 What's up guys? I'm gonna make this video just to prefix something that When you're doing competitive programming you have to literally stop caring about your ranking and I'm actually being serious about this so When I was doing so a lot of these problems, right? In the last contest that I was doing on co-forces round 712 What normally what happens to me is that when I'm doing a problem Let's say I like doing this problem right the first problem problem a What happens to me is that I read the problem statement and I just freeze and then I just spent like 10 to 10 minutes to 15 minutes just thinking Should I even submit this problem right cuz like should I even solve this because if I can't solve this problem My ranking would go down and this is actually a very terrible mentality to have while on when you when you're doing contests You actually should submit an attempt every single contest and I'm actually being serious because what you don't realize is that the mentality of Thinking that you're gonna fail is going to make you fail like so here's what here's what I mean Like if when I was doing the first problem problem a right I Was able to get AC in the end But the thing is that the first pre-test pre-test to I failed it right and then I was like I spent like 10 minutes just wondering what the hell No, my ranking is gonna fall down I can't get to green right because I've been trying very hard to get to green But when reality it was just a simple test case that caused me to fail problem problem Pre-test to so that's the thing that is that when you're doing these problems. You can't you can't think about oh My ranking is gonna fall I don't want to do this contest yada yada yada because that that is really bad for you because You won't grow from that and you won't grow from Just increasing your ranking regardless thinking that you're gonna fail is going to Want to cause you to think that you're gonna fail is gonna cause you to fail actually, but that's just my opinion Also, I realize is that when you're doing these problems To me like I feel like I could have actually solved this first problem very fast had I just submitted faster So when I was just typing it up, I had like this mentality in me that oh, I'm gonna fail this What is the point of even submitting so then I didn't submit for the first 10 minutes and that actually caught Costs your ranking because the faster you submit and You're more likely to Get a higher ranking. So that like that is like your performance for that the faster you do it the The faster you solve a problem the more points you get So if you delayed it like solving a problem like even just by 10 minutes that could actually cost you your ranking So that's just that's just what I'm trying to say for you guys So yeah, you you have to get to the point where you have to not care about ranking because if you're so scared to submit something You're just never gonna participate in any contest and then you just won't you won't grow That's what that's what happens and the point being is that you want to grow your competitive programming your ranking so that's what you want to do but um That's just my in my opinion on things you just you have like if you're gonna do Competitive programming You want to you're not doing this just for the rank like you have to do this to improve yourself and Actually grow like maybe learn more things along the way learn big becoming better at math and algorithms But it's really just it depends on like You don't want to get so stuck up on every rating loss because every single time your rating drops down That doesn't mean it's gonna drop down forever It's always like a cyclical cycle like to me that that is at least to me though So like when you're going when something's going down and going downhill It's gonna come back up sooner or later your next contest You're gonna do better because maybe the next contest So maybe the last contest you couldn't solve one problem the next one you could solve one or maybe the last contest You couldn't solve Two problems right you solve two problems, but the next one you only solved one right and that's fine though Because sooner or later then you you're gonna encounter two problems that you're gonna be able to solve So that's just like how what I think but yeah, you shouldn't have to care so much about ranking it doesn't The rankings are not really important. It's just how well you solve problems. Yeah, I hope you guys enjoy this video Ray com subscribe. I'll check you guys later. Peace