[Tutorial] A way to Practice Competitive Programming : From Rating 1000 to 2400+

[Tutorial] A way to Practice Competitive Programming : From Rating 1000 to 2400+

By E869120, 3 years ago,

Dear Codeforces community.
Finally red :)

Today, I want to share about some ways to practice competitive and gain your rating. I hope that this is helpful for those who is practicing competitive programming harder but rating is sluggish. There are 54,000+ people who participated in Codeforces contests actively, but sadly only a few people reach a red-ranked coders. For people who can't reach red, I will introduce my way to gain rating in some steps.

This blog is an extended and more detailed version of my previous tutorial blog, but 2 years and now are different. So there are many points that are different from blog which has written 2 years ago. Note: Some people who already read my previous tutorial blog may doubt, but do not doubt — I should say that the "from rating 1000 to 2000" part of this blog is not the copy of my previous blog and it's very different.

Since the size is very big, if I wrote contents to Codeforces blog directly, it might be too long. So, this time, I will share a 19-page PDF link of my tutorial blog. This time, my blog includes introduction, knowledge of some contests systems (AtCoder, TopCoder) and some convenient websites, some ways to practice for improve rating, and conclusion. Also, optimal practice method is differ by rating. So, this time, I will write in 4 steps: 1000 -> 1400, 1400 -> 1900, 1900 -> 2200, and 2200 -> 2400.

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The link of my blog (PDF) is as follows:

[Tutorial] A way to practice competitive programming — from rating 1000 to 2400+

Please comment if you have suggestions, comments to my blog, and opinions on my way to practice.
Thank you for reading!