 What's up guys, Mike, the coder here. You know, the other day, I've literally just been grinding problems on lead code. Literally, oh, wow, they changed the whole, they changed the whole, literally changed the whole setup of lead code. But anyway, the other day I was just grinding lead code a ton, just literally doing all those problems and I can't even find where the problem was. Anyway, oh yeah, they put it here. Anyway, I literally was just grinding array problems on lead code over and over again, thinking that this would actually improve my competitive programming skills, but this lead code does not help you in competitive programming, I just realized that. Yeah, it has no effect on competitive programming. Lead code is just, a lot of these problems in lead code you can't really, okay, so there's 888 problems now on lead code and I did about 210 for array problems. And now if you think about that, oh wow. I just stopped 688 there to go. But anyway, if you think about this, lead code does not help you in competitive programming. Like, I thought that if you do just more of these array problems that you would get good at competitive programming, that's not the case. Like even like, I thought that if I keep doing a ton of lead code for like division two problems, I'll at least get better at that because there are some array problems that deal with these type of problems, deal with like arrays, but it actually doesn't affect it. Like it really doesn't affect it at all. Like if you look at the number of problems on lead code and you actually do all these problems, I don't think your CP skills will improve. And the reason why is because a lot of problems in CP are math problems. And if you're actually sucking math, you're not gonna get better at, no matter how many array problems you're gonna do, you're not gonna get better at division two A or two B. Like it just doesn't help you. This is just a waste of time. So I'm just gonna tell you guys this, is that don't be like me, don't don't. If you're gonna do lead code, you do it for the interviews, but don't do it because like, hey, I need to improve my CP skills because it doesn't affect anything at all. Like if you gotta improve your math skills in order to increase and to get to green at least. So yeah, I'm gonna go back to grinding problems on code forces, but it was fun grinding a ton of lead code problems, even though I didn't really, I did learn a few things in lead code, but I didn't really like, I didn't learn a lot. I didn't learn like a ton. Like I did learn a few new tricks, I guess such as using like the sort in like Lambda expressions. And I also learned a few more things. I could write some stuff that I learned, but I didn't, I don't think I really learned like a lot. I did do a few merge sort. Oh, there was like a problem without like a selection algorithm. And I learned that you could use the nth element in C++. So that would work. That would does help you. But like it doesn't, it doesn't improve your competitive programming skills at all. I just want to say that. I know I made a video about like back then about saying that lead code is sort of like competitive programming, but it's really not. Like it is not. Like it's not gonna help you. And even if I do all the hard problems, like skip all the uses and actually do all the hard problems, I don't think I would actually gain my competitive programming skills because chances are these are not math problems. Like they're not. Even like, I guess like maybe, maybe some of them have to do with it. Maybe this problem, pick a number of five and seven and make sure they add up to something. But like I don't think that this would affect your competitive programming skills. So yeah, I just like think that like, I don't think lead code does anything. I just want to tell you guys that. And I don't think that you should do lead code in order to increase your competitive programming skills. And yeah, just do it for interviews. Like, I don't know. Like there's no reason to do this. And also if you're doing competitive programming, thinking that you'll ace your interviews, I don't think it will like, it might when you get to a certain level of thick scion or a candidate master, these problems would be a joke. But like, I don't think that I think by the time you get to candidate master or scion, you're already very good at like just problem solving. So I wouldn't say that just doing competitive programming to improve your interviews skills is a good idea. Like if, like, if do competitive programming, if you're gonna want to improve your competitive program ranking, like I kind of, I'm at this point I kind of want to improve my competitive program ranking. But anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this video. This is just my take that Leaco doesn't do anything. Leaco doesn't help your CP skills. But yeah, Ray Cops is grabbing check you guys later. Peace!