Three months into daily LeetCode and I can only solve the ones I've already seen before
I've been doing this every morning before work since April. Progress feels real until I hit something I haven't seen the pattern for, and then it's like none of the reps happened. I can explain sliding window to someone else. I still froze on a sliding window problem last week because the wrapper around it looked unfamiliar. Starting to wonder if I'm actually building intuition or just memorizing a few hundred shapes and hoping the interview picks one I recognize.
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AnonymousAnon That's a recall problem rather than a problem-solving one, and the usual cause is reaching for the solution too early. Try a hard 25 minute limit, and when you fail, write down the specific step you couldn't reach before you look anything up. The pattern across those notes is the real signal.