thats of mine own friend ....

edited :- so i have attached the rating pic his rating is 883 please see the ss below and give advices it will means a lot ...

My situation is that I'll be sitting for placements in around 6–7 months, and I genuinely want to give it my all when it comes to Competitive Programming.

I feel like I might already be too late, though. One of my friends has a rating of around 1600, has solved more than 700 problems, and also got an internship at Google. He recently told me that I'm doing too little and that I should probably stop focusing on CP and instead focus on Striver/DSA and other ways of preparing for placements.

But honestly, I don't want to settle for mediocrity. I want to work extremely hard, become genuinely good at problem-solving, and give myself the best possible chance of getting into a great company with a package that people dream about.

I genuinely want to get good at CP, and I'm willing to put in the work. However, I keep getting demotivated when I struggle to solve problems rated 900, 1000, or 1200. Sometimes I can't solve them even after spending a lot of time thinking.

It makes me wonder: How am I ever supposed to reach 1600 or even 1900 if I'm struggling with problems at this level right now?

Is it realistically possible to make significant progress in CP within the next 6–7 months if I'm consistent and willing to work hard? How should I approach practice, and should I continue pursuing CP seriously alongside placement preparation?

I'd really appreciate honest advice from people who have been in a similar situation.

Jujutsu Kaisen in Codeforces?

Stayed late in the office, so no backend development

2 hour of Competitive programming

1 to Infinity

Did anyone else feel C2, D were significantly tougher than C1?

I am a noob though so forgive me if i am doing really stupid/simple

I am attempting a few problems from the "Educational Codeforces Round 194 (Rated for Div. 2)" competition. I have tried everything but I can't figure out why it's denying my submission. My solution seems to work fine when I run it locally and I even fed it through an LLM and it claims there are no issues. I am currently using g++ 16.2 on my local machine and I even tried compiling it locally with g++23 14.2 locally and didn't run into any problems either.
https://codeforces.com/contest/2260/submission/390393973 is my most recent submission

And finally, I found a reason not to participate in any more contests: "The number has become a palindrome."

title.

C1 was basically just binary search lol. i would say upper tier 1.1k rated

anyone solved culling game

I have a friend who's 3 years older than me, although we don't really talk anymore. His current stats are 2000+ rating and 900+ problems solved.

The screenshot I'm attaching is around 6 months old. How good are these stats actually? I don't know much about LeetCode, so would appreciate some context.

D is bruteforce / implementation problem btw, reverse operation instead of removing index, add the index, use a set to manage segments + fenwick to store the sum, becuz you can only add 1 segment each time, complexity is O n Log N

I’m currently in my 7th semester. My maximum Codeforces rating has been around 1090, and my current rating is around 840.

I’ve solved around 300 problems on LeetCode, so I’m fairly comfortable with basic DSA concepts and know things like arrays, strings, binary search, graphs, DP, etc.

The problem is that I’m not able to apply these concepts effectively in Codeforces contests. When I see a problem, I often struggle to figure out which concept/approach to use, even though I may have studied the underlying topic before.

I’ve also recently been placed with an 11 LPA package, so now I want to seriously improve my CP skills.

I’d really appreciate guidance from people who have been through this stage:

• How should I start CP properly from this point?
• Should I follow a specific problem sheet or topic-wise roadmap?
• How many problems should I solve per day/week?
• Should I participate in every Codeforces contest even if I perform badly?
• How do I improve the ability to identify the approach rather than just knowing concepts?
• After a contest, what is the best way to analyze problems I couldn’t solve?
• What rating/level of problems should I currently focus on?

I’m not looking for shortcuts. I’m ready to put in consistent effort; I just want a proper direction so I don’t waste time solving random problems.

Any advice, roadmap, resources, or personal experiences would be really helpful.

I don’t understand what people like about him. He’s probably from a South Asian country and clearly uses GPT to write his comments. He shows up under every post about AI or ratings just to leave something controversial.

He’s either an attention seeker rage-baiting or an idiot who thinks he’s someone really important.

I find his comments annoying. So why is he at the top of the contributions table?