Hi everyone, I started CP about 2 years ago, and while I enjoy CP, I just can't get the results. During summer 2025, I started grinding from 1200's to 1300 and then 1400s. I used TLE's CP31 sheet, did the typical cses problems and did a lot of the the recent problems. After that, I started grinding all recent Div 2. from A to C. However, during this phase, I could not take many contests because I had a job during that time.

Then life got pretty busy and while I tried, there were phases where I would have a whole week without practicing. Now I left that job so I could take more contests. Since the last 2 months, I was suggested to start solving in the 1600 rating (as they told me I had enough problems solved in 1200-1400 range). I have tried to take every contest in the past 2 months and every time I get poor results. I would skip over words, sometimes won't even get simple observations right, it's these stupid mistakes every single time.

I am starting to question my cognitive ability and maybe competitive programming is too far fetched for me. If you guys could go through my profile and figure out where do I fall short, that would be great? :)