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Additional Practice for USACO Gold

Author: Nathan Wang

Final tips for Gold and additional practice problems.

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What Now?

After completing this section on the USACO Guide, you should be comfortable with the topics that have historically appeared in the USACO Gold division. In order to maximize your chance at promoting, you should aim to practice by doing more problems.

Uncategorized Problems

Below we list some problems that we think are roughly Gold level but don't really fit in previous modules. The difficulties listed here are relative to the Gold division (difficulty is subjective and isn't always accurate though). We'll be expanding this list as we get more problem suggestions.

StatusSourceProblem NameDifficultyTags
Old GoldEasy
Show TagsBFS, Bitmasks, DP
CFEasy
Show TagsSorting, Stack
Old GoldEasy
Show TagsBitmasks, DP
CFNormal
Show TagsCombinatorics, Prefix Sums
CFNormal
Show TagsDP, Knapsack, Math
CFNormal
Show TagsBitmasks, DP, SP
CFNormal
Show TagsDP
Old SilverNormal
Show TagsBFS
GoldNormal
Show TagsBFS
CFNormal
Show TagsDP, Hashing
GoldNormal
Show TagsBFS
GoldNormal
Show TagsBFS
CFHard
Show TagsDSU
OIIHard
Show TagsDivide and Conquer, Stack
KattisHard
Show TagsDP, LIS
POIInsane
Show TagsSP

Final Thoughts

Refer to our FAQ to find more problems to practice. You may also find the How to Practice module worth reading. Best of luck on future contests!

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