PersistentLife's blog

By PersistentLife, history, 3 hours ago, In English

A few days ago, I published a blog post on Codeforces about how to train for competitive programming: Link

In that post, I mentioned that I planned to regularly publish recommended training problems. Now, here they are!

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Problem Set Overview

Each release will include $$$5$$$ problems and their editorials. After converting the difficulty of every problem into a Codeforces rating, the problems will be distributed approximately uniformly across the range $$$[1200,2600]$$$.

The problems will be selected from relatively obscure problem series that are not suitable for being worked through indiscriminately from beginning to end. For this reason, some problem statements may not be available in English; you can use an LLM to translate them.

I will try to explain each solution by following the thought process I recommend, as described in the blog mentioned at the beginning. Each paragraph corresponds to one step in the reasoning process.

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If you find any good problems, feel free to submit them by emailing [email protected]

Problem Recommendations

Problem 1: Space Accident

Editorial

Problem 2: Missing Number Queries

Editorial

Bonus: Think about how to implement the Special Judge for this problem.

Problem 3: Equal MEX

Editorial

Problem 4: Contests

Editorial

Problem 5: Complexity

Editorial
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