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Comparison of difficulty of same rated problems now vs 10 years ago

By ankit-chauhan, history, 6 years ago, In English

I am wondering what is the relation between the real difficulty of the same rated problems now and 10 years ago. For example, if I solve 2000 rated problem from the previous round and from codeforces Beta Rounds, Which one will be difficult in general?

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For problems with the same rating, recent rounds are more difficult.

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It's hard to say, but from my experience, past Codeforces rounds have been more about "thinking"/observation rather than implementing. However, 10 years ago, there was much more implementation-based problems.

So it's hard to say because it's like comparing apples (implementation-base problems) to bananas (observation-based problems).

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