Hi Friends,

I have solved total 315 (315/1575 Solved - Easy 188, Medium 117, Hard 10) problems as of today on 6th Sep 2020 in Leetcode starting from 10th March 2020. It has been almost 6 months. I also participatedin 17 contestants as of now. I couldn’t give more time due to office work and my family (wife and 2 kids) but it depends on work pressure. And I am kind of person who sits minimum 9 hours for office work. Some people make fun saying who works 9hrs in lockdown. But I feel that depends person to person perspective.

Anyway, the real problem is in beginning I used to solve at least 1 easy problem in contest. Later it improved to 2 and as of now 2 times I was able to solve 3 questions. I was quite happy with my performance and little improvement. It is not impressive but being an average guy (not too intelligent), I felt good about that. Later on July 27th, I came to my hometown. After coming here, I couldn’t spend time on Leetcode. And the reason was I wanted to spend time with my parents as much as possible. Since I had got this chance after 15years to stay so long with them. After 9 hours of office work and remaining time with parents, I was hardly getting time to even open Leetcode for any practice. So, because of that there is a break for more than a month. Now, sometimes when I get time in weekend and try to solve some problem. I struggle a lot for even easy questions. And today when I tried to attend Weekly Contest 205, I am not able to solve even single easy problem.

I am very much frustrated. I feel so demotivated because of this, I can't express in the words. I feel either I am so week to remember the things after a month break or there is some problem in my approach.

Friends, please help me to work on my mistakes so that I can gain my confidence back. I am so depressed after attending today's contest.

Sorry for my bad English and grammar. I tried to put my story in my own way. If you can help me in anyway, it will be very much appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.

Happy coding.