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yeah bro honestly people are too smart now and ai made it even worse they’ll always find some trick to cheat but still if we make cheating harder and more risky like locking screen tracking behavior maybe at least some of them will stop full clean system is hard but we can at least make it better than now

thaks bro will check it out..

means a lot bro glad it helped

i get that but trust me i actually enjoy cp just messed up my approach for a long time trying to fix that now

keep grinding!!

appreciate the perspective you’re right cf gets harder and just grinding blindly won’t work forever my post was more about calling myself out for not even showing up properly discipline for me wasn’t about pain it was about finally being honest and fixing my basics but yeah, i’ll definitely keep in mind that i need to work smarter as i go forward too thanks for sharing this, really gave me something to think about

glad it helped

thanks buddyy!!

keep grinding!!

respect man glad it connected let’s not repeat the old mistakes this time

newbie to master then expert then specialist idk what this graph is like…

you’ve already achieved those ratings so you know how to reach there

my blog is for people who are doing something but doing it wrong solving only easy problems not trusting the process just wanting results now like me

btw thanks for sharing!!

hey just to be clear i never said theory isn’t important i totally agree that without theory you won’t even know what tools to use or how to code things properly

my point was just that reading theory without actually solving problems won’t help much in the long run they go hand in hand but practice is what really makes things click

no offense taken btw appreciate your thoughts

you can also check out this blog if you relate — What Happens When You Do CP Without Discipline

https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/144595

if you’re just reading the heading, please read the full part too it’s not about quitting if you don’t feel motivated it’s about how waiting for motivation kept me stuck for years motivation helps, sure but consistency is what actually builds skill.. progress needs consistency, not just interest

i know it feels like you're stuck but you're not everyone hits this point don't quit just because today feels hard take a break if you need to then come back and solve just one slowly it'll click just don’t give up now

hey man i really appreciate your comment you’re right consistency doesn’t always mean x problems a day, and sometimes we don’t realize we are making progress

but honestly for me the problem wasn’t just about “taking breaks” it was about lying to myself during those breaks i’d say i was tired or busy, but deep down i knew i was avoiding the hard stuff scared of failing, scared of not improving

i used to solve problems just to get AC and move on never really proved the logic to myself never sat down to understand why it worked or how it could break so when a slightly twisted version showed up in a contest, i’d freeze

i also watched editorials way too early and thought “yeah i get it now” when i actually didn’t i wasn’t doing deep work just surface level effort

i made schedules i never followed i spammed contests without upsolving i copied templates i didn’t understand and slowly, my confidence dropped even more than my rating

what you said about doing things the way you enjoy — that hit now i’m trying to rebuild from there: solve problems honestly, explain them to myself, upsolve at least one problem, and stop rushing

your comment is one of the most helpful things i’ve read in a while thanks again for taking the time to share it — really means a lot

maybe read the blog without assuming it’s written by chatgpt first

oh no i forgot to add 3 spelling mistakes and bad grammar so it looks human enough my bad bro next time i’ll write it half asleep on my phone at 2am so you know it’s real

bro i shared that post just to put it out there for people like me who wasted time and are trying to fix it you don’t have to like it but dragging race into it and saying “why are indians like this” is just straight up weird if you didn’t connect with it cool just move on but there’s no need to be disrespectful to an entire group over one blog good luck with your own grind tho

But I’ve realized theory alone isn’t enough. You can read 10 blogs on segment trees but unless you actually implement and solve problems, it won’t stick. Practice is what really builds that muscle memory the more you solve, the easier everything starts to feel even the theory

that really means a lot. I was stuck in the same loop for a long time — just repeating the same things and wondering why I wasn’t improving. It took me a while to finally see what I was doing wrong. Glad it connected with you..

for folks who are CM or above. They've built up so much muscle memory that solving A–C in 30–45 mins is like warmup. But for beginners (like I was), only practicing when motivated usually leads to big gaps and no growth. So yeah — not a mistake for everyone..

That’s literally why I wrote this because I’ve lived every single mistake on that list... But now that we can laugh about it I guess we’ve finally started to see it. Time to stop the cycle

i think its not a mistake to the guys who are CM and above

because they have already practiced alot and get there so for them soving till C in 30 min is nothing,..

Yeah I feel that too.. A lot actually But I've realized something: Improvement isn’t a straight line it’s a long, boring, frustrating mess...

Sometimes you grind for weeks and nothing moves!! And then one day something clicks..

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