I didn’t realize I was starting a 1.5-year journey when I opened my first LeetCode problem. It didn’t start with motivation. It started with… curiosity. There was no plan, no roadmap, and definitely no idea that I would still be doing it a year and a half later. It started very simply. I had just created my LeetCode account , and like most developers at that stage, I was trying to figure out where I stood. Global rank: ~6,000,000. Yeah… not exactly inspiring 😅 I remember thinking it was almost funny. Not in a bad way, just… far. Like starting a game from the lowest possible level without really knowing the rules. So I did the only thing that made sense at the time. I opened a problem. And recently, something arrived that made me reflect on that entire period differently. BTW, I already shared another part of my journey in my previous article about my 373-day consistency streak , but this one is slightly different. It’s not about streaks or badges.…