Recently I had started a 7 day soft challenge, my slowed down version of the 75 day hard challenge and here are my results throughout the week. Article Link
On day 1, I opened my Striver's sheet which is around 54% completed since last year, and stared at it for a few minutes. Because I hadn't done any coding for a couple of months even the super easy questions seem hard there. And my biggest pet peev is when I know the solution but I'm not able to implement it perfectly and some edge case or a little bit wrong while condition or a >= is missed. So I opened NeetCode250, and filtered to the most easy array problems and then shifted to other topic's easy problems.
So the goal of this challenge was not to improve my dsa skills, but to improve my consistency, and mild problem solving. Initially when we start again after a long break, its quite frustrating because, you know you can do and have done even more difficult questions but you are not able to do a simple two pointer easy question without explaining your solution to chatGPT and making him write the code.
As I said the goal is not to scale myself broader but deeper, doing end to end questions myself, without asking gpt, "what is the bug here", or "no dont give another solution, correct my code" This soft challenge is vertical scaling in action.
So the results are as follows,
Day 1: 5 easy array problems
Day 2: 1 array problem
Day 3: 3 array / two pointer problems
Day 4: 1 easy two pointer
Day 5: 1 easy two pointer
Day 6: Completely forgot to solve
Day 7: 3 easy two pointer and sliding window problems
This may not seem like a huge deal but to me its a week very well spent...😊
ONTO ANOTHER 7 DAY (soft) CHALLENGE!!
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