I'm struggling a lot with these problem Bs. A few weeks ago, I went two contests in a row only solving 1 problem and lost over 100 rating points. I managed to reverse the damage completely and got up to 1477 rating, my peak. Then, these last two competitions hit and the same exact thing happened, now I'm back to low 1300s.

When I am solving problems outside of competitions, I can virtually always solve 1600-1900 rated problems within an hour. Why is it that I am getting tripped up on these seemingly easier lower rated problems?

I am probably going to have to do some targeted training on these kinds of lower rated but tricky problems, but for the time being I think I am going to be skipping problem B because I think I can solve C more often than not and many times D as well.