I participated in Div.2 last night and finally earned a 2000+ rating points for myself. The first time I reached 2000, I want to say thank you to CodeForces again, just like when I first entered CodeForces. (Unfortunately, that post has already been deleted)
CF is such a great platform, although its competition time is not very friendly in East Asia (we usually need to stay up late), I still enjoy the process of learning and competing on CF. I have gained a lot of knowledge and made some friends through communication on CF. I have grown from a Newbie to the current Candidate Master (maybe becoming a Master in a while? I think I am currently at this level). Lot things to remember.
I remember I have rose from Pupil to Specialist twice and from Specialist to Expert six times (because I fell off again after going up). I hope that in the future, I can maintain my level more stably and reduce the occurrence of such situations.
Rating is just a number. My strength has grown, that's the most important thing. As a contestant, I can be more calm and persistent than before. Even if I don't compete anymore, this quality will still accompany me, and I have no regrets.
Now as I wrote in that earlier deleted post,
Hello, Codeforces, I am Amao_Fox, awa! This is the algorithm competition. I'm getting started.
congratulations!
btw: cute cat pfp!
I drew it on the school blackboard myself. But I think this should be a fox.
congratulations cat!
Congrats, and good luck for today's div1+2!
If you don’t mind, could you share a bit on how you improved, What platform did you mainly use to do questions, and did you solve questions randomly or by topics? How much time do you spend on a question before looking at the editorial? I’m trying to reach Master by the end of the year so I would appreciate it if you could help me with these questions.
P.S. orz
I want to know the answer too.
I don't mind.
My intuition is quite sharp, so I can solve the previous questions faster. To practice this, you can try "duel": randomly choose a question and compete with another person. Whoever solves it first wins. You can also exercise difficult problems in this way.
Mostly Luogu. Luogu has an "Remote Judge" function which let us to solve CodeForces(and so on) problems on it, just like VJudge.
Mostly by topics. But every week I'll participate in contest and solve questions randomly. AtCoder Beginners and AtCoder Regulars are my favorite. But if CF's Div.2s could be held on weekends I'll participate as well.
Depends on the difficulty. If the problem is *2200 maybe I'll spend about 45 minutes. I'll spend more time on harder problems.
Good luck and wish you a good tour.
orz meow meow
my congratulations, hope you reach master!
Congrats on your new milestone! I just started doing this site and I'm no expert myself in programming either. I'm still at the very beginning in my journey and I feel overwelmed for some reason whenever I reach this site because I don't know how to compete or do anything, it's just a place to find problems for me. Also, I'm in SEA and staying up to do contests because of the timezone difference is really taking a toll on my health lol.
Could I ask you the ins and outs of this site and what I can do to improve my skills? Thanks.
Maybe help would help.
The best thing you can do to improve your skills is to practice more.
Hope you'll reach Master after next contest.
how do you overcome phone addiction?
Easy. I don't have a phone.
Congratulations boy You are inspiration to me.
Congrats on breaking 2000. Great Rating Graph. Newbie to CM in a year. Thats amazing
Congrats.Hope you can achieve greater success.
congratulations! ovo