Hello, I am a student from Turkey who wants to improve in order to compete in IOI. I have reached green after 2,5 months of learning but I have a big question on my mind. What should I priortise to reach specialist? I humbly request your advise. Good day to everyone.
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Oh, what a good question .. to google it and see there are hundreds of blogs on codeforces talking about the same thing.. how to improve.. how to be blue.. how to be red.. etc..
Is there a blog about "how to not be rude"?!
Rude. This young man maybe half your age and GREEN like you ^^ what is " handed of blogs " ? I wanna suggest you something, how about returning to school and attending The English class ?
Why do people feel the need to bring nationality to every conversation? can't he just be rude?
Talk about nationality at this time is not sensible
What did he write? I think he already edited his comment.
He wrote about Egypt and Türkiye
And what is the relationship!? Anyway, He made a fake account because he didn't have enough courage to write from his real account and real identity.
He is just a coward!
And you are just a RUDE and jealous from a young kid ^^
WTF ,how funny are you man ^^ I just noticed you wrote crowd Do you know the meaning of crowd? Instead of demotivating a kid who is GREEN as you
Go back to school and attend your English classes
Heap_OverFlow I hope you are ok now.
Congratulations. I'm happy for this. Even go on for expert. It was just rude of you to demotivate that young kid. You could've simply neglected his blog or tell some useful advice.
I would recommend solving virtual contests. You need to solve from Div2 A to C at each contest. After the contest, you should read the editorial for the questions that you couldn't solve. You shouldn't give up on a div2 C problem without getting an accepted.
Start with stop solving useless 800 rating problems. Nobody cares about your fancy 10000 days streak.
To progress, solve problem close to the rating of the ones you are currently struggle with. Learn new algorithms (optional at this level), do virtual contest, ...
Specialist requires you to solve up to C in div 2 (solve C quickly already get you to expert), or D/E in div 3 (I'm not sure about this)
Looking at his problem solved stats through visualizer, he solves lots of 1400s-1700s as well.
Congrats young man! I see you are an aspiring IOI contestant and willing to improve. Keep up the spirit. You can do lots of virtual contests, never skip a C without understanding, train on constructive algo question types, do lots of binary search problems especially on ans, study some advanced algos that come on latter questions in contests like Combinatorics, some advanced maths, DP(very useful on games problems), also try to grasp the problem's greedy logic, if it has a greedy approach. Best of luck ^^