# Tracks

> Ordered paths through the problem catalogue - how the counts work, what Continue picks, and what happens to a problem that is withdrawn after you start.

Source: https://www.revquix.com/docs/practice/tracks
Last verified: 2026-09-04

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A track is an ordered path through the catalogue: a named goal, sections in order, and problems in
order inside each section. [/tracks](https://www.revquix.com/tracks) lists them.

They exist because a long list of problems has no opinion about what you should do next, and for
most people that is the actual obstacle - not the difficulty of any individual problem.

## Reading a track

Each section shows its own **n/m** - "Arrays 6/8". That count is the entire difference between a
path and a list. A forty-problem track is a wall; a section you can finish tonight is not.

The whole track carries a count too, and a difficulty band telling you roughly who it is for.

## Continue

If you are signed in and part-way through, the track offers **Continue**. It opens the first
required, unsolved problem **in reading order** - so it always agrees with the first unticked row you
can see further down the page.

Three states, and they are genuinely different:

- **Signed out** - no Continue. The page is fully readable; you are not walled out of it.
- **Part-way** - Continue, pointing at the next one.
- **Finished** - it says so rather than pointing anywhere.

## Two things that affect the count

### Optional problems

Some items are marked optional - stretch problems that belong on the path but are not required to
finish it. **They do not count in either half.** Without that, somebody who has done everything the
section asked would stare at "7/8" forever.

### Withdrawn problems

Occasionally a problem is retired after a track was assembled. When that happens the row **stays on
screen**, struck through and not clickable, and it is removed from both halves of the count.

Both parts matter. Dropping the row would silently shorten your path with no explanation. Leaving it
in the count would ask you for something you can no longer open.

## Progress is worked out fresh every time

Nothing stores "you are 12/40 through this track". It is derived from what you have actually solved,
each time the page loads.

That is why a curator adding a problem to a section is immediately reflected for everybody, rather
than leaving a stale counter that is wrong for every member and tells none of them.

> **Note** - Tracks are curated, not user-created
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> Anyone with the right permission can write a _problem_ - see [writing a problem](https://www.revquix.com/docs/practice/writing-a-problem). A track is a claim
> about other people's problems - "do these, in this order, and finishing it is enough" - so it is
> assembled by the Revquix team.

## Related

- [Finding a problem](https://www.revquix.com/docs/practice/finding-a-problem) - When you would rather choose for yourself.

- [Your practice record](https://www.revquix.com/docs/practice/your-practice-dashboard) - Where track progress comes from.