Hello everyone hope your doing well. I'm making this post to ask for some advice.

I write this to you slightly discouraged as I've been programming for about a year now, and somehow I'm still struggling to solve any Leetcode problems, even its most basic tutorial questions like that of arrays. I should note that most of my programming experience has been doing projects and have only been trying Leetcode seriously for about a week, but I still feel like by now I should be able to at LEAST a tutorial question.

I'm wondering has anybody thats been in this boat before managed ascend into the harder levels of leetcode? And if you did how did you do it? How did you figure out what was missing from programming toolbox? And after you found out what was missing how did you improve upon it?

My own struggles

1st: I struggle sometimes to even understand what the question is asking of me to do.
2nd: My logic feels quite weak, but have no idea how to improve on it.
3rd: My planning also feels weak. I try to write out my thought process, but can maybe only come up with 1/3rd of a solution (and sometimes this isnt even right). I struggle to identify edge cases and other such things that pop up with these questions.

Any advice would be appreciated thank you!