How to Use LeetCode Effectively

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[rafay]

step 1: start by top 100 liked questions
step 2: focus on the questions by topic
step 3: order the questions from the highest to lowest acceptance rate
step 4: learn from the solutions
step 5: revisit the problems (one or two weeks later until you are 100% confident to solve them )
step 6: solve company specific questions

[courtneynel]

This is the best guide I’ve seen yet. I’ve been feeling so discouraged solving random easy problems and feeling like I’m not understanding a solution before moving onto a completely different algorithm. *mind blown*

[codinghoca]

I totally agree with what you said about avoiding hard questions in the beginning, since it's pretty important to self-assess your level too -- one thing that stops a lot of people from continuing is basically picking problems that are too hard and getting discouraged. I've noticed a lot of people losing their momentum after failing too many problems and then basically giving up on them.

[apriil]

1. Start with the top 100 liked questions
2. Focus on the questions by topic
3. Order the questions from the highest to lowest acceptance rate
4. Learn from the solutions
5. Revisit the problems
6. Solve company-specific questions

[leonardomachado]

1- Start with the top 100 Liked Questions

Its questions are aborded by the community and other ones by the platform. The questions are valued by the community if those questions are helpful, clear and practical. Start with the 50 questions easy and medium questions avoid hard ones in the beginning, so earn how to play the game.

2- Focus on the questions by topic

Choose a topic and resolve most of the problem by the topic, and solve at least 20 questions.

3- Order the questions from the highest to lowest acceptance rate

Don’t just solve easy challenges. Challenge yourself, of course, if you think that can solve the problem.

4- Learn from the solutions

Don’t spend more than 45 minutes on each problem if you are stuck look at the answer and move on. Looking at the solutions is the fastest way to learn from the expert try to solve the challenge for yourself but if you can’t learn from the solutions.

5- Revisit the problems

If you look at the absolution you probably can’t solve it a week later. Make sure to revisit the problem until you are confident 100%.

6- Solve company-specific challenges

When you are ready for a challenge you might solve problems by a specific company it doesn’t mean that those questions will show in your interview but the list it’s pretty accurate.

Have a nice code, people!

[jeffmullins]

Please keep up this helpful content! I started my journey to become a web developer 2 months ago and you have been a ton of help!

[sulemanosman]

Leetcode study strategy:

1: Start with top 100 liked questions

- 50 easy and medium questions


2: Focus on category topics and patterns associated with different topics

- Do about 20 questions or so per topic to understand the pattern

- Recommend list of topics to start
:String
:Two pointers
:Sliding window
:Binary search
:Recursion
:Binary tree
:Backtracking
:DFS
:BFS
:Graph
:Linked list
:Sort
:Trie
:Stack/Queue
:Priority Queue
:Dynamic programming


3: Order questions from highest - lowest acceptance rate:

- Some mediums are easier than some easy questions
- and some easy questions are harder than some hard questions
- reason is difficulty level is subjective and system determined
- acceptance rating is objective and community determined


4: Learn from the solutions:

- Don't spend more than 45 min on each problem
- Learn from the solutions after attempting to learn the PATTERN
- Following questions of similar topics should become easier once the pattern is understood
- Looking at the solutions is like learning from expert
- Try to attempt first, than study solution after 45 min


5: Revisit the problems:

- After studying the solution revisit problem 1 week later
- This will help to ensure solutions understanding is there and not just memorization


6: Solve company specific questions:

- This will require leet code premium
- Questions are grouped company specific
- Also focus on frequency of the problems per company
- Seems to be accurate from others experience, no guarantee company will ask



All the best everyone !!!

[toxic_narcissist]

7. Forget all advice and do whatever you like

[kamalprajapati]

This guide was very helpful and comforting for me to get started on Leetcode. Thank you

[TheDorac]

This was surprisingly very helpful. Thank you!

[Balanceiskey-ndel]

This is such a fantastic video. Now I have structure as I start studying. Thank you so much, Pirate! Very organized video, everything made sense to me, and it was very reassuring. :)

[samuelgodsanswers]

Hi pirate king, i just wanna say that you're amazing and what you do is amazing thank you

[lamineemb]

For me i find it very surprising that even being an Android Developer for a year, I can't even solve the leetcode easy problems😂

[kmb]

I’m looking to go into data engineering/ ML engineering after my bootcamp but I still just subbed because I really enjoy your content delivery!

[misterl]

Hi, thanks for the tips! I'm comming back into the training (5 years working currently) and sadly there are a lot of easy "problems" that are so hard, but yes, its all because they ask us things that normally we dont more than solve a specific problem or mutate a specific data. We NEED to know about performance and time complexity,
Regrds from Chile

[joshhitech]

These are good steps for LeetCode and straight to the point. I appreciate it.

[Omar-sond]

your motion is mad zesty but the advice is golden mr piratekingdom

[rakshaisonegirlarmy]

Thank you so much Sir You dont know how bad and dumb i used to feel because i used to see the code from the solution

[rongitmukherjee]

Thanks to you i finally got started on my leetcode journey

[lifelessons]

give 3 months day and nights to study leet code so that you can get fired after 10 to 15 years of your job