Mine was when I got a +45 rating change. Although that isn't a lot, I finally improved. Look at rating graph, kinda trash. I want to hear yours.
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Mine was when I got a +45 rating change. Although that isn't a lot, I finally improved. Look at rating graph, kinda trash. I want to hear yours.
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Happiest moment on CF is definitely when you solve one more problem than you even imagined, for me it was the previous div2 contest.
I was able to reach 1580 by participating in div4 and div3 because my seniors suggested it's a good time to participate for beginners. But when I gave div2 contest, I wasn't able to solve even a single question(I choked) and lost rating over a 100. So in this contest I had my aim set to first 3 questions and surprisingly I was able to solve 4 questions and gainee my best rating, truly earned +148. It wasn't a div3/4 scam. (Yes I do think that div3/4 are not that good since I read CF blogs so much :D)
In the previous Div.2 contest, I also did my best, but only managed to do half as many problems as you did. Nice!
Last div2 was easier than most of the div2 contests held.
When a desperate guy messaged me thinking I'm a girl(because of my profile pic XD).I laughed until my stomach started hurting! I was like why don't they declare Codeforces as Tinder for programmers. ;)
I can see this post adding a lot of value to the community. What kind of Instagrammy BS is this?
I am against shitposting but can feel him. I remember myself, when I was placed high in a Div2 round, overwhelmed with happiness and excitement — to a level when I posted something similar, or even worse, flexing on how good I am — and got heavily downvoted (totally deserved).
Yeah should have put it mildly.
Mine was getting my first ever problem right on a CF contest. (It was a Div. 3 A problem but it was a CF problem, after all)
Round 544 ( Div.3 )
Ranked 139. +128.
This was the first contest I became an Expert.
I've solved 5 problems in this round, including the last problem.
when friends talk shit after passing pretests then get rekt during system tests
when solving less than 3 problems in 10 contests in a row and suddenly hit 5 problems in the next contest
Solving all problems in a Div. 3 contest (Unfortunately it was on an alt so I couldn't get the rating)
There is no happiest moment yet :(
Mine was when my first own round was finished successfully and saw many people saying that they enjoyed it. That was the major reason why I prepared the round for months.
Opened D (https://codeforces.me/contest/1038/problem/D) at the beginning of a Div2 Round, just for looking at it. Realised it is easy then I was tingling in excitement and after it passed pretests, I was extremely happy :D
Mines was my first Div. 2 QD "Accepted" verdict! :D
For the past few times I either failed on system tests (which was discouraging) or can't think of an algorithm. In Codeforces Round #647, I finally got my first Accepted verdict on QD and got +96 rating :D
I'm new to CF, maybe I didn't have that many happy moments compared to other people, but that round was really happy for me.
I'm hoping for greater improvements and getting higher ranks in the future!
mine did not come yet, it will be the moment when i will become expert :(
On last cf round, I have solved 4 problems!!!! I am very happy about it, I hope I will become expert sometime!!!
Have a successful hack in a
div.2
round.when I became Master
More happy moments are waiting for you :-)
When I solved a problem with difficulty 2600.
Gettint rank 56 in division when I was purple.
Sadly after that I never entered top 60 in div.1 rounds.
Solving E before solving C in a Div 2 round(Thanks to combinatorics)
Registration
When I hit specialist for the first time
Managed to solve 4 questions in a Div.3 and I kid you not when I say that it took every single brain cell of mine to solve the 4th one , was about to quit on it when an idea struck me in the washroom....
Also , I do believe that on this path of CP , one of the most happiest moments occur when you are in the grey/green region , because you want the next colour so bad that you can almost taste it
When I became specialist for the first time(till now). still i can remember clearly that Edu. round 89.
That contest i hardly solved 3 problem..and CF Predictor said i will be specialist..there had 12-hours hack phase..So i did not sleep well at night :( after every some times i wake up and checked any problem hacked or not.. But when no hack with no system failed i saw my profile specialist tag..that's a clearly my happiest moment in CF of my previous 7 months hard work :D
solving 4 problem in div 3 haha
If I get green color in the next contest it will be my happiest moment. I need +4 rating change for that.
when i came to know that, i was the first to solve D in Educational Round 87.
1178F1 - Short Colorful Strip
This problem.
SPOILERS AHEAD
I tried this problem for 2 and a half COMPLETE days. I tried soooooo many approaches. Wrote code 3 times which were completely wrong. You know that feeling when you think that you solved the problem, only to think more and realise that your solution is complete garbage? I had that feeling thrice for the same problem over two days. I couldn't sleep at night. My heart was sooo heavy. I had never been sadder in my life..
But yesterday, at 2:30 in the night, I thought of a new way to approach this problem. I was thinking of combinatorics DP but there was so much chaos that I became convinced that any approach which uses this at a high level is bound to fail. Then I remembered: when there is chaos, brute force is always the answer. But this problem reeks of DP? So what is brute force + DP? Divide and Conquer, of course!
I tried out a brute force recursion and then immediately thought of a way to memoize it using DP. While I coded it, I was feeling so much gratitude towards life and CP in general until........IT TURNED OUT TO BE $$$O(n^{4})$$$.
Now now, I can't give up, I said to myself. If I have got a solution which works for $$$n\leq100$$$, extending it to $$$500$$$ must not be very hard. But it was already 3:30 now, so I went to sleep.
I woke up to a very bad dream today in the morning, maybe because I was too stressed out because of the problem. I tried to optimize my code further. I wasn't able to do it. Frustration grew. I was thinking: maybe it is time to give up....
But then I thought: wait, there is symmetry in the $$$gap[i][j]$$$ dp in my code and choosing any left range goes with any right range. This allows $$$O(n)$$$ optimisation inside the dp calculation loop!!!
And then, I almost cried.
I had never spent so long on some problem. I usually see the editorial after a day of struggling. But this, this problem challenged me to my core, both emotionally and mentally. It is possible that I have solved some harder problems before, but solving this problem was the happiest I have ever felt on Codeforces, and maybe even in my life.
Probably the time when I solved my first Div2F in contest with about 30 seconds on the clock, I got +216 rating and moved to CM
https://codeforces.me/submissions/Omer223/contest/1369
What I thought would have been my happiest moment turned out to be my worst moment on CF.
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When I finally solved Switch Grass. It took me two whole days of implementation, and I was so proud of myself after I solved it.
The comments in my code were truly a roller coaster of emotions.
My happiest moment on CF was when I participated in Educational Round 83, because I was born on 1383 (I'm living in Iran and our calendar is Hijri Shamsi calendar)
my rate was 1783 when I participated Educational Round 83 and I earned +116. that's why it was very interesting for me, although I got 1899 and I didn't catch Candidate Master.
I have waited for like a month to post this comment.I have finally achieved Expert my happiest moment ever!! (This is my first comment as an Expert :D)
When I spent a week to solve one of the hardest problems on codeforces (1336F), finally submitted and after a few seconds reloaded the page, it showed "Running on test 70".
when i first become CM or GM.
hard to choose between those two since i still remember i was so happy that i couldn't sleep well for couple days.
I don't know whether being the first solver is a special thing for everyone. But mine was when I first solve 1375E - Inversion SwapSort during the contest. That problem become my only first-solve problem so far on CF
How did you solve it?
Guessing pattern with small N
Mine would be solving 3 questions in a div2 round which was held yesterday, I had never solved 3 questions before.. so it felt good.