Lately, my contest rankings have not been great, I keep doing worse and worse, and now I feel stuck in Specialist. :(
When I first got to expert, I genuinely thought I improved, I thought I could keep climbing higher. But ever since then, it’s just been a cycle of dropping, recovering a little, then dropping again. Now I’m starting to feel like I was never really an Expert at all, I am just a Specialist who got lucky for a few contests.
The worst part is that I feel unable to improve. It feels like the contests I did well in were based more on luck than actual skill, and every bad contest makes that feeling stronger.
I just don’t know anymore, was I reaching Expert with actual skill, or was it just all luck?
I'm also a "hard stuck specialist enthusiast" and expert for a few contest. I'm also shared this kind if feeling ngl.
The suffer mostly comes from taking too many contest (and get a huge chunk of minus delta) I believe.
If you focus on just solving problems and do something else it will just go away. Only do rated contest when you're healthy and ready for it is the best, don't force anything. Even try to skip the contest and save it for VC later for the sake of self-observation will help.
Last but not least if everything seems "bored" or "unfun", just take a break.
I guess it is just because of LLMs I have been facing the same, as I can solve 2000 rating question in normal, but now getting stuck at D and sometimes C also. I think they are making contests harder day by day because of LLMs, but it is affecting normal people, not the cheaters
Don't give up dude, its only happening because of cheaters!
No. I think that we should stop finding excuses for bad results such as "It is only because of LLM, if there were no LLMs I would get higher rank". Life will not be always the same, you need to adapt to your surroundings, and by this I mean solving more problems to bypass even LLMs in contests.
looking at your problems rating distribution, you have barely solved any good questions in proportion to the number of questions you have solved, it's all under 1300-1400 rated, ig start solving questions atleast +200 than your current rating.
Tell what is the problem with me? I am unable to reach the candidate master I have solved 900+ questions in total. This is my alt account for practise
I became a Candidate Master after solving around 2000 problems.(I also have an alternate account for practice only).
For someone like me who has no IQ, 900 problems are probably far from enough.
Note: When I achieved Candidate Master, LLMs couldn't solve Div.2 B/C problems. Becoming a CM was much easier at that time.
I don't practice of CF anymore, I do it in CSES and LeetCode
what about me lol, I am hardstuck tbh, although I am starting to practice more 1900's now
Bro You are GOAT
lol, I am noob, too noob tbh
dw about it i also got stuck quite a bit between specialist and expert, kept going down and up for months. Consistency in cf is extremely hard tbh, only way to improve it is by doing virtuals and solving higher rated problems than ur current rating. So keep going and try doing virtuals on a lot of divs, try also solving 1800s and 1900s. And learn basic graphs and dp if u don't already know them.
You have reach specialist, I am not able to reach pupil even though i try hard. Whenever I reach 1000 my next contest gets bad and my rating gets minus
bro, u havent reached 1000.
but reached 997 which is approximately close to 1000
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Me as a newbie, feels like hell...
bro i think you should start doing hard problem
because you did too much 800 rating question almost 350 out of 795
i think that is reason you did not able to perform in contest.
if anyone did not like my advice(then you can ignore it).
Rating is just a number, bro. Sometimes it doesn't truly reflect your abilities, so don't worry too much about it and focus on improving your skills. You'll soon reach a higher rank. Also, I think the expert rank is quite long, so staying there for too long isn't a big deal. Be confident! I think with your hard work, you'll soon surpass it. Good luck!
Just give up, bro :-((( For me it seems now impossible too
Just too many cheaters now. Especially in the specialist/expert/CM range.
give up on your dreams and die
Thats the truth
I can totally relate to this. I went through the exact same thing, just at a different level: I reached Candidate Master, then dropped back to Expert. It made me question whether the peak was real or just a lucky streak. But progress really isn't linear, and these cycles happen to so many people. The fact that you hit Expert means the skill is there. Don't let the bad contests convince you otherwise. Keep pushing, you're definitely not alone.
I think you're Expert. Be careful, the cheating pace increased in the past months: rating is almost meaningless now. Look at this profile: gud_day.
Why I think you're Expert: In Codeforces Round 1099, the best competitors' times for A, B, C, D were:
<1 3 9 15
<1 8 15 27
<1 3 8 17
Yours were: 3, 28, 49, WA. Expert should be ~6x slower than the very best, and you were: 3-6, 5, 3.5, ∞. So, except if you were incredibly faster than usual, B and especially C times were solid. I would have expected an Expert to finish D around 01:55. Unsure how off the mark you were.
Try a few virtual contests from 1-2 years ago to have a better idea of your level.
I finally reached expert and I feel it will happen what you said :)
A lot of times, you perform slightly better than your actual performance. So even if you reached expert by luck, you can still practice more and get better. I see that you are note practicing regularly these days. Just keep practicing more, the rating will rise soon
Unfortunately, the rating is your skill, even if its hard to hear. Think about why you are doing this. If you want to break a plateau, you need to tear apart your losses and see what went wrong. Good luck.
spam 1500-1800 rated problems