Nine months of grinding alone finally started paying off, and the thing that changed wasn't skill, it was routine
I spent the first six months doing LeetCode in bursts — three hours on Sunday, nothing all week, repeat. Progress was basically flat. Switched to 30 minutes every single day, same time, no exceptions, even if it was one easy problem I could've done in my sleep. The daily version, less total time some weeks, moved me further in three months than the burst version did in six. I think the actual skill gain was similar either way — what changed was that I stopped losing the thread between sessions. Consistency beat intensity for me, which wasn't the answer I wanted to hear a year ago.
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AnonymousAnon This matches what I've read about spaced repetition in general, the daily-small-dose thing isn't just a LeetCode phenomenon. Wish I'd applied it to studying anything else years ago.
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AnonymousAnon Been trying to convince myself of exactly this for months, good to see it actually panned out for someone. The 'losing the thread between sessions' framing is exactly the problem with my current burst approach.