Hello, Codeforces! I recently reached the Pupil level by participating in Educational Codeforces Round 185 (Rated for Div. 2), so I want to share some tips how to get out of Newbie:
Practice problems with 1200-1300 rating
Take attention to consistency. Solve at least 6 problems per day.
Quality is important than quantity. This event was happened in my CP journey, that I used to practice a lot of 800-900 problems to increase the number of solved problems in profile. However, then I decided to solve harder problems although it was less. As a result, I improved my implementation and pattern recognition.
There is no doubt that there are these tips in a lot of blogs, but again I remembered that. Sorry for my poor English!
Thank you. This is exactly what I need.
How should I do practice? topicwise or rating wise
Practice rating-wise in ~200 range.
Figuring out the concept/topic the problem may be solved with is itself a major part of solving the problem. And when you practice topic-wise, you take away that integral part.
Edit: just noticed, we currently have the same number of problems solved. What a coincidence!