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You're about to get the “Elite Problem Solver Playbook” — your secret weapon to rise into the top 1% 🧠⚔️
💼 Debadatta’s Elite Problem Solving Playbook
🧠 Unlock Genius-Level CS Thinking in 90 Days
🧩 PART 1: WEEKLY PATTERN DRILL SYSTEM
Goal: Learn all core patterns deeply by repeating problems from each category
Goal: Learn all core patterns deeply by repeating problems from each category
📅 Pattern-Per-Week Plan (4–6 Problems/Day)
| Week | Pattern | Must-Solve Problems |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arrays & Hashing | Two Sum, Group Anagrams, Top K Frequent |
| 2 | Two Pointers | 3Sum, Container With Most Water, Remove Duplicates |
| 3 | Sliding Window | Longest Substring No Repeat, Max Subarray Sum (K size) |
| 4 | Stack / Monotonic Stack | Valid Parentheses, Daily Temperatures, Largest Rect. Histogram |
| 5 | Binary Search | Rotated Array Search, Median of 2 Arrays |
| 6 | Recursion + Backtracking | Permutations, Subsets, N-Queens |
| 7 | Trees (DFS/BFS) | Inorder Traversal, Max Depth, Level Order |
| 8 | Graphs | Clone Graph, Detect Cycle (DFS), Topo Sort |
| 9 | DP - 1D | Climbing Stairs, House Robber, Fib. (memo+tab) |
| 10 | DP - 2D | Unique Paths, 0/1 Knapsack, Edit Distance |
🔁 Repeat hard weeks or mix CP challenges on weekends (Codeforces Div3/AtCoder Beginner)
🧠 PART 2: DAILY PRACTICE ROUTINE
🕒 Total Time: 90–120 mins/day (flexible)
| Slot | Activity | Tool |
|---|---|---|
| 15 min | 🧠 Brain warm-up (Sudoku, chess puzzles) | Peak, Chess.com, Elevate |
| 20 min | 🎥 Watch & Understand 1 pattern (video) | NeetCode / Striver |
| 60 min | 🔁 Solve 2–3 problems | LeetCode / GFG / Codeforces |
| 10 min | ✍️ Log time & learnings in Journal | Use tracker below |
📓 PART 3: MISTAKE + PATTERN JOURNAL TEMPLATE
Copy this table into your Notion / Google Sheet / Journal
Copy this table into your Notion / Google Sheet / Journal
📒 Mistake Log
| Date | Problem | Pattern | Mistake | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15 | Longest Substring | Sliding Window | Missed shrinking logic | Use while loop when duplicate seen |
🧠 Pattern Recognition Log
| Pattern | Key Idea | Triggers |
|---|---|---|
| Two Pointers | Fix one, move other | Sorted array, sum problems |
| Backtracking | Recursive trial | All combinations, N-Queens |
| Sliding Window | Expand + shrink | Longest / max of subarray |
⏱️ PART 4: TIME TRACKER
Identify slow areas and target-train them
Identify slow areas and target-train them
| Problem | Read Time | Brute Force Time | Optimal Time | Debug Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3Sum | 2 min | 5 min | 15 min | 3 min |
🧠 If Optimal Time > 10 min often, study that pattern again.
🎯 PART 5: WEEKLY CHALLENGE SYSTEM
| Day | Challenge |
|---|---|
| Monday | Solve 1 hard problem in 1 sitting ⏱️ |
| Wednesday | Redo 2 old problems from memory |
| Friday | Read and reverse-code a clean solution |
| Sunday | Compete in a real contest (LeetCode/CF) |
📚 BONUS SECTION: Top Resources
🎥 Video Playlists:
🔗 Sheets:
🧘 BONUS HABITS: Mind of a Problem Solving Genius
✅ Sleep 7–8 hours 💤
✅ Pomodoro during hard problems 🍅
✅ Eat brain foods (banana, egg, peanut butter = your OP combo 💪)
✅ Reflect weekly: “What did I solve better this week than last?”
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