(this is more of a vent post but if i'll read any suggestions in the comments)

For the last 6 months, I felt like I've had some horrendous luck/consistency with my contests:

EPIC Institute of Technology Round Summer 2025 (Codeforces Round 1036, Div. 1 + Div. 2): Misread 2124E - Make it Zero, lost a ton of time. (-63)

Atto Round 1 (Codeforces Round 1041, Div. 1 + Div. 2): Absolute disaster, somehow managed to save myself by still clearing 5 problems. (-71)

Codeforces Global Round 29 (Div. 1 + Div. 2): 2147C - Rabbits costed me a lot of time and 4 penalties. (-47)

Codeforces Round 1058 (Div. 1): Misread a condition in 2159C - Twin Polynomials ($$$a_i \le n$$$ instead of $$$a_i \le 10^{9}$$$), dropped around 110 places from that. (+4)

Pinely Round 5 (Div. 1 + Div. 2): Lost an unreasonably absurd amount of time on implementing 2161E - Left is Always Right. (+5)

Codeforces Global Round 30 (Div. 1 + Div. 2): Massively overthought 2164E - Journey, thinking took about 90 minutes. (-28)

Codeforces Round 1064 (Div. 1): Was insanely close to solving 2165E - Rainbow Branch. (+12)

Codeforces Round 1066 (Div. 1 + Div. 2): Lost a bit of time and 6 penalties to 2157C - Meximum Array 2. (-9)