03 15:46:18

Hello,
I created a project for training and analyzing your performance during contests: cp-trainer.com. I believe it has some unique features not existing in competitive platforms and can provide as a more sensible tool for training, especially for more experienced users who have participated in a bunch of contests already. Below I will briefly discuss its functionalities:

Problem recommender

In this section, we will discuss the heuristics used for problem recommender. First we need to introduce briefly a couple of metrics:

  • get_dict_accuracy — Dictionary of form (tag : average number of submissions to accept problem with this tag during contests)

    Contest training picker

    In this module user can choose one of the 4 contest modes depending on what he wants to train:

    • Speed — The contest consists of 5 easy-medium problems. The problems' ratings are based on expected time to solve them i.e. the system expects the user to solve them in about 2000 seconds. The tags are chosen based on the weaknesses of the user (i.e. the tags which take him more time on average). The idea is that the contestant during such contests will practice solving faster the easy-medium problems, that will allow him to have more time on the harder ones.
    • Hard problems — The contest consists of 3 problems from the list of 10 in the problem recommender.
    • Weaknesses — The contest consists of 3 problems, all from topics, that user is weak at. The rough idea was to take the random 3 out of 5 tags with lowest value from the metrics compute_tag_rating and for each tag take the problem with rating as close as predicted rating on that tag + 200. In practice some comparator was used, which also takes into the account the freshness of the contest the problem comes from. (We rather want to solve the problems from fresher contests, since problems have changed a lot in past years).
    • Upsolve — The contest consists of 3 problems, that contestant didn't solve during past contests (he either had rejected submissions on them or they were the first problems during the contest that he didn't get accepted) with the best quality according to problem recommender.

    Note : The duration of the contest (never greater than 5 hours) is calculated automatically based on the expected time to solve the problems (user should solve some problems to not get discouraged, but of course not all). The contestant can limit this time by setting the max duration (he doesn't have to), however it is not very recommended, because the system will just discard some problems from the problemset to adjust the time.

    User stats

    In this mode there are presented plots that show mainly different statistics about user's performance during the contests. Below we can see the sample statistic showing my average time to solve a problem during contest with specific tag. One can deduce that I have the most difficulties with problems including probabilities and schedules. What's important to mention is that it would be best to include this based on rating, however the data is too small so we rely on the fact that it will average out across all ratings. Unfortunately with tags like flows where problems don't have probably low ratings, this won't be consistent, however with the most popular tags this should show good trends.



    The included interesting statistics are (the time unit is measured in seconds):

    • Average time to solve a problem by rating
    • Average time to solve a problem by tag
    • Average nr of attemps to solve a problem with specific tag — This is especially useful when we want to check on which problems we have difficulties with implementation/handling edge cases.
    • User rating on a tag — For each tag we calculate the rating of a user on this type of problems based on the performance during contests.
    • Average rating of solved/unsolved problems — This shows what is the average highest solved problem during contests and the average lowest rating of the problem that user did not solve. It is useful e.g. when you want to check the rating of the average problem on which you block during contests and helps you to pick problems with appropriate rating during practice.
    • Average rating change when doing problems in order/not in order — This calculates the average rating change when you do either the problems in order or not (e.g. you skip some problems etc.).

    Compare yourself against the others

    The idea for this section was to analyze for the user, how much he is worse than the average contestant with some specific rank. It was realized by taking statistics for 40 average random users across that specific rank , who participated in >=50 contests and were registered min 3 years ago. (that should approximate well the random user with some rank.)



    We can see in the picture above the sample statistic of me compared with the average grandmaster, telling what is the average time difference (in seconds) of solving problem with some specifing rating. As we can see, I am slower on the most of the ratings, especially in the hardest ones.
    The included statistics are almost the same like in the user stats section, here we just take difference between the contestant and average user of some rank.
    Note: The green bars mean there is contestant's advantage, red otherwise.

    Summary

    The goal was to create the tool which will analyze user's performance during live contests and then based on that recommends adequate problems for training. Most apps focus on the stats of the user also during practice, which in my opinion don't provide the best insight e.g. because outside the contest you have unlimited time and also you can look at editorial.

    If you find any bugs, please let me know and I will try to fix them as soon as possible. Any constructive criticism is also appreciated. Thanks for checking out the platform.

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