🧩 Leveling Up with LeetCode — My Approach to Algorithm Mastery

LeetCode isn’t just for interview prep — it’s a consistent way to improve problem-solving speed and algorithmic intuition.

🎯 My LeetCode Strategy

1. Daily Practice — 1–2 problems covering easy, medium, and hard.
2. Pattern Recognition — focus on problem families like sliding window, binary search, and union-find.
3. Explain It — if I can’t explain a solution in plain English, I don’t understand it.

🛠 Tools That Help

• LeetCode Discuss — great for learning alternative approaches.
• Python for Concise Solutions — list comprehensions and built-in functions save time.
• VSCode LeetCode Extension — solve without switching contexts.

📌 Lessons Learned

• Brute force is fine — as a starting point.
• Space complexity matters as much as time complexity.
• Rewriting a problem after solving it helps solidify understanding.

📚 What’s Next

I’ll be publishing:

• My curated list of LeetCode patterns with examples
• Step-by-step complexity analysis guides
• How to translate problem-solving skills into real-world engineering