Whilst we all know that practice is the only known way for good, consistent results in these competitions and that there is no such thing as the best practice routine, I wanted to know how much time was spent solving problems or studying for olympiad informatics to get to a specific level.
The levels I’m particularly interested in is USACO Platinum and being able to solve two or more problems on USACO Problems.
Apologies, I meant two different levels one of which being able to get to USACO platinum and the other being able to solve platinum problems. Perhaps I should have said solving most gold problems in-contest rather than getting to platinum.