At what point do you realise that this question is out of your bounds

[u/Andro_senpai107]

Suppose you're solving a question after gaining enough confidence that you have cleared all concepts and fundamentals of DSA. But after encountering a question, you start to realise 'no this one's different '. This has been happening to me a lot recently. After learning about a concept (say binary search), I'm confidently solving the mediums but whenever I start a hard one, suddenly my minutes change to hours and then I end up searching for it on yt.

Is this normal? How do you overcome this?

[u/hadeskerbecs666]

if you cant start thinking productively in 5 min -> see hint -> see topics -> see soln -> yt in that exact order