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The Difficulty in Helping with Competitive Coding Problems

Please understand competitive programming (CP) questions are hard to help with because:

  • Understanding requires getting into solving the question itself.
  • Test cases are hidden, so no starting point to find out what is wrong.
  • Your solution code is probably not written for others to easily read.
How to Get the Best Possible Help?

What you can do to get the best possible help:

  • Format your code, this includes giving meaningful names to things.
  • Narrow down the problem, then ask a detailed, on-point question.
  • Avoid screenshots of the question, give links or paste the question as text.
Time Limit Exceeded (TLE)

What about "Time limit exceeded" (TLE)? The only thing we can say is that your solution is not efficient enough. Finding such a sufficient solution is part of solving the CP question itself. Sometimes a helper knows and can hint you about the solution, but it's you who is supposed to come up with it.

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