Is starting competitive programming in 2nd year is too late?

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Same this side. People around me are also very good in academic subjects but very few of them are interested in cp.

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Iā€™m CSE but still no one is that inclined towards CP here around me, and Iā€™m also new to CP, and too late I guess.

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you do only long challenges. My rating also increase for long but for speed I do lunch and cook but rating then decrease drastically. Any suggestions? My codeforces profile is very bad. That means my solving skills reduce by 40% if I have speed limit on my mind.

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I do short contests more than long.But not on Codechef. Increasing rating is easy when its already low. Donā€™t think that just doing long is sure shot way to increase rating. Long problems are much harder+you need to be in top-100 of div-2 couple of times in Long to come to div-1. And then, in Div.-1 always get top-150 rank to maintain a respectable rating. Doing these maybe easy for you ā€¦but hard for me and many others. ā€¦ Today , I gave All India Coding Club Short Contest and my rank was 20. I would say practice is all you need.

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@anon55659401 Even i want to thank you buddy!! I started my cp journey in jan2019(as my new year reso :/) by literally reading your article on quora and uptill today i have learnt a Lot!!:grimacing:

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Welcome :slight_smile:
I love helping people. And I request you to help other beginners as well :slight_smile:

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Yep sir i am trying my best !! But i better solve diophantine equation cuz i have got no time(20 hrs to be precise) :joy::joy:

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Yes :stuck_out_tongue: And I should be focusing on Xor over trees :stuck_out_tongue:

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Karan,
Can you tell us your routing for solving problems? Like how much time did you put into it, how many hours a day, and the resources you used? Please, you are really amazing.

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Hey I know itā€™s most hard thatā€™s why I asked you to give advice for short contests. No offense.

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How did you rank up really fast here on CodeChef?

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Hereā€™s a link to my answer on quora

You might also want to read the comments.

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thanks bro it was really helpful answer on quora thanks for the link

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Its amazing that you reached 5 star in less than a yearā€¦
how did you manage to learn so fast??

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great

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Ya you need to think a lot specially in long challenges and implementing a solution also may need some prerequisite and extra knowledge of stl,algorithms,etcā€¦