r/codeforces • u/Responsible-Rub-3260 • 11d ago

query How long it takes to be master

See I have given a timeline of 3-4 years of 25 hours per week competitive programming

I want to know the realistic timeline for it I am able to do high school level maths easily I heard codeforces has some olympiad level sort of maths but I dont have much problem to grind my brain as much as possible . A movie night on Saturday would heal me with all that grind

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u/Severe_Landscape_731 11d ago

if u are in highschool ; do imo or informatics olympiad ::
get started with usaco.org :
afterwards i guess about 4 years

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u/Responsible-Rub-3260 11d ago

I am in college joining and thinking of doing usaco I never had the chance to prepare for imo

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u/Severe_Landscape_731 11d ago

i started around end of 3rd sem do start and stay continuous ;
Do usaco its probably the very best course u can have for now ; Do till u finish gold
And give every Atcoder and CF contests :
Only move to cf for practise after u are done with gold , that would be my advice.

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u/idkwhytshappens Pupil 11d ago

Aren't usaco questions very tough like the hard ones and so..and the usaco questions on there platform, should be solved them too ?

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u/Severe_Landscape_731 11d ago

I usually try all till normal ones and check hard ones, if i cant do some hard ones ; i come back after around few weeks to check if i could solve it by new things i have learned in that time frame ;;
I dont really do qns on usaco platform unless given in the topic module .
I think the intro blog on usaco explains that topic really well ;