Posting this out of a bit of frustration... I've been "grinding LeetCode" for the past few weeks and I find myself struggling to "creatively" come up with solutions even to problems I've solved before.

Usually my rule is that after spending at most an hour on a problem if I still can't solve it I'll look at the solution, study the relevant concepts, and try to implement it on my own. However, I'm finding that very often is the case where if I meet a new problem that's a variation of this one, I'll still struggle again.

Is this simply a matter of lack of practice? Anyone else experience this or am I approaching things incorrectly?

Thanks.

Hi there,
I'd like to share a set of 460+ solutions for LeetCode problems, all written in various languages and written by me. Hopefully, these solutions can serve a purpose except having a backup of all solutions on GitHub, maybe as a reference for others when you get stuck. My personal goal was to never look up any solution so I was forced to solve everything myself by that I trained my problem-solving skills much quicker.

You can check out the solutions at: https://github.com/donutloop/leetcode.com

I hope it will be helpful for you and I will keep adding new solutions once in a while.

SimplyLeet.com Has written and code solutions. Paid and company lists.

Leetcode interviews suck. The pay privilege in front of them make it even worse. Not to mention the people who made this interview type popular are now profiting from it. For this reason I wanted to create an all-in-one forever free (and ad free) solutions website.

There’s so many you need to complete, sometimes the problems are just complicated and you forget solutions from months before. Some solutions have specific edge cases that you forget when it’s time for interviews etc

Hey all! Just to give you context about me: I am a Cybersecurity students who, last semester, got through an intro to python course. I’m now in an intro to Java course and I am doing pretty good but after this my formal education in programming ends as software development isn’t my focus but I would like to get at least proficient in one language and I think Python is the way to go.

I decided to try and work through LeetCode problems and read “Automate the boring stuff.”

I decided to start with the easy problems and, well, I’m struggling. Which is fine, you have to if you want to get better. Usually I’ll get 2/3 tests cases and just can’t get some weird edge case to work where the challenge really lay. A few times I’ve looked at the code and felt like I took something away but I’m wondering what you guys think of it as a learning tool. If I look at the code am I really going to take meaningful lessons from it? Or should I just come back after learning more? The problems I had to do for the class seemed a lot easier. these feel more like medium but how am I supposed to know how hard it’s supposed to be lol. Thanks for the advice in advance!