Guardian

July 13 2021. First internship OA of college. 4 questions, 90 minutes. I solved zero. Opened LeetCode next morning. 8 hours a day for 10 months, some days 50+ submissions. I was obsessed, I was in panic. Gave contests from month 4 to check if I was getting better or just pattern-matching. Biweekly Contest 78: Global Rank 22, 40,000+ participants. Guardian, 2200+ rating, 2100+ problems. Four years later the streak sits at 1700 days. For a job switch, this is insanity. I do it for the love of the game. Ask anything below, contest strategy, how the rating climbed, getting through long plateaus.