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Lost passion for competitive programming
By SleepingThread, history, 20 months ago, In English

I've been doing CP for about one year and a half.

I've trained hard, it was tough, but during this period I was very motivated.

but these days I think I lost my passion, maybe because I couldn't reach another new color, or maybe it's frustration because of thinking that's hard for me to reach a high rating, and my intelligence level limits me to do better.

If you see my solved problems rating, you can't say that I'm a specialist, I spend a lot of time solving high rated problems, maybe because I enjoy learning data structures-tagged problems and learning new things.

although I lost my passion, but I'm sure that I still love it, but there is something stopping me to continue!

any advice is welcomed, I think many people have passed something like this.

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20 months ago, # |
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Your graph is a very steady increasing one, which is great! You have a lot of consistency and you'll rise up soon if you keep practicing.

"I've been doing CP for about one year and a half."

If you'll see my profile, its been around 2 continuous years of giving contests and I stayed specialist, maybe pupil for most of my time. I always felt like I should leave it, but participating in contests was fun and I learnt a lot from upsolving problems. Stop caring too much about your rating, focus on your practice, it would automatically reflect in your rating.

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I would suggest one thing increase the solves for 1600-1800 problem range (Let them form peak in your rating graph of solve problems) . I am trying this and really helped me and is helping me . I used to be in newbie and pupil range but once I started solving problems of range 1400-1700, my rating started keeping consistenly in range 1350-1450 .

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    I did something similar. In March, I decided to try solving 50+ problems rated 1600, and 1700 each. This summer, I did the same thing for 1800's and 1900's. That helped a lot as I learned a lot of new approaches and techniques to look at problems.

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      Same thing for me. I started solving problems out of my comfort zone (1700-2000) and became an expert.

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I've become expert!

Thank you guys for your positive comments

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    Becoming anything in life is dependent on many factors some factors are out of your control even if you think that you have everything you can do become what you can become. It depends on so many factors. If you have some stress / subconscious pressure then it will slow down your progress. In many cases, it's hoping to get something out of competitive programming. Like using rating to get a job etc. You should enjoy without any expectations. Dont think that if you have some X rating your life will get better Y times. Not the case it seems.

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    congrats bro.

    BTW after my last negative delta I was also thinking the same.

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      thank you!

      I was also thinking the same

      I shared this blog cause I know that many people have this issue.

      After all, I think the solution is to be patient and don't focus that much on rating as a number!

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    Congrats!

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i can fully understand what u experienced brother . keep doing you are going well

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congratulate! Don't try too hard, persist do it alright.

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