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utterances-bot commented 3 years ago

Long Challenges are Awesome | Yet Another Competitive Programming Blog

Short contests are fun, although not without its fair share of frustrating moments. Have you ever come so close to solving a problem, but ran out of time? If only you had 10 extra minutes! Or have you ever “bricked” on a problem? That is, you come across a problem that should be within your rating range and easily solved, but you just can’t think of the trick needed to solve it? This has happened to me many times, with the most recent example being Global Round 15. I could not think of how to get past the naive $\mathcal O(n^2)$ solution for problem B for the longest time, and I had to skip that problem to do the other ones first in order to save my performance.

https://mzhang2021.github.io/cp-blog/long-challenge/

ghost commented 3 years ago

I started by CP journey in Jan and the first contest I gave was January long challenge. It was literally the most memorable contest , I grinded on the 4-5 problems for those 10 days and after I had got AC , it was a huge adrenaline rush. Thanks for the blogs , waiting for next one :D

eshrh commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the post and good luck for the future

mohsenmahroos commented 3 years ago

I haven't made a decision to stop participating in HackerEarth Circuits contests yet. But I do hope that future contests would have better preparation and fast live response during the contest time if any issue takes place. Best wishes.

sahuang commented 3 years ago

Very nice blog. Personally I joined HackerEarth in September and started to participate in the circuits. I got top 10 in October circuit. But I think some problems are very poorly written and explained, and some even have wrong checkers (e.g. October's Input Queries). The approximation problem is also a bit vague. And their team never responds to email lol.

Would definitely hope they improve their problem setting & testing.