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? :)

Edit: Thank you everyone for your support. Based on all the valuable advice I will take these steps: 1. Use virtual contests more 2. Prioritize my energy (especially on the day of the contest) for cp (This includes taking more rest and mental peace) 3. Use a journal to test myself, track my learnings and spaced repetition

Please tell me what's going on here imma lose my stuff https://codeforces.me/contest/2192/submission/366483077

I'm handling the first case where the sum of the array perfectly divides the health. (h % sum == 0) Here the output is n * (h/sum) + k * (h/sum — 1). Since no need to reload once you've gone through the array For the second case, I'm maintaining a minimum value and checking if I replace that value with max from the suffix.

So I am a newbie in DFS and BFS, and was solving this problem. Surprisingly, giving TLE in 3rd testcase. I can't seem to understand where code is inefficient since time complexity is looking fine to me.

I have added some comments, which don't use the ideal terminologies but would hopefully convey what I'm trying to do

https://codeforces.me/contest/1948/submission/267884593

Sublime randomly stops indenting on new line and cursor starts pointing onto first character of the line instead of continuing indent. Since I am using a snippet, when I press tab to reintroduce the indentation, the tab actually moves my cursor to the end. (see video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jljt4HbwGc (issue on 29 sec) Happens on line 14

This behavior happens randomly. Also with simple declarations and even calling out functions. No idea why it happens. I don’t have much idea with indentation settings, please let me know which configuration is right one for C++ competitive programming

Here is my sublime preferences file

Hi all! My school is starting a CP Club but unfortunately we have no mentor right now. I understand that all the guidance is available on the internet, but our school wants us to host a live session with someone in order to increase engagement. So we need someone to give an introductory session of 20-30 minutes about basic fundamentals of competitive programming, what the journey is like, motivation, maybe share your journey. We can coordinate and host the session, and I can prepare the slides etc... If anyone is willing to be a mentor do DM me or comment below.