 What's up guys Mike the coder here. This is gonna be a video on Basically another tip on competitive programming and I think this is gonna be a controversial one because some people don't like to do This type of thing But I think that this that would actually help you a lot Especially for people like me who are like stuck on likes maybe a certain level or something. I Think people should resolve problems and I know it's kind of sound strange and weird That you should we solve a problem, but let's take a look at one of the previous contests So one of the previous contests Array and peaks right I saw the first one. It wasn't that bad, right? I just said it wasn't that bad I got a seat for that now the second problem. I had a huge trouble with this like it was super tough for me and I was able to I Think I got like a ton of wrongs here. So many wrong answers This is after the contest. I was trying to up solve it so much But I couldn't solve it in the end, right? So what I do I'd looked at the editorial and I just tried and I just like try to code it up And then I got a seed right But now looking back at it. I'm not a hundred percent sure I could resolve this problem again So like here's the thing is that if you just looked at the editorial coded up and to submit it You might not actually be able to solve this problem again Right like if the if you if you can't Resolve the same problem Then what was the point of solving it in the first place? You didn't actually solve it, right? You relied on the editorial Right, so you don't actually remember how do you do it with the editorial? So to me, I think it's actually good if you just resolve problems Because I'm pretty sure like out of all the problems. I've been doing if you look at my code forces visualizer I Might act I'm gonna start actually resolving all the previous problems cuz I got this I've done okay, so 800 I don't really care about that 900 I did 64 900 Okay, so I did I did like 31 1,400 problems, right? I'm pretty sure I can't resolve 14 these for 31 1,400 problems Like after I did this like a month months ago. I'm not sure if I actually could resolve it So what I'm planning on doing is actually just resolving all the problems that I couldn't have solved before So if you look at this like my ranking is like what 1100 about 1100 ish So I'm planning on this just For 1300 problems, I'm gonna try to resolve all the ones that I couldn't solve and the 1400 ones I'll try to resolve those also So basically I'm just gonna resolve all the problems for 1300 1400 and then 1500 So even though like because I I've solved a total like 600 problems already and most of those are a Division 2a actually but anyway Yeah, so if if what I'm thinking is like if I were to actually like try the problems again and try solving them again And then I actually do end up solving them. I probably would have it would I Would probably be able to get to green like I'm actually very close up to green So this is the this is a tip to like the people who have Who are also stuck on a certain level and after solving a lot of problems. They still haven't progressed enough I think this is what I'm going to do I'm going to go through all the problems that I previously solved and try to solve them because like it really doesn't make much sense If I just keep going on problem sets, right and then just like search up like I don't know 1400 Keep doing these 1400 problems But then not being able to solve them and looking at the editorial then just getting a seed and then not actually being able to solve it again Right at that point. You're just patting the number of problems. You got on a seed which really doesn't matter Right the number of problems you solved that to get a seed on your account Like I got 608 right. This really doesn't matter because well first of all 200 of them were Problems of level 800 and 900 because I was increasing my speed for that and the like I don't know like another 200 was just like Let's see Yeah, another 200 was like a thousand level thousand and 900 So a lot of these problems. I'm not sure if I actually would be able to resolve them So in order practice, I think I'm going to try resolving problems without looking at the editorial because I think that would that's actually the best way to improve Right because you can't rely on the editorial Again every single time when you're doing competitive programming, you have to try to like rethink it yourself Try to rethink the problems again yourself But yeah, I digress. That's pretty much the gist of it. I hope you guys enjoy this tip. I Personally, I think this is a good tip though Why you definitely should resolve problems. Yeah, break com subscribe. I'll check you guys later. Peace