How to start competitive programming?

Posted by Vaibhav Agarwal on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Vaibhav Agarwal
Published on 2012-10-12T16:13:03Z Indexed on 2012/10/12 21:48 UTC
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I am practicing coding for a while but the problem is that it takes me a lot of time to write a solution for the problems. I want to ask if competitive programming can help me in improving this?
If yes, then how should I start and from what site like TopCoder? I would obviously won't be able to solve very hard problems for now. What should I do?
If no, what else should I do?
I also have another problem that I want to learn coding but the thing is that I feel that I am not very good at it. What should I do? It's like bugging me from inside.
I know some people may not find this question informative but please at least allow me to get an answer.

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