What are the learnings that you got this year and think it might be helpful for others?
For eg: - Lessons on maintaining consistency. - hard work. - something that you were doing wrong earlier but started doing it right. - rating improvement tips that were never discussed before. - some most important topics for your rating range etc.
(Also this is my first blog, so forgive me if I asked something wrong).
I started competitive programming a year ago, and I reached past 1500 rating which I thought was quite huge when I started. I feel like the thing that helped me most was solving problems that challenged me, and doing it regularly.
As for topics, I would say binary search is super important for my rating range. You can use it in many ways but it's definitely not always obvious. I also learned a bit of DP and Graph algorithms which sometimes helps.
Hope to reach blue before the end of the year, but if I don't I am still happy to get this far.
Congrats for reaching blue!
I think very important thing that I have learnt is, that before giving any contest, your mind needs rest and u should be away from laptops/mobiles for 10-15 mins (can vary but taking an average) before the start of the contest which surely boosted my performance in contest. It kind of refreshes your brain.