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Honest take, because I wish someone had told me this earlier.
Everything you will read about formula will make it sound more complicated than it is. Here is what 7 years of working with scoring has actually taught me.
Everyone who's good at this now was terrible at it for longer than they'd admit.
What actually moved the needle for me: I stopped trying to understand everything before starting, and just committed to treating every mistake as data rather than failure. After that, improved my time by 12 seconds.
The one thing I would prioritise: do not compare your beginning to someone else's middle.
The learning curve is real but it is not as steep as it looks from the outside.
by wanjirukiprotich21909
The way this question is framed suggests you might be hitting the same wall most people hit with formula.
Here's the diagnostic framework I use for this exact type of problem.
**Most likely culprit:** comparing progress to elite athletes too early. This accounts for roughly 63% of cases I have seen.
**Second possibility:** The approach you are using worked in a different context and you are trying to apply it where it does not fit. scoring has specific conditions where it works well and conditions where it falls apart.
**Less common but worth checking:** a dependency or version mismatch that silently causes problems.
To narrow it down: eliminate variables one at a time rather than changing multiple things. That will tell you which of these you are dealing with.
by henryevans1206